As an Aboriginal Australian- bloody awesome Pattie Smith!!!!!!!! thank your for spreading the message about Uluru and the heart of all our Dreamings- she is the Mother of us all. Makes me so inspired to hear a a Midnight Oil song delivered like this. Thank you sister.
This song is a load of crock. No human owns any part of this planet. The planet was here before us and may well outlast us. And as for Ayres Rock, the elements will slowly wittle it away and then it will be known as Ayres Pebble. Have a nice day and ciao for now
No super fireworks, no jucking girls in gold bikinisI Thanks God for that. This is the way to presents music to the world. PERFECT............Patti Smith is fantastic!
71 and still has passion. Wow. Im only 46 and totally done. This performance is total optimism on the premise that people can think and have empathy in 2021.
As an Aussie and have been to Oils gigs since 1978 I'm pretty impressed to see the great Patti Smith cover such an iconic song that speaks to the truths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples struggle. At least 50,000 years of continuous culture in this brilliant land of OZ. Great she's sending the message and it seems she means it too. Oils.
Rip it up Patti Smith!! Awesome. To think that people on the other side of the world hear this song is inspiring for our cause. Aboriginal Australia wants us all to take these words into our hearts and bring the voice with strength and power midnight oil keeps Burning.
Saw Midnight Oil play this live, back in the day, and I LOVE this awesome cover. Love you Patti Smith! I'm 67, - old people have good taste in music ya know!
Deadly! Bundjalung tribe, Northern New South Wales and South East Qld Murrie mob calling out to all our brothers and sisters from the many nations across the face of this vast continent. And big respect Pattie Smith. Legend
I got to meet this heroine of mine back in 2020 at Summer night in Glasgow at the Kelvingrove Bandstand.... the joys of doing security. This diminutive lass is an utter powerhouse. Thank you, Ms Smith, for inspiring me since my youth in the 70s
I think her greatness is simply ineffable. I'm 18 and having a friend like her would be like dreaming. She's flawless and her age is something in plus in her case. I love this amazing Peter Pan ❤️
😮😮😮😮 I am in AWE!!!! This legend kees bringing the musical treasures, still. WHAT A BEYOND INCREDIBLY POWERFUL version. Keep rocking us into more of what you are gifted with Queen Smith 👑😍🔥
@THE URANIUM CAFE Hi there. I did not really want to add anything. YT recommended this video to me. Never heard of her before. But her performance here is powerful. The lyrics a cutting reminder. I'm Malaysian. We have the problems of clearing forests for development and displacing our aboriginal peoples without compensating them justly. And we paid for it with forest fires, environmental degradation and contributing towards global warming. I know some regard climate change and global warming is exaggerated and/or fake news, but is real enough in my country and region. Anyway, also since then discovered this song was originally by an Australian band, Midnight Oil. Also discovered Patti Smith's "Horses" among her other works. That is an awesome album, She is a terrific and original artist whose art (music, lyrics and performance) seems timeless. And yeahh...Post Malone and Ariana Grande seems like mere entertainers and poseurs compared to her live performances of real passion and convinction. Not to mention her lyrics/poetry which resonated till today. Cheers
This video is the first time I saw and heard Patti Smith. Since then got to know her better. She's a distinctive and singular artist who made an indelible impression on me. Was not dissing her in my original comment. It was a Patti Smith first impact on me reaction. She's lit. Cheers.
Fantastic. Saw her in a small university pub around 1978. OF all the concerts I've seen, it is still the most primal, aboriginal display, ever took part in. The crowd was mesmerized and in play.
I saw her at CBGBS and met her at a few parties in the village and had such a crush on her. I thought she was the coolest chick I had ever met. She is much older now but still is cool. I tell my son about her and CBGBs. An era of rock that will never be repeated.
If she has this much passion and energy at 70, her earlier concerts must have been insane! One of those times when I wish I was born a little sooner to have been there.
Hey Deborah. Met you at the front of the queue in Brighton. This is so awesome. Went to The Roundhouse show and Manchester as well. Had, much like you my Patti encounter in Manchester, well she was in the same hotel, good to see also the band having a beer in the hotel bar afterwards. See you somewhere down the road mate.
What a pleasant surprise, I was there. Her whole set was amazing. Nick Cave headlined. It was a beautiful summer evening, one of my favourite ever gigs.
"Patti set the Oils classic up with a poem about Australia’s toxic destruction of the environment. “From the centre of the world, down deep in the earth, down were the swirl of dreams are made, long before the beginning of time, the gods formed a great rock that grows through the desert, and this rock was ruby in the sun, red as blood when the sun smiled upon it, and from its essence man created Dreamtime, and they slept in its shadows, but they did not walk upon it, but then the settlers came and the tourists and those who did not believe, and they tramped upon it, and some fell to their death pulling the red skin of the red rock down into the desert, creating the dust of sorry all the way to the sea, and beneath the sea, so many leagues beneath the sea, Great Barrier Reef, red as blood, red as a ruby, until man infused it with his toxics, with oil, with his plastic, and choked the life out of it, until that great red reef bleached white like the bones of saints in the sun." "
@Steve Ahlbom - Humans, mankind. The poem is Australian, but all archaic peoples had versions of the Dreamworld, sacred sites (Stonehenge, e.g.) and they're all dead and gone...
@@miesenplace Australia just wants to plunder the environment. The Koalas were already heading towards extinction before the bushfires. I feel ashamed of my country and the Government and industry that allows this destruction to happen.
Toole woman who has never lost her ideals. Her lyrics are always profound, encouraging, and also lyrical. I saw you in New York in the 90s and the concert was in Cenrel Park for everyone. Thank you Patty
I was from a small town in Illinois, U.S.A in the early 70's loving her as well as many other kinds of music, I was so disappointed when I dressed as her for Halloween but nobody got it, she was the artist that really opened my eyes to other's nations woes and the angry side of my emotions that dearly needed to get out
Better late than never, brother. Don't forget her contributions to the early Blue Oyster Cult, too. (She was hooked up with one of them back in the day, iirc.)
Saw her set at Bluesfest Byron Bay...she a fabulous storyteller and her bands works it too...she is quite compelling, like she actually has something important to say. It's great to see an older woman still going strong...mostly it's the older Dudes that keep going....her voice still has raw power
Ok....this did my heart good. Wow....I honestly did not think she would make it past the 80s....let alone blow me away in 2018. Keep rocking....Goddess speaks ❤️
Someone wrote that Patti was suicidal in the early '70's. Funny, so was I. So happy to see this fairly recent video. We have lived well in the years since. Love to all.
Patti...if you ever come to read this - like a lot of people, I grew up with you. You didn't influene me, you influenced the people that influenced me. Hearing you sing the Oils....love. just deep and absolute love X
Once got into a show for free because I had an old Patti button on my leather jacket. Dude was like "anyone who likes Patti Smith is too cool to pay. Go on in."
From the 80s but still listening and my first choice amongst women rockers, and amongst equals with Neil Young Dylan Prince and a couple of others. Love her. Got better with age.
I was blessed to see Patti Smith do the Reading Festival in 1978 I was right down the front and mesmerised - great to see she still has the magic and the power :)
Umm - no Stew... its not about the environment. maybe watch the Oils do it at the Sydney Olympics - ua-cam.com/video/dqBRYMdIVzU/v-deo.html It should shameful for us Aussies to have this song about our racism as one of the best known Australian tunes around the word
@@jimwellsmore6172 What you apparently do not appreciate, unlike Patti Smith, is the fact that the lives and souls of indigenous peoples such as the Aborigines of Australia and the First Nations of the Americas are integral to their lands. In turn, colonialists' callous attitudes and approaches towards those lands and the respective environment are identical to those towards the indigenous peoples.
@@tomgchan Tom - try not to be such a hippie. The original comment referred to the environment. Which is fine for a lot of Oils songs. But BAB is precisely about the moral obligation on non-Aboriginal Australians to achieve political and constitutional reconciliation with the original inhabitants of this continent (First People's being a North American term and not Australian). You may like to have a look at things like the Mabo Decision, the Uluru Statement and the debate about Invasion Day before you try to tell me what I don't appreciate
Damn! F'ing Great! If one did not see this video, or been told that Patti was 71 years old, you would think this was recorded in her prime. And I was happy to hear that the Dublin audience gave her the respect she well deserves.
Dublin is a long way from Australia. Most Australians don't understand the song, or share the message - 'pay the rent', or 'give it back'. It is easy for outsiders to see the situation in black and white, the reality is much more complex, especially coupled with a history of denial and the 'great Australian silence'.
As an Aboriginal Australian- bloody awesome Pattie Smith!!!!!!!! thank your for spreading the message about Uluru and the heart of all our Dreamings- she is the Mother of us all. Makes me so inspired to hear a a Midnight Oil song delivered like this. Thank you sister.
Great interpretation, glad to see she still enjoys it with some old friends
This song is a load of crock. No human owns any part of this planet. The planet was here before us and may well outlast us. And as for Ayres Rock, the elements will slowly wittle it away and then it will be known as Ayres Pebble. Have a nice day and ciao for now
@@whiteandblackzebra7005 nothing wrong beeing aware of the damage we, the people do to our Mother Earth. We are vermin
@@whiteandblackzebra7005It's about respect for the beliefs of an ancient culture. About not being entitled arrogant ar*eholes.
@@whiteandblackzebra7005 fxxcking oath maaate
No super fireworks, no jucking girls in gold bikinisI Thanks God for that. This is the way to presents music to the world. PERFECT............Patti Smith is fantastic!
Patti Smith singing Midnight Oil, I have no words for how wonderful this makes me feel!
It's a powerful thing indeed brother.
It was an OMG moment when I discovered this.
Great song!😍
I KNOW! It's not even my birthday!!!
and doing it well!
71 years old and rocking better than ever! No tricks, no autotune , No lights or fireworks show, no back-up reel.
Who's counting?
I am 70 never take me down Fk the wankers !!!!!
Be well keep KIKKIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Raw power, and nothing else. Nothing to remove, nothing to add, only the best.
Patti has always been thoroughly genuine.
We need more prayer art like this! Stand up for what is right and never give up the fight!
Prayers will get us nowhere, there is no god. Only human physical action by us all will change anything.
Agreed: Patti Smith does Prayer Rock masterfully and Brilliantly. We do need more authentic prayer rock to bring about social change.
Anything Patti Smith sings is worth listening to.
71 and still has passion. Wow. Im only 46 and totally done. This performance is total optimism on the premise that people can think and have empathy in 2021.
😂😂 I love this comment Bonnie Hill! You are NOT totally done. You'll still be rockin in the free world when you're in your 70s too 🖤
never done Bonnie… and say hi to Benny for me.
If I was a songwriter and Patti Smith covered one of my songs, I think it would represent the ultimate compliment. I would die satisfied.
amen
Long live Midnight Oil ( Peter Garretts song )
I died satisfied after listening to this. XP
it wasn't written by garrett, it was written by rob hirst
Yeah. Her cover of Harrison's "Within You, Without You" is fabulous. Brilliantly set in 3/4 time.
As an Aussie and have been to Oils gigs since 1978 I'm pretty impressed to see the great Patti Smith cover such an iconic song that speaks to the truths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples struggle. At least 50,000 years of continuous culture in this brilliant land of OZ. Great she's sending the message and it seems she means it too. Oils.
Wow, she is living and owning it, isn’t she. Hugely invested. Spreading the word.
it is all about the oil
Thumbs up for using the word "PEOPLES" correctly. 🎉
Rip it up Patti Smith!! Awesome. To think that people on the other side of the world hear this song is inspiring for our cause. Aboriginal Australia wants us all to take these words into our hearts and bring the voice with strength and power midnight oil keeps Burning.
Saw Midnight Oil play this live, back in the day, and I LOVE this awesome cover. Love you Patti Smith! I'm 67, - old people have good taste in music ya know!
I hear ya, argon65, I'm 66 and I do remember.-
Deadly! Bundjalung tribe, Northern New South Wales and South East Qld Murrie mob calling out to all our brothers and sisters from the many nations across the face of this vast continent.
And big respect Pattie Smith.
Legend
GENIUS VERSION. LONG LIVE PATTI. !! Amazing live. YOU GOTTA SEE HER. SO MUCH PASSION!! Gx
Patti, you're probably the only non-Australian who could do this iconic song...poetry...yet a search for justice.
The cover is exceptional. Excellent stage presence and the bass line is fantastic
I got to meet this heroine of mine back in 2020 at Summer night in Glasgow at the Kelvingrove Bandstand.... the joys of doing security.
This diminutive lass is an utter powerhouse.
Thank you, Ms Smith, for inspiring me since my youth in the 70s
I think her greatness is simply ineffable. I'm 18 and having a friend like her would be like dreaming. She's flawless and her age is something in plus in her case. I love this amazing Peter Pan ❤️
Patti, you are something to behold, a gift to the world. I love everything you have written and sung. Thank you.
😮😮😮😮 I am in AWE!!!! This legend kees bringing the musical treasures, still. WHAT A BEYOND INCREDIBLY POWERFUL version.
Keep rocking us into more of what you are gifted with Queen Smith 👑😍🔥
Being a proud Aboriginal man, I got goosies listening to Pattie's version!
She's absolutely brilliant. I just discovered her music and books(Nov.2019). Feels like I'm starting my life over. Great band too!
Never too late ✌️👍
This IS the Dreamtime
want to know more?
want to escape the Reincarnation soul trap?
do you want to see BETTER places?
What a stage presence! She.is.awesome.
❤
What a wonderful tribute to Midnight Oil: to have Patti Smith perform one of their most iconic songs.
She's amazing live, I have seen her, I will never forget this energy, this genius ! She is just irresistible.The public was totally with her.
Brilliant. From an Australian - thanks Patti!
I have to blink back the tears when I watch this. We all have this fierce utopian passion in us...how has the world come to this?
Many years ago, saw her at a Bob Dylan concert. Her version of Paint it Black, was The Show!!! The Lady ROCKS!
I'd have to say that having Patti Smith cover your song has to be one of the best things that can happen to a musician.
Ok. She is not Ariana Grande or Post Malone. But this 1,000 years old sorceress is much, much more charismatic and mesmerizing to listen to and watch.
...who the hell is Post Malone ....[rhetoric question ] ...
No she is not a younger blander artist is that what you are saying
Patti is self made not by a factory or a team
@THE URANIUM CAFE Hi there. I did not really want to add anything. YT recommended this video to me. Never heard of her before. But her performance here is powerful. The lyrics a cutting reminder. I'm Malaysian. We have the problems of clearing forests for development and displacing our aboriginal peoples without compensating them justly. And we paid for it with forest fires, environmental degradation and contributing towards global warming. I know some regard climate change and global warming is exaggerated and/or fake news, but is real enough in my country and region. Anyway, also since then discovered this song was originally by an Australian band, Midnight Oil. Also discovered Patti Smith's "Horses" among her other works. That is an awesome album, She is a terrific and original artist whose art (music, lyrics and performance) seems timeless. And yeahh...Post Malone and Ariana Grande seems like mere entertainers and poseurs compared to her live performances of real passion and convinction. Not to mention her lyrics/poetry which resonated till today. Cheers
This video is the first time I saw and heard Patti Smith. Since then got to know her better. She's a distinctive and singular artist who made an indelible impression on me. Was not dissing her in my original comment. It was a Patti Smith first impact on me reaction. She's lit. Cheers.
Fantastic. Saw her in a small university pub around 1978. OF all the concerts I've seen, it is still the most primal, aboriginal display, ever took part in. The crowd was mesmerized and in play.
Absolutely smashing it. I've loved this gal since I discovered her music and poetry back in the 70's. She's still got it...
Something about this woman is magical and I don't know what it is.
Hello Natural
EVERYTHING is magical about Patti. Peace.
Passion,, integrity and genius talent!
Was füreinander großartiges Lied und was für eine wunderbare Performance. Patti ist immer noch so aktuell und großartig wie vor 40 Jahren. ✌️👏❤️
Every time Patti performs in Italy, I discover too late!! Please continue to visit us and perform here. I want to see you before it's too late!!
We need Patty Smith more now than ever!! Everyone must speak up for justice and what is right. Thank you Patty 💖☮️🇺🇸
Powerfull lady real deal
@@geraldmorgan2539 l
The million dollar question: what is right?
I saw her at CBGBS and met her at a few parties in the village and had such a crush on her. I thought she was the coolest chick I had ever met. She is much older now but still is cool. I tell my son about her and CBGBs. An era of rock that will never be repeated.
You Lucky one
Absolute favourite Midnight Oil song - bloody amazing Patti Smith!!
Hello Carrollyn
If she has this much passion and energy at 70, her earlier concerts must have been insane! One of those times when I wish I was born a little sooner to have been there.
last week in Utrecht once again this song, and the same intensity! 72 and still rocking, and believing in what the sings!! Amazing Patti!
Great version - have seen her do it twice now and was blown away - I am an Aussie - flew over just to see her 👍🇦🇺❤️
Hey Deborah. Met you at the front of the queue in Brighton. This is so awesome. Went to The Roundhouse show and Manchester as well. Had, much like you my Patti encounter in Manchester, well she was in the same hotel, good to see also the band having a beer in the hotel bar afterwards. See you somewhere down the road mate.
HickoryWind keep in touch you just never know when “ paths that cross” 😉 again I am on instagram debjmah👍
I love how music brings people together; wishing you both the best
And your carbon footprint ?
More money then sense then.
Dang! Been a Patti fan since '74. Seen her and the band many times.
Didn't know she/they covered this! (Love The Oils)
Kicking butt as ever. W0000t!🧡🎶
What a pleasant surprise, I was there. Her whole set was amazing. Nick Cave headlined. It was a beautiful summer evening, one of my favourite ever gigs.
Yep.. brilliant night! (Nick Cave was awesome, too! )
The High Priestess of Punk and Rock... and still going strong... a true Disciple of the Arts!
"Patti set the Oils classic up with a poem about Australia’s toxic destruction of the environment.
“From the centre of the world,
down deep in the earth,
down were the swirl of dreams are made,
long before the beginning of time,
the gods formed a great rock that grows through the desert,
and this rock was ruby in the sun,
red as blood when the sun smiled upon it,
and from its essence man created Dreamtime,
and they slept in its shadows,
but they did not walk upon it,
but then the settlers came and the tourists and those who did not believe,
and they tramped upon it,
and some fell to their death pulling the red skin of the red rock down into the desert,
creating the dust of sorry all the way to the sea,
and beneath the sea, so many leagues beneath the sea,
Great Barrier Reef, red as blood, red as a ruby,
until man infused it with his toxics, with oil, with his plastic,
and choked the life out of it,
until that great red reef bleached white like the bones of saints in the sun." "
@Steve Ahlbom - Humans, mankind. The poem is Australian, but all archaic peoples had versions of the Dreamworld, sacred sites (Stonehenge, e.g.) and they're all dead and gone...
@@miesenplace Australia just wants to plunder the environment. The Koalas were already heading towards extinction before the bushfires. I feel ashamed of my country and the Government and industry that allows this destruction to happen.
her 'poetry' always was worse than her music
@@sexobscura only for those with no discernible heart or taste...
The poem made think of Jim Morrison and his writings...very mystic..
Toole woman who has never lost her ideals.
Her lyrics are always profound, encouraging, and also lyrical.
I saw you in New York in the 90s and the concert was in Cenrel Park for everyone.
Thank you Patty
What a fantastic version and connection to this song! Patti has always been an original spirit.
The real deal. One of the most inspirational singasong writers. Thanks for sharing!
Incredible
It took me 50years
But I finally get Patti Smith
GREETINGS FROM DUBLIN IRELAND brothers and sisters...she is deadly...
I was from a small town in Illinois, U.S.A in the early 70's loving her as well as many other kinds of music, I was so disappointed when I dressed as her for Halloween but nobody got it, she was the artist that really opened my eyes to other's nations woes and the angry side of my emotions that dearly needed to get out
I do recommend her book called Just Kids, it's such a great book!
I read it and enjoyed it thoroughly
Better late than never, brother.
Don't forget her contributions to the early Blue Oyster Cult, too.
(She was hooked up with one of them back in the day, iirc.)
Not only does this song cover a important topic, it's a killer tune as well.
Saw her set at Bluesfest Byron Bay...she a fabulous storyteller and her bands works it too...she is quite compelling, like she actually has something important to say. It's great to see an older woman still going strong...mostly it's the older Dudes that keep going....her voice still has raw power
Exactly; nice one.
WOW! I'm Australian and had never heard of or seen this before ....... FANTASTIC and I LOVE it that she's the same age as I am
Um well about sweetwaters time ... way back when .... i was a teenager ....he was 6ft 6" and lost a couple kilo a concert .....
This woman is raw glorious power, that hits and hits the gladdened soul!!
do you want to free your soul from this Matrix / Dreamtime?
I still fall in love with Patty and now I fall in love with that bass player, nice. Greetings from Rosario-Argentina
Hello from North American in Tbilisi, Georgia ( the country ) . Stay well . Be safe . Music and great writing may save our souls .
@@debbiedunn3779 That's right music is very right and the beautiful letters heal the soul. Adiós!!! Goodbye
Ok....this did my heart good. Wow....I honestly did not think she would make it past the 80s....let alone blow me away in 2018. Keep rocking....Goddess speaks ❤️
A great poetess and performer - she is unique.
This is cover song... unique may not be the best word for this
@@SmithCommaBenjamin Eunuch
She is a beautiful woman with the greatest soul .....
No one comes close to Patti Smith - she is the ultimate diva!
Your sentiment means well, but she's not a diva. She's pure, raw punk.
Seeing Patti Smith cover Midnight Oil makes me vibrate and wail! 💗
She’s still got it!!! Keep on going!!
One of the best shows I ever saw in my life was Patti Smith at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in SF in 2011. She is timeless and forever young!!!
I was in the audience at The Paramount in Seattle back in 1977 the night Patti Smith rocked our socks off💕👌
I am so envious! I love her to pueces❤️
Same here Dana but Erlangen Germany 1977
Someone wrote that Patti was suicidal in the early '70's. Funny, so was I. So happy to see this fairly recent video. We have lived well in the years since. Love to all.
Karen Hansen yea
that's one of the best things i've watched in a while. thank you patti smith for meaning every word.
Fantastic to see that Patti is still going as strong as ever. This is wonderful!
Lucky to get watched the very energetic lady. I am 18 . Who else are watching in 2020?
Always had my best astral projections using Patty's music. do I owe royalties
O'course you do.
:-) / It's her birthday tomorrow* dec. 30 2020* In Paramaribo - where I live - it's already 'tomorrow' / x, Ricky*
I got goose bumpz listening to the introduction ... Wtg Patti Smith!
Beds Are Burning is one of my favorite songs. This version is awesome!! 👍👍👍
And she means it
Hello Lena
One of my heroes covering my other heroes. Can’t complain
Wow, this was WAY better than I thought it would be.
She is goddess and priestess of her own religion. Thanks Patti.
Forever grateful
Patti Smith and Midnight Oil hold a special place in my heart. This is a treat.
This is f---ing AWESOME.
I had no idea she's still so powerful. What a woman!
Damn how powerful a group of musicians can be! Repeatingly listening.
Patti always on fire.Thanks
Holy shit - this is breathtakingly good - keeping rock alive - Patti Smith!
And she keeps up and calls out the great songs of our time
I saw her with Iggy in the seventies. Lucky me.
Lucky you.
I condole you
the least that karma give you to distract you from your name.
WHATTTTTTTTT A BIG HUG TO YOU
Wish I had of been there.
Patti...if you ever come to read this - like a lot of people, I grew up with you. You didn't influene me, you influenced the people that influenced me. Hearing you sing the Oils....love. just deep and absolute love X
Can't believe Patti is doing this in 2018? WTF? Respect! Go Patti!
Once got into a show for free because I had an old Patti button on my leather jacket. Dude was like "anyone who likes Patti Smith is too cool to pay. Go on in."
She sounds great. ❤😇❤ Thank you. God Bless You Patti.
Saved my life a lot of times. Music!
Hello Manuela
She has no thumbs down. That says a lot. A real beautiful woman.
PARA MÍ HERMANO TINO QUE DESDE EL CIELO ESTARÁ ESCUCHANDO A SU LIDER!!!.PATTI SMHITH.
GRACIAS PATTI ❤❤❤
This is a fantastic performance, and her band just brings it.
I feel vibrations in my body, feet up..head..and down, deep emotion listening Patti
What a great introduction to an amazing performance of this great Australian song! Thank you for sharing!
OMG I love this/her!!! I'm gonna keep singing till I drop.
Know Music... Know Life
omg this is a powerful cover! I got goosebumps! all hail to the queen,the goddess of my generation.
I am sooooooo stoked....going to see her live in April. I am a fan of her for 40 years.
I LOVE PATTI SMITH, EVER SINCE THE LATE 70'S. SO AWESOME, A FKN GENIUS. SHE WILL ALWAYS BE SO SPECIAL TO ME.
From the 80s but still listening and my first choice amongst women rockers, and amongst equals with Neil Young Dylan Prince and a couple of others. Love her. Got better with age.
Just shows how powerful music can be
Great video capture of an all~ways contemporary hit demonstrating the artists talents in many aspects -- thank you for sharing!
Thanks!
I was blessed to see Patti Smith do the Reading Festival in 1978 I was right down the front and mesmerised - great to see she still has the magic and the power :)
Hey Patti am an aussie and a big fan of yours from way back, thanks for doing one of our Midnight Oil tracks about a very important environment issue.
Umm - no Stew... its not about the environment. maybe watch the Oils do it at the Sydney Olympics - ua-cam.com/video/dqBRYMdIVzU/v-deo.html
It should shameful for us Aussies to have this song about our racism as one of the best known Australian tunes around the word
@@jimwellsmore6172 It's not about shame. It's about good future action.
@@jimwellsmore6172 What you apparently do not appreciate, unlike Patti Smith, is the fact that the lives and souls of indigenous peoples such as the Aborigines of Australia and the First Nations of the Americas are integral to their lands. In turn, colonialists' callous attitudes and approaches towards those lands and the respective environment are identical to those towards the indigenous peoples.
@@tomgchan Tom - try not to be such a hippie. The original comment referred to the environment. Which is fine for a lot of Oils songs. But BAB is precisely about the moral obligation on non-Aboriginal Australians to achieve political and constitutional reconciliation with the original inhabitants of this continent (First People's being a North American term and not Australian). You may like to have a look at things like the Mabo Decision, the Uluru Statement and the debate about Invasion Day before you try to tell me what I don't appreciate
hey stewart ...heres my band take ua-cam.com/video/VjxLtraxGTU/v-deo.html
Damn! F'ing Great! If one did not see this video, or been told that Patti was 71 years old, you would think this was recorded in her prime. And I was happy to hear that the Dublin audience gave her the respect she well deserves.
Dublin is a long way from Australia. Most Australians don't understand the song, or share the message - 'pay the rent', or 'give it back'. It is easy for outsiders to see the situation in black and white, the reality is much more complex, especially coupled with a history of denial and the 'great Australian silence'.
A universal treasure long live Patti Darling
Speechless. I need to see her live one more time...just one more time. Godspeed Bill and Charlie, you will be there with me.
me, too, I need to see her again, too! Just even one more time..
Awesome. Midnight Oil would be so proud that Patti Smith sang their song.
Watching again...in awe.