August 15, 1981 (vol. 91, iss. 63) • Page Image 7
…Arts The Michigan Daily Saturday, August 15, 1981 Page 7 Oingo Boingo Oingo Boingo-'Only a Lad' (A&M)-This record, Oingo Boingo's first album attempt, is typical of much of today's good pop music: It's fun enough that you can bop to it, but you'll never hear it on the radio. It contains ten highly craf- ted-if still highly derivative-pop songs in the technopop style of XTC. With vocalist Danny Elfman energetically leading the way, the ban...…