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Only a Lad (Music)
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Only A Lad is the debut album of New-Wave/Ska-Punk band, Oingo Boingo. Released in 1981, the album features a bunch of topics such as living in a Dystopian world (Perfect System), being pro-capitalist (Capitalism) and other topics. It also features a cover of The Kinks "You Really Got Me".Tracklist:Side One "Little Girls" (3:44) "Perfect System" (3:46) "On the Outside" (3:39) "Capitalism" (3:40) "You Really Got Me"note Originally by The Kinks (4:40)Side Two "Only a Lad" (3:56) "What You See" (3:43) "Controller" (3:24) "Imposter" (2:59) "Nasty Habits" (4:06) | |
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Pyromaniac | |
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Pyromaniac: Johnny had other interests... HE LIKED TO BURN THINGS! | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: Most of the album falls under this, but "Little Girls", which is sung from the point-of-view of a pedophile, stands out. | |
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Title Track | |
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Title Track: "Only A Lad". | |
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Concept Video | |
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Concept Video: "Little Girls". Where Danny hangs out with little people and little girls. | |
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Take That, Critics! | |
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Take That, Critics!: "Imposter" is basically this, where it depicts critics as stuck-up and failed artists because they had no talent to begin with. | |
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Suddenly Shouting | |
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Suddenly Shouting: Danny Elfman does this alot. | |
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Kids Are Cruel | |
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Kids Are Cruel: The title track, where it tells a story of a boy named "Johnny" who shoots a lady in the leg, commits arson and murder. | |
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Soapbox Sadie | |
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Soapbox Sadie: "Capitalism" is about the narrator getting extremely irritated at one. | |
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White Guilt | |
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White Guilt: "Capitalism" is, in part, about this. | |
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Being Watched | |
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Being Watched: "Controller", where the narrator is getting paranoid because of this. | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
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Villain Protagonist: "Little Girls", which is sung from the point of view of a pedophile. "Only A Lad" is also about a unrepentant, violent sociopath named Johnny, though the song isn't technically sung from his point of view. | |
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Capitalism Is Bad | |
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Capitalism Is Bad: Surprisingly averted for the song "Capitalism", where it's about how capitalism is not bad and how there is nothing wrong with it. Of course, knowing the rest of this album being filled to the brim with piercing satire, it could easily just be making fun of capitalists. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Johnny in "Only a Lad" gets away with arson, theft, assault, and vehicular manslaughter because the judge believes it's society's fault he's such a psychopath. However, the narrator predicts - or at least hopes - that Johnny will go to Hell when he dies. | |
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Adults Are Useless | |
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Adults Are Useless: "Only a Lad" is about a psychopath called Johnny whose increasingly violent acts are excused by the grownups around him because of his young age. In the song's final verse, the song's narrator grows fed up with their inability to do anything and finally tells Johnny to go burn in hell. | |
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Fish out of Water | |
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Fish out of Water: "On The Outside". | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: "What the hell do you know about suffering and pain, you dumb fuck?" in "Capitalism" is the only instance of cursing on the whole album, and the instrumentation even briefly stops to emphasise it. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The cover of the album is a reference to "The Boy Scouts Of America Handbook 1960" official handbook, illustrated by Norman Rockwell, albeit with a few minor changes (a skeleton hand, torn up pant legs and a crab/lobster in his backpack, among other things). | |
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Happiness Is Mandatory | |
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Happiness Is Mandatory: In "Perfect System": and later... | |
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Cover Version | |
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Cover Version: The Kinks "You Really Got Me". | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: "Capitalism", "Controller" and "Imposter". | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: Basically the whole album. (Except for "You Really Got Me") | |
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Obligatory Bondage Song | |
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Obligatory Bondage Song: "Nasty Habits" has this line: | |
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Covert Pervert | |
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Covert Pervert: In "Nasty Habits": | |
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Society Is to Blame | |
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Society Is to Blame: "Only A Lad" is about a violent sociopathic young boy who keeps getting away with literal murder based off of this excuse. | |
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