Talk:So-Lo

Was the version from Beverly Hills Cop slightly different...?

I used to own a copy of the soundtrack mentioned above. But I swear that upon listening to the versions available now (via YouTube and DailyMotion) that the extant version is different. I remember more (and better-quality) effects on the BHC version.

If I'm nuts, let me know... I just hate hearing the "original" versions of songs without all of the cool and awesome effects that got added later, when the technology improved. Two versions come to mind that exemplify this: Howard Jones's "No One is to Blame," (which got a completely new production courtesy of Phil Collins) and "Don't Look Down" by Go West (whose remix has been called "Don't Look Down: The Sequel.")

In both cases, the later version was clearly WAAAAAY better than the original. I don't believe that most of us would ever say that the first version was really definitive.

Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.118.9.245 (talk) 01:07, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

The above discussion seems redundant in regards to the different mixes of Gratitude, since both versions were mixed within only a few months of each other and is nothing to do with "when technology improved". It's a stylistic choice between mixes and there's more to it than just "cool and awesome effects". The first mix of Gratitude is most likely a prelim mix that got made ahead of the rest the album for the BHC soundtrack, then was used on first pressings on So-Lo, before it was decided that a more embellished mix be done in line with the rest the album/ for a single release. Woombamillio (talk) 21:57, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

Release date

So, the album was released on a Sunday? alainsane (talk) 04:26, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

Danny Elfman / Oingo Boingo

The popular rumour is that this album was released under Elfman's name due to a contract dispute with A&M Records over the Oingo Boingo name. That has even been written retrospectively in liner notes and articles in recent years, but the origin of this is unknown. There never has been a reliable source confirming this and it is possible that it's just an internet rumour.

The only reliable source over why it was released as a "solo" album despite all the OB members playing on it are the magazine articles with interviews with Danny Elfman (cited in the article) where he says the band was on hiatus at this time while Kerry Hatch and Richard Gibbs left. Danny was also wanting to write different kinds of songs so he used the opportunity to record an album in the meantime and call it a "solo" album. This is supported by the fact the album has a session bass player (Flea) for some songs and wholly synthesised bass and keyboard parts for others. Gibbs and Hatch are still credited because they recorded "Lightning" the year previously as part of Good For Your Soul.

Therefore it can retrospectively be considered an Oingo Boingo album, since they were all written by Elfman anyway, but noting that this one came about from a different background due to Oingo Boingo being on hiatus.Detachio (talk) 10:54, 29 September 2019 (UTC)