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I would like to know what peoples lists are of favorite Boingo albums. They went through so many different styles and sounds and people have different opinions about when they were their best (or just their personal favorite sound). Most people say they hit their peak with the album Dead Mans Party. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE and own every Boingo album, but Dead Mans Party is one of my least favorite. I feel that Only A Lad is bar none the best Boingo album. What are your opinions?
Oh, man, BOINGO without a doubt … without – a – dout.
It’s too bad they didn’t put “Skin” and “When the lights go out” on that album (Boingo), because they were so great, and they were on sort of a stinker album (in my opinion).
2nd best is Good For Your Soul.
Good For Your Soul was the first of their CDs that I owned.
Still remains my favorite.
Then #2 Boingo
#3 Only a Lad
#4 Nothing to Fear
#5 Dark at the End of the Tunnel (I wonder why there is such a dislike for this one. Even when it first came out, at their concerts, a lot of people would sit down as soon as they started playing a DATEOTT song. I love the horns on this album.
They’re not as upbeat as the first three albums and although I love the Boingo album I missed the horn section.
#6 Boi-ngo
#7 Dead Man’s Party-beth
Boingo
“Insanity” and “Change” alone make it the best IMO.I think there’s a dislike for Dark at the End of the Tunnel because it was so much more mainstream than the rest of their stuff. I love those first two songs, though.
Boingo for me, only one that really hooked me from the first moment I heard it
Knight
here’s my list:
1. Only A Lad -I love the excitement on this disk! It’s the sound of a band not afraid to be edgy
2. Good For Your Soul – I LOVE little guns! What a great song!
3. BOINGO – The dark beauty. Insanity is pure genius. I do not like Ped. Wolves though. The song is weak in my opinion. Does anybody like that song?
4. Nothing To Fear – This album was recently in Entertainment Weakly as one of No Doubts favorite albums. Interesting. I’m not a fan of Islands, but Wild Sex is one of my favorites.
5. Tie – Boingo Alive, Farewell – Both live albums with tons of their greatest songs revisited.
6. Boi-ngo – Does anybody know how to pronounce this album title? boy nnngo?
7. Dark At The End Of The Tunnel
8. Dead Mans Party
9. So-lo Danny ElfmanNah, ernthead, I really don’t care for pedestrian wolves either.
Well, I know it seemd weird but I think my favourite will always be DARK AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL. I know it is not pure Boingo madness, but it was an inetresting step, and the album is full of different shades…
If I had to place different “eras” for the boingo evolution, it would be :
from the 70’s to 1978 : The Jazzy Era
from 1978 to elfman’s So-Lo album in 1984 : The Crazy exentric Era
from 1985 to 1990 : The New Wave / Melodic Era
And finally, in 1994, the Dark / Beatles-like EraIf I had to choose one song in each era, these would be St James Infirmary, What you see, We close our eyes, and of course Insanity…
Well, I’ve always thought Insanity was just a great mixture of all their styles crammed into one, sorta’.
Favorite albums: tie between Boi-ngo and Dark at the End of the Tunnel. Yep, I”m a fan of synthpoppy new wave
“We Close Our Eyes” on the Farewell album is, by far, my most favorite song of all time.-E
the live verson of We Close Our Eyes is absolutely amazing. Hey E, how do YOU pronounce Boi-ngo?
I can’t really voice my opinion very well on this subject, having only one album (BOI-NGO), but I really enjoy that album. My favorites out of it include:
* Pain – Easily relatable
* New Generation – NICE lyrics!!
* Home Again
* Where Do All My Friends Go
* Not My Slave
* We Close Our Eyes – hideously catchy
I want to hear Insanity so badly!! *searches for more Oingo Boingo albums*
Oh, and I pronounce BOI-NGO as ‘BOY-‘n-GO’ It sounds just plain wierd if you say it over and over again…o_0
best song. Something isn’t right – from the movie…Bachelor Party.
best album – The Ep – Ain’t this the life.
next best – Good Bye Good Bye. From Fast Times at Ridgemont High.Best Opening song for a Boingo Concert…Raw Hide.. The lights were dark the them started building. The pit would move.
Best Song in the Pit. Sweat. Take my baby saturday night 110 it’s all right.
Best Song to hear live in the 80’s. No one live’s forever.
Favorite Album. Nothing to Fear “But Fear Itself”
2nd Favorite Only a Lad
3rd Favorite Good For Your Sould.. If you don’t stop you lose control
4th Favorite EP Aint this the life..
5th Favorite So Lo I used to chew up rocks and spit out gravel.
6th Favorite Dead Man’s Party the beginning of the end of Boingo.
Danny went commercial. He deserved the Money. However,
he started getting bored with old boingo and changed many
lyrics at live concerts.The rest are Okay. I own them however. The band had lost it’s edge. The best poster I’ve seen is an old poster of the Mystik Knights and their Biggest Fan
Robert Deniro.Best Tribute by Danny. The nightmare before Christmas. Oogie Boogie was the perfect knock off of the Devil from the Forbidden Zone. Thank You Danny.
deniro? is that Robert Deniro?
What?!!!! my message was supposed to have a name in it! why does it do that?
r o b e r t d e n i r oYes, that was the Actor. R o b e r t. I saw posters for auction a few years back. Danny’s Hollywood connections go back to at least the late 1970’s.
Way back then Deniro was respected, but it was before Cape Fear. If you remember how bulked up he got for that movie. I can only imagine if he was slammin to Boingo. I will never know.
I’ve been trying to find a sight with a link to that old poster, I haven’t been able to locate it. That poster was late 70’s, classic punk style.
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