Boingo Alive

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Boingo Alive
Studio album by Oingo Boingo
Released	September 26, 1988 (1988-09-26)
Recorded	1987-1988
Genre	Alternative Rock, New Wave,Ska
Label	MCA Records
Producer	Danny Elfman and Steve Bartek
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Oingo Boingo chronology
BOI-NGO (1987) Boingo Alive (1988) The Best of Oingo Boingo: Skeletons in the Closet (1989)
Singles from Boingo Alive
"Winning Side" Released: 1988

Boingo Alive is a double album by Oingo Boingo. It is a mix of a best-of album, studio album, and live album. It was published to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the band, and it contained a selection of the band's classics rerecorded live on a soundstage without an audience, without making use of drum machines, or overdubs.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Dead Man's Party"
2. "Dead or Alive"
3. "No Spill Blood"
4. "Stay"
5. "Cinderella Undercover" (previously unreleased)
6. "Home Again"
7. "Help Me"
8. "Just Another Day"
9. "Only Makes Me Laugh"
10. "My Life"
11. "Nothing to Fear (But Fear Itself)"
12. "Not My Slave"
13. "We Close Our Eyes"
14. "Elevator Man"
15. "Return of the Dead Man" (previously unreleased)
16. "Winning Side" (previously unreleased)
17. "Wild Sex (In the Working Class)"
18. "Grey Matter"
19. "Private Life"
20. "Gratitude"
21. "No One Lives Forever"
22. "Mama"
23. "Capitalism"
24. "Who Do You Want to Be"
25. "Sweat"
26. "Violent Love"
27. "On the Outside"
28. "Only a Lad"
29. "Goodbye - Goodbye"
30. "Country Sweat" (previously unreleased)
31. "Return of the Dead Man 2" (previously unreleased)

[edit] Credits

• Danny Elfman - lead vocals, rhythm guitar
• Steve Bartek - lead guitar
• John Avila - bass, backing vocals
• Johnny "Vatos" Hernandez - drums, percussion
• Carl Graves - keyboards, backing vocals
• Sam Phipps - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
• Leon Schneiderman - baritone saxophone
• Dale Turner - trumpet, trombone
• Bruce Flower - trombone

[edit] Inclusions in Other Media

• The track "Who Do You Want to Be" is featured on the soundtrack to the video game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. It is also featured in the Nintendo DS version of Tony Hawk's American Sk8land. While the song was also included on the studio album Good for Your Soul, the live track from Alive is the version found in the games.

v • d • e Oingo Boingo Studio albums Only a Lad • Nothing to Fear • Good for Your Soul • Dead Man's Party • BOI-NGO • Dark at the End of the Tunnel • Boingo Live albums Boingo Alive • Farewell: Live from the Universal Amphitheater, Halloween 1995 Compilation albums The Best of Oingo Boingo: Skeletons in the Closet • Stay • Best O' Boingo • Anthology • The Best of Oingo Boingo: 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection EPs Oingo Boingo Related articles Forbidden Zone • Forbidden Zone soundtrack • So-Lo • Dead Bands Party: A Tribute to Oingo Boingo