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Best Oingo Boingo song you haven't heard

Discuss hard-to-find or out-of-print New Wave and '80s Alternative, and share a few songs along the way.
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Best Oingo Boingo song you haven't heard

Postby cassfrank » Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:04 am

As one of the resident Boingo-ologists, I feel the need given the recent Mystic Knights discussion to post this incredible and rare Boingo song. It's one of my absolute favs and should have received an album release. It cries out to this day, lost and lonely, for an album release. This is "Better Luck Next Time" from the soundtrack to the film Last American Virgin.

"Better Luck Next Time"
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?a ... 5F52D2A2DA
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Postby 655321 » Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:32 am

Thanks! I didn't have this one. I wish I had some rare tracks to offer but sadly I do not.
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Postby Randall Roq » Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:51 am

Hey Cassfrank,

Do you have any copies of the original (demo version) Aint This The Life (not the version that showed up on the first ep)?

I remeber Jed The Fish used to play it on KROQ but no one else seems to remember. It was much faster than the version that was eventually released.

And by the way thank you for the post.
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Postby cassfrank » Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:17 am

Yeah, here's the demo version of the song. Much faster -- and a lot more horn work -- than the EP version.

Ain't This the Life - Demo
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?a ... 6250516990

There were a number of cool tracks cut from the EP including a version of Cinderella Undercover, Controller and California Girls.
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Postby scramjet » Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:47 am

Thanks. Enjoyed that.
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Postby 655321 » Wed Aug 02, 2006 9:30 am

Man, it doesn't get much better than this. This is such an aswome place! Please share as much as you can. I only have "mainstream" stuff. If I can ever return the favor, consider it done.
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Postby Randall Roq » Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:56 am

HOLY COW CASSFRANK!!! I can't thank you enough, it's been about 20 years since I heard this!!!

I gotta go there's "sniff" something in my eye.."sniff"

Thanks.
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Postby cassfrank » Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:12 am

Glad you liked it Randall!

Here's a great little Boingo tune called "Kiss My Ass". If you saw them on tour in the '90s you may have heard them play it. It was recorded for their last album, the BOINGO ablum, but it was also recorded in the studio for the GOOD FOR YOUR SOUL sessions (my fav.) And so here is the 1983 demo of "Kiss My Ass"

Oingo Boingo - Kiss My Ass
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?a ... 952A6A841C
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Postby KYYX4ever » Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:14 am

Thanks much for the Boingo postings cassfrank. Killer unheard stuff from this crazy band.
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Postby 655321 » Sat Aug 05, 2006 4:34 pm

Thanks again! I've been away for a day or two. Please keep the "Boingo" coming!
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Postby cassfrank » Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:54 am

Glad everyone is enjoying these little nuggets. Here is a tune cut from Good For Your Soul, it's called Can't Pretend. Turn it up.

Oingo Boingo - Can't Pretend (1983 outtake)
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?a ... E95ACD9805
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Postby 655321 » Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:36 am

Thanks! Do you have any more?
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Postby cassfrank » Tue Aug 08, 2006 1:53 am

Are there more? On very much so. From all accounts that I've read or heard first hand, Boingo was really prolific in the studio. Every album has a number of tracks that were cut. All of them quite entertaining.

This is a great one from the Dead Man's Party (1985) album, it's called "Elementary Physics" and it's basically a riff on the Weird Science mad-scientist idea. I don't know that much about the history of the song but lyrically it's like an earlier, randier version of "Weird Science." That being said, it's not a "Weird Science" demo -- it's an entirely different song musically.

Oingo Boingo - Elementary Physics (Dead Man's Party outtake)M4a format:
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?a ... 1E05CC1588
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Postby 655321 » Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:46 am

Thanks! What do I need to play this type of file?
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Postby cassfrank » Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:43 am

iTunes. It's free. Download it and import the song.
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