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| Midnight Oil – King Of The Mountain Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I'm with Ace 22. It's very unlike Midnight Oil to glorify some rev-heads (even if I am one and wish it were about a car race) and feel the story refers less to Peter Brock and more to Peter and Paul from the Bible (even though he's not religious at all, he was prone to references to Bible stuff) and the hero here is more the working man who isn't looking for recognition - unlike Brockie whom I love greatly but who could never pass down a chance to get his name bandied about. |
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| Midnight Oil – Bedlam Bridge Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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For those who don't have 'The Beds are Burning' by Mark Dodshon, here's the small part on Bedlam Bridge in the book: (while shooting on location in Manhattan, where the song is set)... "... Pete sang different verses to 'Bedlam Bridge', a song highlighting the irony of so many poor people living in the world's richest city." |
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| Wolf Gang – Stay And Defend Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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My take on this song is the idea of propaganda and media lies and the song's saying 'say whatever you want, i'm doing what i love, i don't care what you say, i'm not going to get scared and run away'. I love the Talking Heads feel to this song. Very fun little tune. |
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| Florence + the Machine – Never Let Me Go Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I agree. While this may not have been the intention when it was written, as it seems she wrote the song about a child experience, I have no doubt the release of the song in mid-March was intentional and coincided with how well this fits the Titanic story. It's use it iTV's Titanic seems to have helped this but nonetheless it's too perfect to deny. |
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| Midnight Oil – Someone Else To Blame Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I might be completely wrong but this song makes me think of the plight of lower-paid workers and undervalued staff who get paid crap by big greedy bosses and have no way to speak out against it. |
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| Midnight Oil – Sometimes Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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The lyrics, and the tune, make me think of workers and workers rights, how their bosses dress in 'smart suits and ties' but are really just monsters who are happy to drive them into the ground at the first opportunity. The song's saying 'don't give up'. |
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| Midnight Oil – Pictures Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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The film clip for this video suggests it's another 'don't kill the forests' song by the Oils but beneath that, in the lyrics, there's something else deeper than that. It's almost like a song about being afraid of what's beyond on our front doors, so we just stay inside, watch tv, and let the world go on through that alone. Either way, wonderful song. |
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| Midnight Oil – One Country Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Try not to sing along to this song, it's so powerful you just have to belt out the chorus. True patriotism, without 'ranting and raving', that's just beautiful. |
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| Midnight Oil – White Skin Black Heart Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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A song about racist Australia, mainly people like Pauline Hanson, who is depicted in the film clip in all Midnight Oil-esque subtlety. All about white Australia policies and the like which show it doesn't matter what colour your skin is if your heart is a shriveled black mess. |
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| Midnight Oil – Shakers And Movers Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Another wonderfully confusing song by Jim Moginie here with a gorgeous tune. The guy is a genius but half the time I have no idea what he was on about. Gonna guess this song is about the evolution of man, from caveman to nature-destroyer. But again, just a guess... you'll have to ask Jim! ha ha. Beautiful song nonetheless. |
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| Midnight Oil – Kosciuszko Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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As much as I love Polish heroes, this song is about Aboriginal plight in Australia, how their heritage is older and stronger than our highest peak and that should be respected, they shouldn't be abused or driven off their land by miners (for Chinese mining companies now own a lot of the Northern Territory) or anyone else. |
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| Midnight Oil – Maralinga Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Couldn't have said it better myself. One of Midnight Oil's saddest, most beautiful and yet haunting songs. |
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| Midnight Oil – In The Valley Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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My favourite song of all time. A honest song Peter Garrett wrote after the passing of his mother. Absolutely beautiful... |
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| Midnight Oil – Bushfire Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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One of the most beautiful and underappreciated of all of the Oils songs. A gorgeous bit of acoustic guitar, a soulful tune and a song that makes you just want to sit and under a tree and appreciate life and the beautiful land under our feet here in Australia. Another Midnight Oil song where they fit a million wonders and treasures of life into a few stanzas. Classic Jim and Peter work. I adore this. As for meaning? Well, to me it's a song about life, the crazy 'whirlpool' wonder of it all. |
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| Talking Heads – This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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A lovely song about the naive ways of lovers, the feeling of love and those moments when you come out of the haze, realise you're in a love-struck moronic state, and just want someone to hit you on the head and tell you wake up to yourself, but you won't until the fuzzy haziness of love passes. Amazing song, amazing video with a lamp, and just gorgeous. |
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| Talking Heads – Lifetime Piling Up Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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This song is about the anarchy, the beautiful insane anarchy, of life. I adore this song so much. You can't help but jump and dance around to it. |
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| Talking Heads – (Nothing But) Flowers Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I think to simply say it's 'sarcastic' undermines David Byrne's true 'question everything' style which is evident in almost all of his songs. For me this song has always been 'Big Yellow Taxi'-esque in its questioning of how we treat the world around us. Byrne's character, much like most of society, has finally started to notice (after all of it has happened) that his car park has turned into an oasis, a reference to the fact that we don't know what we've got until it's gone: 'as things fell apart nobody paid much attention'. The simple reversal, where nature replaces industrialisation, rather than the reality of the opposite, is classic Byrne and probably why this is one of their best songs. I can't go past the child main character who dreamed of being a billboard rather than a tree, big and strong, like an outdoor advertisement. A simple question posed by Byrne that we all need to ask ourselves - is this industrial world what we want to leave our kids when they should have palm trees and flowers? |
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