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## <center><b>Oingo Boingo</b> - <i>Only a Lad</i></center>
## I haven't shared a tune from Oingo Boingo
<div class="pull-right">https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/grapthar/rSKZwJlz-maxresdefault.jpg<center><b>Oingo Boingo, live in 1982</b></center></div><div class="text-justify">in a while, and considering how often I wound up listening to them, we're <i>definitely</i> long over due! I first discovered the band in High School, mostly through their big hits from '80s, like <i>'Weird Science'</i> and <i>'Dead Man's Party'</i>, which I always liked as they had a weirdness to them that a lot of '80s pop didn't. When I finally got into their albums and discography as a whole, I was hooked and have been a fan ever since. The band was originally formed as a sort of theatre/performance art group in the mid '70s by Richard Elfman, but by 1979, his brother Danny Elfman had taken over, and turned it into a proper rock and roll band. Danny is an incredible composer and musical mind, which you can see from even his earliest releases with <b>Oingo Boingo</b>. Though they were embracing some of the sounds and trends of the early '80s, Elfman incorporating all kinds of wild, complex harmonic and rhythmic ideas into his music, which helped garner the band a lot of attention from other musicians and composers.</div>
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## <center>[Listen to *Only a Lad* by **Oingo Boingo** here...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js4yGcgO6hk)</center>
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## Since this time, Elfman has gone on to write some of the
<div class="pull-left">https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/grapthar/76NK5DqH-71tYdwXIxfL._SL1073_.jpg<center><b>Oingo Boingo,<i>Only a Lad</i> (1981, IRS Records)</b></center></div><div class="text-justify">most well-known scores ever, including the theme song to <i>The Simpsons</i>, which is a bit reminiscent of the <b>Oingo Boingo</b> track <i>'Nasty Habits'</i>, and the soundtracks to lots of Tim Burton films, like <i>Edward Scissorhands</i> and <i>The Nightmare Before Christmas</i>. If you're a fan of any of these soundtracks, and have never really got into <b>Boingo</b> before, I cannot their debut album, 1981's <i>Only a Lad</i>, enough, which is where this track is from. This song is probably one of their more harmonically straight-forward on the album, as there aren't any major key changes or particularly dissonant lines, but it is still chock full of cool ideas, and awesome tones/timbres. The main guitar riff is built around a quick staccato, descending chromatic line, which is sort of reoccurring theme that appears in other forms throughout the song. The break of the song also does some really cool rhythmic stuff, where this chromatic riff is cut off suddenly to drop into a smoother, arpeggio-based line, which has a very spastic, sudden quality to it. If you enjoy this track, check out the album in its entirety, you won't be disappointed.</div>
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