Got to admit, until the last year, the only song I ever played by Midnight Oil was "Beds Are Burning", but the more I listen to their albums, the more I like them. VERY underrated band.
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 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 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 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
It took me a little while to warm to this band when they started, and I would say I appreciate them more now than I did at the time. I consider their "Golden Four" to be 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 Red Sails in the Sunset Diesel and Dust Blue Sky Mining Of those four I used to think D&D was the best, but now I find it hard to pick a winner. All of them have really great moments. I do think Red Sails is the weakest of the four: on the other hand it contains some of their most intriguing songs, such as Jimmy Sharman's Boxers and Bells and Horns In the Back of Beyond.
Yea, mine has TML X and TML M2. you should see if you can get the new reissue - I think you will be more than pleasantly surprised. cheers
Waiting patiently for the big albums. I will say in the meantime that I saw some clips of Midnight Oil's recent tour, and this is a band that has lost nothing to time.
Basement flat A pretty solid song. Lyrics Must be time for a second chance I can't escape this basement flat Writers cramp and claustrophobia Must be time for a better place My sink leaks and the rats have won the race Over and over What, can I do There must be some solution Must be time for a new idea Pack up my things and get away from here They're never gonna trace me People upstairs make so much noise Drive me mad with their electrical toys Louder and louder
Written in the Heart One of my favourite tracks from this album. Lyrics The God forsaken rifleman stands rigid at the bar The kids discover victims in the rubble and the tar They're married to ambition to the slogans of the war Slogans that used to be scrawled on the wall Are written in the heart A woman bows to Mecca and she struggles to her feet It's better since the president took shooting off the street She pictures all the poverty the cursed Holy War The pictures that used to be scrawled on the wall Are written in the heart The elders make a promise and they forge it in the fire The general's car is sabotaged, four bullets in the tire With the burning of the words there goes the scorching of the earth The words that used to be scrawled on the wall Are written in the heart
Brave faces live in 1982 from the great dvd live at the capitol saturday night. the dvd comes with the live at the capitol show and the oils on water show and is a great live document.
Burnie Starting off very sparse, the band end up kicking in and this song moves through its paces. Lyrics Brought up in a world of changes Part time cleaner in a holiday flat Stare out to sea at the ships at night No anaesthesia, I'm gonna work on it day to day No zephyr no light relief it seems But maybe it's a dream I'm lying back in a row of timber cases placed out On the dock with nightmare faces looking at me And I can see now, and I wanna be free now This is my home This is my sea Don't paint it with the future, of factories I want to stay, I feel okay There's nothing else as perfect I'll have my way Brought up in a world of changes Waste product, pedestrian, limb from limb Short changed by the surfing priest again Two children in the harbour They play their game stormwater drain Write their contract in the sand, it'll be gray for life But you can draw the blind But you can't stop the sun From shining on and on and getting you there Tide forever beckons you to leave But something holds you back It's not the promise of the swell or a girl Just a hope that someday someway it'll be okay So you stop and say This is my home This is my sea Don't paint it with the future of factories This is my life this is my right I'll make it what I want to I'll stay and I'll fight
Quinella Holiday A song that's based around the idea of a gambler wanting the quinella to come in so he can win the money and escape. Not sure if it is the same in the U.S. but the Quinella is when you select first and second place in a horse race ... I'm not a horse race guy lol Lyrics The bar was crowded in the arvo din And the voices got higher and higher For the man at the back with the tickets in his hat He would have to do more than aspire to A place with some light on the sand near a beach A place near some green running water Place on the hill with a view of the sea And the cooking was done by his daughter If the quinella comes in today The day is late and the race is run A full weeks wages and the lots been done 'Cos the meeting is over and the crowd has thinned In the game of chance the dice has rolled it's spin Another long week, lady luck makes it plain His dreams and his hopes are dashed in vain In the final shout as they call his name His tickets lie like scattered leaves out on that asphalt plain Looking around for the moment that's right Lottery life well the numbers are tight As they try one more pull on the handle too late He thinks of what could be it sticks in his throat If the quinella...
Loves on sale Lyrics Haul me up I'm waiting Oh yeah yes I'm waiting Waiting now they say for shopping day I'll pretend that I'm a rich man And I'll carry it away Oh yeah it sounds real nice If you got money, then it's a steal Give me a dollar, I'll give you a deal Everybody says that love's on special and sale And everything you've ever wanted you've got to pay for It seems so easy and gettable, yes it's real If you've got money, it's such a steal Everybody says that love is the number one But everytime you try to get some, you've gotta buy it It's all so special, accessible, pretty and nice It's oh so wonderful, at a price You can rent a life today Why worry about the real thing Pay up now and plug in quick It's easy to co-ordinate Just credit card the right idea Why wait around and contemplate The hidden cost of what you've got It's better not to
If Ned Kelly was King Ned Kelly was a famous Australian Bushranger. I guess the U.S. equivalent would be Jesse James. Lyrics Hollow threats and a great adventure So much business, towns in the dirt Company cars and efficient Americans Three black boys sit in the corner White woman waiting to talk Lots of intention but no understanding If Ned Kelly was king He'd make those robbers swing He'd send them down Out in the dead heart, tourists and cameras Four wheel drives wreck, snapshots and slides Follow the brochures but nothings inside Heavy machinery loud in the outback Dreamtime developers they make all the sound Where will we be when they leave us a quarry? If Ned Kelly was king He'd make those robbers swing He'd send them down there He'd make them stay And we can hope If Ned Kelly... If the quinella comes in today
Lucky Country Lyrics Speed, and this There's a feeling I get when I look to the sun Love, it's so tough Cause it raises your hopes and then it makes you run We're all looking for a shorter day We're all looking for an easy way Even when the debts are dead and gone Down, the stairs And an eight mile drive waits for you to turn on Hear, the time clocks sing And the smoke in the distance reaches the eye line We're all working on a shorter day... No conversation as you go There's so much space the heat moves you Terracotta homes, backyard barbeque and eucalyptus smell It's fine on the clothes line It's fast food and slow life and red roof My silence, comic interruptions Surely there's some relief from atomic art And the fragile state of world events With clowns who love the kings and power and the mutant media babes Wanking on dreams and fashions and toilet paper flowers Don't talk to me in this backyard - it's clandestine, it's nuclear Smell of space and now forever I wanna go Straight down the exit eight mile attraction U-turn is up and the time clock sings lets go Lucky country Where the geckos are paid to live in the sun On and on there's a ribbon of road and a mile to spare Lucky country Lucky country
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 - 1982 Studio album by Midnight Oil Released November 1982 Recorded September 1982 Studio The Town House, London Genre Rock, new wave, post-punk Length 45:55 Label Sprint Music / Columbia Producer Nick Launay & Midnight Oil 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 is the fourth album by Midnight Oil that was released on vinyl in 1982 under the Columbia Records label. It peaked at No. 3 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart and remained on the chart for 171 weeks.[1] In October 2010, the album was listed in the top 30 in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums with 1987's Diesel and Dust at No. 1.[2] In July 2011, the album was listed in Triple J Hottest 100 Australian Albums of All Time, 2011 at number 21. This is such a fantastic album! To me, this is the jewel in the crown of all Midnight Oil albums. It contains the most thoughtful lyrics, the best music, the best production, without being a studio fest ... It is just one of those special albums that comes out that everyone should own. Even if you haven't liked one thing that we have posted on this thread so far, please give this album a listen, for your benefit, not mine. -------------------------- Here is a pretty good description of the album in context - "The album was recorded in September 82 at London’s Townhouse Studios with a ridiculously young Nick Launay at the helm on production duties. At just 21 it was one of the first albums Launay produced and as a relatively unknown quantity it says a lot about Midnight Oil’s willingness to take risks and dive into unknown waters at this crucial point in their career. The band discarded their previous methodology of trying to capture their intoxicating live sound on record in favour of integrating new digital technologies and industrial sounds into their hard rock sound. Where previous albums had thundered with propulsive energy and aggression 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 throbbed and pulsated with funky bass lines and electronic beats. In this experimental electric soup guitars cracked with menacing distortion on tracks like Scream In Blue while Rob Hirst’s drumming took on a new percussive precision among those electro beats. The result was a heady, exciting and totally new sound not only for Midnight Oil, but rock music." ------------------------- Midnight Oil with Nick Launay at the helm managed to produce one of the most cohesive, compelling and original albums of the eighties. It is amazing in reality that this album didn't just sink beneath the waves, as it is not really like much before it. You can hear influences here and there, but it is an entity unto itself and stands stark in the midst of the Oils discography. Before it we have a band trying desperately to capture their much talked about live sound, and essentially failing and after it we have a band creating essentially more mainstream, virtual pop music and having huge success, but right here at this point we have a cutting edge rock album that makes their existence an absolute necessity. I'm going to start going through the songs tomorrow, but I have been itching to get to this album ...........
IMHO, best Australian album ever. All killer, no filler and the album where everything finally came together both song wise and production wise. For me, this album is the pinnacle of Midnight Oil's discography. They would achieve greater international success with subsequent albums but nothing holds a candle to this in terms of its statement of intent. The fact that it remained on the Australian charts for nearly three years with only a solitary song making the Top 10 as a single showed what a tour de force it was as a complete album. How it was only rated as the 23rd best Australian ever on this list fails to account for the impact that this album has garnered over time. I envy those in Chicago last year who witnessed this album played live in full. Enough said!!
