| Midnight Oil – Short Memory Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Absolutely, Goat Island was an awesome concert. I saw them at Sterwart Hotel at Alexandra Headland in the late 80's. They were supported by the Wurrumpi band who were also awesome. This some is quite interesting. If you think about it, The English kind of stuffed themselves up with Australia. Some of countries mentioned in the song have been used by their invaders to profit from the culture of that country by making slaves and workers of the natives. The English didn't even take the opportunity to this, they tried to turn Australia into a white society by ridding it of anything Indigenous. So now much of the 'known history' of the Indigenous is gone. So, now the problem is trying to piece it all back together again so that Indigenous Australians can have some identity again. | |
| Midnight Oil – Dreamworld Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The Breaky Creek Hotel is on Kingsford Smith Dr. Right in Brisbane city. It fronts the Breakfast Creek which runs into the Brissy River, just after the Story Bridge. Nowhere near the Gold Coast...google it if you don't believe me. Anyway, BCH is a Brisbane landmark, so was Cloudland. The song is about how nothing ever stays the same and that people are prepared to knock down landmarks to make a buck. BCH sold, but fortunately never got knocked down. Unfortunately, it was highly renovated and is now longer a place to drop in for a drink, it is upmarket and expensive and certainly not working class anymore. |
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