''Stay'' is a
compilation album
A compilation album comprises tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers. If by one artist, then generally the tracks were not originally intended for rel ...
of songs by American
new wave band
Oingo Boingo
Oingo Boingo () was an American new wave band formed by songwriter Danny Elfman in 1979. The band emerged from a surrealist musical theatre troupe, The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, that Elfman had led and written material for in the y ...
. The album was only released in
Brazil.
Background
Oingo Boingo had only achieved limited success in Brazil until 1988, when the "live in the studio" double album ''
Boingo Alive
''Boingo Alive'' is a double album by American new wave band Oingo Boingo, released in 1988. It was performed and recorded live in a rehearsal studio with no audience, with the band performing songs from previous albums and two previously unrelea ...
'' brought the band to the top of the charts. Four songs from the album, namely "Stay", "Just Another Day", "Dead Man's Party" and "Not My Slave", became major hits on the Brazilian charts during 1989–1990. This led
Polygram Records (the Brazilian MCA representative) to release a compilation album for the band, using the title of the band's hit song "Stay", which had also been featured in the Brazilian
soap opera ''Top Model''.
Despite the fact that the radio hits in Brazil were the re-recorded versions from ''Boingo Alive'', the LP presented the original studio recordings of the songs. When the album was issued on CD, the studio versions of "Just Another Day", "Dead Man's Party" and "Not My Slave" were replaced with the versions from ''Boingo Alive'', and the re-recording of "Who Do You Want to Be?" added as a bonus track.
Track listing
LP
CD
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Albums produced by John Avila
Albums produced by Danny Elfman
Albums produced by Steve Bartek
1990 compilation albums
Oingo Boingo compilation albums