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I recently got into Oingo Boingo, but the subreddit is private.

I couldn’t find a good place to discuss them, so I made one.

  • @betterdeadthanreddit
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    201 year ago

    By now, I think they’ve been around long enough that it’s just considered “wave”.

  • @niktemadur
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    1 year ago

    “Oingo Boingo” comes from an ancient Swahili dialect which means “thinking while dancing”.

    Said Danny Elfman during an interview once. But in another interview I heard him saying it meant something completely different, something about hats.
    Danny Elfman… mischievously unreliable narrator.

  • @mikezane
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    21 year ago

    I thought they changed to Boingo a while back. Did they go back to their original names?

    • @wariniOP
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      1 year ago

      in 1994 the name was shortened to simply Boingo. The band retired after a farewell concert on Halloween 1995, for which they reverted to the name Oingo Boingo

    • @Hikermick
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      11 year ago

      Originally they were The Mystic Knights Of The Oingo Boingo. A little to big for a marquee

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    11 year ago

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