Boingo Alive is a double-disc album by Oingo Boingo

Oingo Boingo

Oingo Boingo was an American new wave 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...

, released on September 26, 1988

1988 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1988.-January-March:* January 1 – André Rieu's Johann Strauss Orchestra plays its first concert....

. It serves a number of purposes, being a hybrid of a greatest hits album, studio album and live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

. It was recorded to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the band and contained a selection of the band's classics re-recorded live on a soundstage without an audience, plus six previously unreleased tracks.

CD content

All tracks written and composed by Danny Elfman

Danny Elfman

Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film. Up until 1995, he was the lead singer and songwriter in the rock band Oingo Boingo, a group he formed in 1976...

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CD content

All tracks written and composed by Danny Elfman, except for "Violent Love" by Willie Dixon

Willie Dixon

William James "Willie" Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the Upright bass and the guitar, as well as his own singing voice, Dixon is arguably best known as one of the most prolific songwriters...

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Personnel

Oingo Boingo

• John Avila
  John Avila
  John Avila is a Mexican-American bassist and music producer, best known for being in the new wave band Oingo Boingo from 1984 to 1995.-Career:Avila co-founded the music group Food for Feet in 1981, and played with them until 1991....
  
   - bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , vocals
  Singing
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• Steve Bartek
  Steve Bartek
  Steve Bartek, born in Garfield Heights, Ohio on January 30, 1952, is an American guitarist, film composer, conductor and orchestrator.-Early career:...
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
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• Danny Elfman
  Danny Elfman
  Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film. Up until 1995, he was the lead singer and songwriter in the rock band Oingo Boingo, a group he formed in 1976...
  
   - vocals, rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
  
  
• Carl Graves - keyboard
  Musical keyboard
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  s, vocals
• Johnny "Vatos" Hernandez - drums
  Drum kit
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  , percussion
  Percussion instrument
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• Sam Phipps - tenor & soprano saxophones
• Leon Schneiderman - baritone saxophone
• Dale Turner - trumpet, trombone

Additional Musician

• Bruce Fowler
  Bruce Fowler
  Bruce Lambourne Fowler is a prominent American trombone player and composer. He notably played trombone on many Frank Zappa records, as well as with Captain Beefheart, and in the Fowler Brothers Band...
  
   - trombone

Inclusions in other media

• The Boingo Alive version of "Who Do You Want to Be" is featured on the soundtrack of the video games Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
  Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
  Tony Hawk's American Wasteland, abbreviated to THAW, is a video game that was released for the PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360, Nintendo GameCube and PC on October 18, 2005. Part of the Tony Hawk series, the game was developed by Neversoft and published by Activision.The PC version of the game was ported and...
  
  and Tony Hawk's American Sk8land
  Tony Hawk's American Sk8land
  Tony Hawk's American Sk8land, is the first entry in the Tony Hawk's series of video games for the Nintendo DS, and the sixth Tony Hawk video game for the Game Boy Advance....
  
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• The Boingo Alive version of "Stay" was used as the theme song of the Brazil
  Brazil
  Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
  
  ian telenovel
  Telenovel
  Telenovel is an English-language translation of the following words:* Telenovela -- Latin-American serialised television dramas* Téléroman -- French-language serialised television dramas, particularly from Quebec...
  
  Top Model, which increased Oingo Boingo's popularity in Brazil.