History Music / OingoBoingo

* TheSixties: Both "Just Another Day" and "Dead Man's Party" evoke this - "Just Another Day" with its psychedelic imagery and wailing synthesizer, and "Dead Man's Party" with its surf-rock guitar and a pre-climactic bridge that is eerily reminiscent of [[Music/TheDoors "Light My Fire"]].

* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: "Out of Control"

* DontFearTheReaper: Again, "Dead Man's Party".

* FishOutOfWater: "On The Outside"
* ForScience: "Weird Science"
* FracturedFairyTale: "Cinderella Undercover"

* GenreRoulette: Sometimes. Probably the weirdest examples are "Country Sweat" (a slowed-down country version of "Sweat"), "Water" (Main/BlueGrass), and "Burn Me Up" (thrash metal with a '''''saxophone chorus''''').
* Series/TheGongShow: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTRd1a5MVMw Here they are]] in a 1976 appearance.
** Referenced in Music/WeirdAlYankovic's Oingo Boingo style parody "You Make Me".

* BigBrotherIsWatching: "Perfect System", “Wake Up (It's 1984)”, "Grey Matter", “Controller” and "Burn Me Up". "Marching In Time" may count as well.

* BystanderSyndrome: “Nothing Bad Ever Happens to Me”

* DarkIsNotEvil: “Dead Man’s Party” and many other songs.
* TheDeadCanDance: “Dead Man’s Party”
* DontFearTheReaper: Again, "Dead Man’s Party”.
* {{Dystopia}}: “Perfect System”

-->I believe, I believe in the cry of little children
-->There's a thorn in my side that makes me want to free them

* ISeeDeadPeople: "Mama"

* LyricalDissonance: ''Lots'' (which describes how justifiably paranoid a lot of people have become from the dangers of the world); “Controller” (where the singer panics about someone coming for him) and "Little Girls" (where the singer outright brags about being a pedophile) spring to mind, and especially “Tender Lumplings”.
* MadScientist: The narrator of “Weird Science”.

--> You're always puttin' the make on my friends always giving them eyes and the dirty lies 'bout me and you well I'm through it's the end of the line for you babe here's a ticket one way Cincinnati I'm sendin' you home to your ma and your daddy so don't try to call me you'll only be wastin' your ''[[CarefulWithThatAxe tiiiime]]''! [[note]](In case you weren't counting, it takes Danny less than eight seconds to spew all that out.)[[/note]]

-->I'm so excited about the prospects
-->Of meeting with a stranger in an alley
-->I'm so excited, I hope they're rough
-->I hope their skin is tough like Spanish leather
* ObligatoryBondageSong: "Nasty Habits"

* RaisedByWolves: “Pedestrian Wolves”

** “No Spill Blood” is one long shout-out to ''[[Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau The Island of Doctor Moreau]]''.
* SingleStanzaSong: "Tender Lumplings"

-->It’s not his fault that he can’t behave
-->Society’s made him go astray
-->Perhaps if we’re nice he’ll go away!

-->You're just a critic, we know why you drink so much
-->Jealousy slowly consuming your gut

---> You're just a middle class socialist brat\\

---> Let's talk of family values while we sit and watch the slaughter\\

-->The cool girls got knocked up
-->[[Music/CyndiLauper They only wanted to have fun]]

In 1994, Danny Elfman suffered a breakdown due to his work on ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', resulting in a brief falling out with Tim Burton. Because Danny wanted to go in a different direction, the band reshuffled its lineup, rechristened themselves Boingo, and recorded a SelfTitledAlbum which focused most on the rock and orchestral influences of the band's sound. It was partly inspired by Danny listening to his daughter's album collection, which included Music/TheBeatles, Music/JimiHendrix and Music/LedZeppelin. Their new sound alienated many old fans and gave them plenty of new ones. But by that time, and particularly after a truly terrible gig at the KROQ Weenie Roast, the group realized that their time together was over. They band retired after a farewell concert on Halloween 1995, having reverted to the name Oingo Boingo for the concert.

During the film's DevelopmentHell, Danny had taken over and re-formed the band to incorporate his new symphonic sound into their music, and the group very quickly took off in the direction of {{Ska}}-tinged {{New Wave|Music}}. The new band, called Oingo Boingo, was formed in 1979.

In 1994, Danny Elfman suffered a breakdown, resulting in a brief falling out with Tim Burton. Because Danny wanted to go in a different direction, the band reshuffled its lineup, rechristened themselves Boingo, and recorded a SelfTitledAlbum which focused most on the rock and orchestral influences of the band's sound. It was partly inspired by Danny listening to his daughter's album collection, which included Music/TheBeatles, Music/JimiHendrix and Music/LedZeppelin. Their new sound alienated many old fans and gave them plenty of new ones. But by that time, and particularly after a truly terrible gig at the KROQ Weenie Roast, the group realized that their time together was over. They band retired after a farewell concert on Halloween 1995, having reverted to the name Oingo Boingo for the concert.