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Diesel and Dust, by Midnight OIl - Go to Whoa
Diesel and Dust was the sixth studio album by Midnight Oil, released in Australia in August 1987. Rolling Stone magazine called it the best album of 1988 and later ranked it the 13th greatest record of the 1980s.
Beds Are Burning
Put Down That Weapon
Dreamworld
Arctic World
Warakurna
The Dead Heart
Whoah
Bullroarer
Sell My Soul
Sometimes
Gunbarrel Highway
One Blood - When Midnight Oil toured the US in support of Diesel And Dust in 1988 they brought along the great Aboriginal band Yothu Yindi. So here's Yothu Yindi with One Blood.
In 2010 the authors of the book 100 Best Australian Albums ranked Diesel and Dust No. 1. In 2021 it was listed at No. 5 in Rolling Stone Australia's "200 Greatest Albums of All Time."
The sound at the start of the song Bullroarer is made by a bullroarer, which is a piece of wood attached to a length of cord and whirled around in the air, making a sound capable of traveling long distances..According to some anthropologists it is one of the earliest artifacts that can be classified as a musical instrument, having been used by many different cultures over nearly 20,000 years.
Intro: Roulette - Dom Mariani and the Majestic Kelp, Underwater Casino, 2003.
Exit and extra: Pacific Heights - Baby Langston from their acclaimed 1998 album.
