A story about asbestos miners in Witenoom, Australia. The town has since been abandoned and is closed off to visiting because of the numbers of workers/ residents contracting asbestos/ mesothelioma. The sugar refining company refers to CSR who had shares in the company at the time,but refused to assist the workers and their families
You may be interested to also know the leader singer was the youngest president of the environmental foundation in Australia , he has been the environmental minister, education minister and has been a member of the Australian Labour Party. Peter has spent his life fighting for political issues that are important to him, all his song are about some kind of political issue, beds are burning is about Aboriginal land right. A great Australian band 😊
I am about to see the Oils perform on their farewell tour (Perth dates were postponed due to Covid). I remember when they did a live performance in front of the Exxon Building in New York back in the 1980’s. Love that these guys have been giving the stuff you sign to government and big business since the beginning.
"Blue Sky Mine" has the greatest harmonica work of all time for any rock song.... PERIOD! Peter Garrett did a masterful job. It also has to be said that this masterpiece belongs on the top 100 Rock Songs of All Time. It would be at the bottom of my list but on the list without question! Congratulations on a nice review.
I fell in Love with Them, in September 1978, just prior to their first Album Release! The Most Amazing Live Band! Blew My Mind! They're actually Playing Now. Please look up their Concert, at Wanda Beach! Oilssssss! 🖐🤍🎤💖
Like him, but he spoke through the lead up of the Chorus, "If the Blue Sky Mining Company won't come to my rescue, if the sugar refining company won't save me - who's gonna save me ..." My favourite bit.
@@JohnCregoWorldMusic Maybe you bluffed it better than others 😜, but you sounded like you at least read what the song was about. There’s an awful lot of terrible guesses and assumptions on other channels! So you get a thumbs up from me, John. 🙂
@@wonderllama4368 Thanks. I can use all the thumbs up I can get. And I left a thumbs up for you. By the way. Where do you get the imojis from? You can see I'm quite inept at this sort of thing.
Yeah, Australian Band. Peter Garrett, the lead, served in the Australian Parliament for decades. Very eco activist & aboriginal rights focused. Saw them in 1985. Hooked ever since.
Thank you. I try to keep the theatrics to a minimum. Some people don't like that I talk during the song, but I don't like to pause. Cheers back at ya'.
Yes, Midnight Oil are an Australian Band, one of the more popular Australian Bands of the 80s. An absolutely great live band. They were not big in the US. The biggest song in the US would be Beds are Burning, while it's a fine song, they have many better songs. Short Memory, Power and the Passion, US Forces. They had a strong political message in many of their songs.
I don't think many people here know them at all, which is a shame. It seems they have a rabid fan base though. They're my more popular videos. I like their willingness to change up their sound for each new album but you still know it's them of course, and they seem to always have something to say about the times we're living in.
@@BeefGeneral Their early stuff was much better. The self titled, Powder Works, Place Without a Postcard, 10 -1 and Red Sails were the real sound of the Oils. Species Decesies was all some of their best songs. Pity it was an EP not a full album. Diesel and Dust was very hit and miss as a fan. I still have not figured out if I like it or hate it lol. Some good songs, but definitely not what was expected after Red Sails.
I just found your channel. 👍 I gave this a like, but you need to reduce the song volume so we can hear you better. I struggled to hear what you were saying 90% of the time. Don't be afraid to turn down the music so that you voice is LOUD and clear when you do talk! So many songs from them: Try
You're right. Things have gotten better with my newer videos. I record the music and video at the same time and it's a guessing game sometimes. But it is improved now a days. Thanks for not telling me to shut up during the video. That's usually what I get but this is the way I do it so people are going to have to just deal with it. I've got a huge variety of music so check out some more stuff. You may be pleasantly surprised. Thanks for dropping by.
@@JohnCregoWorldMusic OK Sweet! Well done. Some people don't take constructive criticism well. I'm glad you're still putting out videos and I hope your channel is going well. Love from Australia. 👍🤟
Just came across this and was watching your eyes, they seem to blink in time with music. Pretty funny really.... Midnight Oil Rock go further back into their career look up Surfing with a Spoon, or Powderworks, Hercules, Stand In Line, Wedding Cake Island, all good tunes.
I have noticed that I do blink a lot but didn't realize it was in time. Actually I'm sending subliminal messages in morse code to anyone who understands it to subscribe. I don't think it's working.
@@JohnCregoWorldMusicWell if you review more Midnight Oil or even some other Aussie artist like V Spy V Spy or Goanna maybe some Cold Chisel I might subscribe.
A story about asbestos miners in Witenoom, Australia. The town has since been abandoned and is closed off to visiting because of the numbers of workers/ residents contracting asbestos/ mesothelioma. The sugar refining company refers to CSR who had shares in the company at the time,but refused to assist the workers and their families
Clearly not white privileged workers.
You may be interested to also know the leader singer was the youngest president of the environmental foundation in Australia , he has been the environmental minister, education minister and has been a member of the Australian Labour Party. Peter has spent his life fighting for political issues that are important to him, all his song are about some kind of political issue, beds are burning is about Aboriginal land right. A great Australian band 😊
I've been telling myself I need to get back to them and listen to more. I'll make a point of it in the near future.
Maybe my all time favorite song from my all time favorite band ever!
Look out world. Australia is catching you all up on the music we’ve been raised on.
You got that right.
I am about to see the Oils perform on their farewell tour (Perth dates were postponed due to Covid). I remember when they did a live performance in front of the Exxon Building in New York back in the 1980’s. Love that these guys have been giving the stuff you sign to government and big business since the beginning.
"Blue Sky Mine" has the greatest harmonica work of all time for any rock song.... PERIOD! Peter Garrett did a masterful job. It also has to be said that this masterpiece belongs on the top 100 Rock Songs of All Time. It would be at the bottom of my list but on the list without question! Congratulations on a nice review.
They played outside of the EXON building when one of the tankers went aground in Alaska I think.
Good. More people should be in the oil companies faces. Though nothing would embarrass them into doing the right thing.
@@JohnCregoWorldMusic They made a videography of the Exxon gig called Black Rain Falls It is awesome.
Who's gonna save me? but if I work all day.. thanks for doing this one mate
They did Letterman. They played on the streets on NY.
I fell in Love with Them, in September 1978, just prior to their first Album Release! The Most Amazing Live Band! Blew My Mind! They're actually Playing Now. Please look up their Concert, at Wanda Beach! Oilssssss! 🖐🤍🎤💖
Like him, but he spoke through the lead up of the Chorus, "If the Blue Sky Mining Company won't come to my rescue, if the sugar refining company won't save me - who's gonna save me ..." My favourite bit.
You may remember them from from early 90's did a concert on the streets i Think in New York against Exxon Oil . Made headlines
Black Rain Falls is the video of that event
Finally a reaction video where the listener has done his homework!
Glad you think so.
@@JohnCregoWorldMusic Maybe you bluffed it better than others 😜, but you sounded like you at least read what the song was about. There’s an awful lot of terrible guesses and assumptions on other channels! So you get a thumbs up from me, John. 🙂
@@wonderllama4368 Thanks. I can use all the thumbs up I can get. And I left a thumbs up for you. By the way. Where do you get the imojis from? You can see I'm quite inept at this sort of thing.
@@JohnCregoWorldMusic On my phone they just appeared. Now I'm at work, it'll just be a text version. :)
So, you're not THAT inept!
Yeah, Australian Band. Peter Garrett, the lead, served in the Australian Parliament for decades.
Very eco activist & aboriginal rights focused.
Saw them in 1985. Hooked ever since.
saw them live at the Bridgeway Hotel, If you haven't seen Peter Garret dancing live, well then you have truly missed one of the wonders of the world
He looks like a marionette run amok. But I mean that in a good way.
If ever there was a band that had something important to say it has to be The Oils.... Please check out the lyrics...
I like your reaction mate...you don't repeat yourself and wave your hands all around when ya talk.....you seem like a commonsense fella......cheers🍻
Thank you. I try to keep the theatrics to a minimum. Some people don't like that I talk during the song, but I don't like to pause. Cheers back at ya'.
It deals with an open cut mine in Mataranka Australia Mining Asbestos
Yes, Midnight Oil are an Australian Band, one of the more popular Australian Bands of the 80s. An absolutely great live band. They were not big in the US. The biggest song in the US would be Beds are Burning, while it's a fine song, they have many better songs. Short Memory, Power and the Passion, US Forces. They had a strong political message in many of their songs.
I don't think many people here know them at all, which is a shame. It seems they have a rabid fan base though. They're my more popular videos. I like their willingness to change up their sound for each new album but you still know it's them of course, and they seem to always have something to say about the times we're living in.
I think their song 'King Of The Mountain' may have been well known in the US as well.
Put down that weapon, the dead heart. Honestly they rarely put a foot wrong
@@BeefGeneral Their early stuff was much better. The self titled, Powder Works, Place Without a Postcard, 10 -1 and Red Sails were the real sound of the Oils. Species Decesies was all some of their best songs. Pity it was an EP not a full album. Diesel and Dust was very hit and miss as a fan. I still have not figured out if I like it or hate it lol. Some good songs, but definitely not what was expected after Red Sails.
Check out 'OILS ON THE WATER". from around 1985.
This song was a #1 in the US.
I have the album great Australian band
i got this album when it first came out and the vinyl record is blue
@ John Crego try and find "Who can Stand in the Way" - it's from the Album, "Red Sails in the Sunset." The lyrics are a killer,
When there's a dollar to be made...
one of the best from the Oils but im a sucker for a harmonica. Might I suggest 'put down that weapon' or "forgotten years' epic songs.
Two other great tracks!
@@joeschmoe118 What do you think of their new stuff?. 38 years and they still got it in my opinion👍
Forgotten Years is an Anzac day tradition in our house, along with I was only 19
@@jeanwilson717 it should be in every house in NZ and Aussie🤝
Absolutely Australian band
Their lyrics are always about social issues. The lead singer Peter Garrett was a member of parliament in Australia after the band.
nice video man
Appreciate it.
I just found your channel. 👍 I gave this a like, but you need to reduce the song volume so we can hear you better. I struggled to hear what you were saying 90% of the time. Don't be afraid to turn down the music so that you voice is LOUD and clear when you do talk!
So many songs from them: Try
You're right. Things have gotten better with my newer videos. I record the music and video at the same time and it's a guessing game sometimes. But it is improved now a days. Thanks for not telling me to shut up during the video. That's usually what I get but this is the way I do it so people are going to have to just deal with it. I've got a huge variety of music so check out some more stuff. You may be pleasantly surprised. Thanks for dropping by.
@@JohnCregoWorldMusic OK Sweet! Well done. Some people don't take constructive criticism well. I'm glad you're still putting out videos and I hope your channel is going well. Love from Australia. 👍🤟
Thanks.
Blue Sky Mining the album was released in 1990. this the title track...………...
Just came across this and was watching your eyes, they seem to blink in time with music. Pretty funny really.... Midnight Oil Rock go further back into their career look up Surfing with a Spoon, or Powderworks, Hercules, Stand In Line, Wedding Cake Island, all good tunes.
I have noticed that I do blink a lot but didn't realize it was in time. Actually I'm sending subliminal messages in morse code to anyone who understands it to subscribe. I don't think it's working.
@@JohnCregoWorldMusicWell if you review more Midnight Oil or even some other Aussie artist like V Spy V Spy or Goanna maybe some Cold Chisel I might subscribe.
Vega.(vague)the name has already been taken.never too late too learn think of all uhave missed out on all these years.rick on.
Who's gonna save u
Don't u have Google in u.s.a. ha