Oingo Boingo was an American new wave band formed by songwriter Danny Elfman in 1979. The band emerged from a surrealist musical theatre troupe, The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, that Elfman had led and written material for in the years previous. Oingo Boingo were known for their high energy live concerts and experimental music, which can be described as mixing rock, ska, pop, and world music. The band's body of work spanned 17 years, with various genre and line-up changes. Their best-known songs include "Only a Lad", "Little Girls", "Dead Man's Party" and "Weird Science". As a rock band, Oingo Boingo started as a ska and punk-influenced new wave octet, achieving significant popularity in Southern California. During the mid-1980s, the band changed line-ups, and adopted a more pop-oriented style, until a significant genre change to alternative rock in 1994. At that point, the name was shortened to simply Boingo and the keyboard and horn section were dropped. The band retired after a farewell concert on Halloween 1995, for which they reverted to the name Oingo Boingo and readopted the horn section.

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My obsession with Oingo Boing honestly came out of the blue. I originally was making an original character (or oc) that I wanted to be obsessed with the 1980s. Specially, I wanted her to like a really, funky out-there kinda band.
So I settled on Oingo Boingo.
I had heard of them before, mind you. Weird Science and Dead Man's Party are always on some sort of Halloween playlist.
The song that particularly caused me to really listen to Oingo more was 'Dead or Alive'. After that, I was hooked.
I soon became known at my old job as 'That Oingo Boingo fan' or 'That Danny Elfman fan', and to a special co-worker, my nickname became Oingo/Boingo!
This hyperfixation lasted almost a year, from early 2022 to March of 2023. I enjoy Oingo Boingo still, but due to the fans, I despise the fandom part of the band.
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