Oingo Boingo briefly broke onto the mainstream charts with 1985's Dead Man's Party. Their massive change in sound had a lot to do with it and in turn put off a lot of longtime fans. Gone are the kooky time signatures, the punk up attitude, the snarky darkly humorous lyrics, frantic guitar frolics and wild offbeat vocal styles. All of it replaced by a smoothed over sound that is reminiscent of a quirky version of Duran Duran. Not to say it's a bad record, in fact I'm awfully fond of several of the songs, it's just I preferred the Boingos who weren't afraid to offend.
3 dead Bus-conductors out of 5
Songs Of Note: Dead Man's Party; No One Lives Forever
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