Diesel and Dust

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Diesel and Dust
Diesel and Dust cover
Studio album by Midnight Oil
Released August 1987
Recorded ?
Genre Rock
Length 42:54
Label Sprint Music / Columbia
Producer Warne Livesey & Midnight Oil
Professional reviews
Midnight Oil chronology
Species Deceases (EP)
(1985)		 Diesel and Dust
(1987)		 Blue Sky Mining
(1990)

Diesel and Dust is an album by Midnight Oil that was released in 1987 under the CBS record label. The album is a concept album about the struggles of the Australian Aborigines and environmental causes, issues both near and dear to the band, and follows the Black Fella White Fella tour of remote Indigenous communities with the Warumpi Band in 1985. The rhythm of "Beds are Burning" is said to be inspired by the noise of their vehicles' wheels on the corrugated dirt roads in the region.[citation needed]

The track "Gunbarrel Highway" was not included on the United States release of the album. Reportedly, it is because the line "shit falls like rain on a land that is brown" was deemed too strong for U.S. audiences.[1][2]

In 1989, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number 13 on their list of the 100 best albums of the 1980s.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Beds Are Burning" (Robert Hirst, James Moginie, Peter Garrett)
  2. "Put Down That Weapon" (Moginie, Hirst, Garrett)
  3. "Dreamworld" (Moginie, Garrett, Hirst)
  4. "Arctic World" (Moginie, Garrett)
  5. "Warakurna" (Moginie)
  6. "The Dead Heart" (Hirst, Moginie, Garrett)
  7. "Whoah" (Moginie, Garrett)
  8. "Bullroarer" (Hirst, Moginie, Garrett)
  9. "Sell My Soul" (Moginie, Garrett)
  10. "Sometimes" (Moginie, Garrett, Hirst)
  11. "Gunbarrel Highway" (Unknown) ^

^ Not available on the U.S. or the Canadian version.

[edit] Personnel

[edit] References

  1. ^ The Dead Heart Midnight Oil FAQ, retrieved March 11, 2007.
  2. ^ The Dead Heart Midnight Oil data bank, retrieved March 11, 2007.

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