Best O' Boingo Explained

Best O' Boingo
Type:	Greatest hits
Artist:	Oingo Boingo
Cover:	Best o' Boingo.jpg
Released:	September 17, 1991
Recorded:	1984–1990
Genre:	New wave ska
Length:	76:51
Label:	MCA
Producer:	Danny Elfman, Steve Bartek, John Avila, Paul Ratajczak
Prev Title:	Stay
Prev Year:	1990
Next Title:	Boingo
Next Year:	1994

Best O' Boingo is the second greatest hits album from American new wave band Oingo Boingo, released in 1991 by MCA Records. It features songs recorded during the band's years on MCA Records, from 1984's So-Lo through 1990's Dark at the End of the Tunnel. As such, the songs from the period when the band was on I.R.S. Records—as well as several others—are represented here by their re-recorded versions from the 1988 "live in the studio" album Boingo Alive.

Personnel

Oingo Boingo

• John Avila – bass guitar, vocals
• Steve Bartek – guitars
• Danny Elfman – vocals, rhythm guitars
• Carl Graves – keyboards, vocals
• Johnny "Vatos" Hernandez – drums, percussion
• Sam Phipps – tenor and soprano saxophones
• Leon Schneiderman – baritone saxophone
• Dale Turner – trumpet, trombone

Additional musicians

• Bruce Fowler – trombone
• Mike Bacich – keyboards (tracks 7, 11)

Technical

• Danny Elfman – co-producer (tracks 1–17)
• Steve Bartek – co-producer (tracks 1–17)
• John Avila – co-producer (tracks 1–2, 4–17)
• Paul Ratajczak – co-producer (track 3)
• Bill Jackson – engineer, mixing (tracks 1, 6, 9, 13–14, 16–17)
• Mark Camins – mixing (track 3)
• Jay Burnett – mixing (track 3)
• Chris Lord-Alge – mixing (tracks 2, 4–5, 10)
• Jim Scott – mixing (tracks 8, 12, 15)
• David Leonard – mixing (track 11)
• Michael Frondelli – mixing (track 7)
• Vartan – art direction
• Sunja Park – design
• Georganne Deen – cover art, logo