c/newcommunities · by warini@lemmy.world · 3y

Oingo Boingo - A place to talk about new wave band OIngo Boingo

!oingoboingo@lemmy.world

I recently got into Oingo Boingo, but the subreddit is private.

I couldn't find a good place to discuss them, so I made one.

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8 Comments

betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 3y (1 reply)

By now, I think they've been around long enough that it's just considered "wave".

Meho_Nohome@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 3y

For a second I thought there was a new Oingo Boingo.

niktemadur@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

"Oingo Boingo" comes from an ancient Swahili dialect which means "thinking while dancing".

Said Danny Elfman during an interview once. But in another interview I heard him saying it meant something completely different, something about hats.
Danny Elfman... mischievously unreliable narrator.

everett@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 3y

You can't just make up bands on Lemmy.

mikezane@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y (2 replies)

I thought they changed to Boingo a while back. Did they go back to their original names?

warini@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

in 1994 the name was shortened to simply Boingo. The band retired after a farewell concert on Halloween 1995, for which they reverted to the name Oingo Boingo

Hikermick@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Originally they were The Mystic Knights Of The Oingo Boingo. A little to big for a marquee

CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world · 1 pts · 3y

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !oingoboingo@lemmy.world