MIDNIGHT OIL
1988 has already seen some pretty bizarre sights— fortunately, not all of them on the negative side. Seriously, if someone had told you last year that Midnight Oil were about to break through to mainstream acceptance on the strength of a tune about giving part of Australia back to the Aborigines, you'd have been just a tad doubtful, right? But it's happened.
MIDNIGHT OIL
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''We'll save Australia Don't wanna hurt no kangaroo We'll build an All-American amusement park there They got surfin' too'
Randy Newman 1969
by Michael Davis
1988 has already seen some pretty bizarre sights— fortunately, not all of them on the negative side. Seriously, if someone had told you last year that Midnight Oil were about to break through to mainstream acceptance on the strength of a tune about giving part of Australia back to the Aborigines, you'd have been just a tad doubtful, right? But it's happened. Diesel And Dust has been sniffing around the Top 20 for a month as I write this and 'Beds Are Burning' is a bona fide hit single.