Only A Lad (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Rock & Pop  »  New Wave
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Label: A&M Records (USA)
• UPC: 075021325029
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106697059
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #12716 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #4890 in Rock & Pop (See Top 100 Rock & Pop Bestsellers)
• #76 in New Wave (See Top 100 New Wave Bestsellers)

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The full-length debut of this eight-piece new-wave-with-horns ensemble--after a 1980 10-inch EP--is one of their best albums. Mingling theatrical vocals, Zappa-esque concepts, ska rhythms and proudly over-the-top quirkiness in an inimitable brew, ONLY A LAD is basically the template that all later Oingo Boingo records would follow.

Less genially humorous than their later albums, the songs on ONLY A LAD have a satirical bite; the title track dismisses the concept of social conditioning so thoroughly that it sounds oddly close to a right-wing talk radio rant, which is not what a listener expects from a Devo-style pop record. The opening "Little Girls," and the straightforwardly poppy "On the Outside," are also gems. Singer/songwriter Danny Elfman dominates the proceedings slightly less than he would on later releases; as a result this is the most integrated-sounding Oingo Boingo album.

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