Oingo Boingo - Freak Show - Non-Album Tracks (1982-1983)

I just posted an Oingo Boingo stray tracks album that deals with the years 1980 and 1981. This one takes care of the years 1982 and 1983. The band was busy at that time, releasing the albums "Nothing to Fear" and "Good for Your Soul." But it turns out they had lots of other original songs, and could have released another album at the time. All the songs here are originals and this even includes one of their best songs, "Goodbye Goodbye." So if you're a fan of the band, please give this a listen.

The first song and the last two are the only ones that have been officially released. All three come from movie soundtracks. Although the rest are unreleased, they sound pretty good in my opinion. It helps they're all demos and outtakes instead of coming from concert recordings.

Once again, I'm really impressed at the sheer number of unreleased or obscure originals from this band. They're still very underrated, in my opinion.

This album is 38 minutes long, not including the bonus track.

One song, "Lap of Luxury," is included only a bonus track for two reasons. One is that its sound quality isn't that great. The second is that I included a different version of this song on the stray tracks album that precedes this one, "I Was a Teenage Monster." But this live version has a significantly different arrangement, so I figure it at least deserves bonus track status.

01 Better Luck Next Time (Oingo Boingo)
02 Elementary Physics (Oingo Boingo)
03 Freak Show (Oingo Boingo)
04 All the Pieces (Oingo Boingo)
05 I Can't Pretend (Oingo Boingo)
06 Lightning (Oingo Boingo)
07 Waiting for You (Oingo Boingo)
08 Head in the Clouds (Oingo Boingo)
09 Kiss My Ass (Oingo Boingo)
10 Hold Me Back (Oingo Boingo)
11 Goodbye, Goodbye (Oingo Boingo)

Lap of Luxury [Alternate Live Version] (Oingo Boingo)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15264652/OingBo_1982-1983_FreakShw_atse.zip.html

The cover art uses a publicity photo of the band from around this time period. However, there was a problem: one of the band members was way off to the side, which upset the overall composition of the photo. If I had included him, lead singer Danny Elfman wouldn't have been right in the center. So I took just the head of that band member and added it behind some of the others. Now at least his head is included.