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Oingo Boingo

Weird Science

1985 · via Oingo Boingo

Oingo Boingo’s 1985 recording of “Weird Science” is the earliest release on file. Danny Elfman of Oingo Boingo is credited as its writer. Also recorded by hellogoodbye (released 2005), Leo Moracchioli (released 2023) and The Bennies (released 2005), among 16 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Elfman wrote it and Boingo cut it in 1985, then twenty years on hellogoodbye picked it up and made it theirs. Play the two back to back and listen for what held up across the gap.

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Credited writer: Danny Elfman.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1985.

Other recordings on file · first release year

16 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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