Oingo Boingo - Insanity (live)

[@TKCoutside]

Insanity is right, a genius and a mad man are only a padded room and straight jacket apart... Danny, you are a genius on the edge of insanity bro.

[@Kaelzoroden]

Man, I'm a Christian and I still love this song. It's just so good!

[@lauriewhitlow5506]

MY FAVORITE BAND ONGIO BOINGO SEEN THEM 5 TIMES

[@dani010402]

+Laurie Whitlow I envy you!!

[@wildman318]

I would have been happy to see than just once, but that never happened ...

[@111redthread]

damn, this was the FIRST song of the farewell concert?! The rest of the show must have been amazing!

[@racafritz]

Bradley Cahill - Every concert was artistically brilliant in every way. The Halloween shows were epic! This particular video was on Halloween night because they used cutout puppets of children in the background so, the kids who usually are there to perform for this song could go trick or treating.

[@zeitok8]

one of the best ever

[@fields4president]

One of my favorite songs of all time, and definitely a tune for the times!

[@Malzarin]

I admire these guys for so many reasons! Not the least of which is the fact they "Opened" their farewell show with this monster. There is nothing like tapping into the darker nature of us weak humans.

[@NikkTemplar]

I wish I'd written this song. It's flawless.

[@HillVillageDragon]

"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man in the world to lunacy." - Joker, 'The Killing Joke'

[@TheIverson6]

i was a lowly sales guy at the music store on pearl st. you guys made my day on the radio tone slide an the tenor ,ill miss Oingo Boingo love peace from ivy

[@MakiSupaStar]

Wow. Last time I saw these guys was in 1987 when my high school won a radio contest and Oingo played live for us. It was friggin' sweet. Great stuff. Thanks to whoever posted this.

[@Stephopher]

Thank you for posting this! I believe this was the concert I attended when I said, "If this concert is over after this 1st song, I'm happy and it was totally worth it!" Danny Elfman is a genious and this song just speaks on so many levels! (btw, I am a fan of country music but this is one of my favorite songs of all time!)

[@LASVEGASREALTOR]

I dont know or care what he is singing. I likey. I grew up to boingo. Class of 1985. The 80's had the best music of any generation. Crue, Boingo, Clash, new wave, punk, metal, rock, nwa, thank you for posting. I used to see boingo at knotts berry farm on 10/31 every year

[@rohiogerv22]

This was Danny Elfman's band before he started doing soundtracks (Every Tim Burton Movie, Men In Black, Fable). The songs are kind of humorous, but very dark at the same time. I just got into them recently, but they really are pretty amazing despite being so strange.

[@spoodypiglet]

I love his voice!

[@gahloot]

I saw them 30 times. And hopped up on stage for the whole end of the song Goodbye, goodbye!

[@marspara]

Oingo Boingo: the most stoked on stage band I've ever seen in 30 years of concerts ! More joy playing than Rolling Stones, Red Hot, U2, Maddona, Rush, Pink Floyd, The Cure, The Cult, Pet Shop Boys, etc, etc, etc... BOINGO kicks ass !!!

[@digitaldirt777]

I was there that night and Boingo was one of the best live bands that I saw over and over.

[@ISD68]

This video took me back to the actual concert, amazing!! Thanks for posting it.

[@Bigman2326]

1995 I was a senior in h.s. one of the things. I looked forward 2 was hiting universal amphatheater every halloween and boigo concert. I remeber that they brought out the horn section for their final show great great times I really miss them

[@Mpledger]

I went to this concert after winning tickets from X96 (local station in SLC). I regret that I didn't know their music before I went to this concert. Have been a fan since, and LOVED The concert.. I was the ONLY person who wasn't singing along to every song since I didn't know the words.. Halloween 95 will always be etched in my mind for this concert alone.

[@maddrb0b622]

Saw their final East Coast tour at what is now the 9:30 Club in DC. Brilliant show, and a very friendly bunch of guys, they could kick it like few could. They were a rare moment of clarity, intelligence, and inspiration in a dismal couple of decades of music- and we need them now more than ever! Wish they'd do a reunion album and tour, but Danny has said that years of touring have pretty much destroyed his hearing. But I'd travel cross country to see them if it ever happened! Miss you guys...

[@sanityisrelative]

There are times (like right now) when I play this vid full screen at full volume with headphones on. It's the closest I can ever come to acutally experiencing them live. The energy is amazing, I can only imagine what it must have been like to be there in person. I'm jealous of everyone who's seen them live. Still, no matter how often I watch their vids, the bassist will forever creep me the frell out.

[@MarcoLopez-py3bw]

What a great time to be alive. I love to Boing out!!!

[@TheGigantomachia]

Elfman said he has not plans and that he will never tour again because of the hear damage it caused. Bummer, I saw them back in the day and if not for Phish it would have been the coolest show I ever saw. "Let's sanitize our little brains . . .'

[@primaprimotv]

Oh...I will never ever forgive myself for missing this concert!!! I had just got promoted to a manager position(that ended up sucking anyway)and I freakin' went work instead !!!! I'm going to cry now!!!

[@hellrazoromega]

I was at the last show they ever played--Universal Amphitheatre Halloween night 1995- to this day, the best concert I have ever been too!!!

[@3798penisholder]

hellrazoromega jealous..

[@nikki2sox]

i was at one of those universal shows!!!! after years of the boingo halloween shows at irvine meadows, it was a great finish to an amazing era. i miss them!

[@DentArthurDent68]

This song is my personal anthem and theme song right now. That comforts and terrifies me at once.

[@MercysWrath]

One of the best live music videos.

[@lyricia1996]

Ahh, memories... I never got to see them in concert... but I did happen to come across this in my DVD collection while on mushrooms.... I watched it from start to finish and fucking cried at the end when it was over! The best concert DVD ever!! So glad they did this!!!

[@sanityisrelative]

This performance never ceases to blow me away. Something this epic on video must have been mind blowing to see live. I really wish I could have attended this show. And, you know, not have been six at the time. ~

[@postyesterdayman]

I saw them twice, once when I was 13 (Chicago Club Metro, Boingo Tour) and then one week before this was shot on the Farewell Tour in 95 (I travelled 1600 miles to bid them adios). The video is great but....I cannot explain how good they really were. Major aftershow overdubbing? Nah, they didn't need it. The best live band I will ever see (and I have seen HUNDREDS).

[@touchandgod]

Brilliant. Love the drumming, love the stage set, love the build. Am I the only one who thinks of these guys as the campy NIN?

[@Scottydont66]

went to 3 of the Farewell shows at the Universal Amp....best shows ever

[@Whytewulfe]

What a freaking awesome performance!

[@ArrestedDecayBand]

I think the people talking about it being from the point of view of a psychopath are off. Danny himself was frustrated with Danny Quayle and the moral panic of the time, I feel the song is essentially from HIS point of view. He's angry at all of it, and he's sarcastically inviting them to cure him, it's a very sardonic song, he's essentially saying it's all madness, and he's achieving catharsis by writing about these extreme emotions.

[@kiernan415]

Your assessment is spot on. Danny Elfman said pretty much the same thing in an interview circa '02. He really laid into the "morality police" that call themselves "christians". I wish I could remember who he was being interviewed by so you could look it up. The interview was mainly about his work on Tim Burton's films, but politics came up and he referenced this song. Peace.

[@DentArthurDent68]

Get out of my mind! 😉

[@AnalieSkywind]

Dude, I love these guys! I was introduced to it when I read Blood and Chocolate! Good movie as long as it's separate from the book but the book is the best. I love it!

[@RiotSk8Team001]

the most haunting, disturbing, and quite possibly the most well-written song ever made. the ending gives me chills, no matter how many times i've heard it.

[@arklat]

Danny Elfman Not Only Has Hearing Loss He Also Has Complications With Malaria That He got From When He Was Touring In Africa So He Definately Wont Be Going To Concert Any More. But That Doesnt Mean He Wont Play For Schools Or Things Like That, He Will Always Be Doing Something With Music. He Is One Of The Greatest Misicians Of Our Time!!!

[@DinoWmn]

You have to give props to the stagehands who removed the drums so well and quickly during this huge stage production. Speaking as a techie, well done!

[@BubbaHotepMothership]

Never seen them...wish I had...they look like the real thing...so happy&great.

[@arklat]

growing up in LA, the great thing was the Halloween oingo boingo concerts. I went to five, and they were all great. I also went to several others. Does anyone remember the Palladium show, when not five minutes after Danny warned the audience not to throw things onstage, he got hit in the face with a shoe, thrown from the far back of the mosh pit? I couldn't believe it! Anyone there for that? Being a true professional, Danny continued the show, with a fat lip. The guy who threw the shoe, got his!

[@CoachAndy]

My parents took me to this show when i was 10! i couldnt appreciate it then as it was just music my parents always had on but now it brings back childhood memories. i can vaguely remember being freaked out by the giant skull ballon and the dancing puppets.

[@snackeycakes]

I was there during this song, what an opening!!!

[@FONEternal]

I've always known of this group, but never listened.. These lyrics are brilliant.

[@Malzarin]

Well that is deliciously abhorrent. I love it. Bands that push buttons tend to be my favorites, either musically or lyricaly. Oingo Boingo has consistently done both.

[@linnadrehmel4782]

Oingo Boingo will live for ever!

[@sanitytheorist8221]

AWESOME percussion!

[@lordzhuge]

what a start to a great concert.

[@Scottydont66]

I use to go to every Halloween Boingo show at Irvine Meadows in SoCal, and saw the all 3 nights at Universal Amp where this was filmed

[@binaryanarchist]

this is the song that got me hooked on oingo boingo :)

[@touchandgod]

Like the campy NIN. Beautifully written song, great drum work.

[@Bibizzand]

This music is perfect!!!!!!

[@edgarquiroz6034]

So many memories at the long gone☹️ Universal Amphitheater

[@XxXRivnenXxX]

best live preformance ever!

[@Meatball45005]

just amazing!!!!!!!!

[@DemonCartoonist19109]

This is just amazing!!!! Love the song :D

[@aunghous]

I so miss this band.

[@MGZero]

they look like they would have been seriously amazing to see live. too bad i wasn't alive at that time. ): i looove oingo boingo.

[@Scottydont66]

Halloween is not the same without a Oingo Boingo Concert

[@Thebigk5]

@MagzHalo Danny can pound his beautiful music and whatever else he likes into me.

[@DentArthurDent68]

He's been the only music I've been listening to for the past few weeks. I was a fan back around the time Good For Your Soul came out and I was about 16. I've always had a few songs of theirs in my various playlists over the years but it was more background music. I rediscovered them a few weeks ago when I realized I actually didn't have any Boingo in my current YTM playlists. I put together an all Boingo/Danny Elfman playlist and it's all I've been listening too. I'm even rediscovering songs I either never heard or just completely forgot. I also was unaware that Oingo Boingo performed live back then, I guess I thought they were purely a studio band. These concert vids are simply mind blowing. They take me back in time to the concerts I'd missed and I get to live vicariously through those kids in the front row. And even the songs sound different and the same and even better than before, they seem to reimagine the songs for that particular concert and make them sound like they just wrote them for that particular performance. It saddens me a little that I'll never be able to experience the live show personally. I'd love to be in LA waiting for Danny's Live concert, I'm sure I'd lose my mind. Maybe they'll make a concert vid for this one, I'd LOVE to see that 71 year old red-headed imp grinning at us as he teleports us into his mind for a party.

[@magneticedgerep]

@RayKanen69 I think I did. I was at this concert. Holy hell these guys were unreal live!!!

[@MetalKittyOTF]

Whoooboy! This is just to fuckin good. Danny rocks and rocks and rocks. Boingo the Best ever! Downloaded! Faved! Thanking you.

[@obscure666wolfman]

i fucken love this song. every time i listen to it it makes me feel like im in my own music video with whatever i want to happen its just a trip. and this video is fucken great.

[@rokky6931]

all I had heard before this was dead man's party. then I saw them as an opening act. They opened with this and I was hooked.

[@SamsarasArt]

amazing song, i love it

[@eleanorerigby]

Halloween 1995. They recorded it into an awesome live album.

[@Malzarin]

I am still amazed this is the opening song of the night! Can you imaging doing 2 full sets plus an encore after that!? Talk about setting the bar high

[@DinoWmn]

@XxLuvDentzxX I cannot find it anywhere. You are one lucky person.

[@tikker11]

hey natesot, I'm in OZ and I am waiting for the farewell concert [1995 ] this clip is on the DVD. I contacted a USA company called CD universe,can't wait

[@CrazyBlonde13]

DANNY IS MY GOD!!!! ^-^

[@kingpin123rcs]

That was amazing!

[@linnadrehmel4782]

Only Danny Elfman can get away with walking out onto stage wearing just shorts, a tshirt and barefoot. The man is legend!

[@Tangobutton]

Jimmy Buffett, also!

[@PayneND1az]

@111redhead - Yes, it was an awesome concert. I was there. :)

[@raynsung]

Happy Halloween from the USA!

[@Senuf]

Fuck and Double Fuck! Now THIS is Powerful! Thanks for the video!!!

[@MagnumStellarz]

omg youre so lucky i was 3 years old and trick or treating as belle from beauty and the beast lol i wish he would do another so i could go but i guess thatll never happen :( *teardrop* thank god for youtube

[@A.C195.02]

I wish they would have stayed together ;-; I really think he had a lot of fun been in his own band, his creativity was really AWESOME!

[@08maricuca]

I miss Oingo Boingo!!!!

[@davidvollmar]

I was at this tour - INSANE!

[@brainphreak]

he does countless soundtracks for burton and everyone else, he will not run out of money anytime soon...

[@kenito2050]

I'm a big Oingo Boingo Fan. Have loved them since the late 70's. This song would go well with the video game "BioShock" Just a thought.

[@Zapalta]

... amazing. This song is absolutely amazing. Danny Elfman FTW forever

[@mistatt2]

And looking mighty fine he is!

[@ggh7664]

So do I. I'm Boingo's equivalent to a Dead Head. I've seen them over 20 times here in Salt Lake City (and over 100 times around the country). There's never been anything like Oingo Boingo and will never be anything like them.

[@taniack]

Oh, my God Danny I am so madly in love with you.

[@crdeath27]

Interesting how a song that is almost twenty years old is somehow just as relevant today as it was back then (aside from the Dan Quayle reference).

[@Malzarin]

@RiotSk8Team001 I have to agree, this song disturbs me everytime I hear it and yet I usually have to listen 2 times in a row because I cannot get enough. The only song I can think of that rivals the creepyness is Peter Gabriel's "The Intruder". I recomend it highly, though it has totally different subject matter.

[@thechaos44]

And I bloody love it! =]

[@AModernMajorGeneral]

Wouldn;t it be great if they made an 'Across the Universe'-type film with Oingo Boingo music? This would almost definitely be the theme for the film!!!

[@BlaineCraner]

Behold the awesome that is insanity.

[@Malzarin]

Where can I sign up for a Oingo Boingo cover/tribute band? I love these guys and their music needs to be carried on!

[@dragonholder411]

@TJae1 Naw, I'm too young, but I've heard it was amazingly awesome! And I can tell just by the energy these guys put off from the stage, it's like all the fans turn into 1 big pulsing organism type thing, all differences set aside for the one love of that music that they all share. That's kinda what it's like at a disturbed concert I've heard, but these guys are way over what disturbed can do.....

[@leiposuctie]

@Malzarin i recommend "the she" from the breeders, or anything from trentemoller(but especially dark dub) , and the live versions are best.

[@08maricuca]

Oingo Boingo were better live by far!!! saw them everytime they were in SD which was often!!!!!! Elfman is a genius...

[@McBehrer]

@Kaelzoroden ja me too. it's awesome

[@NikkTemplar]

One can only wish....

[@TheMasterPotty]

anyone know if they are gonna do a reunion tour?, my dad got me into Oingo Boingo and I swear they rock!

[@linnadrehmel4782]

Danny Elfman...is pure awesomeness, so i understand. He is epic!

[@TJae1]

@dragonholder411 ~ dude ~ have U been 2oo any of these concerts ~ snds like an awesome audio experience ~