Side A
Artist	Song
The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo	Tender Lumpings
Oingo Boingo	Who Do You Want To Be
Oingo Boingo	Only A Lad
Oingo Boingo	Wild Sex (In The Working Class)
Oingo Boingo	No One Lives Forever
Oingo Boingo	Not My Slave
Danny Elfman	Go Away
Oingo Boingo	Grey Matter
Oingo Boingo	Weird Science (Single Mix)
Oingo Boingo	Pain
Oingo Boingo	No Spill Blood
Oingo Boingo	On The Outside
Danny Elfman	Gratitude
Oingo Boingo	Violent Love
Oingo Boingo	Where Do All My Friends Go
Oingo Boingo	What You See
Oingo Boingo	Heard Somebody Cry
Oingo Boingo	Capitalism
Oingo Boingo	Running On A Treadmill
Oingo Boingo	Little Guns
Oingo Boingo	HIDDEN TRACK: Budweiser commercial
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Oingo Boingo	Little Girls
Oingo Boingo	Good For Your Soul
Oingo Boingo	Just Another Day
Oingo Boingo	Private Life
Oingo Boingo	Sweat
Oingo Boingo	Ain't This The Life (Live)
Oingo Boingo	New Generation
Oingo Boingo	Dead Man's Party
Oingo Boingo	Nasty Habits
The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo	Forbidden Zone (Full-Length Version)
Oingo Boingo	Whole Day Off
Oingo Boingo	Pictures Of You
Oingo Boingo	Stay
Oingo Boingo	My Life
Oingo Boingo	Why'd We Come
Oingo Boingo	I'm So Bad
Oingo Boingo	Controller
Oingo Boingo	Reptiles And Samurai
Oingo Boingo	Goodbye, Goodbye

Comment:

This is actually a double CD set, not a cassette as listed at the top. Anyway, this is the redux of the Boingo mix I first submitted several years ago. I'd been toying around with the idea of doing this for a while, but was really inspired to do it recently after seeing the (somewhat lackluster) "Tribute to Halloween" concert put on by Boingo drummer Johnny Vatos on the 29th. Anyway, there are a few significant changes here: (1) The set begins with the original version of "Tender Lumplings" as performed by The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, the theatrical group formed by Danny's brother Richard in the early '70s which later morphed into Oingo Boingo. This comes from an old videotape and thus is of less-than CD quality. (2) I relented and added "Weird Science." First of all, it occured to me that, as hip as it is to hate the song, I just don't. Plus, it's the one song that even people who don't know the band have probably heard, so now I feel better about using this set as a starter kit for the (relatively) uninitiated. (3) "Ain't This The Life" is now the live version from "Urgh! A Music War," as opposed to the slower, somewhat mannered "Oingo Boingo" EP version. I just think the live version has so much more energy and conviction, and I finally found a pristine mp3 of it. (4) "Forbidden Zone" is presented in its vastly superior full-length demo version. I relented the first time around because the mp3 sounded so bad, but I sent it to an audio engineer friend and he cleaned it up pretty substantially. It's not flawless, but it's decent enough to fit in with the CD sourced tracks surrounding it. Finally (5) "Good For Your Soul" had to be moved to disc 2, and the Budweiser commercial to the end of disc 1. That's all for the best, actually, since the commercial is a parody of "Who Do You Want To Be," which opens that disc. As per last time, there's nothing from the final two albums here, as I don't feel they really fit in well with the peak material from the first seven years. One small note: the "Danny Elfman" tracks are actually Oingo Boingo, but were released as such for contractual reasons, and because the band never thought they were quite right for Oingo Boingo. Anyway, enough of my yakkin'. If you like the music of Danny Elfman and haven't heard his phenomenal, vastly underrated little band, maybe it's time you gave them a shot. All songs are original studio versions unless otherwise indicated.

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