Boi-Ngo was the third Oingo Boingo album to be self-produced by Danny Elfman and Steve Bartek (including So-Lo). The tracks "Pain", "We Close Our Eyes" and "Not My Slave" were released as singles.

Several other songs, "Remember My Name," "Inside", "Mama" and "Find You", were recorded for the album but not included.^[1]^{[better source needed]} An earlier song, "Cinderella Undercover", first performed in 1981, was also recorded but cut from release.^{[citation needed]} "Mama" saw a limited release on a 7-inch vinyl box set edition of Boi-Ngo as the album's final track. New recordings of both "Cinderella Undercover" and "Mama" were subsequently featured on the "live in the studio" album Boingo Alive in 1988. The song "Happy" was also recorded in the album sessions for release on the Summer School soundtrack, under Danny Elfman's name.

In film and television

"Home Again" appears over the end credits of the movies Wisdom (1986) and Home Alone 3 (1997).

"Not My Slave" appears in the film Something Wild (1986), heard briefly on a car radio. The version used in the film (and subsequently included on the soundtrack) is a different mix than the album version.

"We Close Our Eyes" appears in the final scene of the final episode of Psych, "The Break-Up" (2014), and continues through the closing credits. The same song appears in the closing credits of the film Buffy The Vampire Slayer.^[2]

Reissue

In 2022, Rubellan Remasters issued a remastered version of Boi-Ngo on both colored vinyl and CD, the latter as an expanded edition with six bonus tracks.^[3]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Danny Elfman

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Home Again"	5:12
2.	"Where Do All My Friends Go"	4:28
3.	"Elevator Man"	4:30
4.	"New Generation"	5:14

Side two
No.	Title	Length
1.	"We Close Our Eyes"	3:37
2.	"Not My Slave"	4:41
3.	"My Life"	4:34
4.	"Outrageous"	3:44
5.	"Pain"	4:26

Box set bonus track
No.	Title	Length
10.	"Mama"	4:22

2022 CD bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
10.	"Mama"	4:24
11.	"Pain (Extended Dance Mix)"	7:05
12.	"Not My Slave (Extended Remix)"	5:52
13.	"Weird Science (Boingo Dance Version)"	5:39
14.	"Pain (A Cappella Version)"	4:31
15.	"Not My Slave (Club Dub Mix)"	7:42

Personnel

Oingo Boingo

John Avila – bass guitar, vocals
Steve Bartek – guitars
Mike Bacich – keyboards
Danny Elfman – vocals, rhythm guitar
Johnny (Vatos) Hernandez – drums, percussion
Sam Phipps – tenor saxophone
Leon Schneiderman – baritone saxophone
Dale Turner – trumpet

Additional musicians

Bruce Fowler – trombone
Carmen Twillie – background vocals ("Pain")
Maxine Waters – background vocals ("Pain")
Michael Vlatkovich – trombone

Technical

Danny Elfman – co-producer
Steve Bartek – co-producer
Bill Jackson – engineer; mixing ("Where Do All My Friends Go", "Elevator Man", "Not My Slave", "Outrageous")
Michael Frondelli – mixing ("Home Again", "New Generation", "Pain")
Humberto Gatica – mixing ("We Close Our Eyes", "My Life")
John Avila – deputy vocal producer
Laura Engel – studio production assistant
David Knight – second recording engineer
Jimmy Preziosi H.R.E. – second recording engineer, second mixing engineer (Sunset Sound)
Judy Clapp – second mixing engineer (Capitol)
Karen Siegal – second mixing engineer (Lion Share)
Wally Traugott – mastering
Vartan – art direction
Mike Fink – design
Aaron Rapoport – photography

Charts

Chart (1986/87)	Position
United States (Billboard 200)	77
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[4]	98

References

^ "- YouTube". YouTube.
^ Agard, Chancellor (27 March 2014). "I Watched 'Psych' For 8 Years and All I Got Was This Lackluster Finale". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
^ Duquette, Mike (November 4, 2022). "Rubellan Puts Flesh N' Blood Into Next Wave of Oingo Boingo Reissues on CD, Vinyl (UPDATED PRE-ORDER LINKS)". The Second Disc. Retrieved November 5, 2022.
^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 222. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

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Studio albums	Only a Lad Nothing to Fear Good for Your Soul So-Lo (as Danny Elfman) Dead Man's Party Boi-ngo Dark at the End of the Tunnel Boingo
Live albums	Boingo Alive Farewell: Live from the Universal Amphitheatre, Halloween 1995
Extended plays	Oingo Boingo
Compilations	The Best of Oingo Boingo: Skeletons in the Closet Stay Best O' Boingo Anthology
Songs	"Little Girls" "Weird Science" "Dead Man's Party"
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