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Track: Fool's Paradise
Artist: Oingo Boingo
Album: Dead Man's Party

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Name: Oingo Boingo
Spotify Genres: new wave
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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 since 1976 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. 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 horn section was dropped. The band retired after a farewell tour in 1995, for which they reverted to the name Oingo Boingo and readopted the horn section. [b]Line-up:[/b] Danny Elfman (1979-1995) - composer, music director, lead vocals, brass, violin, guitar, percussion Steve Bartek (1979-1995) - guitar, vocals, percussion, horn arrangements, accordion Johnny "Vatos" Hernandez (1979-1995) - drums, percussion Sam "Sluggo" Phipps (1979-1993, 1995) - tenor & soprano saxophones, clarinet, flute, percussion, backing vocals Leon Schneiderman (1979-1993, 1995)- baritone & alto saxophones, flute, instrument design and construction, percussion, backing vocals Dale Turner (1979-1993, 1995) - trumpet, trombone, percussion, guitar, backing vocals Dan Schmitt (1979-1980) - keyboards Jeff Breeh (1979) - bass Kerry Hatch (1979-1984) - bass guitar, vocals, bass synthesizer, percussion, backing vocals Richard "Ribbs" Gibbs (1980-1984) - keyboards, synthesizer, trombone, percussion, backing vocals David Eagle (1980) - drums Michael Bacich (1984-1987) - keyboards, backing vocals John Avila (1984-1995) - bass guitar, bass synthesizer, percussion, accordion, backing vocals Carl Graves (1987-1993) - keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals Warren Fitzgerald (1993-1995) - guitar, backing vocals

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Release: Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party
Year: 1985
Genres: Electronic, Rock
Styles: New Wave, Synth-pop

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LYRICS

On the quest / For the holy Grail
Try and live / On razor's edge
Find a mountain / Or cross a valley
Why bother? / It's all for sale
True love was in her eyes
Burning truth was on her face
Even thought it was late at night
Saw her once There's no mistake

Now that we've found this precious place . . . .
How do we keep from going crazy now?
My life was leading to this day
Watching the whole thing slip away
It's just a fool's paradise
It's just a fool's paradise
It's just a fool's paradise anyhow

Dirty stains / On brand new linen
Fresh tracks / On virgin snow
Caught a saint / While he was sinning
People scream / What do they know
Turn it off and find religion
Tune it out and find a cause
Get it up and tell the world
Don't stop, Don't ever pause

Here in this place from all our dreams
It doesn't seem to make us better now
If it will get us through the night
With all our conscience still intact
It's just a fool's paradise . . . (etc.)

Two heads / Are better than one . . .
Two hearts / Bleed so much more
Serious / But no one laughing
Why run / When you can crawl
(True love around the corner--out of reach, so hard to hold)
My life's an open letter
Tear it up--and throw it away