OINGO BOINGO:
GOOD FOR YOUR SOUL

Cashbox Magazine
13/08/1983

Los Angeles’ odd-rock combo Oingo Boingo delivers its third album of polyrhythmic pop and, as usual, the platter is loaded with enough lyrical paranoia to make listeners constantly look over their shoulders while they dance. The Boingos take on militarism ("Little Guns”), television (“Who Do You Want To Be”), future shock (“Wake Up (It’s 1984)”) and schizophrenia (the title cut), among other ‘topics, and group mastermind Danny Elfman’s manic visions are a cinch to click with new music-minded AOR, as well as hip college and prog stations. Without a doubt one of the most popular regional acts in Southern California, the time seems ripe for the octet to conquer the rest of the continent.


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