Oingo Boingo - Singles poll

In the midnight hour, she cried POLL, Poll, poll - Billy Idol - Rebel Yell poll

So with this big news today, what to do. I could postpone this or continue. Onwards I say.

I was all set up to do a group that was Pop. I was going to justify by being synth based but thought why would I. There is enough New Wave that hasn't been polled that i needed to stay pure. Then I was going to do a greatest hits for a female artist but have already and will instead be bumped to next and will do one album instead. Changed again because of the new features that are coming, excited. Needless to say I have changed my mind many, many times...

This is too hard for me. They are like my favorite band and I celebrate all eras.

But just going with my gut I choose Stay.

Aaah, I now seem the typo Bee OK mentioned elsewhere. :)

Is it strange that I've only knowingly heard "Weird Science" and "Stay"?

er, 'see' rather than 'seem'. lol, jesus...

I liked them a lot for a year or two in high school. I think of them as a very adolescent band for that reason. Music for a specific type of nerdy teenager. They peaked artistically with Dead Man’s Party; Boi-Ngo and Dark At The End Of The Tunnel in particular were a chore to listen to. Gotta give this some thought.

I don't honestly know a lot of Boingo. Just Only a Lad, Weird Science, and Dead Man's Party. I had one friend who moved to Maryland from Southern California (where they are understandably bigger) in high school, and she was a big Boingo fan but I never caught the bug. Maybe I'll give them a closer examination over the next few days. Also, Forbidden Zone keeps popping up in my Tubi recommendations, so I'll try to watch that as well.

These guys were my favorite band for a couple of formative high school years, basically the years between Boi-ngo and Dark at the End of the Tunnel. So I know all the albums up to Boi-ngo in obsessive detail, including the Elfman solo album, but I can’t remember anything from the later albums. My first instinct is to vote for Nothing Bad Ever Happens.

“Nothing Bad Ever Happens” is the first song by them I heard so that’s my vote

write-in vote for "this is halloween"

My deep cut pick would probably be Pictures of You.

Isn't "This is Halloween" a solo song? My memory might be going however.

Being from Southern California there are certain bands you're supposed to love Sublime, Social Distortion, No Doubt and this band. I really don't like any of them. I do like or know to death a lot of the above songs so I do know enough to at least vote for one song.

“Stay” is the one for me, that chorus sends me to the moon <3

The "Stay" chorus is all-time, but makes me wish it had better verses, whereas "Not My Slave" has great verses and a meh chorus. Think I ended up going w "Stay".

Not sure what it says about my feelings for the band, but of the singles I know, I'm probably going to go with "We Close Our Eyes," which is probably the most "not like the others" song listed.

KROQ top 50 1980

11 Only a Lad
47 Ain't this the Life (Not a single/Not included avove)

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6 On the Outside
63 What You See (Not included)

KROQ top 50 1982

47 Wild Sex (In the Working Class) (Not a single)
63 Goodbye Goodbye

KROQ top 50 1983

92 Nothing Bad Ever Happens" Good for Your Soul

KROQ top 50 1984

62 Something Isn't Right (Not a single)

KROQ Top 50 1985

10 Dead Man's Party
39 Weird Science
47 Just Another Day

KROQ Top 50 1986

3 Pain
41 Not My Slave
54 Stay

KROQ Top 50 1987

22 We Close Our Eyes
31 Not My Slave (2)
61 Elevator Man (Not a single)

KROQ Top 50 1988

24 Cinderella Undercover (Not a single)
81 Winning Side

KROQ Top 50 1989

27 Flesh and Blood

Lol, edit button can't come fast enough

OK, this is nuts in a good way. Going down the list and going to try and listen to every choice.

This is Oingo Boingo?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgdKMQlgHQo

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21. "We Close Our Eyes" Boi-ngo 1987
28. "Insanity" Boingo 1994

"Wait, we already used that one?"
"Technically, no, since it had a superfluous hyphen in a nonsensical place"
"Great - print 'em!"

Not quite Lowell George/Joe Walsh territory, but you really gonna go with that for 2 separate releases, Danno?

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I got pretty disillusioned listening back to this. DE is a despicable human being. Songs like "Little Girls," "Nothing to Fear (But Fear Itself" and "Pain" are just creepy. This is why LA gets its bad reputation from junk like these lyrics. I didn’t finish listening to all of this, did get through the 80s and voted for "Only a Lad." I just couldn't advocate anymore after a certain point.

Incredibly reasonable conclusion

This is not the first time you’ve tried to get away

to me elfman is an “amazingly interesting by background,” “considerably talented by works,” “astonishingly shallow upon inspection” artist. i once heard a long interview, and i was like “wow, the surface is what you are”? i mean, he’s talented , but bee ok is not unreasonable at all.