Diesel and Dust

Diesel and Dust
Studio album by Midnight Oil
Publication (s)	August 1987
Label (s)	Sprint / Columbia Records
Format (s)	LP , MC , DCC and CD
Genre (s)	Rock music
Title (number)	11
running time	46 min 37 s
production	Warne Livesey , Midnight Oil
Studio (s)	Albert Studios, Sydney
chronology Species Deceases (EP) (1985) Diesel and Dust Blue Sky Mining (1990)
Single releases Beds are burning The Dead Heart Dreamworld

Diesel and Dust was the sixth studio album by the Australian rock band Midnight Oil , released in August 1987. Diesel and Dust was produced by Warne Livesey with the band. It is a concept album about the Aboriginal struggles for ownership in Australia and environmental issues, both issues that Midnight Oil has repeatedly grappled with. The idea for this concept album arose from the "Blackfella / Whitefella Tour" in 1986, which the band had undertaken with groups such as the Warumpi Band and Gondwanaland .

Ticket for the 1988 "Diesel & Dust Tour". The ticket shows a color-reduced version of the album cover of the same name on the right.

Musician

• Peter Garrett - vocals
• Peter Gifford - bass, vocals
• Robert Hirst - drums, vocals
• Jim Moginie - guitar, keyboard
• Martin Rotsey - guitar

title

1. Beds Are Burning (4:14) Garrett, Hirst, Moginie
2. Put Down that Weapon (4:38) Garrett, Hirst, Moginie
3. Dreamworld (3:36) Garrett, Hirst, Moginie
4. Arctic World (4:21) Garrett, Moginie
5. Warakurna (4:38) Moginie
6. The Dead Heart (5:10) Garrett, Hirst, Moginie
7. Whoah (3:50) Garrett, Moline
8. Bullroarer (4:59) Garrett, Hirst, Moginie
9. Sell ​​My Soul (3:35) Garrett, Moline
10. Sometimes (3:53) Garrett, Hirst, Moline
11. Gunbarrel Highway (3:38) Garrett, Gifford, Hirst, Moginie, Rotsey

Remarks

• "Holden Wracks" ( Beds Are Burning ) refers to the Australian car brand GMH Holden
• Warakurna is a small town in Western Australia , close to the Northern Territory border, which the band visits on their "Blackfella / Whitefella Tour".
• The line “In Redfern as there is in Alice” ( Warakurna ) refers to Redfern , an area in Sydney , and Alice Springs , the capital in central Australia.
• "Lasseter" ( Warakurna ) was a gold prospecting scammer (died 1931) after whom the Northern Territory Lasseter Highway to Ayers Rock was named.
• "The Dead Heart" is a traditional way of describing the sparsely populated desert center of Australia.
• A bullroarer is a traditional Aboriginal musical instrument that produces a whirring sound.

reception

Michael Reinboth reviewed the album for Musikexpress . He complained about the equally clichéd song structures and lyrics, with the latter also expressing a “moral sense of mission ”. Nevertheless, “the bottom line is a versatile LP with pop overtones, good guitar work and a few deliberately weird ideas.” He concluded with three out of seven possible points and the conclusion: “Solid and moderately original.” Marcel Anders reviewed the work on the occasion of his Republished again 20 years later, but from a different point of view. He praised the prophetic look of the lyrics and chalked the audience that they had not recorded the messages and instead misused the music for party purposes. He awarded four points. In 1990 Willi Andresen wrote in tip that the “Blackfella / Whitefella Tour” was documented with “inimitably refreshing rock tones and rhythms”. The songs reflected life and problems at a particular time. This is what distinguishes real, classic rock records.

In 1989, Diesel and Dust reached number 13 in Rolling Stone magazine's 100 best albums of the 1980s.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Reinboth: Midnight Oil. Diesel and Dust . In: Musikexpress . No. 384 , Jan 1988, Rock, Pop, pp. 90 .
2. ↑ Marcel Anders: Midnight Oil. Diesel and Dust . In: Musikexpress . No. 633 , August 2008, back catalog, p. 94 .
3. ^ Willi Andresen: Midnight Oil. Brave new world . In: tip . August 1990, Musik-Tip, p. 100 ff .