Comments on: Dw. Dunphy On… Danny Elfman

By: Gina

Gina — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:19:16 +0000

I don't think they will ever get back together because they can't tour due to Danny's ears. Johnny Vatos will occasionally play a Halloween show here in SoCal, and I'm afaid that is as close as we are going to get.

Which makes me very, very sad.

I saw Boingo live at least eight times, and at their last concert (yes, biatches, I was there!)I cried. If I could see them one more time, I could die happy.

Besides, I think he is having too much fun (and success) with the movie scores.

By: Gina

Gina — Mon, 05 May 2008 01:19:16 +0000

By: Gina

Gina — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:19:16 +0000

By: License Farm

License Farm — Sun, 04 May 2008 06:02:33 +0000

I have to disagree with you as emphatically as possible about the efficacy of "Boingo" to attract new fans, as I was one of them. In fact, up until the release of that I'd not only been dimly aware of Oingo Boingo if at all, but otherwise nearly completely apathetic to rock altogether, which either was a cause or a symptom of alienation from my generation. I think AxCESS magazine called it when they described it as an anti-Sgt. Peppers; it's gloomy in the places where that's light, yet involves just as much craft. It was only with this album that I realized that rock indeed had something to say to me; "Boingo" was on a constant loop during my freshman year in college, and remains perhaps my favorite album of all time to this day, despite a vastly expanded fluency. I even quoted "Spider" on the design I did for my senior yearbook page, which was never published:

Hope you're happy
Found what you're looking for
Do you miss me
Miss me at all?

Subsequently I became a fan of the rest of the Boingo oeuvre, even going back to their Mystic Knights days. I was devastated that they broke up a mere year after I'd got into them, and I cursed my lack of initiative to be at that final show, though I own both the double CD and DVD. Unlike so many other groups, I think Elfman means it when he says he does not intend to ever reunite them, and he seems to have no reason to change his mind given his success. That makes it all the more the shame, though you gotta respect his integrity, and given tthat a reunion could sabotage an outfit's legacy I would not want to be the one to twist his arm.

By: DwDunphy

DwDunphy — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:46:01 +0000

I've been on this one a few times today, and each time it downloads fine. Are you using Firefox?

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:10:25 +0000

Excellent first name and excellent taste. Kudos!

By: Matt Wardlaw

Matt Wardlaw — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:30:23 +0000

I like the Boingo album. If I'm alone on that, that's cool. I'll agree with (other) Matt, Mary is indeed a great track!

By: Darius

Darius — Fri, 02 May 2008 03:11:57 +0000

Can you please repost “Remains of the Day”? I could only get the first 50 seconds to download. Thank you.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:18:13 +0000

The Boingo album (not to be confused with the BOI-NGO album from '88) was a bit spotty, but it does have two of my favorite OB songs (not to mention two of the saddest songs ever)… “Mary” and “Can't See (Useless)”.

By: SteveC

SteveC — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:01:07 +0000

An Oingo Boingo reunion?

Now, THAT'S something I would gladly pay for!

Dark At The End Of The Tunnel was a huge disappointment to me when it first came out because it was so different from the fiery insanity of their earlier stuff, but over time, it's grown to be one of my favorite albums.

"Out of Control" is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard...chokes me up every time.