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Why Nirvana and Midnight Oil made the cut in Songs that Changed the World
In the new book Songs that Changed the World, author Andrew Clarke was aiming for a top 40,…
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Midnight Oil:
🎵 My Country
#MidnightOil
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♬ why wait for the planes to come? / when everybody's got us on the run / South Pacific, carry on / here come the Hercules / here come the submarines / sinking south pacific dreams ♬
#MidnightOil / #Hercules / #OzMusic / / #LiveMusic <https://youtube.com/watch?v=hih--64WkK0>
♬ now, contracts torn at the edges / old signatures stained with tears / seasons of war and grease / these should not be forgotten years ♬
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Peter Garrett on protest music, hope and Midnight Oil's legacy https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-20/peter-garrett-take-5-midnight-oil-zan-rowe-songs/107053812 #music #auspol #auslaw #MidnightOil #protest #activism
♬ In the desert in the dry / before the breaking of the rain / the temperature in the shade / had reached a hundred and ten again ♬
#MidnightOil / #Melbourne / #RMIT / 1987MAR07
Diesel and Dust
#midnightoil #dieselanddust #eightiesrock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #alternativerock #altrock Midnight Oil release their 6th on August 2, 1987. It's their international breakthrough album driven by the single "Beds Are Burning." The album's mentioned by many as one of the most influential in rock history. It's was inspired by the band's '86 tour across the remote outback settlements in Australia where they interacted with the indigenous…
Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning (2009)
Auteurs-compositeurs : James Moginie, Robert Hirst, Martin Rotsey, Peter Gifford, Peter Garrett.
Album: Diesel And Dust (1987)
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Outrageous. Heavy metal pollution. Two strikes and you’re still in the game without penalties. Something like that.
Where’s Midnight Oil when you need them? Because this scans like song lyrics:
“Get your gas for free, and pollute with impunity.”
(Fixed the typo: pollute)
#AusPol #mercury #pollution #heavyMetalPollution #MidnightOil #lyrics #song
Just listened to some old music and wondered what Midnight Oil where up to these days… #midnightoil #music
My Country
"Was it just a dream, were you so confused
Was it just a giant leap of logic
Was it the time of year, that makes a state of fear
Methods, were their motives for the action
And did I hear you say
My country right or wrong
My country right or wrong
My country right or wrong
Did you save your face
Did you breach your faith
Women, there were children at the shelter
Now who can stop the hail
When human senses fail
There was never any warning, no escape
And did I hear you say
My country right or wrong
My country oh so strong
My country right or wrong
My country right or wrong
My country going wrong
My country right or wrong
I hear you say the truth must take a beating
The flag a camouflage for your deceiving
Cause I know, (I know) I know, it's written on your soul
I know we all make mistakes
This is not a case of blurred vision, it's a case of black holes, pocket
Holes, soul holes
And did I hear you say
My country right or wrong
My country oh so strong
My country right or wrong
My country right or wrong
My country going wrong
My country right or wrong
My country, my country, my country"
- #MidnightOil, 1993
Here's Midnight Oil live in 2018 performing "Power and Passion"
"People, wasting away in paradise
Going backward, once in a while
Taking your time, give it a try
What do you believe, what do you believe
What do you believe is true"
"It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees"
Some are calling for a review of Australia's AUKUS submarine pact due to costs and other concerns, but strategic realities make the agreement too important for the nation to abandon. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/06/11/world/hard-scrutiny-of-aukus/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #midnightoil #petergarrett #aukus #australia #uk #us #submarines #defense
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Listening to this, I had "US Forces" playing in my head. #midnightoil
Peter Garrett is so much better free of party handcuffs. Onya!
Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning (Live Ellis Park - South Africa 1994)
Auteurs-compositeurs : James Moginie, Robert Hirst, Martin Rotsey, Peter Gifford, Peter Garrett.
Album: Diesel And Dust (1987)
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Song: Mountains of Burma
Artist: #MidnightOil
Album: Blue sky mining
Year: 1989
Genre: #Slow
"Will the sons of Solidarity, still march on May Day
And will the sisters of the seventies, still fight for equal pay
There's no on eon the Reeperbahn, no more blankets handed out for land
We feed an economy, that's got blood on it's hands"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px3nIlvA0HU
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Back to something vaguely sane, and an Old Simon Mayo Record of the Week.
"Beds are burning" - Midnight Oil
The singer is in the outback, wears a big hat to keep the sun off; the rest of the band are performing in the back of a jeep while it's driving at a frightning pace. The song pulls no punches in its pursuit of justice for the Aboriginal people.
Lead singer Peter Garrett would become an MP and cabinet minister down under.
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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
And when this stuff gets in
YOU CANNOT GET IT OUT
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Midnight Oil:
🎵 Earth and Sun and Moon
#MidnightOil
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Earth And Sun And Moon
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Midnight Oil:
🎵 Earth and Sun and Moon
'In late January Rob Hirst from Midnight Oil died. He was a friend to many of us. Great songwriter, awesome drummer and one of life’s true gentleman. To honour him we decided to put Midnight Oil’s Dead Heart in our set for a while with Jess Hitchcock taking the lead vocal.' Paul Kelly has put up a live Werribee performance of Dead Heart on his YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr0PQRPXw1w #PaulKelly #RobHirst #DeadHeart #MidnightOil
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The Sydney Morning Herald 19 January 1985
@Crystal_Fish_Caves The original 'trickle-down' economics debunked in 4 minutes. The wealth gets mined, and the community is left with the poison. #midnightoil
Rob Hirst
1955 – 2026
R.I.P.
#WelcomeToRockNRollCity
#RIP
#MidnightOil #drums
Cathy Freeman leads Australia Day honours alongside enforcer of world-first social media ban https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/25/australia-day-honours-2026-cathy-freeman-social-media-ban-rob-hirst-midnight-oil #AustraliaDay #HonoursSystem #IndigenousAustralians #CathyFreeman #SocialMediaBan #MidnightOil #AnnastaciaPalaszczuk #KristinaKeneally #MathiasCormann #AustraliaNews
