Skeletons in the Closet (Oingo Boingo album)

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The Best of Oingo Boingo: Skeletons in the Closet
The Best of Oingo Boingo: Skeletons in the Closet cover
Compilation album by Oingo Boingo
Released 1989
Recorded 1981-1983
Genre Alternative Rock, New Wave
Length 47:41
Label A&M Records
Producer Danny Elfman and Steve Bartek
Professional reviews
Oingo Boingo chronology
Boingo Alive
(1988)		 The Best of Oingo Boingo: Skeletons in the Closet
(1989)		 Stay
(1990)

The Best of Oingo Boingo: Skeletons in the Closet is Oingo Boingo's first compilation album. It features songs recorded during the band's A&M years, from 1981's Only A Lad to 1983's Good For Your Soul.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Little Girls"
  2. "Private Life (edited)"
  3. "On the Outside"
  4. "Nasty Habits"
  5. "Grey Matter"
  6. "Only a Lad"
  7. "Wake Up! (It's 1984)"
  8. "Insects"
  9. "Whole Day Off"
  10. "Nothing to Fear (But Fear Itself)"
  11. "Nothing Bad Ever Happens"
  12. "Who Do You Want to Be"

[edit] Video

A music video compilation was also released by A&M Records alongside the album. The video contained - in order - music videos for "Stay" and "Just Another Day" from Dead Man's Party (1985), "Gratitude" from So-Lo (1984), "Little Girls" from Only A Lad (1981), "Nothing Bad Ever Happens" from Good For Your Soul (1983), and "Private Life" from Nothing To Fear (1982). The video is long out-of-print.

[edit] Notes

  • Although the version of "Private Life" contained on this album is labeled as being edited, it is actually the very same version that is contained on all CD and cassette versions of Nothing To Fear (1982), as well as re-issues of the LP. Only the original pressings of the LP contained an extended cut of the song.


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