Oingo Boingo - Forbidden Zone (1979)

Demo EP was a self-produced, four-song EP single released by the southern California New Wave band Oingo Boingo. Produced by the band themselves and intended solely for radio stations and A&R representatives, it was limited to a total of 130 copies. Each cover was spray painted, with a different design on each copy, though known copies also included an Oingo Boingo flyer which read "Modern Music For Modern Reptiles". Copies of the EP are considered extraordinarily rare, with few members of the band even owning copies.
The Demo EP version of "Ain't This the Life" was later reissued on the 10" vinyl version of the Oingo Boingo EP in 1980 (for reasons unknown, the 12" version contained a new recording), while the versions of "Only a Lad" and "I'm So Bad" were reissued on all versions of that EP. Only "Forbidden Zone" has never been reissued anywhere else, although a vastly truncated version appears on the soundtrack for the film of the same name.
*The show Dilbert also used this song as the basis for it's intro theme, and it's known as "The Dilbert Zone."
Lyrics:
Living in the sixth dimension
Things get rough
Living in the sixth dimension
Can be tough
It's so hard when your on your own
When your on your own
Moving in the wrong direction
Brings bad luck
Living without protection
Really sucks
It's so hard when your on your own
You might fall into the Forbidden Zone
Going down, down, down
How far can you go?
You might fall into the Forbidden Zone
Going down, down, down
'Cross the border line
The guards look scary but the girls are pretty fine
I'm going down
I'm going down
I'm going down I go
Turning me around
Turning me around
Turning me around I know
Living in the sixth dimension
Moving in the wrong direction
Living in the sixth dimension
Moving in the wrong direction
Living in the sixth dimension
Moving in the wrong direction
It's so hard when you're on your own
When your on your own
The Forbidden Zone
Going down, down, down
How far can you go
You might fall into the Forbidden Zone
Going down, down, down
'Cross the border line
The guards look scary but the girls are pretty fine
Going round, round, round
Driving me insane
Everything looks different
But nothing has changed.

[@yeeowww]

I remember this ALL too well... Myself (Sean P. Riley) and fellow Boingo crewmate Charlie Unkeless painted the majority of these covers in my backyard garage airbrush studio in Venice, California early in 1980. We invited the band members to come over and help paint some (we had 130 to do!) of which I think only Leon Schneiderman and Dale Turner ever showed up. The hand inscribed initial on the back of each one is "CS" which stands for Charlie & Sean. Great memories, great times, GREAT MUSIC! Long live OIngo Boingo!

[@RichardZempel]

I played Oingo Boingo for my kids when they were little. It corrupted their minds and they are now considering starting an Oingo Boingo "tribute" band. I thought their original shit was magic, cuz they let me play and arrange horns. O.B. has always been an inspiration to my sick family. Check out "Smooth Talkin Perverts" and give them a chance to leave the restaurant business. We believe musical entertainment is the best value of all the service industries.

[@grayforester]

I met Dale Turner at Sweet's Mill music retreat in the early nineties. I'm not surprised he pitched in to help with production. He seemed like such a mensch. He and his trumpet joined Bradley Jaye Williams and me in a few Mexican polkas.

[@jonathanwarrdddedcxddeecec4787]

Definetly some great stuff

[@cooleen2]

Thank you for your hard work! o hope to own this Holy grail one day

[@truththestrangerfiction9099]

I agree....."Long live Oingo Boingo"!!!!! Thanks for the music Sean....... Peace and Love

[@alexisr84798]

so forbidden that it's not on spotify

[@Nosh5]

Not on tidal either

[@roland_the_cursor]

It pops up ever once in a while and dissappears again.

[@SuperDarthKelly]

That's why I'm here

[@roland_the_cursor]

Unless we have KZbin Red/Premium, we're restricted to being on the KZbin App to listen to it 🥲

[@coprographia]

A LOT of great stuff is not available on Spotify

[@SergeantExtreme]

"No I wouldn't remaster any of my earlier songs. I thought the mastering was fine." -Danny Elfman

[@BirdTalk13]

They’re perfection. ❤️

[@Whatareyouumadeof]

Also elfman is notoriously against revisiting ANYTHING he’s done. He’s said in interviews that even when Oingo Boingo was active he only ever wanted to play the most recent stuff because “why would I play that? It’s old. That song came out FOUR YEARS AGO it’s boring now” lol

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

@@Whatareyouumadeof Yeah he couldn't even redo "Insects" without changing the lyrics.

[@nicostelzig6609]

Rhino:"Hold My Beer"

[@philbrown0]

I'm glad Danny liked my work

[@jurisfootrag]

The Dilbert theme song introduced me to Oingo Boingo lol

[@Xanthus179]

42 years and I’m just now discovering the wonderful absurdity of the Forbidden Zone.

[@m.m616]

nicee, good luck :D

[@KrisannaMarie]

I found the movie on cable one night after a lot of weed at 2 am in 2008. Been a fan ever since

[@ericrosenfeld9442]

Boingo combines surf rock, new wave ska, post punk, and horror movie kitsch. There, I described them.

[@boomsticknation4306]

Ska? I wouldn't say that. The rest is pretty accurate. I like to think of them as their own thing

[@Willow_fish]

@@boomsticknation4306 Nah, I can definitely see or hear or here the ska in there. Especially with some of their later stuff like Lttle Girls for instance.

[@rohansask9638]

Not too shabby

[@5150cappie]

@@boomsticknation4306 The song Nasty Habits could slide into a Ska rhythm pretty seamlessly. I'm not a musician, but I can hear some Ska in it.

[@floridaflamingogirl3119]

@@5150cappie also, It Only Makes Me Laugh strikes me as very ska

[@rsvp9146]

They were SO good live. Such a unique band. Steve Bartek is a criminally underrated guitarist.

[@armando8040]

Who?

[@rsvp9146]

@@armando8040 Steve Bartek was the guitarist for Oingo Boingo

[@armando8040]

@@rsvp9146 oh wow! I didn't know that. Awesome.

[@bertoray5497]

Agree Wholeheartedly.

[@groovvvirgo]

Their next track: 2022 release: "Criminally Underrated"

[@MarxPopstar69]

no way this was made in the 70s. this sounds amazing. im nutting.

[@elizabethalvarado8698]

I don't understand why this song was never released on an album to the public! It's creepy, sure, but it still sounds amazing!

[@MephProduction]

I'm pretty sure it was issued on the original Only a lad EP, they released a couple of versions of that EP before the album and I sure it featured on the very first one. Hard to find theses days.

[@elizabethalvarado8698]

Ah.

[@Fudgaboutit]

Elizabeth Avacado you commented here 7 years ago when I commented here 7 years ago and man that's something I'm gonna have to L*** you now

[@jvcdeadmoney]

@@Fudgaboutit L***?

[@do0ranfrump260]

It was. It was on the forbidden zone sound track and their ep.

[@moletusk]

Literally experiencing this song by turning all my lights off and lying in my bed and I was smiling so hard bro this shit makes me go insane

[@BeetleBungs]

GOING DOWN DOWN DOWN DRIVING ME INSANE NIGHTMARE GOGGLES, YET EVERYTHING'S THE SAME

[@DieMasterMonkey]

Excellent. Wandered around LA on a broken scooter listening to this on a cassette tape. For like a year. On acid. Explains a few things.

[@DieMasterMonkey]

+Die Master Monkey (Die, Master Monkey) Incidentally, I do not recall the section around 2:10 and suspect it was added after the initial release. Anyone out there know?

[@mikegomes1084]

Broke scooter

[@nickmelton6213]

This version is from the Demo EP. The Demo EP never received an official release; it was sent to radio stations and music executives as a strategy to land a recording contract. This version of "Forbidden Zone" has never been released anywhere else. I suspect the version of "Forbidden Zone" you were listening to was from the official soundtrack release, which is a shorter version of the song.

[@ElHombreGato]

Can you elaborate on "rode a broken scooter around"?

[@Octobersky7]

Sounds like good times

[@666ratboy]

it’s a crime that this isn’t on spotify

[@sacredgeek]

Spotify is the crime

[@barbadolid5170]

Dogbert's seal of approval

[@DrumWild]

Adams stole that song.

[@krystalharwood7842]

Dilbert

[@KurisuYamato]

@@DrumWild Uh, Danny Elfman, who happens to be the vocalist and writer of this song, is the person who did the music for Dilbert. He used his own music for the show because he could -- it was HIS. Scott Adams didn't "steal it" -- do you not grasp that more than one person tends to work on projects such as an animated series and that the creator of the intellectual property just kind of guides it all together?

[@mozzymahogany6268]

Probably the most catchy Oingo Boingo song right next to No One Lives Forever!!!

[@Hornet-bz4xg]

YESSS

[@floridaflamingogirl3119]

And Lightning!

[@MyGretta]

And weird science

[@BungleGrindClown]

My dad introduced me to Boingo he liked their music when he was a kid in the 80s a truly underrated band and now Boingo is one of my favorite bands. I love all the songs on this first ep. Early Boingo was so unique and their final album was great also very underrated Changes is a Prog song in my opinion.

[@twitch1986mp3]

cool im the opposite, im getting my dad into Oingo Boingo

[@bertoray5497]

Changes is a nod to LSD, and an homage, in part, to the Beatles. "Truly underrated" is spot on.

[@lostword23]

Changes rools ok

[@agostinos9456]

Living in the sixth dimension Things get rough Living in the sixth dimension Can be tough It's so hard when your on your own When your on your own Moving in the wrong direction Brings bad luck Living without protection Really sucks It's so hard when your on your own You might fall into the forbidden zone Going down, down, down How far can you go? You might fall into the forbidden zone Going down, down, down 'cross the border line The guards look scary but the girls are pretty fine I'm going down I'm going down I'm going down I go Turning me around Turning me around Turning me around I know Living in the sixth dimension Moving in the wrong direction Living in the sixth dimension Moving in the wrong direction Living in the sixth dimension Moving in the wrong direction It's so hard when you're on your own When your on your own The forbidden zone Going down, down, down How far can you go You might fall into the forbidden zone Going down, down, down 'cross the border line The guards look scary but the girls are pretty fine Going round, round, round Driving me insane Everything looks different But nothing has changed

[@MarshallWolfMiller]

I found this as the remixed version that serves as the theme to the Dilbert cartoon first, ngl. Ironically I watched that cartoon almost a decade ago, yet I’ve only been listenin to Oingo Boingo’s music like I do every other artist I listen to since 2022.

[@monikaradzaj7407]

This sounds so ahead of its time! Oingo Boingo are truly legendary!

[@searchandestroy69]

You can tell Mr Bungle likes this.

[@Mrbennygecko]

I mean danny and mike ARE pals

[@nickmelton6213]

Steve Bartek: a goddamn legend. That solo!

[@RevolverSnake007]

Elfman has such a great voice

[@MrOnyxWolf]

So THATS where the show "Dilbert" got this from for the intro. I heard it so many times when the show was running before it was killed off. But I wasn't aware of this one at all...

[@mhp_michaelholdaway_prod]

One of LA's best to see live.... original, sophisticated and punk/new wave...levels of brilliance few bands have

[@Wehrmacht777]

Fucking great stuff , Elfman and crew are legendary

[@zhiracs]

I remember watching this when it only had 30 views. This was uploaded on the very day my grandmother died. At least SOMETHING good happened that day...

[@Fudgaboutit]

This movie is worse than your grandma dying

[@Baruch.Goldstein]

2 good things happened on that day

[@5150cappie]

Bless you & your grandmother. It's cool you see the good in the rough patches.

[@LaurenRichardsEvans]

This has an early post-punk feel, what you'd expect to hear from the proto-goth bands in the UK and early deathrock.

[@5150cappie]

I was first exposed to Oingo Boingo in late 1979. Oingo Boingo had a weekly friday night gig at MADAM WONG'S (DONG'S) WEST in Santa Monica by the time I tagged along for my first show. Oh what a time. Some Oingo Boingo songs had serious stacatto runs. With military precision, this band flawlessly stopped for rests on 64ths beats, reigniting instantly with the same force the music was driven at the millisecond it stopped. I understood nothing technical about music then, but anyone who has ever had the fun of attending any of their shows would agree this band was TIGHT. They played super intensely and seamlessly. The weirdo factor owned this; Band and audience. The L.A. area, which has been infested arguably since the 1950s with empty-headed posers too cool (stupid) to croak out a sentence expressing an individual thought, were incapable of feeling this band. KROQ (back then played Punk, some Underground, and good New Wave music) was the only radio station authentic enough to play Oingo Boingo music. To me, Oingo Boingo's music is still unclassifiable. Like any band worthy of its own Art, it created its own audience - mostly by word of mouth. When I brought the band into a conversation, some people, on hearing just the name of the band for the first time, closed their ears, and morphed either into mouth-breathing bovine, or scoffed with unfounded contempt in a manner that communicated "Please Sir, one-punch the arrogance from my face: The ugly mask I smear on my hollow head every morning to conceal my musical conformity and social stupidity". The Point: Los Angeles mainstream corporate programmed radio didn't allow their disc jockeys introducing anything that might be original, different, or, in their short sighted stupidity, profitable. Those who collectively made those decisions should be loaded on a luxurious tour bus and taken on an accelerating and slightly too long drive, off Santa Monica Pier. And include some television and movie script writers along. Who needs roller coasters and bumber cars? Now That's Entertainment! Oingo Boingo was as original (even after 37 years), as it can get. There were, and surely still is, many corporately ignored artists and bands that are phenomenal. Thank God for touring, KZbin, and digital word-of-mouth. The horses are long gone and the price gouging has taken a massive castration: A proper punishment for the artless stupidity they still try peddling. Oops, did I rant? Guess things have changed. My point is Oingo Boingo grew from and into the L.A. scene, and the Angelinos that became their die-hard fans and stuffed every sold-out Oingo Boingo show know exactly what I'm talking about. Elffman went on to evolve into a gifted film score writer/producer, at least in part through the support of Tim Burton, whom I understand was amongst the ranks of us Oingo Boingo fans. I was priviliged to experience some of it. I haven't listened to traditional corporate radio, or watched network television for decades. The world is out here, and the real artists tour themselves out here with us. Share them, Show up, and support them. Let them, not corporate swine, earn and spend their own money on their own families. To every member that ever played in Oingo Boingo (this means especially You, Hatch), God bless you guys and thanks for the beautifull memories. Now how about a f*cking reunion?

[@cristixyz]

I was first exposed to Oingo Boingo by watching Dilbert sorry that's it lol

[@rsvp9146]

Danny Elfman has said many times that his hearing damage from years of touring prevents him from doing a reunion. Im not sure if Id want a reunion at this point. To play as tight as they did back then? Nott sure anyone could do that.. Also, Danny is married to Bridget Fonda and does movie soundtracks now. Sounds like a pretty good life to me..

[@surlifen]

Delighted to report that even though it doesn't seem like a reunion is in our future, we 90's/2000's kids are reaching the age where we realise our parents' music is actually incredible. Boingo's experiencing a mini revival among people my age and I've personally gotten a few people into them myself. It really is a tragedy they didn't get the recognition they deserved then, but maybe they'll get it now...? (Also, I do kind of appreciate the... sort of sanctity it's preserved by not ~going mainstream~. Sometimes, it's nice when things stay a little obscure.)

[@myHorribleMusic]

@@surlifen Yep. 2000s kid here, currently falling down this particular wormhole. This band has some really great songs.

[@suzi8277]

thank you for your wonderful story. I never saw them live :(

[@MyRedHulk]

I knew this song existed, but I didn't know Oingo Boingo made this in 1979. They were really ahead of their time. This song, maybe by 100 years.

[@ajsterisk]

thanks dilbert for bringing me here. I love Danny Elfman but had no idea he was in a band before specializing in movie scores.

[@jessicaoctostar3391]

Hedid contribute several songs to movies like Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Weird Science, and Oingo Boingo appeared in the Rodney Dangerfield film Back to School

[@imhappyidance]

had no idea he specialized in movie scores after his band

[@jetershomie]

aaronias LOL

[@allangonzalez1941]

I was brought here too because of Dilbert I used to watch that cartoon on channel 9

[@stevencraig8876]

Whhhhaaaaaat? Are ya a kid? :)

[@TheShiftersDC]

I am a proud owner of the Demo EP.

[@Hornet-bz4xg]

When you die can I inherit it

[@philbrown0]

I mastered the Demo EP.

[@philipcohen6133]

This is from 1979? Definitely early new wave. Ahead of its time!!

[@justaladTaken]

New Wave had been developing since 76.

[@OhGodThe]

I wouldn't call it New Wave simply because there is a retro sci-fi synth line. There are so many eclectic influences coming together here, as with their first album, it's hard to place it cleanly in any one era or genre. I'd say it has more in line with their cabaret circuit than Ultravox or David Bowie.

[@lemuelkrause6297]

@@justaladTaken 1971* thanks to Sparks and Roxy Music

[@justaladTaken]

@@lemuelkrause6297 Valid

[@triciawhite8706]

I remember watching the movie with the same title at 3 in the morning on HBO or something. It was like a burlesque comedy in black and white. This played on the opening and end credits. I liked it a lot then.

[@mahatmarandy5977]

Man, it took me *forever* to find this song in the '90s. Never heard this version before.

[@havenm6181]

The sad thing about listening to this song is wanting to listen to something similar but then realizing nothing is like it

[@Elliottomega]

It really is forbidden on Spotify

[@chadgriffiths6403]

This sounds like how The Nightmare Before Christmas would have sounded in a parallel universe.

[@RichardZempel]

Same universe, on a side street that rocks.

[@strange_imagination_]

Nightmare Before Christmas meets the Doctor Who intro theme

[@hotelmario510]

funnily enough, "Oogie Boogie's Song" from Nightmare Before Christmas was inspired by the "Squeezit the Moocher" scene from "Forbidden Zone"

[@twitch1986mp3]

yes

[@egb625able]

@@hotelmario510 squeezit the moocher was directly lifted from minnie the moocher, by cab calloway. it's probably the single biggest influence on danny elfman's writing, particularly his jazzier pieces.

[@MatthewPrower]

DILBERT

[@jobzagudn]

The drums are immense . Rockin’ new wave

[@CrankyRayy]

ah found a cardiacs listener. recognise you from some comment sections lol

[@Vaporvision]

1:53 hits so fucking hard oh my God that synth

[@rleeroberts6350]

GODDAMN IVE LOVED THIS MOVIE SINCE I WAS 17 IM 48 NOW.. ITS NEVER GETS OLD. BETTER THAN ROCKY HORROR BY A LONG SHOT.

[@krystalharwood7842]

I wish they made a stage adaptation

[@northerner3861]

Just that fever-dream quality it has...

[@floppa731]

ok so hearing this for the first time, this was used for the cartoon Dilbert lol. great stuff

[@gaminawulfsdottir3253]

A gem!

[@ejkop1446]

Ok so the second I hear this song I immediately think this was used as an intro to some cartoon and at first I was thinking something like Robot Chicken or Invader Zim and I continue listening to while scrolling through KZbin and I refresh my Home Page feed and the first thing that pops up is the Dilbert intro and my mind was blown so now this song is like 10x better to me

[@MASF_]

The Dilbert Zone!

[@TheMightyKinkle]

Dilbert!!!!

[@billlowe6762]

I grew up in San Diego and so I had a record put out by local radio station KROQ of local bands calls L.A. In. Oingo Boingo had one song on it called I'm Afraid. It was one of the few songs that stood out to me. Later got their E.P and couldn't wait for anything else to come from them. Bought Only a Lad the day it come out and have been a fan since. Not of only OB but of Danny Elfman. Can spot his music almost every time. From the moment of watching Desperate Housewives for the first time to the movie Family Man which I think the music carries and makes the movie. Genius.

[@Highland804]

Never heard this on Dilbert...just on The Forbidden Zone.

[@bittertriumph2045]

An edit without lyrics was the Dilbert opening theme. They called out The Dilbert Zone.

[@davidwilczynski9933]

Steve Bartek was every bit as much of Boingo as Danny Elfman.

[@5150cappie]

They still collaborate all the time. Definitely two gears of one machine.

[@robertcombs55]

perhaps the greatest movie ever made...it's like will never be seen again.

[@mrenglishjawa]

Till richard gets funding to make the sequel

[@terrysoritech8715]

@@mrenglishjawa i feel like he will never make it but I guess I’m being unreasonable, he said that he will die but finish it

[@Mrlzman]

It's too bad that this version was never released. The middle section especially kicks all the ass.

[@OGMangler]

I have never heard the demo cd at all. I love it. I'm a huge Oingo fan and have never heard it until tonight.

[@devoid5637]

That version is so, so GOOD !! I only knew the Varèse Album version in years! Thank you so much for that upload !! 💜💚🫀

[@obeseoverlold]

So this is basically the *_sixth_* dimension

[@rotundmonibuv5103]

I only found this song yesterday but I can't stop listening to it.

[@umbreon2003]

i wish this was on spotify

[@computerfighter2000]

same man

[@totalytaco3715]

Goddamn Dilbert!

[@totalytaco3715]

rip kusoge

[@MelodyBurst]

+Jackie Choodles #wow #woah

[@Donteatacowman]

THANK you, I knew I recognized bits of this but I couldn't remember from where!

[@Vehshya]

I knew the song sounded familiar

[@robkaschalk5539]

Who knew the intro to the animated series of Dilbert was a Oingo Boingo song LOL

[@BobKnight-mm2ze]

me!

[@macbarrpup2451]

Looks like you're going to the Forbidden Zone, Jimbo.

[@BluePhoenix476513]

First time hearing this track. It's AMAZING! AS USUAL.

[@dreibre]

It's the opening to the Oingo Boingo movie called "The forbidden Zone", you should watch it

[@SkinnyEMedia]

DILBERT?

[@boredom120]

The Full Version Theme To Dilbert. Great Anime Show.

[@jogiff]

I knew I’d heard this song before. Thanks for reminding me where that was

[@ericlogan1418]

You should watch Forbidden Zone.

[@rockman1811]

>Anime

[@supraman_]

its not anime its cartoon

[@toroko2]

@@supraman_ nah I'm pretty sure it's an anime

[@davidvollmar9029]

Nice! Huge fan. Thanks!!!!! So Cal resident then, NY native. Glad I was there!

[@JohnFoltz-wr9tx]

We are eating

[@neldinsky]

This is a significant revelation to me as a 40 year long fan...I NEVER heard this so.........WOW!!! NB

[@johnnrgb]

this is so good 🥺

[@ReverendChance]

Thank You SIR from the bottom of this Mystic Knights/OB/DE/RE fan...

[@djcrittenden3771]

absolutely incredible.

[@HerrDeutschBlood]

It makes me sad how this song isn't on Spotify :'(

[@jellyandskeleton]

+TigerTrollUSA it is but it's not half as good a version as this one!

[@pompommerman9830]

They took the whole damn Forbidden Zone soundtrack down. Worthless streaming service…

[@sheda111]

I wish this was on spotify :(

[@Cybothron]

This is the greatest movie soundtrack song ever made. Fight me

[@stevecoyne1891]

Pretty wild, even has crazy riffs 💥💥🤘🔥🔥

[@swicheroo1]

My high school bestie was one of the band member's babysitter. So, I got to go back stage!

[@alexandratronic7793]

Brutal! 🖤🖤.

[@doctorfrankeinsound4284]

AMAZING!!!!!!!

[@randyj420]

Omgosh - thank U so much for this. My friend sold her copy of this EP to Sluggo - who paid up for her nice copy.

[@donnmunn8053]

The reasons I love this song are two D's: Danny Elfman and Dilbert.

[@danieldeelite]

Squeezit Henderson ftw

[@chainmengaming]

I was listening to this while looking outside when it was snowy. It inspired me to add a location in a game I'm working on where it's very snowy.

[@user-ye3ot2nb8z]

im just confused why this isnt on spotify but most of the other oingo boingo songs are

[@93CarpeDiem]

Afraid isn't too. As well as a plenty of awesome B side Bowie's songs. Spotify is trash.

[@hamburgler9839]

ITS SO HARD WHEN YOURE ON YOUR OWN!!!

[@rowatever7295]

Bad boys get set to the forbidden zone to atone for their sins

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

I thought the forbidden zone was at the bottom of the rabbit hole that bad boys get caught going down.

[@krystalharwood6359]

if that were hell, i'd be just bad enough to get to go there! it had a hot band as well as a hot band leader! lol

[@Pukeprincess]

What about bad girls? Do we go to the forbidden zone or do we just get “loved”

[@jetershomie]

Guitar is epic on the verse.

[@Highland804]

Cannot wait for Forbidden Zone 2!

[@OOOzw]

For some reason I've only been able to get this video to play once, which is really upsetting because this version is great. Thanks for sharing anyway.

[@rankrodent2772]

Dilbert

[@brenttesterman3171]

I had a tee-shirt, same font and colors, it was stenciled. I bought it when they were playing at Madame Wong's West. I think I got the EP from Rhino Records. The good ol' days!

[@jamierabinowitz7102]

Great band and a good film too

[@Punketeria1369]

Amazing song for a ridiculously brilliant film by the brilliant Oingo Boingo & Elfman Brothers. chEErs 93

[@3unskippableads51]

I think I found my favourite band

[@clayscustoms2050]

I just recently discovered this boingo track, and am super pissed i didn't know about before!

[@5150cappie]

Think of it as finding a $100.00 dollar bill in your pants pocket from the wash. Rock on my friend.

[@guashin]

I havent heard this version with a Bartek solo. Great stuff!!

[@killroypsalt5503]

I would die happy without a regret in the world if at a screening of the hopefully upcoming Forbidden Zone 2, and as a special one time opportunity, all of Boingo Boingo INCLUDING Danny Elfman treat the audience to a special Oingo Boingo reunion show after the film. They would open up the special reunion with a clip of the intro to the first FZ (the the w/ the pimp and the blackface animation and all that) which would transition them into playing track version of the Forbidden Zone, and play other Boingo classics and some hidden gems as well. That would be the BEST show ever, seriously, this has got to happen, just one time, pleasssss

[@doorran]

I don't know.. he said he would never do another reunion concert.. he's losing his hearing after years of shows.

[@andrewtempalski5783]

I wish I was part of the OC scene in the 80s.

[@christianeboutaud3230]

J'ai vu ce film dingue avec Divine et puis et puis que de délires et mal au ventre tellement nous avons ri avec ma copine !

[@emersontomasini9495]

Really cool.

[@electriceyeslide5959]

That EP is worth big bucks today!

[@Fudgaboutit]

I don't know how I ended up here, but I came for some reason because the song got running through my head. Oingo Boingo tends to do that, and I don't understand it. This does sound strikingly high quality.

[@Fudgaboutit]

What the hell are you talking about?

[@kayeplaguedoc9054]

Love this version of the song, in fact I prefer it to the Soundtrack version. =3

[@dyskoteka2031]

Kaye Faye Me too. This beats the soundtrack version by a longshot. :)

[@nickmelton6213]

There is no place to purchase this version. This is from the Demo EP, which was never officially released. It was a homemade record sent to radio stations and music executives as an attempt to land a record deal - an attempt that paid off, as the band was signed to I.R.S. Records.

[@BryceByerley]

It's that breakdown in the middle...I love the move version where they have the gamelon xylophone overlaid with the synth in the breakdown as well.

[@kayeplaguedoc9054]

I still really like the movie version, I just like this one more. Ironically it seems more "complete" despite being a demo, but they each stand on their own for me. I really hope the music in FZ2 ends up being good. I doubt they could really recapture... whatever the hell the first movie had (I'm not sure "magic" is the right term) but what made it special in its own insane way. But Elfman is such a great composer with great taste in jazz and such... so I have high hopes for the music.