the band is probably better known for appearing in a total of soundtracks in the early-to-mid-1980s. Their virtually all easily-known song, "Weird Science" was, in fact, written for the John Hughes movie of the same title. A band manufactured an appearance swimming their hit "Dead Man's Party" in stage in the memorable person scene in the moving-picture show Back to School, in addition to appearing in the 1981 film Longshot, performing their unreleased song "I've Got To Be Entertained". It likewise contributed deuce songs (neither of which may be obtained in any Oingo Boingo release) to the soundtrack for 1984's Bachelor Party; "Bachelor Party" & "Something Isn't Right".

It besides processed a cameo appearance when the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo in the moving picture Forbidden Zone, written and directed by Richard Elfman, a brother of Danny Elfman. Thereinside incarnation, the idea of which was ab initio formed in late 1972, a band was au fond a musical theatre company. Virtually all of a members performed within whiteface & clown makeup; the average indicate would contain music ranging from either the Nineties to the Fifties (a few of which were covers, a bit of of which were original poop according to music of an additional era.) This version of the band experienced when several when Fifteen members at any in one case, swimming complete Xxx instruments between the two. Alas, super little recorded lesson from either this cycle lives. Because of the expense & difficulty of maintaining an ensemble of this size, Danny Elfman decided around 1978 to reduce both a b& and its title, dropping a "Mystic Knights" sobriquet. As much as 1994 it was eventually once again shortened, this instance to "Boingo".

Oingo Boingo amicably parted ways when their annual Halloween concert in 1995, because it was "time." A final concert is available in two audio & video.

Frontman Danny Elfman has had a super successful film scoring career since, particularly unitedly by owning the director Tim Burton, & oft applying Boingo guitar player & composer Steve Bartek as orchestrator. Their film scores stand involved Batman, Good Will Hunting, Proof of Life, Men in Black, and twelve supplementary. Elfman likewise wrote the themes for to a higher degree a xii TV series, including The Simpsons, Desperate Housewives, and Tales from the Crypt.

Discography
Oingo Boingo (4-song EP) (1980) Only a Lad (1981) Nothing To Fear (1982) Good For Your Soul (1983) So-Lo (1984, solo album by Danny Elfman, usually considered to become the a share of the Oingo Boingo discography) ''Dead Man's Party (1985) BOI-NGO (1986) Boingo Alive (1988, live album recorded in the healthy-stage) Skeletons In the Closet (1989, compilation) Stay (1990, compilation released around Brazil single) Dark At the End Of the Tunnel (1990) Best O' Boingo (1991, compilation) Boingo (1994) Farewell (1996, live, final concert) Anthology (1999, compilation) 20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection ~ Oingo Boingo (2002, compilation)

Singles

|rowspan="2"|Year |rowspan="2"| Title |colspan="4"| Chart positions |rowspan="2"| Album |-

|US Hot 100 |US Modern Rock |US Mainstream Rock |UK |- | 1988 | "Winning Side" | - | #14 | - | - | Boingo Alive |- | 1990 | "When the Lights Go Out" | - | #15 | - | - | Dark at a Prevent of the Tunnel'' |}