COUNTRY CLUB, RESEDA — Going to an Oingo Boingo concert is like watching an old episode of the Outer Limits TV show. You have to suspend your disbelief for a while to get fully absorbed in its weird tales of schizoid outcasts, teenage monsters and crazy insects. Kicking off a near week-long series of dates at Wolf and Rissmiller's Country Club, the Dada rock coterie enthallled [sic] the youthful audience with a slew of offbeat tunes from its two LPs and initial EP release.

Whether singing the praises of "Little Girls" or the advantages of "Capitalism," lead vocalist and the brains behind the Boingos, Danny Elfman, dynamically serves as the focal point of the band, whose music is influenced by Spike Jones, the Beatles, Cab Calloway, Bertolt Brecht, Django Rhinehart [sic], DEVO and dozens of sci-fi/fantasy movie scores.

While the crowd obviously seemed to favor more familiar numbers from O.B.'s initial two outings, including "Only A Lad," "Violent Love" and a crazed cover of The Kinks' "You Really Got Me," cuts from the group's latest album, "Nothing to Fear" also received a positive response, especially interesting since the record had only been in stores for less than a week. A seminal element in L.A.'s club scene for many years, the Boingo's [sic] may never reach the commercialization undergone by other local bands like The Go-Go's and The Motels, but then again those acts don't sing disjointed dirges about brain cells called "Grey Matter" either.