Talk:Nothing to Fear (Oingo Boingo album)
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Ska influence
[edit]For a long time it has been written on this article that it's a ska album, which I find odd. While the band wrote punky ska songs on other albums (eg Little Guns) and played some numbers in a ska style during their early live shows, this record has almost no ska influence at all. It is very much a new wave/rock/synth pop album. I would argue the only part that resembles ska in the whole record is some off-the-beat guitar notes in the verses of Private Life (an otherwise very new wave song), which is not a reason to categorise the whole record as 'ska'.
Any citation I can find referring to the Nothing To Fear record specifically as ska (eg in its 'Allmusic' article) I've found to be very flippantly put, unresearched and unreliable. You'd only need to listen to the album the whole way through to hear it isn't ska.Woombamillio (talk) 17:14, 3 August 2018 (UTC)