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For the album by MC Lars, see Nothing to Fear (MC Lars album).
Nothing to Fear 
Studio album by Oingo Boingo Released June 22, 1982 Recorded November 1981-January 1982 Genre New Wave Length 41:34 Label A&M Producer Oingo Boingo, Joe Chiccarelli Oingo Boingo chronology Only a Lad
(1981)Nothing to Fear
(1982)Good for Your Soul
(1983)Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic 
[1]Nothing to Fear is the second album by Southern California New Wave band Oingo Boingo, released in 1982 on A&M Records. First pressings of this album feature a slightly extended version of "Private Life," with a longer intro, the difference between the extended version and the version that exists on later copies is very small, repeating the chorus one more time, the bridge is also extended.
The song "Wild Sex (In the Working Class)" was featured in the John Hughes film Sixteen Candles.
"Running on a Treadmill" contains music borrowed from "Animal Day" by Wall of Voodoo
Contents
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Danny Elfman.
No. Title Length 1. "Grey Matter" 5:50 2. "Insects" 3:02 3. "Private Life" (3:45 on earliest pressings, see lead) 3:18 4. "Wild Sex (In the Working Class)" 4:06 5. "Running on a Treadmill" 3:20 6. "Whole Day Off" 3:54 7. "Nothing to Fear (But Fear Itself)" 3:52 8. "Why'd We Come" 3:57 9. "Islands" 4:40 10. "Reptiles and Samurai" 5:23 Total length:41:34 Personnel
- Oingo Boingo
- Danny Elfman - lead vocals, rhythm guitar
- Steve Bartek - lead guitar, backing vocals
- Richard Gibbs - keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals
- Kerry Hatch - bass, key rhythm vocals
- Johnny "Vatos" Hernandez - drums, percussion
- Sam "Sluggo" Phipps - tenor and soprano saxophone
- Leon Schneiderman - baritone and alto saxophone
- Dale Turner - trumpet, trombone
- The liner notes from Nothing to Fear state: "All the boys bang things: Rumba-phones, original instruments designed and built by LEON SCHNEIDERMAN."
Credits
- Steve Bartek - Horn arrangements
- Joe Chiccarelli - Engineer
- Krohn McHenry - Second recording engineer
- Mitch Gibson - Second mixing engineer
- Jules Bates (Artrouble) - Back cover and sleeve, Art Direction
- Laura Engel - Production Assistant
- Georganne Deen - Front cover
Notes
Danny Elfman · Steve Bartek · Johnny "Vatos" Hernandez · Sam "Sluggo" Phipps · Dale Turner · Leon Schneiderman · John Avila · Warren Fitzgerald · Doug Lacy · Marc Mann
Kerry Hatch · Richard Gibbs · Carl Graves · Michael BacichStudio albums Only a Lad · Nothing to Fear · Good for Your Soul · So-Lo (as Danny Elfman) · Dead Man's Party · BOI-NGO · Dark at the End of the Tunnel · Boingo (as Boingo)Live albums Compilations Boingo Alive • The Best of Oingo Boingo: Skeletons in the Closet • Stay • Best O' Boingo • Anthology • The Best of Oingo Boingo: 20th Century Masters: The Millennium CollectionExtended plays Singles "You Got Your Baby Back" • "Only a Lad" • "Wake Up (It's 1984)" • "Weird Science" • "Just Another Day" • "Dead Man's Party" • "Stay" • "Pain" • "Not My Slave" • "Winning Side" • "Flesh 'N Blood" • "Out of Control" • "When the Lights Go Out" • "Insanity" • "Hey!"Related articles Discography • List of members • Richard Elfman • Dead Bands Party: A Tribute to Oingo Boingo • Drink to Bones That Turn to Dust • Forbidden Zone (soundtrack) • Tito & Tarantula • Psychotic Aztecs
Categories:- 1982 albums
- A&M Records albums
- Oingo Boingo albums
- 1980s album stubs
- New Wave album stubs
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