Sirius discussion. What was the best Oingo Boingo song of all time? (Know Poll)

[kentauros]

For the best, I'd go with Dead Man's Party, but I'm also partial to Insanity }(

[taterguy]

1. Mexican Radio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCEexG9xjw

[kentauros]

2. Danny Elfman sure has age weirdly...

[KamaAina]

14. Wasn't that Wall of Voodoo?

:shrug:

[cherokeeprogressive]

15. Yes it was. n/t

[blogslut]

3. This one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQy5vKAaTuA

[mcollins]

4. Dead Man's Party. nt

[Betty88]

19. +1 nt

[driver8]

5. My favorite is "Nothing Bad Ever Happens to Me"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQy5vKAaTuA&p=0F6B7E16EFFDD284&playnext=1&index=1

[bikebloke]

6. Weird Science

[Arugula Latte]

7. My favorite is definitely "Not My Slave."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYyLB_lO9gE

[musiclawyer]

8. They have several good songs

But listen on a good system. They had a really good engineer. I dont know who it was. But their sound was very clean. You could hear all the percussion instruments, even though even though they used a lot more than a single drum kit, along with the many instuments and vocals on top. Like the Cars, their mixes and engineering were elite grade.

[Tikki]

9. Their music was so much a part of my years' back...

So many greats...

"We Close Our Eyes" is my favorite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvASxiKhS_k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrSpDCuPEow
"Who Do You Want To Be, Today"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QoKoHuII-0
"Ain't This The Life...


The Tikkis
We have such a fine memory of our 4 year old...now 35...dancing
up and down the aisle at an amphitheater to the sounds of Oingo Boingo.

[cbdo2007]

10. Oh....I thought this was going to be about my Sirius stock being up 4.7% today....

nevermind...

[kentauros]

11. I suppose I could have used "Cerious"...

A fine graphics management program; been using it for many years :D

http://www.cerious.com

[ceile]

12. Just Another Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b6opMEu-zM&feature=related

[kwassa]

13. The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo

, famous for their Halloween concerts yearly in LA, for many years.

[kentauros]

16. "The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo"

were also on The Gong Show :D

[enough already 2]

17. Dead Man's Party n/t

[GReedDiamond]

18. Only A Lad...

...from their debut 10" vinyl ep.

Personal note: Sam "Sluggo" Phipps of Boingo played a sax solo on a song called "I Hate Sports," released in 1982 by my band, Benedict Arnold & The Traitors. Don Preston, of Zappa's Mothers of Invention, also played grand piano on the same tune.

Our original bass player, "Cash Cobra," got Sluggo into the studio for us around 1981 when we were recording our second record. Cash was the roadie for the Mystic Knights in their earliest days, approximately 1978 or so, and he continued to work for the band until they ceased operating, by which time he was their fan club President and in charge of merchandising.

By '83, The Traitors had morphed into a band called The Hundredth Monkey...but that's another story.

(Regarding Don Preston, we met him in a different recording studio in Hollywood where he was using his classic Moog synthesizer, the kind with all of the patch cords, on a sci-fi movie soundtrack, and invited him to play on the song, and he was happy to do so.)

[petronius]

20. "Try to Believe", "Just Another Day", "Out of Control", "No One Lives Forever",

"Reptiles and Samurai", ...

I know that's not one, but just one is ridiculous - how about just one (or two) per album? :)

[kentauros]

21. Just one is indeed ridiculous!

Then again, this was a copycat thread, so I'm entitled ;)

One or two per album is allowed, because one is too restrictive :D

I always loved their live version of "Ain't This the Life" in the movie "Urgh! A Music War"

[petronius]

22. Didn't realize it was a copycat; thought it was a pretty important question, actually

I've been researching the topic on and off all day, as a matter of fact.

(I also decide to crypto-copycat your thread, just to add another song to the discussion...)

:)