Good For Your Soul

Good for Your Soul is the third album by Oingo Boingo, released in 1983. It was the band's final album recorded with bass player Kerry Hatch and keyboardist Richard Gibbs, also their last to be released on A&M Records. It was produced by Robert Margouleff, who continued the unorthodox arrangements that the band had become well known for, while moving the album in a softer direction than their previous work.

Frontman Danny Elfman had become tired with the expectation of consistently writing high energy, fast-paced songs, as well as being a frequent user of falsetto in his singing, therefore deciding to bring a new level of diversity into the next album. The songs Fill The Void and Nothing Bad Ever Happens are particularly significant for showcasing the band's African and ska influences and well as Elfman's change in vocal style. The subject matter of the lyrics is also darker in Good For Your Soul than on previous releases, such as themes of the supernatural in Dead or Alive and the warped love ballad Pictures of You.

Several pieces were recorded as demos but omitted from the final track listing, still officially unreleased, including "All the Pieces", "Waiting for You", "I Can't Pretend" and "Freak Show". The song "Lost Like This" was also written and recorded during these sessions, but did not surface until many years later on the 1994 album Boingo with a new orchestral arrangement. The brief instrumental track Cry of the Vatos, named after drummer Johnny "Vatos" Hernandez, contains a back-masked message jokingly promoting Christianity to its listeners.