Rarely Heard: Oingo Boingo - Only a Lad

I've always admired the film composer Danny Elfman, but I missed out on his New Wave band Oingo Boingo founded first as a performance art group in the early 70s. Obviously that was mistake, this song reminds me very much of the Talking Heads and XTC. Towards the end of the 1980s, the band began shifting to a more guitar-oriented rock sound, and away from the use of horns and synthesizers. The band retired after a sold-out farewell concert on Halloween 1995.