It's not one of my favorites from the album, but it has grown on me. Especially after I realized that I wasn't paying enough attention to the lyrics and had misinterpreted what was meant with the chorus lyrics. Still, musically it's not as good as the best songs on Redneck Wonderland.
What Goes On Another heavily effected song. I keep coming back to the same conclusion with this album. The band were looking for a return to the experimental nature of 10-1, but there experiments are more involved with technology and production than song structure. Another decent song, and there is definitely a return to a more hard edged rock, but that rock in buried beneath a barrage of synthetic sounds, which isn't in itself a bad thing, it is just so much of it that it seems to drown the songs it is trying to enhance.
Drop in the Ocean Predominantly a piano and Garrett's forced whisper vocal. This is a song that pulls back from the heavily synthesized and produced songs that make up the bulk of the songs here. It works reasonably well.
I don't know what they were doing with the microphones during the recording of this album, but on many of the songs it does not even sound recognisably like Garrett's voice. Strange.
A lot of songs seem to have some extremely close mic'd, quiet vocals, and that often gives the voice a different sounding timbre
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 track 9 In the valley Midnight Oil - the album thread track 10 Tell me the truth Midnight Oil - the album thread track 11 Now or never land Midnight Oil - the album thread Live on MUCH MUSIC Toronto Canada 1993 - Midnight Oil - the album thread Breathe 1996 - Midnight Oil - the album thread track 1 Underwater Midnight Oil - the album thread track 2 Surf's up tonight Midnight Oil - the album thread track 3 Common ground Midnight Oil - the album thread track 4 Time to heal Midnight Oil - the album thread track 5 Sins of omission Midnight Oil - the album thread track 6 One too many times Midnight Oil - the album thread track 7 Star of hope Midnight Oil - the album thread track 8 In The Rain Midnight Oil - the album thread track 9 Bring on the change Midnight Oil - the album thread track 10 Home (featuring Emmylou Harris) Midnight Oil - the album thread track 11 E-beat Midnight Oil - the album thread track 12 Barest Degree Midnight Oil - the album thread track 13 Gravelrash Midnight Oil - the album thread Redneck Wonderland 1998 - Midnight Oil - the album thread track 1 Redneck Wonderland Midnight Oil - the album thread redneck wonderland live Midnight Oil - the album thread redneck wonderland and concrete live Midnight Oil - the album thread track 2 Concrete Midnight Oil - the album thread track 3 Cemetary In My Mind Midnight Oil - the album thread track 4 Comfortable Place On the Couch Midnight Oil - the album thread track 5 Safety Chain Blues Midnight Oil - the album thread track 6 Return To Sender Midnight Oil - the album thread track 7 Blot Midnight Oil - the album thread track 8 The Great Gibber Plain Midnight Oil - the album thread track 9 Seeing Is Believing Midnight Oil - the album thread track 10 White Skin Black Heart Midnight Oil - the album thread track 11 What Goes On Midnight Oil - the album thread What goes On Live Midnight Oil - the album thread track 12 Drop In The Ocean 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
Capricornia Studio album by Midnight Oil Released 19 February 2002 Recorded 2000–2001 Sydney Genre Rock Length 41:17 (Australian version), 45:49 (US version) Label Sprint Music / Sony (Australia) / Liquid8 (International) Producer Warne Livesey Capricornia is an album by Midnight Oil that was released in 2002 under the Sony Music label in Australia, and the Liquid 8 record label internationally. Capricornia is the band's last studio album to date. On the two previous albums Breathe (1996) and Redneck Wonderland (1998), all tracks were credited “Midnight Oil”; on Capricornia the band returns to crediting individual contributors for each track, with Moginie dominating the list as is seen on most of their records. After the hard rock/industrial electronic sounds of the previous album Redneck Wonderland, on this record Midnight Oil moved to a stripped back sound, with acoustic and clean electric guitars dominating the sound of the album (Golden Age, Luritja Way, Under the Overpass), although some tracks (Too Much Sunshine, Mosquito March, Poets and Slaves) feature significant distorted guitars. These latter tracks also feature distorted vocals. The album also features a short piano solo track (A Crocodile Cries) in the middle of the record, the melody of which is reprised for the album closing Poets and Slaves. The album was produced, mixed and arranged by Warne Livesey, who also worked on Midnight Oil's seminal Diesel and Dust and Blue Sky Mining records. The bonus track Say Your Prayers, which appears on US versions of the album and was one of the four new tracks on The Real Thing, was produced by the band and Daniel Denholm. The name and concept of Capricornia was taken from the novel of the same name written by the Australian author Xavier Herbert. The name Capricornia refers to part of the Queensland coast and inland region around Rockhampton, which is close to the Tropic of Capricorn. The album was issued in a digipak case, first released in 2001; the U.S. release date was 19 February 2002.[2] By this time, the band had already begun playing a few gigs in America. A callout label on the original US version sealed album correctly but somewhat confusingly states there are 11 new tracks (there are 12 tracks in all but only 11 were new; Say Your Prayers was issued on The Real Thing not very long before) and also states that the album contains "Golden Age" and "Too Much Sunshine," the initial singles. "Mosquito March," the third single, was not released at the time. Another single, Luritja Way, was issued at a later date. (picture of sealed CD) A DTS version was released in 2002, still before the last two singles for the album. The European edition contained two bonus tracks, a cover of "Pub with no beer" and "Kiss that Girl". The latter is the last all-new song the band released. To date, the European version of Capricornia remains the only official release to contain this song. _______________________________________________________________ The last album in the Midnight Oil catalog is one I do not have and have not heard at all. So if you are familiar with it, please poke your head in and give us a run down of what we have here. Cheers
I am still trying to get my head around Midnight Oil doing a song called "Kiss That Girl". This is the same bad that was noted for avoiding the time-honoured rock themes of falling in and out of love, preferring to sing about nuclear proliferation, environmental vandalism and the rights of indigenous Australians?
Golden Age This is a great track. Starting with a guitar riff that has a sound like the Byrds, we have a song that sounds more in line with the Midnight Oil everyone is used to. A nice opening to a dairly ignored album ... it seems.
Too Much Sunshine We move into something a little more rocky for the second track. It's a good song, it doesn't make me excited or draw me in the way past Oil's songs did, but it is certainly not a bad track.
I believe that by the time of this album's release quite a lot of people had tuned out, having got turned off by the previous two albums. That's a shame, because my impression is that this album is quite a lot closer in style to the ones that are considered their "claassic" albums, especially D&D and BSM.
Luritja Way This song also has a semi country pop sound and seems to reflect the Dead Heart a little.
I think Capricornia is a return to form after The Oils lost the plot with Breathe and Redneck Wonderland. Those albums always felt to me like they were following trends instead of blazing their own trail as usual. Not to say that Capricornia ranks up there with their best, but it certainly was a breath of fresh air at the time.
Listening to the tracks you’ve posted from Capricornia I’m realizing that I never gave this album a good listen. I’ve had it on CD for years but I’m thinking life got a little busy for me in the early 2000s and I put it off, along with a lot of other albums. I need to pull this one out and keep it in the player for a bit. Thanks for running through the Midnight Oil catalogue Mark. It moved a little too fast for me to contribute but I’ve enjoyed dropping in and reading the posts.
Glad you're enjoying it. It's never too late to contribute mate. To me any album thread i do is about getting the songs and albums up for people to check out. Hopefully people unfamiliar will try some stuff out. Also hopefully the fans at anytime will give us their heart on anything here
Capricornia is a bit of a "return to form" as others have said. It's definitely superior to Breathe and quite possibly Redneck Wonderland, too. The European version is definitely best too. Two more songs, and no repeat of the already released Say Your Prayers (a bizarre thing to do, putting that on the US version). So yeah, a very good album, better than the previous two, but not matching the glorious run of albums before that.
Tone Poem A moderate tempo song with a back and forth chord pattern, sets a nice groove, with some highlighted lead work from the guitar. A good song that works well.
A Crocodile Cries This is a nice piece of Piano with some nature sound effects floating through it, essentially working as a ling track or a distraction.
Mosquito March This track starts off sounding somewhat like a sixties surf rock tune. Not a bad song.
Been Away Too Long Opening with a nice chord pattern and bursting into a pretty good chorus this is a pretty decent track.
Surf rock indeed. These two tracks sound quite a lot more like the band who recorded Wedding Cake Island.
Under The Overpass A nice earthy old sounding acoustic guitar starts this off, then after the first round we move into more typical Oils instrumentation. This is a pretty decent song and I am finding this album to be better than expected, but still not in the league of the 10-1 diesel and dust era.
World That I See Again a gentle start that begins to pulse somewhat. Then we move into a more typical Oils sound. I kind of feel the Oils weren't really sure where to go at this time. They had tried to step into the new age on Redneck Wonderland, with mixed results. Here we seem to have the band reverting to somewhat of a Blue Sky Mining feel, but without the sort of resolve they had back then.
