Remember My Name (Remastered by: The Barbary Ghost)

by Oingo Boingo

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bandfan25 An impressive remix that turns the lofi nature of the recording into something raw and fun! This is some top-notch retro-New Wave. Favorite track: Remember My Name (Remastered by: The Barbary Ghost).

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Hello fellow Boingoloids! Here it is, the Holy Grail of unreleased Boingo bangers! Intended to be part of the 1987 LP "Boi-ngo", Remember My Name was cut from the tracklist before the band was ever able to record a proper version in the studio. All we fans have had to listen to for years is a low quality, almost mono recording from the demo sessions for the LP.

Thankfully YouTubers like "Oingo Boingo Tapes" and others have cataloged and uploaded all of these demo recordings. Without their efforts, projects like this wouldn't be possible for me. So huge thanks goes to them.

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Here's the basics of what I did to get this from a barely audible demo, to a club ready mix. Layered multiple versions of the original demo, each one panned slightly differently to make up for the unbalanced original recording. Then they had their EQ filtered to bring out specific frequencies, and then those each had volume adjustments to compensate for any EQ changes. Once the skeleton of the remaster was in place, I then layered in my own drum kit (being careful to go for a late 80's sound), to fill out those missing kicks and snares. Finally I ran the entire mix through Ozone for some mastering magic

lyrics

Give me your secret hand
And I'll give you my deepest thoughts
Give me your promise that can't be broken
Give me your tired eyes
Ease your head of empty scars
Fill my head with pictures
That can't be stolen, can't be taken away

And if we're still here tomorrow
Oh will you recognize my face?
And if we're still here tomorrow
Will you remember my name?
Give me your pale eyes
And I'll give you my broken heart
And if you love me this is the place to start
If I build a pyramid from the sweat of other men
Would I be remembered now and forever
Or even for another hour?

And if we're still here tomorrow
Will you recognize my face?
And if we're still here tomorrow
Will you remember my name?
And if we're still here tomorrow
Will you recognize my face?
And if we're still here tomorrow
Will you remember my name?

Say that our life has gone
Just another bed of roses
Just another crown of thorns on your head
Give me your savage eyes
And I'll give you my only wish
Here again and gone today
Like a shadow.. like a shadow
Give me the world, now
And serve it on a silver platter
I'll give you my life along with my heart's desire
I'll give you everything I have

And if we're still here tomorrow
Ah, will you recognize my face?
And if we're still here tomorrow
Will you remember my name?
(We'll only be untrue
To each other if we lie)
Remember my name
(We'll only find the heart
Of another if we try)
Remember my name
(*Only pray all day
You went along too soon*)
Remember my name
(We'll only find the light
If we only see the truth)
Remember my name
(We'll only see the light
If our eyes are open wide)
Remember my name
(We'll only speak what's right)

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released May 20, 2023

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The Barbary Ghost California

The Barbary Ghost is a genderfluid phantasm from the San Francisco Bay Area, that creates original music, art, video, and live entertainment. As well as offering Mixing and Mastering services for independent underground musicians.

They are also the founder and singer of the bands Vernian Process and Profondo Delle Tenebre.

Think, Kate Bush meets Dave Vanian. ... more

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