Even if Garrett may or may not have lived up to the ideals of people now calling him a "sell out" - I hope he has also empowered you to take a stand in a life of meaning and purpose. If you're going to call him a sell out please take a stand of your own in a life that truly makes a positive difference. As a teacher myself, I know that I hope a number of my students will live lives of purpose that may make a positive difference beyond my own. It's a passing of the torch. Your turn now.
VOTE, for chrrsakess!! !0 makes a diff!! ;) ;0 'muhhh, but they cancellin' =muy= vote...' ;0 NO, YOU are =CANCELLING= =THEIR= VOTE!!! ;0 - p.s. you know what's sad? "heroes" in this world are politicians. face the facts... tho once in a very great while (every four/five years or so... a lotta USA military politics can play into this.. ;) ... fact is, normal everyday politics is BORING. BOLUS. PAPERWORK. BUT... they're the ones running things, making the rules... THE LAWS. yes, they are - even if you don't want to call them such - "heroes." 'cuz, there's no one bigger than they are, right? making the laws... doing the boring paperwork? ;0 -SO! you know what =they= wish they had, in their lives, more than "veneration" or "accolades" or whatever?? =OTHER BRAVE PEOPLE STANDING ALONGSIDE THEM,= and PEOPLE LIVING AND VOTING ANY AND EVERY TIME THEY CAN!!! meanwhiles... ;0 you can have the nice, sane, "no-paperwork-except-for-f'king-TAXES" life you have!! :0 sorry folks... deny it while you can, but it's the sad, sorrowful, end-of-the-day FACTS!!!!!!!
@@soulminer If I am in the mood for some specific songs (Don't wanna be the one, Generals for example) they're better than this one - but no matter the time of day, your mood, whatever this is definitely one of their best 2 songs ever and if I see it I'll listen.
It's what happening in Australia in 2023 aftermath of the Liberals in Power for the last 12 years under the Leadership of John Howard and Scott Morrison and Mass Immigration
10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 is such a relevant and urgent album today in 2022 Peter Garrett delivers some of his best vocal performances on this timeless album that is still so relevant album almost 40 years later
It's still relevant because the system hasn't changed at all; it's only gotten more complex to stop anything harming it. People are naïve to believe the Western world has really changed at all in even 70 YEARS
Greatest road trip soundtrack band ever. Seriously great driving music. Peter Garret sweated on me at a concert. Front row - you could see the sweat coming down off his head and down his arms like a sheet and then he would do that jerky dancy thing with his arms and - woosh - you couldn't avoid it! Now that's a concert experience! Amazing live. Still love 'em.
The 7/4 opening riff going into the 4/4 verse a good decade before odd time, rhythmic and dynamic contrast became so popular with grunge bands. SO good. The whole album an absolute masterpiece.
Their success in the US had a big effect on Australian we know how hard it is to impress you guys after all you did invent rock and roll and it made us all so proud, and I tell you we needed it we had the British disease still in our heads and I don't need to explain that to you.
I need more cowbell. Grunge sound before Grunge existed. This incredibly talented band's message, music was ahead of their time and still very relevant today.
One of the best live bands I've been lucky to have seen. They opened a show on the Sunshine Coast with this gem. When the song paused the audience politely clapped, some thinking that was the end of their introduction song. Then, the song restarted. The whole crowd were totally engaged. One of the best moments in my concert experiences.
My memory was the Caringbah Inn in the middle 80s the shame is that it is just as relevant today as when it was written only the situation and actors have changed it breaks my heart to think we have come such a small distance in such a long time on such an important topic
There is no real Australian Culture now. Globalisation, Mass Immigration of very different people and Ultra PC has done a real job on it. Think about it - when this song came out Australia only had a population around 15 million yet was punching well above its weight in music and movies on a global scale. Now we have nearly double that population and barely make any cultural impact at all.
@@Somerandomdrummer8 I,ve basically gone from the left to the Centre - sorry I cant unsee what the authoritarian left have done to the western world. Are you really happy with the way Britain is going? My background is working class Manchester and emigrated to Oz around 10 years of age. Stand by what I said - Australia used to have an awesome popular culture. For its population - probably the strongest in the world. Now its completely vapid. The far left have basically deemed anything modern australian as being shameful and totally beyond redemption. They are hell-bent on shutting down Australia Day yet make a big fuss of Chinese New Year?! If some of your own populace truly think your own country is morally inferior to the Chinese then I dont think your culture will produce anything significant going forward.
I first seen this video on a music channel in Australia when I was there a little over four years ago. I wasn't familiar with their older songs because "Diesel and Dust" was their first album released here in the U.S..
When I was 13, 14 or15 I used to hear these early Midnight Oil songs on an LA based station KROQ back in 82-83 85. It was a "New Wave"station. Way before "Diesel and Dust"
D7~Asus4 The ceiling is spinning D7~Asus4 you need a moment alone D7~Asus4 she's leaning over the table F# D7^^ and won't stop talking Bb goes on and on and on
I think this song has some of the cleverest lyrics "Hammer and the sickle, the news is at a trickle The commissars are fickle but the stockpile grows Bombers keep acoming, engines softly humming The stars and stripes are running for their own big show Another little flare up, storm brewed in a tea cup Imagine any mix up and the lot would go" That's absofuckinglutely brilliant!
This was my introduction to Midnight Oil, late at night at a college station in Pittsburgh. I had to buy the album based solely on this and loved the whole album
Andrew Fishman I’d say that’s because modern music is selfish and the themes are either narcissistic or self-pitying. There’s nothing of the wider world outside of one perspective. It’s all “the world looks terrible because I’m sad” or “I’m heartbroken and edgy because I broke up” or “we so cool because we party”. It’s enough to make your ears bleed
Once of the best bands ever to come out of Australia....especially one with something to say. !! Yes he may have 'sold out" but his intentions were good......if you don't take the party line you are shoved out anyway. !!! Peter and rest of band members have something to say and have been saying it for 40 years. Now that is persistence. !!!! Well done.
Precisely the right quantity of cowbell. One of the Oils' greatest songs. 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 was a monster album. It's still my favourite album by any Australian band. They also won my heart with Species Deceases, that's my favourite EP by any band ever.
"Another little flare up, storm brewed in a tea cup Imagine any mix up and the lot would go" Maybe my favorite set of lyrics from the Oils. Outstanding.
@@robertfulton5569 Nope, they were🔥🔥🔥 . Myself, I had mainly gone because of Midnight Oil and the girls (I was in high school at the time and the preppies loved them some UB40) but many a Midnight Oil fan was made that night, Good Lord!!! UB40, like'em or not were in their prime so....
OMG, I first heard this in about '83. This track is so amazing. Great melody, great breaks & changes and awesome political content! I'm here because I heard MO are getting back together and let me just say, the world needs them at this moment!!!!
I wish they were visiting Florida! Most not all Floridians have a passsion for the environment! I loved the Oil thru out the years and their one of my Favorite bands of all time!
It's a shame how far Peter Garret, a man who really knew how to work a crowd, has fallen, he is but a shadow of his former self - I remember how after a Midnight Oil concert if had shouted "The revolution begins now" the audience would have poured out onto the street and it would have happened. To see him on TV now, he is but a shadow of his former self. So sad.
Way ahead of their time... great music with a meaning. I saw them in Chicago in 2000 (I think) at the House of blues.. what a raw energenic show!!! READ ABOUT IT!!!
Nah, not their best. Many better. IMHO. Power and the Passion US Forces Hercules Blossom and Blood Armistace Day Jimmy Sharman's Boxers Best of Both Worlds Kosciusko
For me it was US Forces. Bought 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 with saved up pocket money as a kid a few months later. As you say, there's no turning back. You can grow up but having grown up you can't grow back down again.
This follow up to “Power and the Passion” on MTV was a hit or miss. I didn’t see or “Read About It” because it received light rotation for a month. However, I’m starting to like this song and would like to add to my music collection. Don’t be surprised if I play this song alongside a 2024 hot song called “ Hot Night” by Durante and HANA. The songs definitely have nothing to do with each other lol
Essa banda me remete a lembrança dos melhores tempos de minha vida. Final dos anos 80, no tempo em que surfista não ouvia o som do carro com volume estourando ( se chamava “Magal” na época), não curtia funk, pagode e muito menos musica sertaneja. Bons amigos, cachaça e mulherada, tempos inesqueciveis.
It’s scary that their songs are still just as relevant today…
What's even scarier is that certain things have been made so 'relevant' in Australia of late, and they should never be!
‘The rich get richer the poor get the picture’
What a lyric right there.
Hear hear
the bombs never hit ya when yer down so low...
Even if Garrett may or may not have lived up to the ideals of people now calling him a "sell out" - I hope he has also empowered you to take a stand in a life of meaning and purpose. If you're going to call him a sell out please take a stand of your own in a life that truly makes a positive difference. As a teacher myself, I know that I hope a number of my students will live lives of purpose that may make a positive difference beyond my own. It's a passing of the torch. Your turn now.
Politics is a machine, any position below the on/off/yes/no switch is just another cog, among hundreds that aren't matched.
Yep. Great music. saw this concert when I was 16, 10-1. But, Soz. He's a sell out . Fact. He took a stand then sold out. Sad.
VOTE, for chrrsakess!! !0 makes a diff!! ;)
;0 'muhhh, but they cancellin' =muy= vote...' ;0 NO, YOU are =CANCELLING= =THEIR= VOTE!!! ;0
- p.s. you know what's sad? "heroes" in this world are politicians. face the facts... tho once in a very great while (every four/five years or so... a lotta USA military politics can play into this.. ;) ... fact is, normal everyday politics is BORING. BOLUS. PAPERWORK. BUT...
they're the ones running things, making the rules... THE LAWS. yes, they are - even if you don't want to call them such - "heroes." 'cuz, there's no one bigger than they are, right? making the laws... doing the boring paperwork? ;0
-SO! you know what =they= wish they had, in their lives, more than "veneration" or "accolades" or whatever?? =OTHER BRAVE PEOPLE STANDING ALONGSIDE THEM,= and PEOPLE LIVING AND VOTING ANY AND EVERY TIME THEY CAN!!!
meanwhiles... ;0 you can have the nice, sane, "no-paperwork-except-for-f'king-TAXES" life you have!! :0 sorry folks... deny it while you can, but it's the sad, sorrowful, end-of-the-day FACTS!!!!!!!
easy for you to say...your a cat!
so I think he is a sell-out would I go out and abuse him fuck no
One of the best songs ever.
It's awesome ay
Certainly the best track they ever recorded
@@soulminer If I am in the mood for some specific songs (Don't wanna be the one, Generals for example) they're better than this one - but no matter the time of day, your mood, whatever this is definitely one of their best 2 songs ever and if I see it I'll listen.
& how of vintage classic pop-culture
The hammer and the sickle the news is at a trickle...
This song is still as relevant today as it was back in the 1980's. I feel so lucky to have seen Midnight Oil quite a few times back then.....:)
Yer I did too back at Selena’s,Coogee bay hotel
Dude, all of their songs are relevant for today. Nothing's changed, nor will it.
It's what happening in Australia in 2023 aftermath of the Liberals in Power for the last 12 years under the Leadership of John Howard and Scott Morrison and Mass Immigration
10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 is such a relevant and urgent album today in 2022 Peter Garrett delivers some of his best vocal performances on this timeless album that is still so relevant album almost 40 years later
I wholeheartly agree!🤟
It's still relevant because the system hasn't changed at all; it's only gotten more complex to stop anything harming it. People are naïve to believe the Western world has really changed at all in even 70 YEARS
Greatest road trip soundtrack band ever. Seriously great driving music. Peter Garret sweated on me at a concert. Front row - you could see the sweat coming down off his head and down his arms like a sheet and then he would do that jerky dancy thing with his arms and - woosh - you couldn't avoid it! Now that's a concert experience! Amazing live. Still love 'em.
The "Oils"....will remain a part of the greatest part of the 80s music in Oz (and beyond)
The lyrics for this song are so relevant right at this moment, it scares me.
Even more so now then ever
The 7/4 opening riff going into the 4/4 verse a good decade before odd time, rhythmic and dynamic contrast became so popular with grunge bands. SO good. The whole album an absolute masterpiece.
One of the great cries of rage in the 80s.
It comes along and along. Do something!
this song came out 18 years before I was born & yet I still resonate with it today....the world is truly terrible rn...
Saw them in Atlanta in May and it FAR exceeded my expectations....they were SOOOOOO good.
DisappearingBoy Wash DC in ‘90, Still the best Concert I have been to.
Their success in the US had a big effect on Australian we know how hard it is to impress you guys after all you did invent rock and roll and it made us all so proud, and I tell you we needed it we had the British disease still in our heads and I don't need to explain that to you.
Rob HIRST ❤Fantastic drummer ❤
Fittest drummer back then on the planet
The greatest and most underrated drummer ever.
@@im_vladimirkostic Wish he drummed in my punk band ..
I need more cowbell. Grunge sound before Grunge existed. This incredibly talented band's message, music was ahead of their time and still very relevant today.
Brilliant. Genius is NOT diminished. We should hope they return to music as they get old and show us MORE.
This song is way ahead of it's time. Look at us now. 2021.
One of the best live bands I've been lucky to have seen.
They opened a show on the Sunshine Coast with this gem. When the song paused the audience politely clapped, some thinking that was the end of their introduction song.
Then, the song restarted. The whole crowd were totally engaged. One of the best moments in my concert experiences.
My memory was the Caringbah Inn in the middle 80s the shame is that it is just as relevant today as when it was written only the situation and actors have changed it breaks my heart to think we have come such a small distance in such a long time on such an important topic
You’re very unlikely to ever see anything as good as this ever again
ain't it the truth? without a doubt.
Absolutely totally agree
There is no real Australian Culture now. Globalisation, Mass Immigration of very different people and Ultra PC has done a real job on it. Think about it - when this song came out Australia only had a population around 15 million yet was punching well above its weight in music and movies on a global scale. Now we have nearly double that population and barely make any cultural impact at all.
@@mark-sb6os
Considering the band you are listening to your political outlook is very ironic
@@Somerandomdrummer8 I,ve basically gone from the left to the Centre - sorry I cant unsee what the authoritarian left have done to the western world. Are you really happy with the way Britain is going? My background is working class Manchester and emigrated to Oz around 10 years of age. Stand by what I said - Australia used to have an awesome popular culture. For its population - probably the strongest in the world. Now its completely vapid. The far left have basically deemed anything modern australian as being shameful and totally beyond redemption. They are hell-bent on shutting down Australia Day yet make a big fuss of Chinese New Year?! If some of your own populace truly think your own country is morally inferior to the Chinese then I dont think your culture will produce anything significant going forward.
History isn't repeating... it's the same song, just a new verse.
Holding a flare up to humanity in Plato's cave.
Jenolan Caves
A True 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 band.. Love the Oil's...
Lately I can't stop listening to this over and over again...
A 40+ year old song that's more relevant today. That is frightening.
I first seen this video on a music channel in Australia when I was there a little over four years ago. I wasn't familiar with their older songs because "Diesel and Dust" was their first album released here in the U.S..
When I was 13, 14 or15 I used to hear these early Midnight Oil songs on an LA based station KROQ back in 82-83 85. It was a "New Wave"station. Way before "Diesel and Dust"
Oils on the water enjoy - ruclips.net/video/1dV6vbb1YqI/видео.html
ONE OF THE BEST BANDS FROM THE 80'S
D7~Asus4 The ceiling is spinning D7~Asus4 you need a moment alone D7~Asus4 she's leaning over the table F# D7^^ and won't stop talking Bb goes on and on and on
One of the best songs ever.
Great tune... Just as relevant today as back then.
I think this song has some of the cleverest lyrics
"Hammer and the sickle, the news is at a trickle
The commissars are fickle but the stockpile grows
Bombers keep acoming, engines softly humming
The stars and stripes are running for their own big show
Another little flare up, storm brewed in a tea cup
Imagine any mix up and the lot would go"
That's absofuckinglutely brilliant!
midnight oil, ... !!!
Totally agree. Great lyrics
I hope Putin listens to those lyrics.
This was my introduction to Midnight Oil, late at night at a college station in Pittsburgh. I had to buy the album based solely on this and loved the whole album
That drumstick though. Everytime.
I knowww! Even my young kids love it! :-))
Young kids got nothing like these guys.
Andrew Fishman
I’d say that’s because modern music is selfish and the themes are either narcissistic or self-pitying.
There’s nothing of the wider world outside of one perspective.
It’s all “the world looks terrible because I’m sad” or “I’m heartbroken and edgy because I broke up” or “we so cool because we party”.
It’s enough to make your ears bleed
@@rustkarl 110% agreement mate :)
@@rustkarl dude, one of the more insightful comment I've seen on YT or elsewhere for a while :) peace to you
Are you listening America.
Once of the best bands ever to come out of Australia....especially one with something to say. !! Yes he may have 'sold out" but his intentions were good......if you don't take the party line you are shoved out anyway. !!! Peter and rest of band members have something to say and have been saying it for 40 years. Now that is persistence. !!!! Well done.
Why do people keep saying Garrett sold out?
@@jayceorourke5672
He became a fairly piss poor establishment politician
3:25 even though only a short section- that riff is insane
Precisely the right quantity of cowbell.
One of the Oils' greatest songs. 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 was a monster album. It's still my favourite album by any Australian band. They also won my heart with Species Deceases, that's my favourite EP by any band ever.
One of the greatest and one of my favorite bands of all time.
It never gets old
My favorite midnight oil song.
Remember, playing, this great old oils, song,when i was a kid.Where did all those years go.
alan golan You look like Peter,bro.
Real music listen every day just brilliant I feel one of top 5groups in the world go Aussie
"Another little flare up, storm brewed in a tea cup
Imagine any mix up and the lot would go"
Maybe my favorite set of lyrics from the Oils. Outstanding.
That drumstick though. Everytime.
Jenolan caves - devils coach house.
Jenolan caves - devils coach house.
Rob Hirst! One of the greatest drummers ever!
🤮
@@stanleyslabodnick5891 ?
@@stanleyslabodnick5891 have you seen his power and the passion drum solo live
They were in Boston last week, they sounded not only great but the same as their videos... years later. They were epic.
Damn, missed that! Saw them back in the day they were amazing
I would've watched this at least 40 times. Just enough cowbell for my liking ;-)
more cowbell! 😂
Brilliant and relevant. Love this song!
Nothing ever happens.
Farking awesome. Saw them live several times during the 80s.
what a great melody and beat...bring back the oils
August 4, 1985 Paolo Soleri Amphitheater, Santa Fe NM, opened for UB40. 34 years later STILL one of my favorite concerts. Vocal harmonies are awesome!
midnight oil rocks, & rolls, praise revolution, & praise The Lord, ... !!!
Midnight Oil opening for UB40....are you kidding me.!!!!...
@@robertfulton5569 Nope, they were🔥🔥🔥 . Myself, I had mainly gone because of Midnight Oil and the girls (I was in high school at the time and the preppies loved them some UB40) but many a Midnight Oil fan was made that night, Good Lord!!! UB40, like'em or not were in their prime so....
I was there too!! A candle to the former Paolo soleri amphitheatre!!
Great song. I have always loved it.
So keen for Tuesday night!
This is the song that made me into a Midnight Oil fan...effing great!
They are a wicked band, and still very relevant.
Nothing beats this live, Oils forever
Furious cowbell smashing/smashing!😎
Drums the bomb
unreal jam
All midnight oil songs get more relevant as time passes. I’m 13 and love all midnight oil. Who would have thought
This one is more relevant than ever From Diesel and Dust, Gun barrel Highway ruclips.net/video/sqIB6Uwcgx4/видео.html
You ain't 13 anymore 💀
Great song & Great band!
OMG, I first heard this in about '83. This track is so amazing. Great melody, great breaks & changes and awesome political content! I'm here because I heard MO are getting back together and let me just say, the world needs them at this moment!!!!
Filmed at Jenolan Caves till 2am I was there.
Thanks I always wondered where this was made.
I wish they were visiting Florida! Most not all Floridians have a passsion for the environment! I loved the Oil thru out the years and their one of my Favorite bands of all time!
Essa banda tem suas músicas atitudes que Eu como ser humano admiro Dimais.pena q eles encerraram...
Even more relevant today than when it first came out
The Oils at their best... Love 'em and miss 'em... come on Pete... leave parliment and reunite the band
He did! Well, I don't know if he did it himself, but the band is touring again in 2017!
10 2 1 best ever album in oz history
They are coming back in 2017!!!!!!
excellent!!!!!
Peter Garrett's solo project already playing shows. Band will play arenas and festivals in Australia probably later in the year.
One or two shows only if that.
I got tickets to see them May 20 2017 in Toronto ONtario...gotta be awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great news!
saw them many times, always a great time with other people who also gave a shit about the state of the world
Peter Garrett's dance moves should be put in the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
So good
I've seen these guys a dozen times & I got tix to the Townsville gig this year. So pumped I'm gonna spew up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great tune... Just as relevant today as back then.
YEP....this song still kicks ass and is still relevant today
abso fukn lutely.
2.05 My favourite Rhythm electric guitar sound.
I couldn't agree more. Really. I couldn't.
CERI MCCOY 2 twelve string electrics......one a Rickenbacker and one could possibly be a rare Maton Fyrbird 12 string.
WHAT A BAND
Thank you
I wish my sister in law's dad kept his drums because I would have done a Rob Hirst and belted this out.
"the rich get richer, the poor get the picture". That pretty much sums up current human civilization.
Best wishes
Best Aussie band ever.
i didn't know they were australians
@@awokeorasleepgodsaves.
Thought they were Russian....
Jenolan Caves what a master stoke!
No one does it like the Oils..
NO ONE !!! Yeahh!!
It's a shame how far Peter Garret, a man who really knew how to work a crowd, has fallen, he is but a shadow of his former self - I remember how after a Midnight Oil concert if had shouted "The revolution begins now" the audience would have poured out onto the street and it would have happened. To see him on TV now, he is but a shadow of his former self. So sad.
Don't write him off. The passion and energy is still there.
Way ahead of their time... great music with a meaning.
I saw them in Chicago in 2000 (I think) at the House of blues.. what a raw energenic show!!!
READ ABOUT IT!!!
oh?
I reckon video's are done so well
gracias desde argentina ,new wave for ever.
Fabulous and great sentiment from a librarian!!
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FM how good is this? " ... the hammer and sickle ... " - whoa! (April, 2022)
He should have stayed singing, this is their best song. Hurst smashing those cans and great tone in the guitars.
Really? Holy effen s/it!
I will be heading down there real soon and will see these guys live and I will meet them in person.
Nah, not their best. Many better. IMHO.
Power and the Passion
US Forces
Hercules
Blossom and Blood
Armistace Day
Jimmy Sharman's Boxers
Best of Both Worlds
Kosciusko
@@Riskmangler= EXACTLY ! 😚
i went to go see them 2017 best concert ever ; )
I went to see them in 1987.
I like this song 👌🏽
me too
More relevant now than ever before
ain't it though?
Sensacional, fabuloso!
THE world was simpler and PETE was a performer not a politician!
The song which introduced me to Midnight Oil. After that, there was no turning back.
For me it was US Forces. Bought 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 with saved up pocket money as a kid a few months later. As you say, there's no turning back. You can grow up but having grown up you can't grow back down again.
This follow up to “Power and the Passion” on MTV was a hit or miss. I didn’t see or “Read About It” because it received light rotation for a month. However, I’m starting to like this song and would like to add to my music collection. Don’t be surprised if I play this song alongside a 2024 hot song called “ Hot Night” by Durante and HANA. The songs definitely have nothing to do with each other lol
Needs more Cowbell !
Can never have to many/much cowbell
you can never have enough cowbell........................
Ed Chester
You sound like my brother
@@rustkarl My late brother was a drummer in JFK's White House Military Orchestra, definitely very little cowbell.....................
Ed Chester
Apologies.
It’s just my brother is a drummer and he loves saying “needs more cowbell”
Great tune
Essa banda me remete a lembrança dos melhores tempos de minha vida. Final dos anos 80, no tempo em que surfista não ouvia o som do carro com volume estourando ( se chamava “Magal” na época), não curtia funk, pagode e muito menos musica sertaneja. Bons amigos, cachaça e mulherada, tempos inesqueciveis.