Energy, innovativeness, and challenging ideas, a gift
This was a favorite album for a summer in high school for me. It's intense, fury like induced, almost angry guitar riffs, can blow off steam for any person. The intensity is quite palpable, but the insistence to help you to think for yourself, wake up and smell the latte, or folger's back when it came out is a gift. This was a call for the youth to look at their surroundings, don't be spoon fed, or don't eat the crap your fed by spoon as the best for you. It challenges convention, and show's Danny Elfman's signature inventiveness. He also does such a great job making beats, contrast, and conflict, with voices, not intense synthesizer drums is a treat!!!!! Control and mastery of basic gifts, to create texture, flavor, crackles, and booms in words and music are a gift. Danny doesn't own it, but he bridles it for a while, puts it in song, then gives it to the public. Oingo Boingo and him, are able to latch on to God given energy, constrain the wicked and put it into song, show us what some need to pull their head out of the sand and face, for our betterment. An album of energy, raw inspiration, and explosive New Wave is rarely contained, and expressed like this. Latching guitars, vocal expertise, and energy all together in a box, and out comes this album, well worth the listeners time.Read full review
