When is the Coachella show ?

@Guy Smith, I completely agree. I've not heard anything like "Big Mess" for way too long. I'm not sure if you're familiar with the band "Sparks" at all? If not, or even if you are I definitely suggest giving the album "Hello Young Lovers" a listen. Not as dark as what Danny Elfman is doing right now, but a really nice album in the aspect of things that you don't hear anymore, or never really have.

Wonder if he'll do more albums like this.

Have you checked Undo K From Hot?

I want him to do his own video for Weird Science since he didn’t get any creative say in the first one.

great word for it. i hear the godhead in his music too

He has over 50 years of incredibly creative music to discover

I'm working thru it now. So different from his other work. It's like discovery him all over again

I didn't see Trent Reznor as being one of the artists he was collaborating with, that's for sure. But so damn glad that they did!

Absolutely. Hearing his voice again is a dream come true.

Only if he wrote the script. He says he’s a shitty actor but his acting is all right in all the stuff I’ve seen where he’s written the script for it. And he’s written screenplays for movies that never got made (look up “Little Demons” and “The World of Jimmy Callicut”, he got as far as recording the demos before the projects got cancelled for lack of funding I guess)

No need for makeup. He'd be an amazing voice actor

Big Mess is a massive departure from Oingo Boingo. But his decades of film scores were too. Apparently he's a fan of many musical styles, metal included. This is just a extremely talented and creative artist changing over time.

That's not really true. MCA signed Danny solo because Boingo was on hiatus and they apparently werent interested in signing the band. Danny still got most the band to play on the album and wanted to continue Oingo Boingo, so he persuaded MCA afterwards to change the contract. By that time he had regrouped the band with the new bass and keyboard players. It doesnt matter if it's considered a Danny Elfman or an Oingo Boingo album really

@@OingoBoingoTapes LOL! I don't believe that. To me it will be a fourth Oingo Boingo album. I believe in what i said and what i found out. In fact on Wikipedia, So-Lo is listed as the fourth album by Oingo Boingo, so there!

@@chadergeist you do know that wikipedia is not really a trustworthy site right? People can edit in all kinds of stuff on that site. Plus Oingo Boingo Tapes knows more OB history that wikipedia does.

@@Amy.B You have to have proof of the facts when posting on Wiki or the staff will remove it.

It could be that you that require very pedestrian art and don't like music that has political commentary. Don't worry you're not alone, most folks just want to escape and be entertained and not reminded of the scary reality around us. We just lived thru and survived(Barely) trump!

@@jeremyserwer2586 good luck living through and surviving Biden, funny how so many people are regretting having voted for him, lol. It's not that the guy above likes pedestrian music, it's just that he's able to pick up on the rather obvious undertones that you apparently aren't. It's ok, most people prefer to go through life totally blind and oblivious to the real world that exists behind the fake one. Boy, I'll bet you have no idea how these songs Danny's putting out have severe religious aspects, are sort of confessional in nature, and rather prophetic. I'm sure you're completely ignorant to the serpent motifs used for the music video for sorry, what the meaning behind that imagery is, or where in the world you would find those same motifs repeated, or how Danny knows anything about it, or why he knows. I'll bet you didn't ever go into and ponder the lyrics of songs like Nasty Habits, or It Only Makes Me Laugh(another confessional piece for Danny), or I'm so bad. I'll bet all those years ago, when Danny showed up for that interview on that french tv show with a black eye, you didn't see what that was really about. Lol, kinda funny you should be calling anyone else pedestrian. But hey, go back to sleep and don't even worry about it.

@@jauger99 Haha. Please keep going around patting yourself on the back and don't ever stop. The guy above I responded too, was worried about Danny's mental Health because of the Video's he saw--artists are not bankers or sports stars. They live in many cases very odd ball existences and it's not some affect--they truly see the world differently. I'm just referring to what He's stating above in the interview about barely escaping fascism and the rise of Fascism worldwide. Arrogance is something many americans suffer from and especially those on the right, I see you have a very severe version of it. I and most americans voted to oust trump and not for Biden. We don't want to live in a Fascist dictatorship. You must be one of the folks who think Qanon is how your eyes are so open to the fake world behind the real world, right? If so, you better get ready for trump to return to office by August. The best way to prepare is by sending a very large "One Time Donation" to trumps end democracy PAC STAT!

@@jeremyserwer2586 Biden is sadly doing little to correct Trump’s fascism. Trump unleashed the vaccine from Hell on us right before Biden got elected, having dumped so much money into it that it became Too Big to Fail and now it’s past the point of saying sorry and correcting their mistakes and releasing a vaccine such as Novavax or Corbevax that’s safe, effective and doesn’t prey on us with experimental technology. I swear this is what “Native Intelligence” is about. He probably wrote it before the vaccine came out, when all the liberals were still scared of the Trump vaccine (Trump took advantage of their worship of science; all he had to do was be presented as being at odds with Fauci and have the news downplay his role in enabling Big Pharma)

"ordinary run of things"? After shutting down Oingo Boingo he dedicated himself to writing movie and TV scores. Extremely creative scores that set him apart from virtually every one in that field. If you've ever seen a Tim Burton movie youve heard Danny Elfman. Either upbeat and quirky or dark and brooding, he can pull it off

You have to understand he is walking on eggshells here, scared to death of getting cancelled by some random narc he was friends with five or ten or twenty or thirty years ago. He has commented more recently that he thinks the far left is also dangerous and he reads conservative literature as well just to stay broadly informed. What bothered him was that Trumpism even purged reasonable conservatives and intellectuals from the GOP.

That's how I felt when I heard him say that. A little bit of a bummer.

White people seem to hate their race more than other people and for that reason they devalue humanity in general and consider their own people, and all people, disposable for the sake of capitalism.

@@nuclearcatbaby1131 You mean like black-on-black crime? But that's just for sneakers, so...

@@ashwitmoro Yeah that’s just for sneakers. But they’re forced into that situation by capitalism. The capitalists want blacks and whites to fight each other instead of teaming up to fight the capitalists who by the way own so much that everybody else collectively owns NOTHING in comparison. It’s getting dangerous. Jeff Bezos could literally do another Holocaust if he wants and who would have the power to stop him?

he didn't say anything about other races not being capable of bad things, but in america the majority of people in power ARE old white guys, a ton being racist or bigoted; what is he supposed to say?

@@kida5004 Well he did say that they were sucking HIS old white blood so they sound like equal opportunity bloodsuckers to me...

if you think that you really haven't been paying attention to anything hes done or said for the past 40 years

Go back to early Oingo Boingo. Or even Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo before that. He's always been out there creatively. Was in his 20's and now in his late 60's. Music and style changed over the years, but that creativity is the same

Haha, yeah maybe you should stick to the White Power punk and metal stuff. You can goose step and Heil trump all day long. We will be enjoying all the good music and art on the left! Antifa is Anti Fascist, I'm totally anti fascist are you pro fascist?

@@jeremyserwer2586 I’m afraid white power and Trump support is more Antifa’s style than mine. He was using you guys as his useful idiots in much the same way Hitler did. And the attitude that being against “antifascism” is pro-fascism is literally one of Umberto Eco’s 14 points of Ur-Fascism. Did you listen to Danny’s interview with Marc Maron? HE DOES NOT LIKE MOBS. “Patrolling the streets with all of their friends Bashing you around trying to make you like them WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET” But you’ll probably think he’s racist after hearing him talk about Idi Amin, that dictator in Uganda, because only white people can be fascist right? And wait until you hear all the racist songs he wrote in the 80s like “Only A Lad” and “Perfect System” and “Reptiles and Samurai” and “Cool City” and let’s not forget that racist movie he did with his brother. Or all those lily-white movies he scored for Tim Burton whom he still to this day hasn’t denounced as a racist.

@@nuclearcatbaby1131 Your reply is hugely confusing. White power and trump support is more Antifa? So Antifa supports trump and White Power? Trump met all the criteria for a fascist dictator. www.bremertonschools.org/cms/lib/WA01001541/Centricity/Domain/222/Fourteen%20Defining%20Characteristics%20of%20Fascism%20slides.pdf The mob that went into the capitol for trumps big lie on Jan 6th is definitely still a mob. The left is of many different mind sets. Many of us are not pro biden but if you're on the right your only choice is absolute adoration and submission to trump, PERIOD! That's a mob mindset. Just wait, when trump gets on a roll again doing his insult comedy tour over the next few months. Violent politically charged crimes from the right will be on the uptick significantly. Danny Elfman doesn't pander too trump and his cultist base. He wants free thinkers not people who seek a big daddy figure to do all their thinking for them.

@@jeremyserwer2586 Even Danny doesn’t think that Trump is quite a fascist dictator. He is an idiot savant at causing chaos and inciting violence (I never even heard of Antifa until Trump came around; if I didn’t know better I would have thought they were Trump’s Brownshirts) and driving the mainstream media crazy and bringing out the worst in them. And he had some very dangerous people on his team, including the types of people that want the same kind of theocracy that Danny describes in “No Spill Blood” (a Noahide theocracy). But he just plain sucks at being a fascist. He had Reichstag fire moments handed to him on a silver platter and he failed to take full advantage of them. He could have invoked the Insurrection Act to stop the Antifa violence, like Bush did in 1992. He didn’t. Any competent fascist would have taken advantage of the pandemic to seize power. I’d say he’s maybe what you can call an anarcho-fascist in that he promotes the kind of anarchy that can lead to a fascist later coming to power. And the riot of January 6th honestly made the Beer Hall Putsch look like Napoleon’s conquest of Europe. I’d blame that partly on mass censorship of a lot of the more reasonable right wingers but not Qanon for some reason which put them in a Qanon echo chamber, as well as the Facebook algorithm that reinforces echo chambers. Perhaps they thought they could get away with it after seeing all the riots being encouraged by the mainstream media. Nobody batted an eye when poor people had their homes and businesses burned down but now when a bunch of pampered ass Congress people are threatened everyone loses their minds? I don’t agree with their cause AT ALL but at least they identified the correct target. These are the people that Danny literally calls “Insects” in his newest video, can you blame the Qtards for wanting to stomp them even if for the wrong reasons? I’m on the left myself but I think that antifascism is being promoted by the Woke CIA for sinister motives that I’m not sure about yet. Maybe they plan on installing A Black Hitler or something crazy like that. But I think that they want to serve fascism to America wrapped in a rainbow flag and carrying a cross with George Floyd nailed to it. I would have preferred Bernie Sanders but I voted Biden in the general election because I think he will put some calamine lotion on this Antifa herpes infection.

>muh materialism

He loved being in a band which he put together and stayed with for 17 years, only he didnt like being expected to do the same sorts of music year after year. He was a super prolific songwriter in the early years but when he had to stick to a sound for a long time he started to lose interest. He’s a very genuine artist and really great he’s found inspiration again with the new record

@@OingoBoingoTapes well said.

Who said it’s all about Trump? I’ll bet he attacks the Woke people as well (who themselves are a monster that Trump largely created)

@@nuclearcatbaby1131 danny elfman is woke king wdym

@@solara9551 Danny wrote songs attacking all sides in the 80s anyway. Pretty sure he wrote a song comparing the COVID vaccine to “taking a bath in cyanide” too but then again remember the approval of these shitty genetic vaccines (as opposed to a traditional vaccine like Novavax) is very much Trump’s fault.

I saw another interview he did a year later, he had a much different tone, like he felt free to criticize the left as well as the right. He said that the extreme of both sides wants to force their views on us if they get into power. He also reads articles from conservative intellectuals that he doesn’t necessarily agree with. By the way the album has a song that compares the 💉 to “taking a bath in cyanide” And a song about Antifa and their “mostly peaceful protests” And the one song where he plays a voice clip of Trump, well, out of context you can’t even tell whether he supports him or not.

It sucks when a 67 year old musician disagrees with you.

​@@nuclearcatbaby1131And maybe that's the point; Danny probably doesn't want anyone to know who he supports, or if he supports any of them.

@@mackfarlainethebarenakedau5113 He does though. He's been open about it outside of his music. He's open to the point that it doesn't get him in trouble. I don't think he supports Zionism for instance but he's probably afraid to bring that up.