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Just listened to Reel Big Fish’s album, “Cheer Up!” (Fun kick-back music, btw). Decided to see what amazon.com had to say about it, and amazingly, I found a Boingo comparison in the editorial review for “Cheer Up!”:
“Cheer Up! is the kind of feisty, kinetic album that people stopped making years ago–“Ban the Tubetop” is pure Oingo Boingo frivolity, “What Are Friends For” revisits the tubular splendor of Fishbone, while “Good Thing” wouldn’t sound entirely out of place on a vintage Elvis Costello disc.”
-E (who likes the song “Ban the Tubetop” but dislikes tubetops on people)
The only thing I can hear that kinda’ sounds like Boingo is the horn section that plays during some of their songs, but that’s it! I can’t stand the guy’s voice … He’s got that whiney “PeeWee Herman” voice (as I call it) that many singers in rock bands seem to have these days. I just can’t stand it.
Anyway, just my opinion. Hheheh.
I don’t know if he still is, but at one point at least, John Avila was producing them. That connection alone could push someone to try to draw parallels and comparisons.
Urgh…I hate Reel Big Fish (no offence)…urgh…they remind me of Busted, which is not a very nice comment, by the way!
P – yeah, hey, I actually knew that, too. Don’t know why I forgot to post it – good thinking!
-E (RBF = guilty pleasure music. The Dance Hall Crashers are better)
I’ve read that comparisson too, and the whole thing is, is that most all of the modern ska/punk style bands have a certain boingo-esque quality to them. I’ve read where Elfman had mentioned that bands like The Specials and Madness where a big impact on him, and also that he had liked the energy of punk rock, even tho he couldnt relate to it, but ska is what he really to a liking to. So since both had a pretty big impression on him and the direction of the band, I mean in the early days of Boingo, they were ska/punk before there really was such a thing, and not like The Specials punk additudes display(that was just an image, and there music had only a slight edge to it, while staying more traditional as far as traditional Jamaican ska and dance hall music goes) I mean stuff like Who Do You Want to Be?, No One Lives Forever, Ain’t This The Life, Fill The Void, Somthing Isn’t Right, I Stand Defeated, Dead Man’s Party, Commando Girls(a rare early live song, you can tell that the distortion on the guitars is older, but the way the song is played and the way Danny sings it, sounds very much like modern ska/punk) and Only A Lad, all of those songs and more truely pre-date so many of the modern ska influenced rock, like Voodoo Glow Skulls, Less Than Jake, No Doubt, 311, Sublime(sadly no longer around tho), Five Iron Frenzy, and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, with there ska rhythms, quirkyness and edgyness.
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