Frontman Danny Elfman's older brother, Richard, actually started the band, later handing leadership down to his brother once he decided directing was his way to go. This hyperkinetic New Wave band is characterized by their manic live performances and eclectic range of songs, Elfman and the band performed for a remarkable twenty years. The Californian band, a paired-down version of the theatrical troupe The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, released eight major albums and two live compilations, each containing songs that varied from fast-paced ska to soulful jazz to emotional rock to off-kilter pop. Their style can best be defined as "undefinable." Now mostly known for their frequent contribution to movie soundtracks (including their most succesful song "Weird Science") Oingo Boingo formally broke up in 1995 after their last Halloween live concert; the reason being that 'it was time.' Since the band's dissolution, frontman Danny Elfman has continued to find success in his career writing film scores, particularly in collaboration with director Tim Burton; he almost exclusively employs Boingo guitarist Steve Bartek as orchestrator. His film scores have included Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Good Will Hunting, Men in Black, Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, Big Fish, and dozens more.
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Oingo Boingo
People raise your voices, dont get caught in that mess
Like a fly in a spiders web, is it true more is less
Herded like a happy flock to the big t.v. slaughter
Why dont you break that leash, said the heifer to the sheep
Its a new generation
Its a hallucination
Its a mystic vibration
Its just intimidation
Its the will of the people
Its the church with the steeple
Its the sacred devotion
To an unhealthy notion
People raise your voices, dont get into that trap
If your friends and your neighbors push
Why dont you push them back
Dont you think the time has come
To stand up and be heard
Aint no use to try and wait
For the magic word
Its a new generation
Its an infatuation
Its a beautiful body
Both erotic and deadly
Its the fear of the future
Its just surgeons and sutures
Its a spandex obsession
Its a lasting impression
Do you feel the power
Do you feel the power
Baptized in electronic water
Prodigal sons and beautiful daughters
With smiles and bows and rosy cheeks
And the righteous bath
Death to the freaks
Do you feel the power
Do you feel the power
From the man whose voice sounds reassuring
Completely firm and so alluring, likes hes lived a thousand times before
And seen the world from shore to shore
With the calmness and tranquility that oozes credibility
With the wisdom and the confidence that seem to scream out common sense
And it makes you feel just like a babe
Daddy holding you tight and safe
Hush babe everythings all right, daddys gonna stay with you tonight
Now hes got you by the balls, he can sell you anything at all
From morality to diamond rings to genocide to magazines
From religion to cosmology to the end of a democracy
Its a new generation
Its a divine inspiration
Always ready to follow
Ever willing to swallow
All the doctors prescriptions
All the mystic inscriptions
Its the spandex obsession
Its a lasting impression
Its the calm meditation
Of a tranquilized nation
Its a hallucination
Its a new generation