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  Oingo Boingo - Music Downloads - Online
Bio: Although Oingo Boingo was often compared to Devo throughout their career (due to both bands' affinity for quirky new wave, goofy stage acts, and most obviously, peculiar yet intriguing band names), Oingo Boingo never obtained the mainstream success that Devo did.
Oingo Boingo started not as a traditional group per se, as they were originally put together in the '70s by movie director Richard Elfman, who needed music for a whacked-out, John Waters-esque flick he was working on, called Forbidden Zone.
With Elfman primarily focusing on film composing by this point, Oingo Boingo was laid to rest in 1995 after a farewell performance at L.A.'s Universal Amphitheatre, which was issued a year later as a CD and video, appropriately titled Farewell.
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 Oingo Boingo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Formed in LA in 1979, The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, later known just as Oingo Boingo (and later yet, just as Boingo), was the later evolution of a musical theatrical group that was originally put together by Richard Elfman.
Oingo Boingo's initial release, "Oingo Boingo" (a four song extended-play album on the IRS label) brought fierce negative appraisals from local critics.
Though Oingo Boingo started out as an 8-piece group, they performed with as few as 5 members and as many as 20, playing a variety of traditional and not-so-traditional instruments from all over the world.
www.deadmansparty.com /about_oingo_boingo.htm   (529 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock and Soul
OINGO BOINGO: Vocal and instrumental group from Los Angeles, California.
For a long time, Oingo Boingo was one of the best-kept entertainment secrets except on the U.S. West Coast, where the band had tremendous "underground" popularity.
Oingo Boingo lyrics often were obscure or seemed like mindless backdrops to dance arrangements, something particularly heinous for some reviewers of the time.
www.boingo.org /articles/Encyclopedia.html   (1479 words)

  
 Oingo Boingo
While on the surface the lyrics to such late Oingo Boigno tracks as Dead Man's Party and Weird Science seem rather dark, one gets the sense that the band was always far more interested in having fun with their music than anything else.
Oingo Boingo songwriter and front-man Danny Elfman has put together an impressive resume for himself outside of the band.
While I have never been a huge fan of Oingo Boingo, I do appreciate their style, and am ever grateful to the band for contributing the soundtrack to one of the decade's great teen films, Weird Science.
www.80smusiclyrics.com /artists/oingoboingo.htm   (368 words)

  
 Oingo Boingo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Oingo Boingo was a critically acclaimed American New Wave rock band better known for their influence, soundtrack contributions, and high energy Halloween concerts rather than their chart successes.
The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, formed in late 1972 by Richard Elfman, was a musical theatre troupe in the tradition of Spike Jones and Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, performing an eclectic repertoire ranging from Cab Calloway covers to instrumentals in the style of Balinese Gamelan and Russian ballet music.
As the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo
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 Oingo Boingo : iSOUND.COM
Oingo Boingo is was a synth-pop band form in 1977 and disbanded in 1996.
Originally called Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo the band shortened the name and began playing shows while the film was being shot.
The most notable member of Oingo Boingo is Danny Elfman(little brother of Richard Elfman) who is now one of the most in demand composer for film.
www.isound.com /oingo_boingo   (161 words)

  
 Oingo Boingo
Oingo Boingo was the band of composer Danny Elfman from sometime in 1978 to October 31, 1995.
The band has also gone by the names The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, and simply Boingo.
Oingo Boingo amicably parted ways after their annual Halloween concert in 1995, because it was "time." The final concert is available on both audio and video recordings.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/oi/Oingo_Boingo.html   (166 words)

  
 Boingo
The names "Boingo", "Oingo Boingo", "Mystic Knights", and "The Mystic Knights Of The Oingo Boingo" are all synonymous (essentially the longer the name, the older the reference); On occasion they have also used the alias "The Clowns of Death" (usually for private or "secret" shows).
Originally known as the Mystic Knights of The Oingo Boingo, the name was shortened to Oingo Boingo in 1980 for their first album release.
It would be more accurate to call it a "dissolution." Boingo's end is not the result of an argument or misunderstanding, it was simply "time." The guys decided to go out with a bang, giving the fans one last chance to show their support at Boingo's traditional "Halloween Bash" (Halloween season 1995).
www.partch.net /Boingo.htm   (693 words)

  
 Oingo Boingo MP3 Downloads - Oingo Boingo Music Downloads - Oingo Boingo Music Videos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The introduction to Boingo's first track, "Insanity," sounds like an unused cut from the Batman motion picture theme, shuffling into an angry and eerie rebellion against Christianity, right wing mentality ("years of evolution and we get Danny Quayle"), and media.
Not quite a greatest-hits album and not quite a live album, Oingo Boingo celebrates not quite a decade of existence with the peculiar double album Boingo Alive.
Oingo Boingo have shortened their name to the more direct "Boingo," but their music hasn't changed.
www.mp3.com /oingo-boingo/artists/4343/discography.html   (504 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Dark at the End of the Tunnel: Music: Oingo Boingo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
By 1990, Oingo Boingo had made a gradual transition from the semi-humorous Boi-ngo in 1987, to the extremely dark and often uneasy mind of genius composer/lead vocal Danny Elfman.
Oingo's lyrics are not as important now as they used to be.
Listening to Oingo Boingo you can tell that they are not a normal band, or would they have been considered that during their time.
www.amazon.com /Dark-End-Tunnel-Oingo-Boingo/dp/B000007QEL   (1291 words)

  
 Boingo Article
Still, not that the band was becoming a burden, Elfman decided Oingo Boingo was on the verge of becoming a cumbersome dinosaur which, if he wasn't careful, could become a parody of itself.
Oingo Boingo began its career in Los angeles during the late 1970s as the Mystical Knights of Oingo Boingo.
Now that Boingo's done, Elfman said he and his (former) bandmates can concentrate on other projects they've had to put aside.
www.boingo.org /articles/DesArticle1.html   (980 words)

  
 TrouserPress.com :: Oingo Boingo
This eight-piece LA outfit (with a three-man horn section) started out trying to be a West Coast answer to XTC and Devo, but suffered from a surplus of studied wackiness/quirkiness and managed to hide solid cleverness behind overproduction and hamminess.
When not pushing pressurized dance rock, Oingo Boingo revert to their previously established lighter style, and the horns play it subtle rather than brassy.
Dispersing rumors of nonexistence, Oingo Boingo returned with their least obnoxious record yet.
www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=oingo_boingo   (536 words)

  
 Oingo Boingo: Boingo - Music Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In 1990, oingo boingo came out with dark at the end of the tunnel.
But here, we are transported back to the year 1994 and presented with Boingo in an era when bands like Nirvana were more dominant.
To sum Boingo up, it was a great place for Oingo Boingo to stop making albums (not because they were bad at it) but because it was apparent both Elfman already fell off on a where the feel of OB was more like Batman than Boingo.
www.darktales.com /gothic/view_content?obj_id=120&obj_type_id=6   (281 words)

  
 Oingo Boingo Insanity! - Old GuestBook!
I was introduced to Oingo Boingo's music in 1980 and have been a huge fan ever since.
I feel sorry Oingo Boingo never really found an audience in France, and that only few North Americans know about it - I never came across a Boingo fan in my few times in the US (I might not have met the right people, I give you that one!).
This is what I think about Oingo Boingo = I think oingo boingo were one of the greatest bands ever and i love their energy, lyrics, and everything else about them.
www.boingoinsanity.com /oldguestbook.htm   (4871 words)

  
 Ego Food: The Oingo Boingo Generation Gap
I saw Mystic Nights of the Oingo Boingo back in the late 70's in a small club in Hollywood.
I was first exposed to Oingo Boingo by the movie Forbidden Zone, it was very unusual.
oingo boingo is the most bad ass band ever in the history of ever.
egofood.blogspot.com /2006/01/oingo-boingo-generation-gap.html   (296 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Boi-ngo: Music: Oingo Boingo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
From my perspective, this is where Oingo Boingo grew into a less commercialized band who desired more of a limited audience.
It needs to be stressed, that even at their less distinctive, Oingo Boingo ran circles around their musical contemporaries, distiguished by an unmistakable sound that was part tribal, part big band, part new wave quirk, spiced up with a twisted dark irony that was lead singer/songwriter Danny Elfman's trademark.
So my ideas of Boingo are based on this album and "Skeletons in the Closet" mostly, because they were the first ones I ever heard.
www.amazon.com /Boi-ngo-Oingo-Boingo/dp/B000002O35   (1607 words)

  
 Dead Man's Party by Oingo Boingo CD
By the mid-'80s, new wave was long dead and gone, yet somehow this didn't stop Oingo Boingo from continuing their quirky horn-rock stylings with the minimum accommodation made to commercial realities.
The single "Weird Science," the title theme of a John Hughes movie, was Oingo Boingo's most commercially successful effort, but it's one of the weaker cuts here.
OINGO BOINGO should be renowned world wide as one of the greatest rock acts of all time but unfortunetly they were touted as "ecclectic & quirky" by many critics.
www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/1103181/a/Dead+Man's+Party.htm   (358 words)

  
 Oingo Boingo : Boingo - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The group Oingo Boingo was once a party favorite, a cult dish for outcasts and pop-punksters, a Halloween night treasure.
With their previous album Dark at the End of the Tunnel they showed signs of slowing down, becoming a bit more thoughtful and age weary.
With Boingo they have completely dissipated every ounce of youthful banter and concocted an album that would fit neatly between the shelves of Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.
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 Oingo Boingo News
News about Oingo Boingo continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
But he caught on quick while playing in his brother's ragtag street ensemble in Paris, the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo.
Monday, July 31, 2006; Posted: 3:25 PM - by BWW News Desk The world premiere of the musical comedy Only a Lad, based on the songs of the 80's rock band Oingo Boingo, will be presented as part of the 10th...
www.topix.net /who/oingo-boingo   (656 words)

  
 YouTube - 1984 - Danny Elfman & Oingo Boingo for Budweiser   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
YouTube - 1984 - Danny Elfman & Oingo Boingo for Budweiser
1984 - Danny Elfman and Oingo Boingo for Budweiser
1984 - Danny Elfman & Oingo Boingo for Budweiser
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 Oingo Boingo Músicas - letras
Oingo Boingo - Ain't This The Life (tradução)
Oingo Boingo - Same Man I Was Before
Oingo Boingo - Who Do You Want To Be Today
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 Oingo Boingo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Most everyone has sampled their hit songs "Dead Man's Party" (which is a mainstay at Halloween parties) and "Wierd Science" (the theme song of the movie and television series of the same name).
Releasing twelve albums over a period of more than seventeen years before their massive 1995 farewell concert, Oingo Boingo left behind a volume of music that is remembered for both its size and quality.
For a great selection of Oingo Boingo MIDI files, go to my MIDI Listening Booth.
www.yamoslair.com /boingo.html   (164 words)

  
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Oingo Boingo / Boingo Alive [Live] [Disc 1]
Oingo Boingo / Dark At The End Of The Tunnel
Oingo Boingo / Oingo Boingo: Farewell [Live] [Disc 1]
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 Oingo Boingo - Skeletons in the Closet
Oingo Boingo - Skeletons in the Closet (1988)
Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Oingo Boingo - Skeletons in the Closet to receive a rating.
For Oingo Boingo - Skeletons in the Closet
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 Oingo Boingo - AOL Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, formed in late 1972 by Richard...
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 OINGO BOINGO cds
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 YouTube - Oingo Boingo - Private Life.
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Oingo Boingo's 1982 video for 'Private L Oingo Boingo's 1982 video for 'Private Life', directed by Richard Elfman.
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 Oingo Boingo and Danny Elfman Ring of Insanity
We are a fan fiction site with stories about Oingo Boingo, as well as stories about Steve Perry and Journey--all eras.
A brief overview of Boingo's early years, along with plenty of Elfman/ Boingo-related info and resources.
A shrine to Oingo Boingo, with song listings, a few pictures, and fanart.
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