Biography

Australia's Midnight Oil formed in Sydney in 1971 under the moniker Farm. Throughout the years, Midnight Oil brought a new sense of political and social immediacy to pop music: not only did incendiary hits like "Beds Are Burning" and "Blue Sky Mine" bring global attention to the plight of, respectively, aboriginal settlers and impoverished workers, but the group also put its money where its mouth was -- in addition to mounting benefit performances for groups like Greenpeace and Save the Whales, frontman Peter Garrett even ran for the Australian Senate on the Nuclear Disarmament Party ticket. Garrett announced his amicable split from the band after 25 years. ~ Jason Ankeny

Top Tracks

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• Beds Are Burning

• Best Of Both Worlds

• Blue Sky Mine

• Cemetery In My Mind

• Cold Cold Change

• Don't Wanna Be The One

• Earth And Sun And Moon

• Forgotten Years

• Jimmy Sharman's Boxers

• King Of The Mountain

• Kosciusko

• Lucky Country

• My Country

• Naked Flame

• Only The Strong

• Outbreak Of Love

• Powderworks

• Power And The Passion

• Progress

• Read About It

• Redneck Wonderland

• Section 5 (bus To Bondi)

• Seeing Is Believing

• Sometimes

• The Dead Heart

• Truganini

• Us Forces

Discography

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• Capricornia

  Liquid 8

  2002

• The Real Thing

  Columbia

  2000

• Redneck Wonderland

  Columbia

  1998

• Breathe

  Work Group / Columbia

  1996

• Earth and Sun and Moon

  Columbia

  1993

• Scream in Blue Live

  Columbia

  1992

• Blue Sky Mining

  Columbia

  1990

• Diesel and Dust

  Columbia

  1988

• Red Sails in the Sunset

  Columbia

  1984

• 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

  Columbia

  1983

• Place Without a Postcard

  Columbia

  1981

• Head Injuries

  Columbia

  1979

• Midnight Oil

  CBS Records

  1978