Oingo Boingo Rare Songs and Live Shows

[SnakeDoctor]

Hi. Im looking to see if anyone has any rare Oingo Boingo songs or shows (audio or video). I have several rare songs I have come across in the last couple of years but I wanted to see if anyone is up for a trade or to compare wants/haves..........I looked through a couple of previous Boingo threads but they were over a year old so I decided to start a fresh one.

Let me know if anyone is interested. Thanks in advance.

[skinnytie]

I have nothing rare by them per se, but I did see on eBay a few months back one of their early 45's that was recorded under their full name "The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo". I forget what it was going for, but it was pricey (the two songs didn't look familiar, either).
Also, since you're into their rare stuff, SnakeDoctor, can you verify for me if the 4-track EP that had "Only a Lad" and "Isn't This the Life" (did I get the title right?) was ever released to CD? I believe I saw it long ago, but I'd like a second opinion just to make sure I wasn't seeing things. [:)]

[schwenko]

[quote][i]Originally posted by skinnytie[/i]
<br>I have nothing rare by them per se, but I did see on eBay a few months back one of their early 45's that was recorded under their full name "The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo". I forget what it was going for, but it was pricey (the two songs didn't look familiar, either).
Also, since you're into their rare stuff, SnakeDoctor, can you verify for me if the 4-track EP that had "Only a Lad" and "Isn't This the Life" (did I get the title right?) was ever released to CD? I believe I saw it long ago, but I'd like a second opinion just to make sure I wasn't seeing things. [:)]
[/quote]

Here's a discography I found:

http://www.rit.edu/~elnppr/oben/discog.html

It includes the Mystic Knights.... release.

The 2CD "Anthology" includes the 2 tracks you mention (only it's "Ain't This the Life"). Not sure if the other tracks, of the 4-track EP, are included.

[SnakeDoctor]

Thanks for the replies....SkinnyTie, as far as the BOingo EP ever being released on CD, the answer is no. It exists only on wax. I have a copy and have mp3s on my computer of the songs, some of which are different versions......Someone may have copied the songs and produced a bootleg version though.

As far as the 45 you refer to, it is indeed a Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo release. I also have a copy. More recently, there was an early demo by the band on eBay that went for $1600!! Unbelievable.

Im still looking for some Boingo rarities though.....thanks

[80sAirwaves]

I have these live audio performances that I've download from STG or EZT. Would be happy to make you some CDs if you'd like. Lmk.

OingoBoingo1980-10-03
OingoBoingo1984-xx-xx.shnf
OingoBoingo1988-11-09

-pjc

[jimmyvee]

I have a ton of weird Boingo stuff as mp3's that I could burn to disc(s) for you.

I've also got some rare Devo stuff (the Recombo DNA discs by Rhino and Rykodisc Hardcore discs) and some alternative Cars discs

Got anything to trade, obscure music-wise?

[harajukuroxy]

Hi all! Happy New Year 2006!

I'm trying to find a copy of OB's Rawhide... does anyone have it available for sale/trade?


Let me know - I'm trying to get it as a pressie for a friend of mine!

Thank you in advance!

Anne/roxy [:D]

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[spacecircus]

I've got a number of mixes or extended versions of Pain, Not My Slave, Out of Control, etc. I've also got a few other non cd tracks (like from the Bachelor Party soundtrack). Let me know if there is anything in particular that you're looking for.

[madhouse]

The Oingo Boingo EP has never been fully released on CD.

Here's a link to a good vinyl rip....

http://www.boingo.org/raresongs.html

[cassfrank]

I've got every unreleased track and demo. A bunch of live show stuff, too. Rawhide, All the Pieces, Two Twisted Trees, Head in the Clouds, Nuclear Babies...

[Chjohnnie]

I am new here and this is my first post. i found this site by doing a google search for rare Oingo Boingo Tracks

These are all of the rare Oingo Boingo Tracks I have been able to find
most are in mp3 format @ 128 kbps, a few are at lower biterates

The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo
The Tape Formerly Known as Madam Wongs West

The Madam Wongs West tape has a complicated story to it.
Madam Wongs West tape is actually a compilation of several shows by the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, but traders called it "The Tape Formerly Known As Madam Wongs West" The shows were in fact, at the Palace, West Take High and Madam Wongs...
The tape goes like this:

01 Rawhide
02 **Something Isn't Right** (I don't have this song)
03 Open Eyes
04 Teenage Monster
05 Gimme A Break
06 **Lap Of Luxury** (I don't have this song)
07 Commando Girls
08 Louise
09 California Girls
10 Forbidden Zone
11 Animals
12 **I'm Afraid** (I don't have this song)
13 Woke Up Clipped

These tracks are from a live bootleg that someone taped of the Mystic Knights
as they were doing a concert. There was never an official recording of it
released, but copies have been made, and, as a result of age and transferring
from an open reel tape, the quality is bad.

1 Acapella Ditty
2 Hipsters on Parade
3 **Always There** (I don't have this song)
4 Hello Satan
5 St. James Infirmary
6 Violent Love
7 Money Comes From Heaven
8 I Got a Job
9 Yes Sir
10 **Comet's Tail** (I don't have this song)
11 **Faster** (I don't have this song)
12 Minnie the Moocher
13 Left This Town
14 Finale
15 Johnny
16 **You Got Your Baby Back (live)** (I don't have this song)

Unavailable Studio tracks (1979-86)
(MKOTOB and Oingo Boingo)

01 You Got Your Baby Back
(1976- Self-Released Promotional Single)
02 Ballad of the Caveman
(1976- B-Side to Self-Released Promotional Single)
03 Acapella Ditty
04 Don't Go in the Basement
(From the short film 'Face Like A Frog') (1978)
05 Louise (Studio Version)
06 Nuclear Babies (1979)
07 Marching In Time (Mystic Knights)
08 Head in the Clouds
09 Cruisin
10 Can't Pretend
11 Hold Me Back (Appears in the Film Surf II)
12 Freak Show
13 Better Luck NextTime (1982)
(from The Last American Virgin Soundtrack)
14 Bachelor Party (1984)
(from the Bachelor Party Soundtrack)
15 Something Isn't Right (1984)
(from the Bachelor Party Soundtrack)
16 Take Your Medicine (1985)
( from the "Live, for Life" Compilation)
17 Happy
(from the Summer School Soundtrack
18 Goodbye, Goodbye (1982)
19 Flesh 'N Blood (Different than album version)
20 The cat is dead (from Danny's project "Little Demons")

Album Out-takes

01 Elementary Physics (Dead Man's Party Out-take) (1985)
02 Mama (BOI-NGO in a Box) (1987) (studio version)
03 Inside (Out-take From BOI-NGO) (1987)
04 Vultures (Extended) (Boingo out-take)

12 inch mixes

01 Pain (Extended Dance Mix)
02 Not My Slave (extended remix)
03 Wierd Science (Extended Dance Mix)
04 Gratitude (tornado version)
05 Dead Man's Party (remix)
06 Stay (Stay Late Mix)
07 Not My Slave (club dub mix)
08 We Close Our Eyes (Acoustic)
09 Pain (Acapella Mix)
10 Out of Control (Funky Drummer Dub)

Promos

01 Budweiser Commercial (1984)
02 KROQ Air Test
03 Christmas Hell ( Nightmare Before Christmas Promo)

Live

01 Ain't This The Life(live)
02 Stay (live)
03 Did it There (Live @ Irvine Meadows 1993)
(contains lyrics for what later became "Insanity")
04 Yodeling contest
05 Kiss My Ass

I am looking for anything I don't have, or better quality on some of these that I already have. If anyone is interested in any of these songs, please let me know, I can make them available to you. I also have a copy of the bootleg DVD by Noodlemaps of Skeletons in the closet containing all of the Oingo Boingo music videos, as well as some rare live performances

[Jim2]

Hey Chjonnie,
Do you have "Afraid of the Dark" on an early Rhino Records compilation "L.A.IN"? The cover looks like the movie poster for
the 1979 movie "Alien". This track was also used in the movie
Forbidden Zone and part of it was reused as the theme song to
the Dilbert cartoon. I have a really bad quality mp3 of the
Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo on the Gong Show. They won!