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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dontrunaway.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:"Don't run away! It's only me!"]]
3	Dead Man's Party is the 4th album by {{Cult}} NewWaveMusic band Music/OingoBoingo, released in the year 1985.
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5	This album, unlike the earlier albums of the band, has a more poppy and danceable sound and basically downplays the whole {{Ska}} influence those three albums had. And even though it drop the Ska-Punk elements to a degree, the album also has the bands three {{Signature Song}}s on it: The TitleTrack, "Stay" and the theme song for ''Film/WeirdScience'' (the latter of which Music/DannyElfman [[CreatorBacklash regretted since it didn't fit the repertoire]]).
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7	!!Tracklist:
8	# "Just Another Day" (5:14)
9	# "Dead Man's Party" (6:23)
10	# "Heard Somebody Cry" (4:39)
11	# "No One Lives Forever" (4:16)
12	# "Stay" (3:39)
13	# "Fool's Paradise" (4:36)
14	# "Help Me" (3:47)
15	# "Same Man I Was Before" (3:26)
16	# [[Film/WeirdScience "Weird Science"]] (6:10)
17	----
18	!!It's a troper's party! Who could ask for more?:
19	* {{Calacas}}: The album cover was inspired by The Day of The Dead, with all of the [[TheDeadCanDance skeletons dancing]] and partying. There is even a skeletal mariachi band.
20	* EpicRocking: Apart from the three minute songs, the album has more lenghty tracks then the earlier three. Big example would be the TitleTrack, which is about six minutes and twenty-three seconds.
21	* ForScience: "Weird Science", natch.
22	* HalloweenSongs: Basically the whole album, since it does have themes of death and the related things about it, but only more optimistic like "Dead Man's Party" and "No One Lives Forever".
23	* MadScientist: "Weird Science" is sung by one.
24	* OneWordTitle: "Stay".
25	* PerformanceVideo: "Just Another Day", "Dead Man's Party" and "Stay"'s music videos are these. With "Stay" and "Just Another Day" having some unique touches to make it feel more surreal.
26	* VideoFullOfFilmClips: The videos for "Dead Man's Party" and "Weird Science".
27	* WeAllDieSomeday: "No One Lives Forever" takes the AntiNihilist approach, basically throwing a party with the awareness of mortality.
28	* WordSaladLyrics / WordSaladHorror: Even when Oingo Boingo changed their sound to more poppy endeavors, their cryptic lyrics still linger on.
29	** "Heard Somebody Cry" for example:
30	--->The shoe is on the other foot—the glove is on the fist\
31	The first is like a cannonball—but it feels like a kiss\
32	I got a bed that's real soft—in a room that's always sad\
33	I thought I heard a window sigh—I though I heard somebody cry

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