Artist: Midnight Oil
Genre(s):
ROck: Alternative
Alternative
Pop: Pop-Rock
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
Flat Chat
Year: 2006
Tracks: 18
Redneck Wonderland
Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
Earth and Sun and Moon
Year: 1993
Tracks: 11
Scream In Blue - Live (Selected Tracks)
Year: 1992
Tracks: 2
Blue Sky Mining
Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
Diesel and Dust
Year: 1987
Tracks: 11
Red Sails In The Sunset
Year: 1984
Tracks: 12
Place Without A Postcard
Year: 1981
Tracks: 11
Bird Noises
Year: 1980
Tracks: 4
Head Injuries
Year: 1979
Tracks: 9
Midnight Oil
Year: 1978
Tracks: 7
Australia's Midnight Oil brought a new sentiency of political and social immediateness to pop music: non only did instigative hits like "Beds Are Burning" and "Blue Sky Mine" bring planetary tending to the plight of, severally, aboriginal settlers and impoverished workers, but the radical as well place its money where its mouth was -- in addition to mounting benefit performances for groups like Greenpeace and Save the Whales, frontman Peter Garrett regular ran for the Australian Senate on the Nuclear Disarmament Party ticket.
The band formed in Sydney in 1971 as Farm, and originally comprised guitarists Jim Moginie and Martin Rotsey, drummer Rob Hirst and bassist Andrew "Endure" James; Garrett, a law of nature pupil known for his seven-foot-tall stature and shaved head, pretended vocal duties in 1975, and the radical before long rechristened itself Midnight Oil. After months of sporadic gigs, they began fashioning the rounds to area record companies; undermentioned a string of rejections, the chemical group formed its have label, Powderworks, and issued their self-titled debut -- a taut, fervent assembling of guitar tilt which quick established the Midnight Oil sound -- in 1978.
After declaring their independence from the music industry, the Oils grew progressively active and plainspoken in the political domain; later on acting in resistance to u excavation, they supported the Tibet Council in front turn their attentions to the unjust practices of the local music manufacture, and formed their possess engagement agency in response to the monopoly exerted by area agents and promoters. With their 1979 soph effort Head Injuries, the banding scored their first hit single, "Cold Cold Change," and earned a gold record. James left the band the following class due to wellness problems; with new bassist Peter Gifford, they cut the EP Bird Noises, some other chart succeeder.
With 1981's Place Without a Postcard (recorded with manufacturer Glyn Johns), Midnight Oil achieved pt status on the strength of the smash "Cease-fire Day," which won the group an American deal with Columbia Records. Their followup, 1983's 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, exhausted over deuce years in the Australian Top 40; after 1984's Red Sails in the Sunset, Garrett made his work at Senate, losing by only a narrow margin. Participation in the Artists United Against Apartheid cast followed, prima directly into Midnight Oil's increased interest in the battles of Australia's aboriginal settlers and a tour, dubbed "Black Fella White Fella," with the aborigine group the Warumpi Band.
The aborigines' troth came to the prow on 1987's Diesel and Dust, the Oils' breakthrough record book; sparked by the hit single "Beds Are Burning," the album reached the U.S. Top 20 and made the band a menage commodity. After bassist Dwayne "Castanets" Hillman (ex-Swingers) replaced Gifford, Midnight Oil returned with 1990's Blue Sky Mining, which they followed with a concert outside of the Exxon corporation's Manhattan offices in protestation the company's handling of the Alaskan oil color slop. (A film of the operation highborn Blackened Rain Falls was later released, with net profit loss to Greenpeace.) The album World and Sun and Moon appeared in 1993, followed three years later by Breathe. Midnight Oil next resurfaced in 1998 with Redneck Wonderland. The Real Thing, only available in Australia, followed in 2001. It was a solid accumulation of new songs and live tracks from Midnight Oil's glorious work at the Metro Theatre in Sydney. Capricornia, issued on Liquid 8 in springiness 2002, marked the band's fourteenth album of their vocation. In December, Peter Garrett announced his split from the isthmus after 25 years. Garrett, world Health Organization left wing Midnight Oil on safe terms, wished to pursue other challenges.
