Good for Your Soul
Oingo Boingo
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Who Do You Want to Be | Oingo Boingo | 3:34 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Good for Your Soul | Oingo Boingo | 3:16 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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No Spill Blood | Oingo Boingo | 3:42 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Cry of the Vatos | Oingo Boingo | 2:21 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Fill the Void | Oingo Boingo | 3:42 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Sweat | Oingo Boingo | 4:49 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Nothing Bad Ever Happens to Me | Oingo Boingo | 3:43 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Wake Up (It's 1984) | Oingo Boingo | 4:42 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Dead or Alive | Oingo Boingo | 4:04 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Pictures of You | Oingo Boingo | 4:03 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Little Guns | Oingo Boingo | 3:42 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 11 Songs |
Album Review
Not as highly regarded as Only a Lad or Dead Man's Party, Good for Your Soul may have been underrated in the Boingo canon. While there are moments where Elfman and company are straining a little ("Wake Up (It's 1984)"), there are other moments where the band is in full flight and at the top of their form — "What Do You Want to Be?" gets the album off to a roaring start, "Cry of the Vatos" is a very warped anthem, and "No Spill Blood," inspired by George Orwell's Animal Farm, is a chilling, thundering commentary...
Customer Reviews
If you're going to write an official review, get it right!
This is a wonderful album, so it'd feel wrong to give it a low review in order to catch attention (which is why I didn't do so), but I just want to echo an earlier reviewer by pointing out that 'No Spill Blood' was based off of H.G. Well's book 'The Island of Dr. Moreau', not 'Animal Farm'. If it were some random reviewer who'd made the mistake, it wouldn't be so bad, but this makes me worry about what else these guys may have messed up on.
Good Stuff
On Good for Your Soul, Oingo Boingo breaks away from the synthesized sound of the previous two albums for a more complicated, electric guitar-driven sound that would also characterize many of their later recordings. The arrangements of the songs themselves are somewhat more complex than those on Only a Lad or Nothing to Fear, and most of the songs available here are classics for the band. A solid album; definitely worth buying the whole thing.
Where there's boingo, there's oingo
It's a very good album for an early recording. There's not one bad song (in my opinion) on this album. If you like music, or Danny Elfman, you probably already have it, but for the rest of you, check this one out, it's definately a rare, and great album.
Biography
Formed: 1977 in Los Angeles, CA
Genre: Alternative
Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s
Top Albums and Songs By Oingo Boingo
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Dead Man's Party | Dead Man's Party | 6:21 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Weird Science | 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Oingo Boingo | 6:12 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Dead Man's Party | 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Oingo Boingo | 6:18 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Dead Man's Party | Best O' Boingo | 6:22 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Little Girls | Skeletons in the Closet - The Best of Oingo Boingo | 3:45 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Just Another Day | Dead Man's Party | 5:12 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Only a Lad | Best O' Boingo | 3:49 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Stay | Best O' Boingo | 3:35 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Weird Science | Dead Man's Party | 6:08 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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We Close Our Eyes | 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Oingo Boingo | 3:38 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
- $9.99
- Genres: Alternative, Music, Rock, Adult Alternative, New Wave, Pop, Pop/Rock
- Released: 1983
- ℗ 1983 UMG Recordings, Inc.
