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
    track 7 Who Can Stand In the Way Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 8 Kosciuszko Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 9 Helps Me Helps You Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 10 Harrisburg Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 11 Bells And Horns In The Back Of Beyond Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 12 Shipyards Of New Zealand Midnight Oil - the album thread

    Oils On Water - Live On Goat Island 1985 - Midnight Oil - the album thread
    Best of both worlds Midnight Oil - the album thread
    When the generals talk Midnight Oil - the album thread
    Minutes to midnight Midnight Oil - the album thread
    Sleep Midnight Oil - the album thread
    Only the strong Midnight Oil - the album thread
    Short memory Midnight Oil - the album thread
    Kosciuszko Midnight Oil - the album thread
    US forces Midnight Oil - the album thread
    Jimmy Sharman's Boxers Midnight Oil - the album thread
    Back on the borderline Midnight Oil - the album thread
    Tin legs and tin mines Midnight Oil - the album thread
    Don't wanna be the one Midnight Oil - the album thread
    Power and the passion Midnight Oil - the album thread
    Read about it Midnight Oil - the album thread
    Harrisburg Midnight Oil - the album thread
    Stand in line Midnight Oil - the album thread

    Species Deceases 1985 - Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 1 Progress Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 2 Hercules Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 3 Blossom and Blood Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 4 Pictures Midnight Oil - the album thread

    Diesel and Dust 1987 - Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 1 Beds are burning Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 2 Put down that weapon Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 3 Dreamworld Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 4 Arctic world Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 5 Warakuma Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 6 The dead heart Midnight Oil - the album thread
    The dead heart - extended version - Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 7 Whoah Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 8 Bullroarer Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 9 Sell my soul Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 10 Sometimes Midnight Oil - the album thread
    Sometimes live - bootleg - Midnight Oil - the album thread
    Sometimes live 1989 - Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 11 Gunbarrel Highway Midnight Oil - the album thread

    Blue Sky Mining 1990 = Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 1 Blue sky mine Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 2 Stars of Warburton Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 3 Bedlam Bridge Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 4 Forgotten years Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 5 Mountains of Burma Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 6 King of the Mountain Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 7 River Runs Red Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 8 Shakers and Movers Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 9 One Country Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 10 Antarctica Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 11 You May Not Be Realeased Midnight Oil - the album thread

    Scream In Blue (Live) 1992 - Midnight Oil - the album thread

    Earth And Sun And Moon 1993 - Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 1 Feeding Frenzy Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 2 My Country Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 3 Renaissance man Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 4 Earth and Sun and Moon Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 5 Truganina Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 6 Bush Fire Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 7 Drums Of Heaven Midnight Oil - the album thread
    track 8 Outbreak Of Love Midnight Oil - the album thread

    Live on MUCH MUSIC Toronto Canada 1993 - Midnight Oil - the album thread

    Midnight Oil and Exxon - Midnight Oil - the album thread

    Peter Garret and Jimmy Barnes (live)
    - Dreams of ordinary men (Dragon) - Midnight Oil - the album thread
    - Locomotive Breath (Jethro Tull) - Midnight Oil - the album thread

    Rob Hirst - Beatbox - Midnight Oil - the album thread
     
  2. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product Thread Starter

    In The Valley
    This is a nice enough song. Nothing too outstanding about it.
     
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  3. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product Thread Starter

    Tell Me The Truth
    This song sounds a little more old school oils. Drums kick in hard and the guitars are more up front. This is a bit more up my street for Midnight Oil.
     
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  4. Blue Sky Mining sums up the fear and isolation that can grip so many in what we often refer to, with undeserved contempt, as "fly over country". The song is also hook laden and has some strong melodies. "Somebody shave me" indeed!
     
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  5. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product Thread Starter

    we always used to sing "who's gonna shave me" lol
    Wittenoom in Western Australia where they mined the astbestos, is pretty much only fly over now.
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  6. luckycountry

    luckycountry Forum Resident

    Location:
    Chorley
    I really like In the Valley - lyrically I find it really interesting and I remember when I got into the band I chased up a lot of references in the song. The backstory of his mother dying in a house fire is truly tragic. PG's grandfather Tom died as a POW in the sinking of the Montevideo Maru (referenced in the opening line of the song), in which over 1000 men died in 1942. PG actually has a fascinating family history. His great grandfather played test cricket for Australia and his grandmother worked as a nurse on Dorre Island (off WA) helping to care for aboriginal people who had been incarcerated there with for various illnesses in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century. The song reminds me of how much I've learnt about Australian history from listening to the band over the years.
     
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  7. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product Thread Starter

    nice info. thank you
    sorry for my uninformed and short note. overwhelmingly tired this morning and didn't do any of my threads justice
     
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  8. luckycountry

    luckycountry Forum Resident

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    Chorley
    No worries - it's great you've given us a chance to discuss the music.
     
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  9. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product Thread Starter

    Now or Never Land
    A nice intro to this song. This is another good song. I think for some of us that were more used to the earlier albums that musically this album has moved into more moderate territory. This album, for me has more interesting guitar sounds, that hark back to 10-1's more experimental guitar sounds. Certainly no to the same extent. On the whole though there is a mellowing in the music that seems somewhat foreign. The lyrics are still as sharp as they have always been, it's just that mellowing in the music and a mindset from the band that's less likely to step out of the radio friendly stylings introduced on Diesel and Dust.
    This is still a worthwhile album to try out though.
     
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  10. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product Thread Starter

    Breathe
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    Studio album by Midnight Oil
    Released
    15 October 1996
    Recorded 1996 - New Orleans & Sydney
    Genre Rock
    Length 51:29
    Label Sprint / CBS
    Producer Malcolm Burn
    Midnight Oil chronology
    Earth and Sun and Moon
    (1993) Breathe
    (1996) 20,000 Watt R.S.L.
    (1997)
    Breathe is the ninth studio album by Australian rock band, Midnight Oil, which was released on 15 October 1996 under the Columbia Records label. It peaked at No. 3 on the ARIA Albums Chart and appeared in the top 40 on the New Zealand and Swiss Albums Charts. The album was produced by Malcolm Burn and according to Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, it had a loose, raw style with almost a low-key sound.

    Australian rock band, Midnight Oil, released their ninth studio album, Breathe, on 15 October 1996, which appeared three-and-a-half years after their eighth album, Earth and Sun and Moon.[1][2] The line-up for the album was Peter Garretton lead vocals, Bones Hillman on bass guitar and vocals, Rob Hirst on drums and vocals, Jim Moginie on guitars, keyboards, and vocals, and Martin Rotsey on guitars.[1][2] The album was produced by Malcolm Burn and released for Sprint Music by Columbia Records

    Breathe peaked at No. 3 on the ARIA Albums Chart and appeared in the top 40 on the New Zealand and Swiss Albums Charts.[5][6][7] In Australia it was certified gold for shipment of 35,000 copies by ARIA.[8] AllMusic's reviewer, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, described it as having "a more direct sound while keeping the anthemic melodicism ... less ambitious than its predecessor, yet also more forceful".[3] According to Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, it had a loose, raw style with almost a low-key sound.[1] Rolling Stone's Tom Moon compared it to earlier albums which "were filled with wide-screen screeds, the lectures on Breathe are offset by evocative mood pieces ... In fusing the hurtling momentum of punk with the righteousness of old-timey hymns, the Oils have arrived at a potent music that uplifts as it agitates".
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    I am still yet to give this album a good listen, so please, when we get to the songs, give us your input for a more rounded thread that will give any readers a better insight into the album. With there only being three albums left, I don't want to finish the thread, but for this to be worthwhile it would be cool if those of you more familiar with the albums step in and give us all the lowdown.
    Tomorrow I will put up the first couple of songs. If I have had a chance to listen to them I may comment, otherwise I will just put them up and let you guys take the lead.
    Cheers,
    Mark
     
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  11. bob_32_116

    bob_32_116 Forum Flaneur

    Location:
    Perth Australia
    Reminds me of that well known Elton John hit "Someone Shaved My Wife Tonight".
     
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  12. bob_32_116

    bob_32_116 Forum Flaneur

    Location:
    Perth Australia
    I don't recall hearing this song before though I probably did. I can hear what you mean about about "mellowing". Normally I tend to shrug off such comments as I'm a fairly mellow person and I don't find Diesel and Dust lacking in "edginess". On this song though it does sound as though they are concentrating on staying in tune and making sure the neighbours don't tell them to turn down the volume, rather than letting rip. that long chant that finishes the song is reminiscent of The dead heart, but with far less of the energy of that song.
     
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  13. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product Thread Starter

    Underwater
    A fairly heavy Hunters and Collectors style Bass drives this song. The arrangement of this song is fairly spare only really filling up towards the end. I actually know this song, so I figure it must have been played a fair bit back in the day.
     
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    Surf's Up Tonight
    This song I am not familiar with. A moderate tempo, and again a fairly sparse arrangement with a nice gritty sounding guitar. A laid back track
     
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    Common Ground
    This song bubbles along with an organ lay the bed as a dirty guitar chunks along and Garrett laying out some typically intense vocals. This is a ballad of sorts with a slow grind groove. This song has a really good feel about it.
     
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    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product Thread Starter

    Time To Heal
    Driven along by an acoustic guitar, we have another lyric focused ballad.
     
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  19. Thoughtships

    Thoughtships Forum Resident

    Location:
    Devon, UK
    I love "Underwater", but "Breathe" was the first of their albums that disappointed me. I'd bought everything since getting into the band in 1987/88.... Grunge and alt-rock was everywhere and the Oils stripped back their sound and, for me, lost a little bit of what made them special. The run from 10-1 to Earth and Sun and Moon was immense, but Breathe was the one where their standards slipped....
     
  20. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product Thread Starter

    yea, i understand that. for a lot of us Aussies it seemed like the Oils were mellowing from Red Sails on ... It could have been an age thing, or a commercial thing, but although the lyrics kept their intensity the music mellowed like an old botlle of wine.
     
  21. bob_32_116

    bob_32_116 Forum Flaneur

    Location:
    Perth Australia
    After being a bit disappointed in Earth & Sun & Moon I somewhat lost interest in Midnight Oil, and this "Breathe" album got some rather indifferent reviews so I never really gave it a good listen. As for the following two albums, I only heard the title song from Redneck Wonderland.
     
  22. bob_32_116

    bob_32_116 Forum Flaneur

    Location:
    Perth Australia
    Hmmm, I find that one quite boring. I prefer the song of the same name by Goanna.
     
  23. bob_32_116

    bob_32_116 Forum Flaneur

    Location:
    Perth Australia
    Now this is quite a good song. Problem is, I don't really think it suits Garrett. Perhaps I should say that Garrett and the song are not well suited for each other. He excels on the fast songs; he also does a good job on slow songs like Jimmy Sharman's Boxers or Arctic World, but on this song it sounds as though he is hanging back waiting for the music to catch up. When Garrett is going full steam ahead it can be gut-wrenching; when he is singing at a very measured pace he can sound a little awkward. Also the lyrics, while obviously sincere, are fairly simplistic.

    Overall I think the song would have been improved by speeding it up.
     
  24. SpudOz

    SpudOz Forum Resident

    I'd pull the run forward by an album and say from Place Without a Postcard to Blue Sky Mining.

    Since purchasing Breathe back in the day I doubt that I've played it more than half a dozen times. A MAJOR disappointment. I actually played it the other night in anticipation of it's appearance here and it wasn't as bad as I remember it but it was by no means memorable either. It seemed as though the Oils had gone soft and were running on remote control with non-offensive tracks that had none of the urgency or anger of their earlier releases in an effort to maintain their appeal with an international audience.
     
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