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I have been searching the internet to find out what bands have claimed an influence from Oingo Boingo or Danny Elfman. Can anyone help me?
Go to soundclick and search for Danny Elfman or Oingo Boingo in the “sounds like” pull down. There’s some there, and some are pretty good, but some are horrible. You just have to search a little.
Influenced Bands by Elfman: Cradle of Filth,Mr.Bungle,Naked City,Dimmu Borgir,Ebony Lake and many many more black metal bands
Oingo Boingo has nothing to do with (crappy) metal. (?)
I remember reading that Nirvana was influenced by Oingo. Can anyone confirm that?
No way.
No Doubt were also influenced by Oingo Boingo.
Here’s something I found on Amazon about Nirvana and Oingo Boingo:
• Excerpt from page 12 “… with. Both were at least cool enough to be into Oingo Boingo, the manic new wave band from Los Angeles. “But they …”
See more reference to oingo boingo in this book.No Doubt’s earlier stuff was great. But now, the band’s kind of gone down the shitter, if you ask me.
That bands that are/were influenced by Boingo: Mr. Bungle, Primus, No Doubt, Nirvana, Pain(the quirky ska/punk band, not the metal band) Stolen Babies(formerly The Fratellis) etc
Bands that I’m not sure, but probably were influenced by Boingo to a certain degree-
Skeleton Key(very Boingo-like in diffrent ways, plus Elfman helped on their last album), Voodoo Glow Skulls(Avila produced 1 of their albums) Reel Big Fish(Avila produced pretty much all of their albums) 311(toured with Boingo, I can see somewhat of an influence) Offspring( I dunno, they seem like they could have been influenced by Boingo, like Agent Orange meets Boingo or somthing haha)
I think they were an all around influence amoung both modern ska/punk bands and quirky experimental rock bands(Primus, Skeleton Key, anything fronted by Mike Patton)You might want to check out “The Mollusk” by Ween. Very good music, and it’s kind of got that boingo sound in some songs.
I think that I’ve heard somewhere in a few articles online that Evanscence was influenced by Danny Elfman’s music. It shows a little bit, though not very much. Not bad music, though.
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You all should check out my band Unsound! I play keyboards and I am definately influenced by Danny Elfman. Check out some soundclips on the website: http://www.theunsoundgame.com. “Through the Eyes” is mostly influenced by Elfman… sorry it’s just a snippit. You can always Email me for full versions and some other tracks if your interested.
“Unsound Gives Boners and Hard Nipples”
Nice.
Check out T Like B (tastes like burning, they go by t like b cause there is another tastes like burning haha, but t like b is way better) Very Boingo influenced as well as TMBG, The Vandals and other stuff, I’m friends with them, and I love there music, they are probably the only band that I’m friends with that I listen to and actually enjoy listening to them. Their website is down, but they do have two songs on PureVolume http://www.purevolume.com/TlikeB . Hopefully they will put up more stuff on there soon, I’ll suggest it to them, cause just 2 songs isnt enough to get a feel of what they are capeable of, however they do have one really funny electronic song called Dog Walking Backwards thats always a fun song, check it out.
“”Through the Eyes” is mostly influenced by Elfman…”
Influenced by ELFMAN?! Man, what the hell you been listnin’ to? Cause’ that sure as hell doesn’t sound like ELFMAN to me!
I listened to that “Through The Eyes” song, and I mean, you wouldnt think of Elfman really unless you were told it was influenced by him, in which we were, but knowing that it was ahead of time, I was able to see the influence, not vocally but like the orchestra synth towards the end of the clip had a sorta Batman, Batman Returns or Darkman sound to it, so I can see where he as a composer influenced the song, and the quirky energy of it was somewhat Boingo like.
If anyone still hasnt checked out T Like B yet, check em out, they are supercool, and I’m friends with them, so that obligates you all to listen to them lol, jking, check em out tho, I you like Boingo, The Vandals, TMBG and other stuff you’ll like em.
How about the Boingo Cover band that Richard Elfman Danny’s brother toured with last year? Richard starts the show by showing the old Forbidden Zone movie.
I guess your pretty good when people are trying to bring back your old music. And even better when you get paid the big bucks for the biggest movies hollywood puts out.
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