Dead Man's Party is the fifth album by American new wave band Oingo Boingo, released in 1985 by MCA Records.

[1] The album was the band's first to be certified gold for sales of 500,000 units.

[2] The album cover art is an homage to the Mexican holiday Día de Los Muertos.

Elfman stated that he wrote the album's lead single, "Weird Science", spontaneously in his car, after receiving a call from director John Hughes about composing a song for his upcoming film of the same name.

The song went on to become the band's most commercially successful single, which Elfman later regretted, as he believed it "just didn't feel like it was really a part of [the band's] repertoire".