I saw Midnight Oil in Chicago when I was 15 years old (1987) at the Aragon Ballroom and it changed my life. It was a school night, and had no drivers license, but had a friend a year older who was willing to drive into the city. Aboriginal people were on stage playing instruments I have never heard before. Midnight Oil has influenced me dedicate my career to helping improve the environment and the safety of employees in the workplace. Thank you Midnight Oil!
I remember coming across the oils in the late 80s and they changed my life. Listening to the lyrics puts you in Australia. I have just started to listen to their music again and the messages they portray are still relevant now.
@@fargeeks Unless you clipped Paul Kelly's toenails, you wouldn't understand... Please ref earlier comment by someone saying unless you saw midnight oil live you could never understand them.
Greatest protest ever..... i was in grade 5 when our teacher showed us .. in class.. just right after the Exxon Valdez disaster oil spill... and i was in Papua New guinea..😎😎😎😎 Australian living treasures...
Have seen these fellas perform in concert 6 times. Drove from San Diego to Los Angeles once to see them, and saw them again next day in San Diego. Could not get enough. Hunters and collectors, another awesome Aussie band and to me one of best EVER rock groups, on the same bill. Pure heaven, that show... I recall just where I was in 1983, the first time I ever heard Oils coming out of my car speakers on 91X radio station in San Diego. Power and the passion. I was heading south on Kettner Bvd. It smacked me right in the face. I though holy shit! Who are these guys...? Tower records was close by. I drove right to there and bought that album. Had to hear more, and asap...
The change of format by 91X back in 1983 was literally a life saver for me. I had been in a deep funk for three YEARS at the time after two back to back break-ups and simply looking forward to listening to new sounds and bands from everywhere kept me distracted and interested. Midnight oil was one of them that provided interest. These bands had their own unique sounds and styles, and most of all they had what the late great Sam Cooke once said distinguished a good song from an unsuccessful one - HOOKS. In this one it's the "Raaaaaaaaaiiin in the valley below". Today's songs lack those hooks. I'll take the sounds from the '80s over those of the '70s and '90s. No contest.
God, every time I hear this song, I shiver with joy. It may be after years, it doesnt matter. This is one of the songs that will come together forever, until the end.
Midnight Oil was my teens. I saw them live in Melbourne in 1982. It was my first concert and I was fifteen. I saw them many times live, last time in Hobart, 2018. I was fifty one. Awesome band.
The rhythmic flow of the lyrics in this song is just perfect. The choppy phrasing in the verses. The drawn out "raaaaaiiiiiiin in the valley" pre-chorus. "Say you're Peter / Say you're Paul". It's so catchy. I loved this as a little kid even when I had no idea what it was about. Lesson to all political bands: wrap your message in gorgeous pop hooks - that's how you get it out there.
I was there....great concert, great times, back in the day....... the Oils were a group born of their time, along with all those amazing Aussie bands we use to go to the pub to listen to on a sunday arvo....
No 1 Australian rock band ever just discovered this. born in 93 I am in love. just discovered this. born in 93 I am in love. I'm starting to love this band
Agree -- I seen hundreds of bands but seeing Midnight Oil Live still has stuck with me all these years later -- Ive seen U2, Stones, AC/DC,GNR, and all the other great bands...
No 1 Australian rock band ever This American has loved Midnight Oil for almost 30 years now :-) My a The best Aussie band ever, if you saw them live, you know what I mean
Both the video and the song are so contagious: you're leaving your job after another boring job day and then you run into Midnight Oil playing FOR FREE!
"Don't put me up on your bedroom wall" was always kinda funny to me because I had a Midnight Oil poster on the wall of my bedroom when I listened to this song every day.
It’s about what we believe in, our care for, and then our act upon that matters, that’s his point I feel. We may idolise our wise ones and they are only there to be before us, that where we can also be, in our ways~
Best memory of peter was Melbourne `1982ish, walking down the street outside, toward the parliament. My father refused to stop the car...May we may see more~ US
Bro I'm a kiwi and I'd love to sink a few steinys and have a good long yarn with them they are legends who used their platform to raise awareness on so many issues. Absolute champions
I think you'd hear this from an awful lot of Kiwis. First time for me was the DB Sandridge, Sydenham, Christchurch, NZ in 1981, I think. Most outstanding was the 10-to-1 show at the CHCH Town Hall in, maybe, 1983 or 4?? Also heard PG speak at Cant'y Uni in about '83; very impressive. I'd say that the correct attitude to strike is to consider Midnight Oil as being an 'antipodean band' rather than an Australian band (like, say, Cold Chisel - they can have them to themselves).
Ahh Cmon Bro your not still brewing because we took Dragon & Split Enz it was 40 years ago! You can have Rolf Harris back isn’t he a kiwi? Well he is now take him! lol
Few 80's bands really stand up to time. Midnight Oil is one that does, magnificently.. In some ways they are as fresh, and as urgent, as they were 40 years ago.
Back in 1997 when i was 15 my Grandmother died of a heart attack suddenly. I was due to compete against the year 12's in the school athletics carnival i wasn't going to compete but after listening to this song i was so motivated i wasn't only going to compete, i was going to win. I won and Australia's leading racecaller Matty Hill who was a colleague called me a courageous boy then even better my Dad was in tears when i won. Peter Garrett is a true Australian icon and even better vocalist.
Love you Oils reminds me of my Dad driving his torana up from Sydney to Coffs Harbour in the 80s and I was just a kid in the back. So much has changed mass this mass that makes me appreciate the simplicity of what I knew my country Australia to be.
I was a fan waaaay back when they broke in the states- and I still love em- they were way ahead of anything back then and their music translates quite nicely in 2010. You guys ROCK.
Midnight Oil are truly something special ❤️ we need more bands like them that sing about the big issues. Loved them my whole life - my dad played their stuff when he drove me around as a kid
i'm aussie and i'm just getting into midnight oil and tonight is the first time i've ever kicked back and had a good listen to all their great songs. and my mind is being blown! what a great sound! and message in their music. they were a huge part of of mt childhood and growing up.
Even if you're pushed to the wall, for the things you believe in, you don't give in. Nicely said, Peter!! I like that. I love Midnight Oil. Such a totally awesome band!! "KEEP ROCKING, AUSTRALIA!!"
Songs by the Oils make me DAMN proud to be australia....I really wish the message was spread further. Good to see folks from an international audience viewing their videos though.
Whoever directed this video = genius. This was way ahead of its time. How it was shot, edited. I remember it came out in 1989 after the Exxon Valdez spill....32 years ago when MTV still played music videos.
This song is about Mt. Cooroora, in the Noosa Hinterland In Queensland Australia in the town of Pomona. I have spoken to Robbie Hirst, Midnight Oil 's former drummer and he confirmed this. There is a foot race up Mt. Cooroora on the fourth Sunday of July every year called 'King of the Mountain’. Plus it’s part of a larger mountain range in the area and have spectacular views and large valleys where the mist rolls off the hills. The area surrounding Pomona contains many cane fields and the term ‘cane cockies’ refers to a farmer. In Australia there are a number of cockies including cow cockies, cane cockies and wheat cockies. Cocky arose in the 1870s and is an abbreviation of cockatoo farmer. This was then a disparaging term for small-scale farmers, probably because of their habit of using a small area of land for a short time and then moving on, in the perceived manner of cockatoos feeding.
I was lucky enough to discover them on my trip to Austrailia in the 80's and then being able to see them in concert and meet up with them over the years.On their last world tour I was able to have my son meet them twice as they came through Seattle. These were show's we will never forget.
I'm Serbian,and i love them from the childhood.I have all albums of them.Unfortunately, in my country, very few people even know about them because they are not as frequent.
I’m a fellow Serbian raised in Australia. When I was 20 I moved over there and introduced my whole extended family & friends to Midnight Oil and many other Australian bands! They fell in love with the music and felt a bit of Australian culture in them too. Pozdrav!
No 1 Australian rock band ever just discovered this. born in 93 I am in love. i thought peter BROCK was the king of the mountain. By far ome of the most underrated bands of the 80s!
Onde estão as bandas que cantam por uma razão verdadeira e inteligente? Midnight Oil eternamente em meu coração. Como dizia minha avó... hoje em dia não se faz música como antigamente.
I am an aussie, saw the oils perform in a pub way before anyone even knew who they where, i was in my teens, peter garet had so much energy on stage, i knew back then that this band would have great success, my fav ossie band ever
41 years ago I saw Midnight Oil at The Royal Antler Narrabeen. I have to thank the boys from The Strand house at Dee Why for taking me to the gig. It was late 1979, a warm night, people pouring jugs of iced water on each other and Peter Garrett's head, steam coming from the Lead Singer's bald cranium. Their music and especially their lyrics have made THE OILS one of the most important Rock bands in history. This new song ' Gadigal Land' is an instant Oils Classic. Words cannot describe how much I love this track. Sydney Radio station MMM played it every hour yesterday, so credit to them for that. Before they played it the first time I was thinking " oh, I hope it's good " I loved it from the opening chords, the thumping Drums, the throbbing Bass and Garrett's vocals delivering every word that is punching the Colonial invaders in the face. Well done boys, this is excellent!
This song is fantastic and the backing vocals really make it great. The musical hooks in this song well it speaks for itself. Miss the good Aussie bands we had so many once upon a time. Midnight oil, Hunter and collectors, AC/DC, INXS, The saints, Neil fin, Nick Cave, the list really goes on. I'm sure there is some great bands around now they get drowned out by garbage all over youtube and other areas unfortunately.
first time i listened to diesel and dust i was blown away, and i've been a fan ever since. i wore out the blue sky mining cassette when i was deployed in desert storm. too bad the world wasn't ready for them.
I like this song and like all Midnight Oil songs! I saw them at California and I was 4 and I'm 12 and I still remember! They were playing the Capricornia album.
I love the fact they rock up out the front of Exxon-Mobil @ the WTC in New York City and tell them how it is in the form of some of the best songs ever written. 😎🤘✊
Song about King of the Mountain , about an endurance race still held in Pomona QLD called King of the Mountain Festival held in July .Watch out for cane trains....
I saw Midnight Oil in Chicago when I was 15 years old (1987) at the Aragon Ballroom and it changed my life. It was a school night, and had no drivers license, but had a friend a year older who was willing to drive into the city. Aboriginal people were on stage playing instruments I have never heard before. Midnight Oil has influenced me dedicate my career to helping improve the environment and the safety of employees in the workplace. Thank you Midnight Oil!
I think they opened a hell of a lot of eyes
And they still are
I only got into them a month or two ago and I love ‘em
@@rohcool323 it's never too late 😊
God bless you sir from Australia
im american i do get it .i have seen the oil live twice and have been a fan since 1981.have all midnight oils albums
BY FAR their most underrated song.
Liar
And their best
Stars of Warburton.
agree
This American has loved Midnight Oil for almost 30 years now :-)
No 1 Australian rock band ever
arguably one of the best bands to come out of the 80s.....and Australia!!!!
I remember coming across the oils in the late 80s and they changed my life. Listening to the lyrics puts you in Australia. I have just started to listen to their music again and the messages they portray are still relevant now.
Have a go at the 20,000watts RSL album brother it's brilliant
This American has loved Midnight Oil for almost 30 years now :-)
sorry unless you saw then play in pubs here......... in their hey day ......you really dont understand
I like Paul Kelly
You should listen to Leaps and Bounds
From your fellow American
@@lornastrachan9234 That's a wanky thing to say....
@@fargeeks Unless you clipped Paul Kelly's toenails, you wouldn't understand... Please ref earlier comment by someone saying unless you saw midnight oil live you could never understand them.
argwyth you got good taste in music. Good on ya 👍
A band ahead of their time. saw them live four times....unbelievable energy and passion.
Greatest protest ever..... i was in grade 5 when our teacher showed us .. in class.. just right after the Exxon Valdez disaster oil spill... and i was in Papua New guinea..😎😎😎😎 Australian living treasures...
this song makes cry every time I hear it.
OILs forever
Why?
I so miss the 80's!
me too
@@dmariebella6309 Literally the best decade of my life!
😊 Hello, A close friend of mine went to a Midnight Oil concert and he never wanted to go home......that's how BRILLIANT you guys are...❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😅😊🎉
Rob Hurst has to be one of the best Aussie drummer... ever!!!! Love Midnight Oil.
Have seen these fellas perform in concert 6 times. Drove from San Diego to Los Angeles once to see them, and saw them again next day in San Diego. Could not get enough. Hunters and collectors, another awesome Aussie band and to me one of best EVER rock groups, on the same bill. Pure heaven, that show... I recall just where I was in 1983, the first time I ever heard Oils coming out of my car speakers on 91X radio station in San Diego. Power and the passion. I was heading south on Kettner Bvd. It smacked me right in the face. I though holy shit! Who are these guys...? Tower records was close by. I drove right to there and bought that album. Had to hear more, and asap...
You have some great tastes. Always remember Doc Neeson from The Angels!! Holy shit
The change of format by 91X back in 1983 was literally a life saver for me. I had been in a deep funk for three YEARS at the time after two back to back break-ups and simply looking forward to listening to new sounds and bands from everywhere kept me distracted and interested. Midnight oil was one of them that provided interest. These bands had their own unique sounds and styles, and most of all they had what the late great Sam Cooke once said distinguished a good song from an unsuccessful one - HOOKS. In this one it's the "Raaaaaaaaaiiin in the valley below". Today's songs lack those hooks. I'll take the sounds from the '80s over those of the '70s and '90s. No contest.
One Aussie band I'd recommend you look into if you like these guys and Hunters and Collectors is Cold Chisel.
God, every time I hear this song, I shiver with joy. It may be after years, it doesnt matter. This is one of the songs that will come together forever, until the end.
Midnight Oil was my teens. I saw them live in Melbourne in 1982. It was my first concert and I was fifteen.
I saw them many times live, last time in Hobart, 2018. I was fifty one.
Awesome band.
The rhythmic flow of the lyrics in this song is just perfect. The choppy phrasing in the verses. The drawn out "raaaaaiiiiiiin in the valley" pre-chorus. "Say you're Peter / Say you're Paul". It's so catchy. I loved this as a little kid even when I had no idea what it was about. Lesson to all political bands: wrap your message in gorgeous pop hooks - that's how you get it out there.
Love those Americans in the crowd who pretty quickly realised they were hearing some excellent stuff and started rockin out! ✌✊
As a kid I thought this was about Peter Brock. It'll always be Brocky's song for me.
Thank god there are people like the 'Oils' that care about the serious issues affecting people and raise awareness by producing songs like this.
I was there....great concert, great times, back in the day....... the Oils were a group born of their time, along with all those amazing Aussie bands we use to go to the pub to listen to on a sunday arvo....
No 1 Australian rock band ever
just discovered this. born in 93
I am in love.
just discovered this. born in 93
I am in love.
I'm starting to love this band
I started listening to the Oils as a kid, I'm 32 now! still jamming to them. glad to be going to their last ever tour
Agree -- I seen hundreds of bands but seeing Midnight Oil Live still has stuck with me all these years later -- Ive seen U2, Stones, AC/DC,GNR, and all the other great bands...
R.I.P bones Hillman your in rock heaven now♥️
Right on my brother
Great bassist...great band....
Oh man.
Just found out today. Playing Oils in memory.
No 1 Australian rock band ever
This American has loved Midnight Oil for almost 30 years now :-)
My a
The best Aussie band ever, if you saw them live, you know what I mean
Both the video and the song are so contagious: you're leaving your job after another boring job day and then you run into Midnight Oil playing FOR FREE!
Goodbye Bones! RIP. Play on Midnight Oil!
We need your message & music now more than ever!
What a ripper. Pure energy captured in 4 minutes.
"Don't put me up on your bedroom wall" was always kinda funny to me because I had a Midnight Oil poster on the wall of my bedroom when I listened to this song every day.
+Marko Ramius Rebel.
It’s about what we believe in, our care for, and then our act upon that matters, that’s his point I feel. We may idolise our wise ones and they are only there to be before us, that where we can also be, in our ways~
Best memory of peter was Melbourne `1982ish, walking down the street outside, toward the parliament. My father refused to stop the car...May we may see more~ US
What a coincidence
Was it the Red Sails In The Sunset cover? Me too :-)
By far ome of the most underrated bands of the 80s!
Forever deeply in love with these guys!❤❤❤
Won't hear this from many Kiwis but this is one aussie band I would drink a steiny with. Cheers to the band for sticking up for the little people.
Love from Australia cuzzy
Bro I'm a kiwi and I'd love to sink a few steinys and have a good long yarn with them they are legends who used their platform to raise awareness on so many issues. Absolute champions
I think you'd hear this from an awful lot of Kiwis. First time for me was the DB Sandridge, Sydenham, Christchurch, NZ in 1981, I think. Most outstanding was the 10-to-1 show at the CHCH Town Hall in, maybe, 1983 or 4?? Also heard PG speak at Cant'y Uni in about '83; very impressive. I'd say that the correct attitude to strike is to consider Midnight Oil as being an 'antipodean band' rather than an Australian band (like, say, Cold Chisel - they can have them to themselves).
Ahh Cmon Bro your not still brewing because we took Dragon & Split Enz it was 40 years ago! You can have Rolf Harris back isn’t he a kiwi? Well he is now take him! lol
Im from US what the hell does it mean to be a Kiwi
Few 80's bands really stand up to time. Midnight Oil is one that does, magnificently.. In some ways they are as fresh, and as urgent, as they were 40 years ago.
Back in 1997 when i was 15 my Grandmother died of a heart attack suddenly. I was due to compete against the year 12's in the school athletics carnival i wasn't going to compete but after listening to this song i was so motivated i wasn't only going to compete, i was going to win. I won and Australia's leading racecaller Matty Hill who was a colleague called me a courageous boy then even better my Dad was in tears when i won. Peter Garrett is a true Australian icon and even better vocalist.
Yeah and then you woke up. Nice dream,
@@Louis-kp7pz Ok
He has climbed the most difficult mountain of all and is trying not to sell his soul and I have to admire him..
Love you Oils reminds me of my Dad driving his torana up from Sydney to Coffs Harbour in the 80s and I was just a kid in the back. So much has changed mass this mass that makes me appreciate the simplicity of what I knew my country Australia to be.
I was a fan waaaay back when they broke in the states- and I still love em- they were way ahead of anything back then and their music translates quite nicely in 2010. You guys ROCK.
This song brings me back to the golden era of the Walk About -Shepherds Bush -London 😁
and more than 20 years later oil is still king of the mountain
Greetings from Poland, Midnight Oil. You're the best band it ever created.😀
Midnight Oil are truly something special ❤️ we need more bands like them that sing about the big issues. Loved them my whole life - my dad played their stuff when he drove me around as a kid
Midnight Oil really gave it to THE MAN , they couldn't stop them , power to the people .
Another GREAT Band from the 80's.
No 1 Australian rock band ever
just discovered this. born in 93
I am in love.
One of my favourite Oil songs, what a trailblazer.
Bloody awesome
Thank you Midnight Oil. Legends.
i'm aussie and i'm just getting into midnight oil and tonight is the first time i've ever kicked back and had a good listen to all their great songs. and my mind is being blown! what a great sound! and message in their music. they were a huge part of of mt childhood and growing up.
Even if you're pushed to the wall, for the things you believe in, you don't give in. Nicely said, Peter!! I like that. I love Midnight Oil. Such a totally awesome band!! "KEEP ROCKING, AUSTRALIA!!"
I've seen them 10 times .. we need them now!
Seeing these guys in just a few days for their final ever Aussie tour. Can't wait!
One of my favorites by the Oils; especially the crisp drumming and Rickenbacker “jingle jangle”
just discovered this. born in 93
I am in love.
I'm starting to love this band
In the middle of the continent USA where everyone's out to sea, lovin that people put the Oils on the Tube! Love em.
Martin Rotsey is one of the most criminally underrated guitarists ever.
This song playing over loud speaker at Bathurst while Peter Brock flew across the top of the mountain. Just beautiful
Songs by the Oils make me DAMN proud to be australia....I really wish the message was spread further. Good to see folks from an international audience viewing their videos though.
Whoever directed this video = genius. This was way ahead of its time. How it was shot, edited. I remember it came out in 1989 after the Exxon Valdez spill....32 years ago when MTV still played music videos.
One of the greatest bands to come out of oz
midnight oil lives forever
great Aussie Band
This song is about Mt. Cooroora, in the Noosa Hinterland In Queensland Australia in the town of Pomona. I have spoken to Robbie Hirst, Midnight Oil 's former drummer and he confirmed this. There is a foot race up Mt. Cooroora on the fourth Sunday of July every year called 'King of the Mountain’. Plus it’s part of a larger mountain range in the area and have spectacular views and large valleys where the mist rolls off the hills. The area surrounding Pomona contains many cane fields and the term ‘cane cockies’ refers to a farmer.
In Australia there are a number of cockies including cow cockies, cane cockies and wheat cockies. Cocky arose in the 1870s and is an abbreviation of cockatoo farmer. This was then a disparaging term for small-scale farmers, probably because of their habit of using a small area of land for a short time and then moving on, in the perceived manner of cockatoos feeding.
❤you Peter AND paul
I was lucky enough to discover them on my trip to Austrailia in the 80's and then being able to see them in concert and meet up with them over the years.On their last world tour I was able to have my son meet them twice as they came through Seattle. These were show's we will never forget.
Randy...check my aussie band too ...you might dig it as we were very influenced by them ua-cam.com/video/VjxLtraxGTU/v-deo.html
Mate we get to see them into days to.e I can t wait it's been a long ti.e since I seen them ply
God bless from Australia
Old Peter. Most unique rock star ever dedicated to the environment and first nations people of Australia
I'm Serbian,and i love them from the childhood.I have all albums of them.Unfortunately, in my country, very few people even know about them because they are not as frequent.
We certainly were bless to live in Australia during this time.
Check out other Aussie bands like Hunters and collectors.
Red gum
Goanna .
As a fellow Serbian - Australian born, you have good taste, old school aussie bands are top ✌👌
I’m a fellow Serbian raised in Australia. When I was 20 I moved over there and introduced my whole extended family & friends to Midnight Oil and many other Australian bands! They fell in love with the music and felt a bit of Australian culture in them too. Pozdrav!
@@Sara-bv3nc yep old school Aussie bands are VRH! 🤘🏻💕
Thank you Mid-night Oil. I don't wish to be no King. But thank you all for waking me up to my highest self 👍
No 1 Australian rock band ever
just discovered this. born in 93
I am in love.
i thought peter BROCK was the king of the mountain.
By far ome of the most underrated bands of the 80s!
Onde estão as bandas que cantam por uma razão verdadeira e inteligente? Midnight Oil eternamente em meu coração.
Como dizia minha avó... hoje em dia não se faz música como antigamente.
Asi sera algun dia mi querido amigo👍👍👍
ua-cam.com/video/VjxLtraxGTU/v-deo.html
Greatest Australian Band
Very nice music - King of the Mountain.
The music of the Oils doesn't get any more in your face than this! That's if your REALLY listening mate!
I saw these guys in Pittsburgh in '93. Still talk about it to this day with my brother. They made me dance, and I DO NOT dance lol
LOL...Yeah, they have that effect.
You Rock!
Did you dance like Peter Garret? Best dance ever.
Word up! Some need drugs to experience that
They had a go
best live act ive ever seen
I am an aussie, saw the oils perform in a pub way before anyone even knew who they where, i was in my teens, peter garet had so much energy on stage, i knew back then that this band would have great success, my fav ossie band ever
What an amazing song.WOW...
I'm young and I love Midnight Oil :D My whole life I was raised with 80's and songs like this! Ur not alone don't worry :3
41 years ago I saw Midnight Oil at The Royal Antler Narrabeen. I have to thank the boys from The Strand house at Dee Why for taking me to the gig.
It was late 1979, a warm night, people pouring jugs of iced water on each other and Peter Garrett's head, steam coming from the Lead Singer's bald cranium.
Their music and especially their lyrics have made THE OILS one of the most important Rock bands in history.
This new song ' Gadigal Land' is an instant Oils Classic.
Words cannot describe how much I love this track.
Sydney Radio station MMM played it every hour yesterday, so credit to them for that.
Before they played it the first time I was thinking " oh, I hope it's good "
I loved it from the opening chords, the thumping Drums, the throbbing Bass and Garrett's vocals delivering every word that is punching the Colonial invaders in the face.
Well done boys, this is excellent!
I was raised on this music, still awesome today in 2018, and the message is not lost it's probably more relevant than ever tbh
I’m going to the show at riviera country club in June 10
This song is fantastic and the backing vocals really make it great. The musical hooks in this song well it speaks for itself. Miss the good Aussie bands we had so many once upon a time. Midnight oil, Hunter and collectors, AC/DC, INXS, The saints, Neil fin, Nick Cave, the list really goes on. I'm sure there is some great bands around now they get drowned out by garbage all over youtube and other areas unfortunately.
....don't know about the rest but pretty sure Neil Finn is a New Zealander
You would like aTb
Saw them twice. Great each time. Music waaay ahead of it's time but it still didnt come soon enough.
They really put on a good show - and powerful lyrics to boot!
Aye...they did ....so do we! ua-cam.com/video/VjxLtraxGTU/v-deo.html
The best band in the world!!!
3:12 That section, to when it ends on "out further than the bush, I will follow you"...is just phenomenal genius vocal phrasing by Garrett!
No 1 Australian rock band ever
just discovered this. born in 93
I am in love.
i thought peter BROCK was the king of the mountain.
Melhor banda do mundo!!!!!
Sao amados no Brasil !!!!
Onde assino?
São adorados com certeza
Sensacional!
Peter arrasa! 👍✌
I grew up in the 70s and 80s, the best times and music, trust me!! Now 53 I would go back lol
"Yellow Belly red Snake sleep'n on a red rock, wait'n for the stranger to go.........BRILLIANT
Make that yellow belly black snake sleeping on a red rock....
oil is a metaphor for the Holy Spirit that teaches us all things.
This American has loved Midnight Oil for almost 30 years now :-)
i thought peter BROCK was the king of the mountain.
Brock will always be king of the mountain
It is mix of rock & punk xcelent AUSSIE band. Just love it from Canada.
Great stuff from the best Aussie band! They did an Outback tour in mid-80s= down under video! Thanks, Peter. We miss you songsters!.
We saw all the really cool bands in the '80s. The Oils are just one, but one of the best!!
first time i listened to diesel and dust i was blown away, and i've been a fan ever since. i wore out the blue sky mining cassette when i was deployed in desert storm. too bad the world wasn't ready for them.
Thanks....from an Aussie
Pure talent ❤💯
I like this song and like all Midnight Oil songs! I saw them at California and I was 4 and I'm 12 and I still remember! They were playing the Capricornia album.
I love the fact they rock up out the front of Exxon-Mobil @ the WTC in New York City and tell them how it is in the form of some of the best songs ever written. 😎🤘✊
influenced my band ...thats for sure ....see if you can spot it ua-cam.com/video/VjxLtraxGTU/v-deo.html
Song about King of the Mountain , about an endurance race still held in Pomona QLD called King of the Mountain Festival held in July .Watch out for cane trains....