“…but defining their sound was Little Girls, an exuberant ska wrapped in an electronic patina, with modernist vocals à la XTC and a touch of dementia.”

— Piero Scaruffi

Oingo Boingo The History Of Rock Music http://www.scaruffi.com/vol4/oingo.html

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Italian writer 1955

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