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Cerberus Shoal [Original recording remastered]
Music: Music for a Harder Generation V.2: Mixed Yoji Biomeha
Salsoul Presents: Latin Funk Flavas [Import]
Second Toughest in the Infants
Steal This Album [Explicit Lyrics]
Satie: Gymnopédies No1-3; Milhaud: Salade Op83
Reggae Tribute to the Beatles [Import]
Perez Prado [Import] [Original recording remastered]
Chopin: Piano Works [Etudes - Impromptus - Sonatas - Concertos - Mazurkas - Polonaise - Berceuse]
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Before he wrote half the soundtracks in the world (Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Batman, The Nightmare Before Christmas) Danny Elfman led himself an eccentric little rock band called Oingo Boingo. Actually they weren't so little; in fact, the eight-man band boasted one of rock's finest horn sections in addition to Elfman's devilishly good, often humorous songs. Dead Man's Party is Boingo's finest hour, melding their whacked-out mix of XTC, Frank Zappa, and Tower of Power with a genuine pop sensibility. Elfman is in perfect vocal form here, leading the combo through their biggest hit, "Weird Science" (which put Elfman on the soundtrack path) as well as Boingo chestnuts "Fool's Paradise" and the infectious, macabre title track. --Michael Ruby