Midnight Oil - the album thread

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  1. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product Thread Starter

    Easy album and song guide

    Midnight Oil - 1978 Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 1 Powderworks Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 2 Head over heals Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 3 Dust Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 4 Used and Abused Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 5 Surfing with a spoon Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 6 Run by night Midnight Oil - the album thread
    Run by night live 1981 - Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 7 Nothing lost ... nothing gained Midnight Oil - the album thread

    Head Injuries - 1979 Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 1 Cold cold change Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 2 Section 5 (bus to Bondi) Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 3 Naked flame Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 4 Back on the borderline Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 5 Koala sprint Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 6 No reaction Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 7 Stand in line Midnight Oil - the album thread
    Stand in line live 1981 - Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 8 Profiteers Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 9 Is it now? Midnight Oil - the album thread

    Bird Noises EP 1980 Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 1 No time for games Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 2 Knife's edge Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 3 Wedding cake island Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 4 I'm the cure Midnight Oil - the album thread

    Live at the Melbourne Show Grounds 1980 - Midnight Oil - the album thread

    Place Without A Postcard 1981 Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 1 Don't wanna be the one Midnight Oil - the album thread
    don't wanna be the one live - Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 2 Brave faces Midnight Oil - the album thread
    Brave faces live in 1982 - Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 3 Armistice day Midnight Oil - the album thread
    Armistice day live 1982 - Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 4 Someone else to blame Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 5 Basement Flat Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 6 Written in the heart Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 7 Burnie Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 8 Quinella holiday Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 9 Love's on sale Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 10 If Ned Kelly was King Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 11 Lucky country Midnight Oil - the album thread

    10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 - 1982 - Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 1 Outside world Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 2 Only the Strong Midnight Oil - the album thread
    Only the Strong Live Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 3 Short Memory Midnight Oil - the album thread
    Short Memory live Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 4 Read About It Midnight Oil - the album thread
    Read About It Live Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 5 Scream in Blue Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 6 U.S. Forces Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 7 Power and The Passion Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 8 Maralinga Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 9 Tin Legs And Tin Mines Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 10 Somebody's trying to tell me something Midnight Oil - the album thread

    Red Sails In The Sunset 1983 - Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 1 When the Generals Talk Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 2 Best Of Both Worlds Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 3 Sleep Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 4 Minutes To Midnight Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 5 Jimmy Sharman's Boxers Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 6 Bakerman Midnight Oil - the album thread
    Bakerman demo, with vocals Midnight Oil - the album thread
     
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  2. mark winstanley

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  3. mark winstanley

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    Who Can Stand In The Way
    The start of this song reminds me of Robert Fripp Water Music, that was used as the intro to Peter Gabriel's Here Comes The Flood on the exposure album. Unfortunately then i cringe a little as the keyboard sample kicks in, in that double stab that was so popular in the eighties. This is a really good song, but for me at least that continuing keyboard stab used as punctuation mark throughout the song dates in badly and spoils my enjoyment of it. There is a nice little bluegrass kind of breakdown at the end of the song.


    Lyrics
    Well oh well I feel I'm in decay
    John Laws is on the air again
    It's heavy traffic, jacarandas, eye in the sky and foot on ground
    I see a million sand speck'd ants in mortal combat hand to hand
    And I feel that I
    Yes I feel that I
    Seem to live this life long distance
    Gaze at the things surround me
    People rolling in and out
    Those circles and tides confound me
    And there's just one thing
    Yes there's just one thing
    Who can stand in the way
    When there's a dollar to be made?
    I was hanging round off Dobroyd Point
    When the first fleet chain sailed in
    Looked into the clearest blue
    The scurvy smell, the convicts cry
    And we just carried on,
    Yes we just carried on
    Now choppers strafe the supermarket sky
    And people wonder why
    Chopping down tons of trees
    Got seas of print not a soul can read say
    Why do I drown you build brick boxes
    One by one now they block my sun
    But it's metal on metal
    It's the dance of TV
    If Christ were here he'd camera check
    He'd cry so loud the planes would stop
    He'd cry so loud the earth would shake
    And men would fall in tinsel town
    There's just one thing
    Yes there's just one thing...
    Who can stand in the way
    When there's a dollar to be made?
    Precious moments, precious few
    When that dollar's more than me and you
    It's the joy of forgetting,
    Such a joy to forget
    But we killed all our firstborn
    And we slashed and we burned
    And we sold off the paddocks
    And we raped and we gouged
    On the wings of a six-pack
    Will we ever learn?

     
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  4. mark winstanley

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    Kosciusko
    A nice acoustic intro that leads into some power chords. This is a great song with Rob Hirst taking the main lead vocal again.


    Lyrics
    Older than Kosciuszko
    Darwin down to Alice Springs
    Dealers in the clearinghouse
    The settlements explode
    High up in the homelands
    Miners drive across the land
    Encounter no resistance
    When the people block the road
    Older than Kosciuszko
    Dry white seasons years ago
    Darkness over Charleville
    The fires begin to grow
    No end to the hostility
    Now they want to be somewhere else
    No stranger to brutality
    Now they'd like to be someone else
    Older than Kosciuszko
    Driven back to Alice Springs
    Endless storm and struggle
    Marks the spirit of the age
    High up in the homelands
    Celebration 'cross the land
    Builds up like a cyclone
    Now the fires begin to rage
    Call off the ultimatum
    No don't turn away
    Call off the ultimatum until yesterday
    Call off the ultimatum
    No don't turn away
    Bind up the brokenhearted
    No don't turn away
    Call off the ultimatum until yesterday
     
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  5. mark winstanley

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  7. macdaddysinfo

    macdaddysinfo Forum Resident

    this is the song that turned me on to the band. Local radio station (kroq) played it all the time... bought this album, and dug the band ever since...
     
  8. mark winstanley

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    Helps me Helps you
    This song starts with some distant chanting of a sort and then a didgeridoo starts up. This is an uptempo acoustic number and is quite effective as a song and in its message.


    Lyrics
    Look at all the toys I got
    Look at all the things I need
    Look at all the toys I got
    Look at all the mouths I feed
    Have I got a wonderful deal for you
    What belongs to me belongs to you
    I understand what you're going through
    I know the point to push you to
    My policy helps me helps you
    Generosity helps me helps you
    Conspiracy helps me helps you
    Put you trust in me I'll help you too
    Look at all the things I've done
    Look at all the rights I wrong
    The means will justify the end
    For you to save and me to spend
    'cause I've got a great idea you see
    What belongs to you belongs to me
    I know just what you want to do
    I know how I can get there too
    Hypocrisy helps me helps you
    Democracy helps me helps you
    Ideology helps me helps you
    Put your trust in me I'll help you through
     
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  9. mark winstanley

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    Harrisburg
    This track starts of with an eerie breath that ends up being used as a beat for the song, and it is quite effective. This song is based around the Three Mile Island incident near Harrisburg in Pennsylvania. It is an eerie synth backed track.


    Lyrics
    The empire rings
    The umpire's not laughing
    The President's resented,
    The Ambassador's a night club
    You cannot get it out
    It's stuff you cannot taste or see
    It's stuff you cannot smell
    It's stuff that's twenty times as hot
    As the hottest stuff in hell
    Harrisburg, oh Harrisburg
    The plant is melting down
    The people out in Harrisburg
    Are getting out of town
    And when the stuff gets in
    You cannot get it out
    The company said it would not blow
    The Government said it might
    Harrisburg, Oh Harrisburg
    I wonder who was right
    Who can leave it behind,
    The curtains are drawn
    There's something I must say to you
    You cannot get it out
     
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  10. misterdecibel

    misterdecibel Bulbous Also Tapered

    The recorded sound of this album is so atrocious, is there any payoff in seeking different masterings? I have the original US vinyl.
     
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  11. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product Thread Starter

    My cd is fine, but i guess it would depend on what we are referring to as atrocious.
    If you find digital harsh, it was a digital recording....
     
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  13. Gavinyl

    Gavinyl Remembering Member

    Friday 3:45 long weekend...

    Midnight Oil - Red Sails In The Sunset
    CBS Australia 1984 Bilbo Tape One London

    DOCO DESTA MR ICECREAMU
    ICECREAMU U SAN DOKU DESUKA
    ?

    Recorded and mixed in Tokyo...

    [​IMG] [​IMG]
     
  14. Gavinyl

    Gavinyl Remembering Member

    My Aussie is outstanding, probably cut from UK metal - Bilbo Tape One London so the UK would be great as well
     
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  15. mark winstanley

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    Bells And Horns In The Back Of Beyond
    Driven by some atmospheric keys and a glockenspiel? at first. Then about half way through a frantic beat and some part surf rock, part james bond theme guitars jump in. As strange as it sounds, it actually works.


    Lyrics
    The Southern Aurora was late again
    As I waited at central to take you home
    Winking spinning sparkling lights on our flat earth
    You talk about the old groundling ways
    Where the suburbs summer pulse and play in wrinkled sand and
    never never never neverland
    I get home I see them drive down
    I look out and see those lines and lines and lines of swell and
    smiles
    Coolangatta, what's the matter?
    Paradise, it's a surfer's world and flashing lights and real
    estate
    With one last wave
    Ahhh, get up and run
    'Cause there's a beach lies quiet near the open sea
    And a carpark lay streched where the bindis used to be
    When will I be yours
    When will I be mine
     
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  16. mark winstanley

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    Shipyards Of New Zealand
    Some atmospheric keyboards again start this song, with some part groan, part backing vocals coming in mixed fairly low, with the vocal starting over the top of this. At about a minute and a half in the song kicks in proper, and then at about 2:10 we revert to the opening theme. This is a good song, and works well even though it has a somewhat unusual structure.


    Lyrics
    Thought one day I'd make my fortune
    Like the ancient cavalcades
    From the shipyards of New Zealand
    Chasing history I left home
    Moving west into the sunset
    Became the sunset of our lives
    I was factory made and settled
    Safe from storm and broken earth
    There's so much to do every day
    Dreams keep on disappearing
    We cling to the walls of our heart
    Keeps us from coming undone
    Now danger lurks behind the spreader
    And Charlton Heston casts the first stone
    User interference birthmarks
    Clever, not very wise
    Let the lamp lights keep on shining now
    While those searchlights in skies they are turning
    We climb to the top of the heap
    I wish I could fly
    I can't get lost
    I can't get confused
    Something's misplaced
    Maybe for good
     
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  17. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product Thread Starter

    So that is Red Sails In The Sunset. I think a very good follow up to one of the albums of the eighties in 10-1. Let us know your thoughts.
    The next installment will be the essential, Oils on water. Or is that Essential Oils, on water ? ..... :)
     
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  18. misterdecibel

    misterdecibel Bulbous Also Tapered

    Then "Species Deceases"?
     
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  19. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product Thread Starter

    yea mate, definitely. great e.p. .... probably where the last big release from them for me ... i like the other stuff, but they started to lose me after species.
     
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  20. luckycountry

    luckycountry Forum Resident

    Location:
    Chorley
    I love Red Sails but it took me many years of listening to the Oils to fully appreciate it, and I'm still hearing new things in it. Would be great if the band did a documentary with Nick Launay about its production, like the excellent one they produced about 10-1 in last year's "Overflow Tank."
     
  21. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product Thread Starter

    Ill have to check out the 10-1 doco
     
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  22. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product Thread Starter

    Oils On Water - Live at Goat island 1985
    In January 1985, Midnight Oil performed Oils on the Water, a concert on Goat Island in Sydney Harbour to celebrate Triple J's tenth birthday,[3] before a select audience of fans who had won tickets in a radio competition. The concert was filmed, simulcast on ABC-TV and Triple J, and released on video,[3] which was remastered for their 2004 Best of Both Worlds DVD.

    I saw this concert as aired with the then state of the art stereo cast on the relatively new stereo radio format. Triple J was Australia's nationwide alternative radio station and for many years I found some of my favourite acts through them.
    This show converted me to being a Midnight Oil fan. I had heard some songs and seen some videos, but I hadn't bought any of their albums. After seeing this I bought 10-1 and was certainly not disappointed. I reckon the folks who won the tickets to this show probably treasure the memory of seeing this one off special, close to the band performance, and the band certainly seemed to be having a great time.
    If you haven't listened to any of the songs, if you haven't really been paying much attention, then I highly recommend giving this a watch ... and I also highly recommend getting the "Best Of Both Worlds" DVD, It also has "A Night at the Capitol Theater" from 1982 another well filmed concert, this concert was also linked to triple j. If you know someone that you think would like this - tag them.
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  23. mark winstanley

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    Best Of Both Worlds
     
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  24. mark winstanley

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    When The Generals Talk
     
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  25. mark winstanley

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    Minutes To Midnight
     

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