Oingo Boingo "Who Do You Want To Be Today" Performed Live in Concert 1985 at The Ritz New York

[@dcarlisle808]

that horn section is tripping balls sick

[@Musicman3832]

Sluggo, Leon Schneiderman, and Dale Turner were one hell of a horn section.

[@jaysonb.6669]

@@Musicman3832 Best live 80's brass section along with Tower of Power backing Huey Lewis.

[@shannonnonameinilovecats0]

My first concert was Oingo Boingo in 90' when they played this song the crowd went crazy. There was a mosh pit , it was beautiful!

[@beckymartin12]

saw them in 1988 at a concert in Cali,,, was for halloween,, everyone was dressed up,,, it was awesome,, they di 4 encore;s... badazz

[@satyrosphilbrucato9140]

They were so goddamned amazing live. I caught them twice before they broke up, and they blew the house down both times.

[@thespaceram2879]

Stop saying God=Lord Jesus Christ's name in vain. He can judge for it later if you keep doing it.

[@thespaceram2879]

Stop saying God=Lord Jesus Christ's name in vain. He can judge you for it later if you keep doing it.

[@satyrosphilbrucato9140]

@@thespaceram2879 Dude, I think your God=Lord has better things to judge. He can start with his so-called "followers," who've spent the last 1800s years committing every atrocity imaginable in his name.

[@thespaceram2879]

@@satyrosphilbrucato9140 Oh God=Lord Jesus Christ will judge everyone eventually at some point in the future. Everyone will be present. Even you as you will witness it like everyone. Matthew 25:31-46

[@satyrosphilbrucato9140]

@@thespaceram2879 I'm familiar with Matthew 25. More so, it seems, than most Christians are. And going by that passage, y'all have a literal hell of a lot more to fear from it than I do.

[@SiLatics56]

The playing of the bass/electric guitar and jogging on the spot at the same time is a beautiful thing to see.

[@TitoRigatoni]

I've seen them live more times than I can count. What's amazing is he keeps up that insane level of energy for the entire show.

[@Oldiesmann]

Check out the video for the live performance of Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime" for jogging bass playing

[@SiLatics56]

@@Oldiesmann Yes I've seen that many times. Great stuff 😁

[@kimberlysparrow6996]

I would call that skanking

[@Dejay06]

​@@Oldiesmann Yes lol

[@siriusylee]

AUSTIISMM SONG, THANK YOU SAM “SLUGGO” PHIPPS, DALE TURNER, AND LEON SCHNEIDERMAN OF THE OINGO BOINGO HORN SECTION. YALL DID GREAT. I LOVE THIS SONG.

[@sunsunnydayz]

Who knew Danny Elfman would be an excellent music composer! Love his work!

[@flippy101mph9]

Oh he had his screw ups The willy Wonka welcome song That is an ear parasite

[@DeviBuster]

​@@flippy101mph9to be fair on him I think that one's on purpose

[@pilotmic3760]

Saw them on this very tour in 85 outside Los Angeles at Magic Mountain. Second concert I ever went to with a bunch of friends from high school. Best experience ever and was every bit as fun as this video.

[@SharPalSchmal]

I was there too! Good ol Magic Mountain with friends seeing Oingo Boingo - HS class of '85 :) Then I saw them again a few years later after I moved to Portland, Oregon. Glad to have seen them twice and the energy was incredible both times. Thankful we have these videos! Amazing and beautiful musicians.

[@AndrewBarsky]

Ska punk, before ska punk was a thing. Excellent! Tony hawk’s soundtracks were always the best.

[@computerfighter2000]

i have made it my goal to watch this whenever possible

[@DaytonaGrey-RS5]

One of their best songs! They have inspired so much music around the world and in all genre's. One of the best Ska songs of all time. The energy of this song is legendary!

[@ArizonanSummer]

Steve Bartek is a living legend!

[@dugfriendly]

this song changed my life back in the day

[@jaysonb.6669]

I always felt that this song would've fit perfectly with Emilio Estevez' "Repo Man" from 1984. Although that soundtrack was a banger as is. 🔥🔥

[@CharlesREllis-kd7xu]

Saw them in Miami in 1988 of all of the hundreds of concerts ive have seen Oingo was at the top last show of their tour just incredible.

[@Griswaldization]

Wish my older sister and me could let loose and rock out too this❤

[@thomasobrien1213]

Do it. I DARE YOU.😀🤪

[@Griswaldization]

My sister husband would be jealous with his petty self!!​@thomasobrien1213

[@michaelp7918]

Saw three times... US Festival, Universal Amphitheater and somewhere in Orange County. Never disappointed and always exhausted by the end of the show.

[@jamescrow5737]

Me as well....1st ever show, in San Bernardino 85', Universal and Irvine Meadows Halloween show in 89'. Saw Danny solo show last year, played about 9 Boingo songs. Great to hear after 35 years!!!

[@FrankJaeger803]

My mom licensed to them when she was the high-school back in the 80s. I'm only recently discovered them, they're so much better than the stuff that was popular when I was in high-school a few years ago lol

[@thomasobrien1213]

Awesome band live. Saw them 3xs. Always blew the roof off.😁😎😜

[@MyFirstPageResults]

WHERE'S THE FREAKIN' MOSH PIT?? Great tune, sounds awesome live! And love them horns!!!

[@mummifiedgoose]

If I had a time machine I'd go back and attend this concert (and maybe try to get backstage to Danny) cause daaaaamn they were really on fire this night

[@ArizonanSummer]

Love their bassist!

[@computerfighter2000]

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO WOOOO YEAH THATS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@JadedAce8727]

Good group remember this song on tony hawk American wasteland

[@KARMAP0lic]

I was looking for a comment like this lmao

[@Griswaldization]

My Favorite!!

[@randallcarter6913]

Best live band ever

[@JV-up8or]

you should check out the best band you've never heard of

[@jaysonb.6669]

I think Huey Lewis & the News with Tower of Power on backing horns might like to have a word with you 😂

[@lucagiannone2209]

Yeah rock🤘🤘🤘

[@BigDLiquor]

No joke, I turned my phone over one way and the KZbin app was bugging out and flashing the video from vertical to horizontal by its own in rythym of the song. It was so damn good I wish it would've let me screen capture the power from the energy of this performance.

[@proveedordelonasignifugas]

Todos deberiamos ser como ese Chaparrito "Sin miedo al Exito"

[@zorn1745]

Oingo Boingo underrated 80s band fr

[@grassfedbeef3705]

Wow!!

[@sbignevrabinovich986]

F_cking Great! Beautiful! 😝😂🤣 Vokalist is look like Rourke-image from Angel Heart, 1987...

[@DayanaRockStar122]

Get it, Danny! ❤❤❤

[@richardwatson298]

The Ritz! 😃

[@reellife989]

So turnt 🔥

[@francisnguyen6349]

Great songs.

[@computerfighter2000]

GOING FUCKING NUTS & FERAL YEAH BABEEEYYYY

[@bergsonhenrique3762]

Roots of skacore.

[@Lordestroyer]

That bass player.

[@JG-pl3lt]

Yeah

[@surf64.5overhead4]

Thier on fire live I dig it.

[@gabrielcavazos3974]

Awesome!

[@guyincogneto8979]

A drum kit with no bass? Insanity.

[@lobesmcgee]

Electric bass

[@JohnConnasRealFatha]

I'm pretty sure it's an electric kick pad. It tripped me out too lol I was like "is his kick drum transparent, invisible, or am I just high?" Fun fact: one of those is true.

[@CofaMakesVideos]

Oingo

[@VAMPSTRA]

Boingo

[@VAMPSTRA]

@only cover No, delete this, nononononononononono not here not here

[@jacobramirez4189]

Danny Elfman reminds me of Baron Samedi.

[@Lordofdisease]

this song is the forerunner of ska punk

[@RottenPopReviews]

Epic 2 tone ska

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

Danny made new lyrics for this for Coachella and I couldn’t hear them.

[@doc_jpeg]

I know he name-dropped a handful of people, I could only make out "Kardashian" and "Logan Paul", and he changed the last verse to something like "finger on the trigger, you're on top of the world, you'll surely rule over them all!" I personally think doing such a thing dates the performance but I like that Danny tried to switch things up and adapt that song for the modern times I guess.

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

@@doc_jpeg Yeah that’s what W.S. Gilbert did with the lyrics for the song “Little List” in The Mikado, and the tradition is continued in modern performances (just pointing that out because Danny is a fan of Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, they hugely inspired his songs for Nightmare and Corpse Bride). I don’t know why I can’t find the new Coachella version of this song anywhere on KZbin though. Did he hurt the feelings of a few trans kids with that line about wanting to be “androgynous”? Haha at least he still has a sense of humor about the whole political spectrum, that’s becoming rare nowadays. I recall him saying on Instagram that he used to be able to debate with Republicans and not view each other as mortal enemies.

[@thisneverends2890]

I keep seeing this concert was in 1987. Was it really 1985? I was not yet born. I just wanted to know which is correct?

[@RainbowSalad]

They played New York in 1985 as far as I can find online, not 1987. The end of the video says 1985 so I'm going with that. I saw them in 1987 in California for the Dead Man's Party Tour!

[@gurgisjones1120]

The concert available shows 1985 at the very end. Also, none of the songs from the Boi-ngo album (1987) are included, so this would have been after Dead Man's Party was released (1985).

[@TRUNGNGUYEN-bz9th]

Who do you want to be today?

[@RobertRose-uj9ce]

Play loud😊

[@francisnguyen6349]

It's 1985! Not, 1987.

[@Duck_Dodgers]

Sacred riech did a version of this i thought for longest time it was their song lol

[@peteseegiii3201]

Eugene Levy on bass???

[@PastorGooch]

I'm so upset with myself. I can't believe I didn't realize this was Jack skellington.

[@paulhedge9627]

Bachelor party

[@hudsonnorton5678]

That crazy dude singing made Spider-Man and Batman’s theme songs…

[@Duck_Dodgers]

Also Simpsons music

[@kerrystone1882]

Hear this and think teen wolf 2 film love this song ❤

[@johnv1776]

Teen Wolf 2

[@MonicaGonzalez-me8qo]

WHAT💀

[@vincentpele6851]

le morceau parfait???

[@TOAG]

Johnny Hernandez save me…

[@9some]

play it at 0.75 sounds like a ska

[@killerqueen9772]

What a great genderfluid song

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

Even more so with new lyrics

[@fabienmorin6790]

No cuz the concept of genderfluid reinforces gender stereotypes

[@flippy101mph9]

if it is, it's making fun of it Anyone who's gender fluid is an idiot

[@gigglybastard]

@@fabienmorin6790 how

[@davidking6008]

wow, 40 years I’ve been listening to this track and I’ve never thought about that concept - but you’re absolutely right..! 🤩

[@xXBlazingDragonXx1]

I... Uh... Like Danny's movie compositions more. 😂

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

The only ones that compare to this are some of the early Tim Burton ones.

[@Rickle_Pick23]

No.. uh.. likes. 😂

[@gastrointestinalhemorrhage]

the whole band A+ SKA AS FUCK