#406/1042
October 28 1985
Oingo Boingo
Dead Man’s Party
4.25 out of 5
Highlights:
No One Lives Forever
Stay
Help Me
Weird Science
Wow, Listen to that opening track “Just Another Day” Danny Elfman went full Duran Duran.
And I know that the song was used in “Back to School” but “Dead Man’s Party” with it’s “walkin’ with a dead man over my shoulder”…how is that not the theme to “Weekend at Bernie’s”??
You know if you get past the obviousness of it’s devotion to being “weird” and “New wavy”, there’s some good tracks in here that suggest everything from the aforementioned Duran Duran Stadium sound to even, Madness (“Stay”) and INXS (“Help Me”)
You know what? This is actually the first Oingo Boingo album that I enjoyed from top to bottom. Even the shitty-hits like the title track and “Weird Science”, though perhaps it’s the familiarity that allows that enjoyment.
This whole record feels like a calculated attempt at a cash grab while at the same time sounding like a last ditch effort at said cash grab and somehow it all works for me.
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