
Artist
Oingo Boingo
Oingo Boingo is a pop-rock artist from Los Angeles, USA formed in 1995. 22 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Pop-Rock · Los Angeles, USA · Best pop-rock albums
- 22
- Releases
- 1981–2025
- Active years
- 1995
- Formed

Artist
Oingo Boingo is a pop-rock artist from Los Angeles, USA formed in 1995. 22 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Pop-Rock · Los Angeles, USA · Best pop-rock albums

Most popular
Dead Man's Party
1985 · 9 tracks

Best o' Boingo
1991

Boingo Alive
1988

Boingo
1994

Nothing to Fear
1982

Good for Your Soul
1983

Dark at the End of the Tunnel
1990

BOI-NGO
1987

In The Shadows (Live L.A. '84)
2025

Farewell: Live From The Universal Amphitheatre-Halloween 1995
2018

The Best Of Oingo Boingo 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection
2007
20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Oingo Boingo
2002
Anthology
1999
Farewell: Live from the Universal Amphitheater
1996

Skeletons In The Closet: The Best Of Oingo Boingo
1989
Oingo Boingo (pronounced /ˈɔɪ̯ŋgo ˈbɔɪ̯ŋgo/) was an American rock band. They are best known for their influence on other musicians, their soundtrack contributions, and their high energy Halloween concerts. The band was founded in 1972 as The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, a performance art group. From 1976 it was led by songwriter/vocalist Danny Elfman, who has since achieved success as a composer for film and television. The group's format changed twice. In 1979, it reshaped from a semi-theatrical music and comedy troupe into a ska-influenced New Wave octet and shortened their name to Oingo Boingo. Towards the end of the 1980s, the band began shifting to a more guitar-oriented alternative rock sound, and away from the use of horns and synthesizers. The band retired after a sold out farewell concert on Halloween 1995. The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, formed in late 1972 by Richard Elfman, was a musical theater troupe in the tradition of Spike Jones and Frank Zappa, performing an eclectic repertoire ranging from Cab Calloway covers to instrumentals in the style of Balinese gamelan and Russian ballet music. The name was inspired by a fictional secret society on the Amos '…