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20,000 Watt R.S.L. (CD)

By: Midnight Oil (Artist)

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Midnight Oil Artist Snapshot:

The Australian band Midnight Oil made several excellent albums of guitar-fueled alt-rock during its long career, which began in the 1970s and lasted into the 21st century. Despite international hits that included "Beds Are Burning" and "Forgotten Years," the band is perhaps best remembered for its fierce leftist politics. Outspoken front man Peter Garrett vocalized Midnight Oil's concerns on a litany of issues from the environment and nuclear proliferation to corporate greed and Aboriginal reparations. That the band was as politically conscious as it was, yet still able to produce such memorable music, has proved inspiring to many.

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DISC 1 for 20,000 Watt R.S.L. (CD) Album By Midnight Oil (Artist)
1   What Goes On
2   Power And The Passion
3   Dreamworld
4   White Skin Black Heart
5   Kosciuszko
6   Dead Heart, The
7   Blue Sky Mine
8   US Forces
9   Beds Are Burning
10   One Country
11   Best Of Both Worlds
12   Truganini
13   King Of The Mountain
14   Hercules
15   Surf's Up Tonight
16   Back On The Borderline
17   Don't Wanna Be The One
18   Forgotten Years
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (12/12/97, p.91) - "...Eccentric surf jangles and stomp beats derived from aboriginal folk music add up to a forward motion more convincing in its resolute righteousness than U2, if not quite the Clash."
- Rating: A-

Title Note

Midnight Oil includes: Peter Garrett, Jim Moginie, Rob Hirst.

Producers include: Midnight Oil, Magoo, Nick Launay, Warne Livesay, Glyn Johns.

Includes liner notes by Tim Winton.

Since its 1978 debut, Midnight Oil has poured its passion for left-wing causes into an impressive canon that combines intelligent lyrics with hook-laden choruses and slashing rhythms. 20,000 WATT R.SL. simultaneously looks to the past and forward, including two newer songs from the forthcoming REDNECK WONDERLAND. Though the band's geographical references tend to be Aussie-centric, the injustices the Oils decry, ranging from the mistreatment of native people and culture ("Beds Are Burning") to the greed of corporations ("Blue Sky Mine"), are universal. Guitarists Jim Moginie and Martin Rotsey rage throughout with Garrett's voice leading the charge on "Best Of Both Worlds," occasionally slowing up enough to warble on harmonica ("Truganini"). Clinging to the ideological and musical tenets of punk, 20,000 WATT R.S.L. is a primer for the only band that continues to matter in these regards.

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