I never really got Oingo Boingo. Nothing against them, but I just never got them.
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I never really got Oingo Boingo. Nothing against them, but I just never got them.
What’s been on your mind? Got something you’d like to share? A topic to discuss? It’s Thursday Night Open Thread.
Who wants to start?
R.I.P. Dr. John (died today)
Some artists only have one big hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT4RainY-lY
Oingo Boingo was a party band, like the B-52s.
It helped that it was the 80s and everybody was all coked up.
What’s on my mind? Now that I’ve seen this post, I’m wondering when Weird Al parodied an Oingo Boingo song.
You should see what my auto carrot did with Ping Bingo. Oh, now you do.
Frontman Danny Elfman (I am guessing there is some really freaky family history involved to get that surname) went on tons very successful second career composing movie soundtracks, starting with that all-time classic, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure.
Al never parodied an Oingo Boingo song, but he did do an original song on his album “Even Worse”, called “You Make Me”.
They ooze the 1980s. It sounds like Tears for Fears, Peter Gabriel, and Duran Duran all mashed together. Stuff like this was why I stopped listening to the radio in the early 80s.
You are all so wrong to dismiss the brilliance of Oingo Boingo. There is not a hint of Tears for Fears or Duran Duran to be found. Big Band line up with its tongue firmly planted in cheek, who’s music was an ode to B Horror Movie Schlock. There never has been, and never will be, anything like Oingo Boingo.