Song · Oingo Boingo
“Who Do You Want to Be?” by Oingo Boingo
From the album Good for Your Soul (1983)
“Who Do You Want to Be?” by Oingo Boingo appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2003. It was first released in 1983 on the album Good for Your Soul. Its best result is #1388 on the Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #6,004 alternative song of all time.
"Who Do You Want to Be?" turns up on Good for Your Soul, the third album from American new wave band Oingo Boingo, released by A&M in 1983, and Danny Elfman wrote it alone, words and music both. The title is a very 1983 sort of question.
Robert Margouleff produced the album, and it turned out to be the band's last for A&M. It was a bookish, restless record: elsewhere on it, "Wake Up (It's 1984)" takes its cue from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and "No Spill Blood" from the 1932 film Island of Lost Souls, and drummer Johnny "Vatos" Hernandez got an instrumental named after him. Two outtakes from those sessions went to Elfman's 1984 album So-Lo.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 1388 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
Comments
Log in or create a free account to join the conversation about "Who Do You Want to Be?" by Oingo Boingo.
No comments yet. Be the first to share your thoughts.