Dingoes Ate My Baby
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Dingoes Ate My Baby is a fictional rock band on the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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[edit] Band members
Daniel 'Oz' Osbourne - lead guitarist (played by Seth Green). He once agreed with a student music critic that they sounded as if "plump polish sausages had been tied to their fingers." Oz dated Willow during high school; despite later identifying as a lesbian, she always kept a poster of Dingoes Ate My Baby on her dorm wall.
Devon MacLeish - lead singer. Devon is a friend of Oz and he also briefly dated both Cordelia Chase and Harmony Kendall.
[edit] Band name
The name of the band refers to the Azaria Chamberlain disappearance, an incident which occurred in Australia in 1980. A baby disappeared under mysterious circumstances near Uluru. The mother, Lindy Chamberlain, camping with her family, reported seeing a dingo carrying her baby from their tent, and famously stated, "A dingo's got my baby!". She was convicted of murdering her baby but later acquitted when new evidence proved the baby was, in fact, killed by dingoes.
[edit] Buffyverse appearances
The band are first mentioned in the unaired Buffy pilot. Xander says, “They don’t know any actual chords yet, but they have really big amps”. They did not appear on the show until the second season, in "Inca Mummy Girl". Dingoes continued to appear throughout Seasons 3 and 4 until Oz left Sunnydale. Most of their performances took place at The Bronze, Sunnydale's local nightclub.
| Episode | Location | Songs |
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| "Inca Mummy Girl" | The Bronze | "Fate" & "Shadows" |
| "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" | The Bronze | "Pain" |
| "Dead Man's Party" | Buffy's House | "Never mind", "Pain" & "Sway" |
| "Homecoming" | The Bronze | "She knows" |
| "Band Candy" | The Bronze | "Violent" |
| "Revelations" | The Bronze | "Run" |
| "Living Conditions" | Buffy's dorm room | "Pain" (on stereo) |
| "The Harsh Light of Day" | The Bronze | "Dilate" |
| "The Initiative" | The Bronze | "Fate" |
[edit] Music
The music of Dingoes Ate My Baby was actually composed and performed by Four Star Mary. Most of the songs that were used on the show featured on their 1998 album, Thrown to the Wolves, the title may have been inspired by Oz's lycanthropy. The band featured on Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Album. They also made a one-time appearance as themselves in "Restless". They provided the music along with Christophe Beck to the Joss Whedon-written song, "Giles' Epiphany".
[edit] References
[1.] - "Earshot"
[edit] See also
- The Bronze
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Album
- Buffyverse tracklist
- Daniel 'Oz' Osbourne
- Four Star Mary
[edit] External links
- Dingoes8mybaby.com - A fan pays tribute to the fictional band, by naming their site after it.
- AHoleintheWorld.com - Dingoes Ate My Baby/Four Star Mary - descriptions of both bands, and 2 printable Dingoes posters.
[edit] Azaria Chamberlain disappearance
- Theage.com.au - Article on the mysterious incident and its aftermath
- Whedonesque.com - Whedonesquers discuss the article above
[edit] Four Star Mary
- Fourstarmary.com - Four Star Mary Official site
- Fourstarmary.co.uk - UK site
- Stlyrics.com - Lyrics for many of the most popular songs that featured on Buffy
