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To me (disagree if you like) when I listen to dark at the end of the tunnel and then I think about all the other music that was going on at the time (the rise of grunge, rap, the shift in heavy metal due to Metallica, Megadeth, and Guns n’ Roses) All those genres were very hard and heavy sounding (I was in junior high, btw) and I think that the style of dark… was not what was going on. If I had to go back in time and put dark… in a category, I would have probably said “adult contemporary.” Which is an evil label in most minds. The style of dark… vs. what was going on was so different, it may have turned people off. I personally don’t think that it is a bad album because it was maybe (to some people) softer, I think it was more of a sophisticated style, heavy on percussion (mallets) and very thoughtful in lyric. Not the bouncy, morbid, or cynical moods of previous albums. I think it is great, but it did stray from what people were used to. Just a thought…
Jo Elfgirl
I guess I wasn’t aware of that many fans disliking “Dark…” I rather enjoy it…Danny’s voice is at its best on that album, imo. C’mon, nobody else likes “When the Lights Go Out?” Ironically enough, that is the ONLY Boingo tune my sister enjoys – ha!
-E
“Dark…” is one of my favorite albums. The fact that it’s not the same that was going on in the contemporary music scene at the time just makes it all the better. I’ve always thought that Oingo Boingo was always ahead of their time, never making the same stuff that everyone else was. The differentness was and is part of the greatness.
“Is This” is another favorite song, along with many of the other songs from that album.
Well, I like most of the other ones people already mentioned….
I like Insanity for all the obvious reasons, but mostly for the snazzy ending! I like the live version of Change, because it’s doing with music what you do with words when you write a poem–ya stretch stuff out in all kinds of directions, and hope it all comes together somehow.
I like Tender Lumplings, and Cinderella Undercover, because I’m all for corrupt fairytales (which is, of course, how they’re supposed to be)! We Close Our Eyes and Out of Control are good mellow-ish ones.
And if you want to know the truth I like just about all the songs (although there are exceptions–even the best artist can’t please everyone all the time!)….
But, my favorite of all time is still the super-saucy live version of Water from the Farewell tour. Couldn’t tell you why–just like it lots.
No One Lives Forever!
How true
Nat
Pictures of You remains one of my all time faves.
Also like Water, Try to Believe and some of the frequently mentioned.
Marching in Time and Cruisin are both fun too. And Elementary Physics. They had a lot of good stuff that never made it to the albums that they should probably release to us.
Too bad Danny doesn’t need the money so that it might be more likely to happen.
I know what your saying, but Boingo never really fit into what was going on at the time. That to me is part of the beauty of the band. But I’ve met a lot of older fans who say that after Good For Your Soul the band got weak. I never saw it like that, and maybe it’s because I got into it after the fact that I have a different perspective. I love all the albums, and they all have their higher and lower points, but I never got the whole “change = sellout” mentality. I like the variations; to me they prove just how versital an artist Elfman is. DATEOTT is an amazing album, slower, more “mainstream” perhaps, but I don’t see why that matters. And as for the whole darkness factor, the songs may not be as cynical at times, but they are far from cheerful in subject matter. Just the approach is a little different.
RR
Only one?? There can’t be only one!
Each one that I hear, and each one that I’ve read above, I say..ooh I love that song!
War Again, Is This, Little Girls, Just Another Day, No Spill Blood, Insanity, Water…And the Stay video..that’s what caught my eye in the first place! “What a quirky little band”, I thought, who are they??!!??
I must listen to some Boingo now!!
“Pictures of You remains one of my all time faves.”
Ooh, me too! That’s such a great song. One of my first Oingo Boingo favorites (Good For Your Soul was their first album I got). “Marching In Time”, as you mentioned, is also excellent.
I grew up on the Burton/Elfman collaboration, watching Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands and Nightmare Before Christmas at a young age. I didn’t discover Boingo until some years later. I’d have to say, Pictures of You, Help Me, No One Lives Forever, Hey!, Spider, Lost Like This, Elevator Man, Fill the Void, What You See, Helpless, Burn Me Up. I can’t name just one. Clowns of Death, Reptiles and Samurai, Home Again, Where Do All My Friends Go, Good For Your Soul, Sweat, Dead or Alive. I can’t stop once i get started. It doesn’t usually depend on my mood, because I’m always in the mood for Boingo, whichever album or song it is. Insects definitely, Private Life. Perfect System, Little Girls, Flesh n’ Blood, damn i can’t stop. We Close Our Eyes. Tender Lumplings. Dead Man’s Party, Fool’s Paradise. Controller, Nasty Habits for sure. No Spill Blood. Ah, hell I love ’em all. Nothing Bad Ever Happens should probably be my theme song, just ask anyone who knows me. I’ve been an Elfman fan all of my life, ever since i can remember. I haven’t posted in the Darkened People forum in a while.
Sorry. Skin, When the Lights Go Out, practically anything from Dark at the End of the Tunnel. This is my last post, seriously.
I agree with Chris. :^)
“My Life” was like that perfect 80s hit that, oddly enough, never became a hit. I also think that “Lost Like This” balanced the pop sensibility of early Boingo with the dark side of Elfman’s film-music.
DwD
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http://www.secretdecoderrecords.comOut of all the Boingo songs that I play for non-fans, No One Lives Forever always makes the biggest impression. So I’d have to say that one. But I’m really surprised that no one has said Grey Matter. That song is genius and has to be my 2nd favorite.
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