Dead Man's Party

by Oingo Boingo

Dead Man's Party cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 28 October 1985
  • Label: MCA
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 42:00
  • Community rating: 3.93/5 from 9 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Danny Elfman鈥檚 eccentric new wave ensemble reached its commercial peak with this incredibly infectious, rhythmically frantic pop-rock record. 'Dead Man's Party' surrounds dark, macabre lyrical themes regarding death and mortality with bright, hyper-energetic horn arrangements and bouncing synthesizer grooves. The album remains a delightfully quirky, highly melodic, and enduring Halloween party classic.

Genres

Descriptors: death, halloween, party, melodic, theatrical, synthesizers, guitars, rhythmic, saxophone

Tracklist

  1. Just Another Day (5:12)
  2. Dead Man's Party (6:21)
  3. Heard Somebody Cry (4:39)
  4. No One Lives Forever (4:14)
  5. Stay (3:37)
  6. Fool's Paradise (4:34)
  7. Help Me (3:46)
  8. Same Man I Was Before (3:24)
  9. Weird Science (6:08)

Credits

  • Oingo Boingo - primary artist
  • Wally Traugott - lacquer cut by, mastered by, mastering
  • Michael Frondelli - mixed by
  • Danny Elfman - producer, written-by
  • Steve Bartek - producer
  • Bill Jackson - recorded by

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