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| | Best of Oingo Boingo: Skeletons in the Closet | | | Music Artist : | | Oingo Boingo | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | A&M Records | | Release Date : | | 1993-05-04 | | Store Price : | | $11.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $9.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Little Girls
2. Private Life
3. On the Outside
4. Nasty Habits
5. Grey Matter
6. Only a Lad
7. Wake Up
8. Insects
9. Whole Day Off
10. Nothing to Fear (But Fear Itself)
11. Nothing Bad Ever Happens
12. Who Do You Want to Be
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 Good compilation but could be better
Submitted on: 2009-02-09 |
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This compilation covers the prime years of Oingo Boingo prior to their gaining mass exposure with "Weird Science" and the album "Dead Man's Party". It limits its selection to tracks from their first three albums for the A&M label.
The good thing about this collection is that this is the only single-disk compilation that gives you the original studio versions of these songs. Later compilations such as "Best O' Boingo" substitute cluttered-sounding, inferior live versions recorded before an empty auditorium in 1988. (Not exactly the metaphor one wants for their career.)
People buy compilations to minimize the number of CDs they buy, so with "Skeletons in the Closet" you won't need "Nothing to Fear". Five of these twelve songs are the best half of that second album. However, the brevity of the collection means that the other two albums are short-changed. By the time the third album "Good For Your Soul" came out, the band may have been repeating themselves and in need of a second wind, but you'll still want to download "No Spill Blood" and "Sweat" from that album and a few from their best album of this early era, "Only A Lad". In particular, the band's cover of the Kinks' "You Really Got Me" stood as a delicious counterpoint to the Van Halen remake issued a few years earlier.
When I first saw this on a retail display I thought, "Finally they've found an excuse to put that first, brilliant Oingo Boingo EP on CD". No such luck. Adding its few tracks would have bumped the duration of this overview up to what one expects of a compilation. Or if you were thinking that you might get to hear a song or two from their first wild recordings on the soundtrack to "The Forbidden Zone", nope, missing in action. And if you were looking for the popular "Goodbye Goodbye" from the soundtrack to 'Fast Times at Ridgmont High', the label didn't bother to license that one song to fill out the collection. (You'll see the song listed on a few other Oingo Boingo best of's but it's always the live version.)
All in all it's a tough call. The lack of effort put into this assemblage almost makes it seem gratuitous. Given that it only draws from three albums and the tracklisting comes up short, you almost might as well just get those three albums - "Only A Lad", "Nothing To Fear" and "Good For Your Soul". But if you do settle for this collection, that too is a good choice - you'll probably enjoy it enough to wish you'd sprung for the original albums.
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 perfect collection
Submitted on: 2008-01-21 |
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| if you're a Danny Elfman fan, this sounds remastered into what he was originally looking for in the songs. not sped up by radio programmers, and not the normal radio hit collection, this is the perfect oingo album. |
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 best of? maybe. a good start at any rate
Submitted on: 2007-02-20 |
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From the outset I must confess that I don't own this particular compilation. I do however have all the material that is present here within the context of their original albums.
Whilst there's nothing at all wrong with this album, I'd think think hard about buying it. It contains material from the first three albums. The first two albums are still widely available and priced quite moderately. Further, they've got a bunch of classic material that didn't make it onto this comp. I'd actually put some of these other tracks left off this compilation e.g. "What You Get", "Why'd We Come" in front of other material that was included e.g. "Whole Day Off" The third album, 'Good For Your Soul' is currently deleted and so it can be a little harder to come by. I understand that it may be tempting to purchase this album for its two tracks from GFYS. Fine. But please also hassle A&M to re-release GFYS. You deserve access to these other fine songs as well! :D
Perhaps you should check out the samples of the other albums, "Only a Lad" and "Nothing to Fear" that Amazon offer. If you think the material is interesting then it may be worth your while to take the plunge and pay out a few more dollars cos I think you get a better Boingo for yer buck.
All in all, this is an enjoyable compilation of music. However, don't come crying to me when it's a superfluous item in your collection after you've caught Boingo fever and tracked down their backcatalogue. At any rate, the cover art is nice. |
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Great Service
Submitted on: 2007-01-20 |
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| My order was shipped in a timely manner and it was a good price. I appreciate the good service, it made shopping easy and enjoyable. |
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Best of the best
Submitted on: 2005-06-11 |
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This particular release is amazing! There is not one bad song throughout the entire cd. It is one of those albums that you can listen to over and over again and never get tired of it....now that's what I call a great record.
For those of you who have never heard of Oingo Boingo, I would say they are a band that makes music that is almost impossible to describe. Their music is truly unique and is completely different from anything you've ever heard. Although there are a lot of bands that have their own sound, Oingo Boingo adds to their sound diversity by including the use of wind instruments. So I'll make an attempt and say Oingo Boingo is punk meets pop meets new wave meets brass meets weird, and that's about as close as I can get. So give them a listen, you won't be dissapointed. |
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