- new wave, rock
- 42 min
- 9 tracks
- MCA Records
Dead Man's Party is the fifth album by American new wave band Oingo Boingo, released in 1985 by MCA Records. The album contains the only two singles by the band to chart on the Billboard Hot 100: "Weird Science" at number 45, and "Just Another Day" at number 85. The album was the band's first to be certified gold for sales of 500,000 units. The album cover art is a homage to the Mexican holiday Día de Los Muertos.
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Spare, classical in form, unpretentious and cool.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
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Tracks
- 1Just Another Day5:13
- 2Dead Man’s Party6:21
- 3Heard Somebody Cry4:41
- 4No One Lives Forever4:14
- 5Stay3:37
- 6Fool’s Paradise4:35
- 7Help Me3:46
- 8Same Man I Was Before3:24
- 9Weird Science6:08
9 tracks, 42 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Oingo Boingo
- Label
- MCA Records
- Released
- 1985
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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