09-08-2016, 08:47
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MIDNIGHT OIL "10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1" cd/vinyl 1982
career stats:
studio albums..................11
singles............................39
this album................#3 AU...#5 NZ...#178 US
singles:
"power and the passion".....#8 AU
"read about it"..................no chart action
"US forces"......................#20 AU
album #4 for 'the oils'....
each album of theirs has a theme running through it like a concept album...
this one's theme is nuclear disarmament...
at the time Garrett was part of a minor political group here called "nuclear disarmament party",
they used to have a thing about dumping of nuclear waste in Australia and didn't want American warships
docking at our ports if they contained nuclear missiles...
im sure bob_32 would remember them, and im pretty sure one or two members were actually elected to
our Federal Parliament in the early/mid 1980s...
back to the music...
I have one huge problem with these guys, and its the same problem I have with another Australian act
in INXS....and that is, I tend to either love or loathe their tracks from some reason and this one is no different...
he really does put 'power and passion' into his delivery of songs (pardon the pun), and when he does, even if you don't agree
with him politically, you do believe him whilst he's singing the songs....
as a matter of interest lead vocalist Peter Garrett has just released his first solo album, I posted the single off it on the forum a few
weeks ago...
he is also in the process of writing his autobiography which im sure will include parts from his decade in Federal politics here which
came to an end at the last ederal election a couple of months ago...
Midnight Oil are also reforming at the end of this year to possibly record their twelfth album and embark on a national tour...
I LIKE THIS ALBUM
worst track: outside world
best track: US forces
[video=youtube;SAFv2NEE-_c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAFv2NEE-_c[/video]
tracks:
1...outside world *
2...only the strong *
3...short memory ***
4...read about it ***
5...scream in blue *
6...U.S forces ***
7...power and the passion ***
8...Maralinga *
9...tin legs and tin mines **
10.somebody's trying to tell me something *
3s=4
2s=0
1s=6
rating: 1.8
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.