Boingo Alive

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Boingo Alive
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Cover art designed by Georganne Deen
Live album by
Oingo Boingo
ReleasedSeptember 26, 1988 (1988-09-26)
RecordedJuly 1988
VenuePower Plant Rehearsal Studio (North Hollywood)
Genre
Length128:12
Label MCA
Producer Danny Elfman, Steve Bartek
Oingo Boingo chronology
Boi-ngo
(1987)		Boingo Alive
(1988)		 The Best of Oingo Boingo: Skeletons in the Closet
(1989)
Singles from Boingo Alive
  1. "Cinderella Undercover / Winning Side"
    Released: September 1988

Boingo Alive is a double album by American new wave band Oingo Boingo, released in 1988. It was performed and recorded live in a rehearsal studio with no audience, with the band performing songs from previous albums and two previously unreleased songs to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the band's beginning.

Contents

Background

According to the Los Angeles Times , as well as the album's sleeve sticker and promotional material, Boingo Alive was recorded live on a soundstage over nine nights in July 1988. [1] The sticker and ads also read, "Hear our greatest hits the way they were meant to be heard—live".

After Oingo Boingo migrated from A&M Records/I.R.S. Records to MCA Records in 1984, A&M had retained ownership of the band's previous recordings, but by 1988 the band became legally able to re-record their old material. Frontman Danny Elfman stated that Boingo Alive was a project the band had been planning for years, as they had been unhappy with the sound of their studio recordings, particularly with regards to the comparative lack of "energy". Elfman stated, "This is our 10th anniversary as a band and we wanted to present our songs in a way that our fans have grown accustomed to (when) seeing us." [1]

On the choice to eschew an audience, Elfman said at the time, "I hate the poor fidelity and the crowd noise from live albums. It made more sense this way. It's just us playing in a big room with a mobile truck outside—minus the 10,000 screaming teenagers." [1]

"Winning Side" peaked at No. 14 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in November 1988. [2]

Track listing

Disc 1

All tracks written and composed by Danny Elfman.

Tracks marked with an asterisk do not appear on the LP and cassette versions of the album.

No.TitleOriginal releaseLength
1."Dead Man's Party" Dead Man's Party (1985)6:22
2."Dead or Alive" Good for Your Soul (1983)4:04
3."No Spill Blood"Good for Your Soul4:32
4."Stay"Dead Man's Party3:57
5."Cinderella Undercover"Previously unreleased4:37
6."Home Again" (*) BOI-NGO (1987)5:24
7."Help Me" (*)Dead Man's Party3:56
8."Just Another Day"Dead Man's Party5:07
9."It Only Makes Me Laugh" So-Lo (1984)3:41
10."My Life"BOI-NGO4:46
11."Nothing to Fear (But Fear Itself)" Nothing to Fear (1982)3:48
12."Not My Slave"BOI-NGO4:08
13."We Close Our Eyes" (*)BOI-NGO3:29
14."Elevator Man" (*)BOI-NGO4:26
15."Return of the Dead Man" (*)Instrumental reprise version of "Dead Man's Party"1:46

Disc 2

All tracks written and composed by Danny Elfman, except "Violent Love", by Willie Dixon.

No.TitleOriginal releaseLength
1."Winning Side"Previously unreleased3:57
2."Wild Sex (in the Working Class)"Nothing to Fear4:16
3."Grey Matter"Nothing to Fear5:42
4."Private Life"Nothing to Fear3:09
5."Gratitude"So-Lo4:47
6."No One Lives Forever" (*)Dead Man's Party4:06
7."Mama" (*) 7-inch box set version of BOI-NGO4:52
8."Capitalism" (*)Only a Lad4:12
9."Who Do You Want to Be"Good for Your Soul3:20
10."Sweat"Good for Your Soul4:29
11."Violent Love" Oingo Boingo EP (1980)2:21
12."On the Outside"Only a Lad (1981)3:43
13."Only a Lad"Only a Lad / Oingo Boingo EP3:50
14."Goodbye, Goodbye" Fast Times at Ridgemont High: Music from the Motion Picture (1982)3:32
15."Country Sweat" (*) Country rearrangement of "Sweat"5:13
16."Return of the Dead Man 2" (*)Instrumental reprise version of "Dead Man's Party"2:40

Personnel

Oingo Boingo

Additional musician

Technical

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Goldstein, Patrick (August 14, 1988). "Boingo 'Hits' Back to Back". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved May 26, 2021.
  2. ↑ "Oingo Boingo". Billboard .
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