Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil | Andy & Alex FIRST TIME REACTION!
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This song was about the treatment of native Australians by those who colonized the continent. Lead singer Peter Garrett later became an elected official and Minister of the environment in Australian government. When this album came out, the band performed live on Sixth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan outside the then offices of ExxonMobil as a protest against the oil spill. It was the best lunch hour I've ever had.
Modern Republican: "WhAt ArE YoU WoKe!!10101"
Wow, good for you. Seriously. You just made a 65 y/o boomer jelly. lol
Wow, I didn't wake up today thinking I'd get a lesson in history, but man, I'm so glad you gave it to me. This song, to me, was always a great song with a great hook. Now, as someone in their 50s, who never knew what this song was about, it means even more. I'm going to go read up on all the info you just gave me. I appreciate your comment greatly.
Aussie Aussie Aussie ❤
The whole Diesel & Dust album is a good listen and focuses on environmental and indigenous issues.
Back in about 1995 I worked for a couple weeks in a gravel and aggregate mill, bagging kitty litter. There was a guy working there, probably in his 40s. He was an ex convict, working there through some sort of program. He hardly spoke the entire time I was there, keeping to himself. One day Beds are Burning came on the radio. He shouted "this is an awesome song!", cranked up the radio, and proceeded to dance like a maniac for the duration of the song. Once it was over he went back to normal.
I'll never forget that guy.
wow - that's a strange guy - but he makes a cool story
That's pretty crazy 😂. We had an EOD tech work with us, never said much just observed everything. One day "The Humpty dance" song came on. The guy broke out some wild 90s pop and lock moves for the rest of the song. 😂 then he was back to quiet and reserved. Thanks for your story reminded me of this dude.
@JJKillerElite that is so very EOD guy ❤
Well, it is an awesome song!
@laurawalkerJD Haha rightt! Strange individuals, but solid dudes through and through 😂🙏
This song still packs a punch all these years later!
They performed this song live at the closing ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympics, wearing all-black gear with "SORRY" printed on them. Still can't believe that was permitted. Also happen to be one of the world's truly great live bands.
Not sorry enough to give up being millionaires I guess….
Performative fake leftist BS.
Midnight Oil was very politically active, primarily into native causes and the environment. In fact, the lead singer served in the Australian parliament for a while. Their Bule Sky Mine album is full of great songs, my favorite being the title song, Blue Sky Mine.
hey i cant i sleep til i know ,was peter garrett minister of the environment while our koalas were burning?
@@chrisross-fd3fo That seems like a question that Google or Wikipedia can answer, doesn't it?
@@gryphonvert g.. &...w won't answer the deeper question i was asking.i was asking here because maybe theres a deeper answer to be found than yes or no.especially from the person who wrote about it.wait,wait gryph..ya got me...that looks like it was copied right out of g ...&...w.. gee,it seems like where a lot of people get their (form of leadership) approved talking points..(gotta do it this way as 3 times i was flipped... an A2G should fix that spelling
And when Peter Garrett became a politician he was inept, a failure and a fall guy. His pink batts program killed young Australians.
Just remember: 45 degrees C = 113 F... No wonder the beds were burning.
No, not from the heat, but from the weapons testing later done on the land the Australian Government seized from the indigenous people.
@@allengator1914 Nuclear explosion is at at 100m degrees, at which point it is neither living nor breathing. Original interpretation more likely correct
That was my mistake back then. When I first heard the reference to 45 degrees, I thought to myself "well, I guess it gets cold in the desert too." It took several listens and a couple of years to realize the 45 degrees was celsius, not fahrenheit.
*Smacks forehead*
Yep, me and my Amerocentric thinking. lol
@@simianinc Rob Hirst has said the burning beds line is from an Italian art exhibition about fascist Italy and how the partisans were fighting back against the regime. Search songwritingmagazine and beds are burning for the interview.
Yes, but when the song is emphasizing that, it's talking about how the desert "lives and breathes" at that burning temperature. White people tend to see a place like that as a "wasteland", and that justifies to them the decision to use it for something like weapons testing. I mean, who cares, right? "Nothing" can live there. It's not good for the kinds of crops or livestock that white people want to grow there. But deserts are still living ecosystems, with life that's adapted to living at those temperatures. There's still ecological richness in the desert. The Aboriginal people chose to live there, too. They valued it. (Although obviously, that isn't the ONLY reason it should be given back to them. But it's drawing a contrast between these points of view.)
Midnight Oil are a great band. This entire album is banger after banger. Blue Sky Mining is another great one.
As an old 67-year-old rockers I love seeing your generation realize the music of the old guys...keep it up!
Glad you liked it. The video is worth a watch!
The SONG is not a song, it is an ANTHEM.... yes, the Aboriginals of Australia. They were protesting the treatment and stealing of the land from them. YOU NEED TO SEE THE VIDEO!!!
Modern Republican: "WhAt ArE YoU WoKe!!10101"
100% this is what it is about. I was going to suggest that they see the
official music video. It is powerful.
There's a great video on X where some Aboriginals walk up to the front door of a white leftist residence who have a sign on their lawn about giving the land back to the native people. The Aboriginals say "We're here to take our land back. We're starting with this house". The Caucasian leftist woman looks all flustered and has no idea what to say so she says something along the lines of "Not literally here, we didn't mean our house".
Lead singer Peter Garret walked it like he talked it - ran for office got into the House of Representatives was the Minister of several departments such Education and Environment. Punk in the early 80s
Bingo
The eighties really had some good music.
😎 👍 Yup, you're 100 % Correct, the 80's had A LOT of good/GREAT songs!
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These are the same guys who The Thamesmen have apparently asked half a dozen times to do Cold Chisel and they’ve refused and the thamesmen said well it’s their loss 😂
You guys won't realise how GREAT this song is on first listen. 37 years on and it still sounds so fresh and even better with time. Classic!
This is true, to me it was just a pass by when it first came out, now it really brings tears to my eyes and I love this song.
True. although they maybe could have written a few more lyrics, it kind of repeats the same few lines a lot, I just noticed.
"The Dead Heart" is even clearer in its sentiment. That should be your next Midnight Oil song. One of the best bands to come out of Australia.
One hit wonders TBH. Waste of time listening to anything else they did.
@@telstar4772100% disagree. Aside from the fact that MO had many hits which they could care less about, their music is phenomenal and the importance of the content is staggering.
The Dead Heart is excellent! Beds are Burning is probably not even in my top 10 for MO songs. They had amazing music and when I was in college in 1993 fraternity houses would play Earth & Sun & Moon songs every weekend at the big parties. The Oils knew how to have great funky rhythm and basslines, along with the big goofy lovable front man with the bizarre voice!
One of the most fascinating frontmen in Rock history. Peter Garret is around 6’4”, bald, thin as a rail, and gyrates when performing in almost spastic movements on stage. He is also a radical leftist and won election to Australian Parliament.
I always heard he was around 6'10"..
@@charlesstuart8009 That's only when he's wearing a hat. Which, as a bald man in the 45 degree desert heat, he really needs to.
Garret's energy level was insane! I still see them doing concerts this last year and he brings the energy!
You definitely need to see the video. You can not even imagine what the lead singer looks like listening to his voice or how unique his performance is. The band has an unmistakable sound and strong messages in their songs. Midnight Oil is an amazing band and a real stand out in an era of unique bands.
Probably one of the most unusual songs to become a top 20 hit in the US, especially given the subject matter.
My guess is that a lot of the listeners who made this song a hit didn't actually pay that close attention to the lyrics. 😞 (There are a *lot* of songs out there that, if you really stop and pay attention to them, you have to wonder how it *ever* became a hit -- and then you realize that most people just don't think about them that deeply, and just groove to the musical hooks. At least one woman of my acquaintance is still convinced, to this day, that Meat Loaf's "Paradise By The Dashboard Light" is the greatest love song ever written...)
The singer became a major political figure in Australia i think. It is a protest song about the treatment of the aboriginal people
You must must must see lead singer Peter Garrett dance. I would not be surprised if it was the inspiration for Elaine’s dancing on Seinfeld. I’d recommend the video for “Power and the Passion” as a great example. It’s also a great example of how nearly their whole catalog is a protest.
haha I saw the Zombies once and compared Colin Blunstone dancing to "a man awkwardly trying to hold a fish between his elbow and ribcage" and actually Bryan Ferry is a pretty terrible dancer too. But at least they could each sing!
I do a pretty good Peter Garrett imitation if I do say so myself...
Only I'm short and have hair 😊
Forgotten Years by them should be hit next!
The "Power and the Passion" is the song that blew me away from them.. but they had a number of songs that still make my list. If you read anything, even just the Wikipedia article, about Truganini and then listen to their song of the same name you'll know just how wonderful they can be.
One of the worlds best LIVE bands....
Saw MO in a small outdoor venue in St. Pete many years ago. This was the only song of theirs getting airplay in the US so we didn't know much about them before the concert. Anyone that saw them live in that era know what a treat a MO concert was. Great players, high energy, and a 6 ft 9in lead singer flailing wildly. Awesome show!
Absolutely. Seen them in their heyday about 3 times. Awesome live band.
Saw them from the 2nd row on the WOMAD tour. Close enough to see the sweat and the spit. So much spit and so very good.
Yep. Incredible live
Just the best - 'Oils on Water' live concert video gives you a little feel of it.
There's actually another song in the same vein by Midnight Oil, called Blue Sky Mine. It's got a killer harmonica and was one of their bigger songs.
King of the Mountain, and The Dead Heart, are other good ones, for sure.
“How do we sleep when our beds are burning” is specifically about the Australian government forcibly evacuating aboriginal lands and using those lands for weapons testing.
Sounds like a good idea, where would you prefer them to test weapons, Sydney Harbour ?
@@telstar4772 i wouldn’t much like it if the government forced me out of my home into a camp and then blew up my home with bombs and missiles, but hey man - you do you.
@@telstar4772 On an actually uninhabited place and not a place that was previously someone's home which was seized by the government for racist reasons.
@@limeymcfrog1Different times, don't judge yesterday's history with today's morals.
@@interabang What terrible evil could that logic NOT excuse? It was wrong then, it is wrong now. They stole and destroyed land and property because these people were not seen as fully humans. That is a rather timeless evil, if you ask me.
Must now listen to the blue sky mine by midnight oil
A definite banger, and definitely a protest song. Peter Garret, the lead singer, left Midnight Oil to become Member of Parliament in Australia. He subsequently served as Environment Minister and then Education Minister. Not only a protest song, but a band with a front-man with a genuine commitment to improving his part of the world.
And when Peter Garrett became a politician he was inept, a failure and a fall guy. His pink batts program killed young Australians.
"Cherokee Nation" by Paul Revere and the Raiders packs a punch
Sorry, the actual title is "Indian Reservation", not "Cherokee Nation".
Oh yes! I still have the 45 of this song. It was a favorite of mine as a kid🙂
They dont get enough credit. They had some really cool songs.
The Power and The Passion! Amazing song 😎🤘🏼
Meet Peter Garrett in 84 when he came over to New Zealand during our 1st year of the Nuclear-Free Ban. My memory is of him was as an amazing calm, articulate, intelligent person, so at odds with the on-Stage crazy man routine. "Diesel and Dust" and "Blue Sky Mining" remain permanent albums on my Music play-list.
I always enjoyed the MTV video of this!
“19” by Paul Hardcastle is an amazing anti-Vietnam song. Its focus is that the Average age of the American soldier was 19. And it’s a groovy, danceable BANGER
Yes, I would love to see a reaction to that.
I love Paul Hardcastle!
Australia's legendary I was Only 19 by Rock Folk legends REDGUM came out at a similar time and rightly was put way ahead of '29' by critics A far better and emotional and lyrically brilliant Vietnam song. Go listen and come back and comment.
19 is a groove. I also like his instrumental called Rainforest
Sorry it is in know way a great song seeing that he pinched the idea off the Aussie Band Redgum with ther classic hit " I was only 19"
Cool protest song: "Eve of Destruction", Barry McGuire.
but we weren't like 55yrs ago and still arent..peoples please stop letting the words of these political songs sway you . many times once the limited hangout is cropdusted on us over 30 years you realize once again you were manipulated...there is and never was a song on the radio that record execs and their overlords didnt want on the radio (dont beat me up over instrumentals.).and these 2-3 year eras of anti war,rah rah america ,cops suck,women are powerful,folk protest,,its so beautiful to be in a relationship, anti apartheid,outerspace,the environment..its amazing how they fade ..their cycles were all nearly identical..but the music and the vocals of songs are a huge joy to me...the lyrics eh...hell i just realized from these.guys bernie taupin was referring to marriage not literally his life..same music same vocals completely different song...btw i dont care if he has a thing for TONY DANZA
The version by The Screaming Jets is the best
I can imagine a person who does not like this song, but I've never met one. Great song indeed.
Love the song, despite the lyrics!
“Let’s give it back”, my arse.
@@riiidiculoso8697 I get that.
@@michaelbeasley5783 .
I was expecting profanely expressed agreement, or deranged abuse - so I figured you’re not Aussie, & did some minor stalking.
Holy schamoley, that’s a helluva voice you’ve got there!
With vibrato like that, I bet you could do a ripper rendition of ‘Sweet Sweet Love’ or ‘Wings of an Eagle’ by Russell Morris. ☮️🤘
@@riiidiculoso8697 Thanks. I do lots of gigs and have written and ameteurishly recorded originals. Never had any inclination to do Wings of an Eagle though. More of a Neil Young Tom Petty type appreciator. Last night I went to see Bruce Hornsby. Be well.
@@michaelbeasley5783 I love Neil and Tom! You could definitely pull off some CSNY and Paul Simon, too.
I’m glad to hear you’re a fan of the great Midnight Oil. Here’s an acoustic version of Short Memory that I think you’ll appreciate.
All the best!
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Need to view the music video for the full effect. Crazy dance moves from the lead singer and aboriginal peoples dancing in the streets
There must have been a lot of us from Australia voting for this, I did. Thanks.
I wouldn't underestimate the number of Americans voting for it too; I did! This song (in particular) made a big splash here, and folks who were around when it came out undoubtedly still remember it fondly. (And still listen to it today; it comes up on my playlists all the time.) It's funny, because like... yeah, it's a song from the 80s, and it's topical to when it came out. But in other ways, it doesn't FEEL to me like a quintessential 80s song; not the way something from Duran Duran or Bon Jovi does, you know? (Although, I appreciate Alex pointing out the machinery-clanging bit from the middle as feeling like it's from that time period.) This song felt different - musically - when it came out, and I feel like it still does. The only reason I might say that it doesn't sound "timeless" is that I struggle to think of other songs from right now that feel quite like this. It is a stand-out, for sure.
@@gryphonvert The Oils did have that Aussie rock sound, though Garrett's singing is unique to himself, which always made an Australian song stand out in contrast to the other 80s bands. Men at Work are another from that era, though I think my favourite Australian rock band are The Saints.
I always liked this song because it was so different and the message is so important. It never gets old.
As a American, a Huge Oils fan... just one of the best bands there was... and THE greatest live band to ever do it.
I can't think of a better social protest band... maybe Rage Against the Machine, but the Oils have been doing it for decades and never broke up.
The whole back catalogue of "Oils" songs is bloody impressive seen them live a few times and the most impressive rhythm section in Rock with Bones and Rob Hurst on Drums
They have a lot of other great songs to check out, Read About It, Kosciusko, The Dead Heart, Blue Sky Mine…don’t stop here!
That is Blue Sky Mine.
The best part is that it's not just a protest song. It's a song about the joy of living. It's about how the aboriginal peoples could still dance and enjoy life in the hot desert sun, despite what had been taken from them.
I always thought it meant "How can we dance and sleep while these atrocities are going on?". Meaning that it's addressed to white people.
@@SpaceCattttt That's what most people think, including me back in the '80s. Then I heard or saw it discussed in an interview. It's been several decades, but as I recall the band members had been impressed to see aboriginals dancing and having fun while surrounded by desert squalor. I think they were asked to write the song after the Australian government returned some desert land to them. The burning beds were like aboriginals' property, not white peoples' beds. The fact it was also a celebration of life always stuck with me.
Wow. Never thought of it that way...
@@bjs301 I know that story and I've seen the interview, but I can't recall in detail what they were discussing. Still, I'd say that the intention was for white Australians to sit up and listen, you know? So in that sense, even if it's a misreading of the lyrics, it still gets the intended message across.
@@SpaceCattttt I think it's both.
This song hit HARD when it dropped!!!
It regards the inequities the Australian aborigines suffered at the hands of the colonizers
Fun fact: the lead singer was an attorney 😂
Also “pay the rent” means be responsible, take responsibility 👍
We need to all take heed.
MY FAVORITE BAND AND ALBUM EVER. BOUGHT THIS CD IN 1988 AS A SENIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL.
Aussie pub rock from the 70s and 80s is peerless.
Spent 2 weeks in the outback in '85 at the age of 21. This song is so full of Australian imagery, which I totally identified with. Diesel and Dust...
🎵US Forces give the nod
It's s setback for your country
Banger
Midnight Oil is one of those bands that grows on you! They are so diverse, different and out of the norm of anything you have ever heard before! They catch you off guard! But as you listen again and again you get it and begin to get clued in on the Midnight Oil vibe!! Super cool band. Don't play them nonstop, but every now and then there is nothing else that can scratch that itch. And usually, I end up playing the Midnight Oil for days in a row!
Truly unique and talented bunch of guys!🎉🎉🎉❤
awesome I voted for this Song. Andy & Alex. Jacob's Ladder by Rush is an 80's song. Please hit this song.Sincerely Brenda Nelson Rush fan for 46 years.🤘
Huey Lewis and the News also had a great song called "Jacob's Ladder" in the 80s!
The best band to be fronted by a Member of Parliament
I dunno. Funkadelic is pretty good too.
@@markghughes nowhere near as talented or as cool as Midnight Oil.
@@ATalkingBadger I hope you're kidding... they're completely different genres and I myself am a rock guy, but George Clinton is a funk and music legend, so are Parliament/Funkadelic. No direspect to Midnight Oil though, great band, too.
@@markghughesExcellent play on words. Some people don't get the joke and insist on actually comparing the bands.
Protesty. That’s it!
The writing and production in this song is near impeccable.
Good use of space in this song, with lots of tiny fills. Another favorite from this same album is "Dreamworld."
Great call Alex! Another of their hits in America was Power and the Passion, but they have a much larger catalog.
Uh... Sorry, but "Power & The Passion" was *not* a hit here in the USA. The album it came from (10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1) peaked at #178 on the US charts, and the singles from it didn't chart at all. Midnight Oil didn't achieve any chart success in the USA until the "Diesel & Dust" album with "The Dead Heart" (#11 on the US Mainstream Rock chart) and "Beds Are Burning" (#17 on the "Hot 100", #6 on the Mainstream Rock chart), with the album itself peaking at #21. (The next album, "Blue Sky Mining", also did well, peaking at #20, and spawning three top-20 singles on the Mainstream Rock chart -- Blue Sky Mine (#1), "Forgotten Years" (#11), and "King of the Mountain" (#20). After that, they kind of fell off the US radar again, at least as far as radio play was concerned. :( )
@@ballyastrocade5672 I wasn't talking about charts. The songs were very popular in the circles I moved in and got a lot of airplay where I was at. IMO that makes it a hit. From Wikipedia:
"Hit song - Wikipedia
A hit song, also known as a hit record, hit single or simply hit, is a recorded song or instrumental that becomes broadly popular or well-known."
@@jamesjohnston9225 Unfortunately, that's just too subjective a standard to be meaningful. *You* may think the song was well-known based on your own particular circle -- but the plural of "anecdote" is not "data". :-P The only objective data we have to work with is sales and radio-chart performance figures, and by those measures, sorry, it was not a hit. (Which is not to say it *wasn't* a good song; I rather like it as well. But it wasn't well known in the US at a national level in the way that "Beds Are Burning" or "Blue Sky Mining" were.)
@@ballyastrocade5672 We can certainly agree to disagree. If we all liked and thought the same things, Baskin-Robbins would only have one flavor.
Great song, great band! 'The Dead Heart' should be your next Midnight Oil reaction. On another note, have you reacted to 'Under The Milky Way' by The Church? Also a great Australian band.
Aussies stepped it up in the 80s! INXS, AC/DC, the Oils, Men At Work, and I never knew The Church were Aussies, but that song is epic!
Check out the video, and great job of recognizing the meaning of the song, Alex!!!
Lots of great 80s Australian ‘pub bands’ tracks.
"Diesel & Dust" was the first record I bought after I got my first own stereo, and it is still one of my all-time favourites. But while I like "Beds Are Burning" (it was what got me into the Oils, after all), the one song I always keep coming back to is "Sometimes". The drive, the force, the sheer energy of it - it never fails to blow me away. Before I got the CD version of the album, "Sometimes" was the closer, and for me it will always be, a perfect finish to an awesome record. I wish they were still touring....
The video is A MUST. This was a HUGE outrage, thus we got a great awareness song, just like " We Are the World" was for Africa.
Thank You for playing this band!! Always a crowd attention getter when my band plays this song. It's in a set every time we play a show. Peter Garrett is the lead singer, a lawyer and activist. Also believed he served in the Australian Govt. somewhere. Have to listen to "Blue Sky Mine" from the incredible album Blue Sky Mining!! These two albums are fantastic!!! The Dead Heart and Sometimes from "Diesel and Dust" definitely worth a listen and Forgotten Years and One Country from The "Blue Sky Mining" Album are great listens. But your next listen form Midnight Oil HAS TO BE "BLUE SKY MINE" It will blow you away!!
This is one of the most underrated bands, in my opinion. They are a live powerhouse who picked up the mantle of U2 when they went more commercial. They have so many great songs:
Blue Sky Mine
Forgotten Years
Truganini
Dream World
Luritja Way
Best of Both Worlds
Only the Strong
As an Aboriginal man, and the descendant of people who not only had their land stolen, but who were subjected to child removal by the Western Australian government over multiple generations, I want to thank you for listening to the song and understanding it.
English colonialism and imperialism.
The same ideology which removed the Native Americans.
Say it's name 😊
@@penderyn8794 Trail of Tears
They get billions every year and yet only their elites prosper 🤮
You yanks stole the native lands after colonisation, and during independence, the natives were helping British soldiers, etc, cos you colonists wanted to push further and stole more of thier lands, who says the natives actually lived on the east coast where the colony's where originally
Namaste!
If Native American's start to dance after hearing this song, look out MERICA!
Love it that Alex liked it.❤
I'm 67 years old the first time I heard this song I just was laughing so hard it makes no sense. Until I really listen to it and started crying my eyes out😢 anyways love you guys I'm going to keep bugging you for Dave Mason free actions. Play wonderful talent great great great talent that keeps getting overlooked❤
Are you serious? you laughed hard at the song, then you were crying ? you need to a visit to the doctors.
I saw this band performing live on the street, filming a live video, in NYC back in this year it was really big. I think I was in the live video, right up front in the crowd watching them, which I never saw. Lol
My favourite....
Power and the Passion from the album 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
The sound is so Australian! love it.
amazing live act back in the day - a band with a mission
One of the best bands out there.. Been listening to the Oils since the 80's. And they are still beeing played on National radio here in Norway!!
Midnight Oil is one of those bands that sometimes translates better live. I have been honored enough to see them live twice, some of the best live music I've ever seen. It would be super fun to see you guys react to Oils on Water - Stand in Line- live. To see them live is an experience like no other. I love watching your guys reactions, and wish you the best in your endeavors.
Dreamworld, Put down that Weapon, Bullroarer, Warakurna, Dead Heart. ....so many killer tracks on this album.
Ya they should do an entire album review for Diesel and Dust.
Was fortunate enough to see midnight oil in the year 1985. They played a show in San Diego and did a few songs during the show with UB40 who were on the bill. Seeing leader singer Peter Garrett perform is a unique experience. He's very tall and bald headed and has his arms and legs going all over the place. Lot's of energy.
They are a very political band, almost strictly political.
Blue sky mining, My country (not to be confused with One Country), power and the passion are all excellent songs.
I think blue sky mining was the only song besides beds are burning to receive radio play in the states.
Saw them in Sacramento about that same time. I'm not a concert guy but I enjoyed that one.
I think that's the tour I saw in Vancouver with the horn section standing on the rusted out flatbed truck (stage right)
Loved this one...if you're looking for another banger of a protest song, I'll suggest Bruce Cockburn's (pronounced "Co-burn") If I Had a Rocket Launcher...Musically, Lyrically, the whole package.
YES!!!
Excellent answer to the protest song question. I have been suggesting that song in general for quite some time.
That is a great protest song. He also has another tremendous one “ They Call it Democracy
@@scottmoreland1775 Without question! One of my faves.
Good one!
I remember the video well. The singer always reminded my of the skinny guy on the motorcycle when they ride through the house party in Weird Science.
What You Need by INXS should be on your radar.
Anyone remember seeing them on "Thicke of the night"? They were the musical guest and had crumpled up newspaper all over the floor of the set. Then near the end of the song the singer set fire to it!
Power and the passion was my introduction to them... Do that!! Churr,!!
This is one of the most unique songs I've ever heard.
the fact that you picked up on the protest aspect i salute you
as everyone has mentioned, this band and this song is unique in the way that it's VERY much about Australia and political situations there. They were a socially-conscious band in the same way that REM was at the time, and very few other bands were.
They did an amazing performance of this on Saturday Night Live. Great song.
Love the whole album!!!
You guys rock! Happy Friday!
These guys are brilliant! Their album Blue Sky Mining is tremendous. Forgotten Years, Blue Sky Mine, Mountains of Burma, and One Country are S tier. I promise! This song came out when I was in middle school. And it got me listening. I learned this was about the way that the Aboriginal Peoples of Australia were treated and it needs to be made right. Hearing this stuff in my younger years was a part of shaping how I saw the world. These guys were a big part of that.
Watched them perform in a small Seattle club. Blew me away they were so powerful.
song still kicks every time I hear I listen. love that TROMBONE.
There are a lot of Midnight Oil songs worth a listen, especially the earlier stuff. Songs like Armistice Day, Stand in Line, Run by Night, Naked Flame. There's a distinctive sound and feel with Australian music from the late seventies and early eighties, akin to how Seattle was different.
One of the best albums of the 80s; nothing to throw away. Midnight Oil is a huge group and its leader was Minister of Culture and Ecology in Australia. You absolutely must discover other flagship titles from this group.
Midnight Oil was a big advocate for the aboriginal natives of Australia. This song still rocks today and still retains it's meaning in today's times
The Dead Heart is also 👌🏽.
This is one of those songs I would not go out of my way to listen to....but if it came on in my presence? I'm cranking it.
These guys were great. Blue sky mine and the dead heart are also great songs. So is read about it
The Dead Heart from this album is also worth checking out, or offering as a poll option. 😃
This track is just phenomenal. Glad yall checked it out.
Probably will never see a reaction, but whenever I think of Midnight Oil I also have to remember Yothu Yindi, a mixed Aboriginal/Western group that combined traditional instruments and melodies with modern.
You've got to catch their live performances.
Great tune... 1987 to 1989 had great "mainstream alternative " if that makes sense. The song I'd like to hear is by The Smithereens:
Either "Blood & Roses" or
"Blues Before and After" .
Okay, now that you mention it, I'm just now realizing there's a certain similarity between "Beds are Burning" and "Blood and Roses". They don't sound the SAME. But they create a really deep, underlying groove that you can feel in your chest.
The Dead Heart is another great song on the same album. I really love their Earth, Sun, and Moon album. Truganini, Rennaissance Man, and my favorite My Country are all bangers from that album. Many more.
this is one incredible band. Saw the Oilers 6 times and they rock it out with a message. Peter Garrett the lead singer is one crazy ass kinetic-ball-of-energy, giant of a dude!
Fab way to start the weekend! From this songs first note, my body wants to move!
Now you are bringing back some hardcore 80's memories. Banger!
Ah, I absolutely love the Oils. You MUST do more songs from them!
Awesome band live! I graduated high school in '87, loved this song just hanging out doing anything. Not everyone only listened to music only in clubs and bars. Radio stations were still big back then to hear music for hours during a day, also MTV, vinyl and cassette tapes. No streaming or downloading existed, you had to be there.
I know you guys prefer to listen to a version with no video but with this when you're really missing out.
The lead singer is so cool and badass looking.