Red Sails in the Sunset

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Red Sails in the Sunset
Studio album by Midnight Oil

Publication
(s)

October 1984

Label (s) Sprint Music / Columbia Records

Format (s)

Record , cassette and CD

Genre (s)

Rock , new wave

Title (number)

12

running time

50 min 33 sec

production

Nick Launay , Midnight Oil

chronology
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
(1982) 		Red Sails in the Sunset Species Deceases (EP)
(1985)

Red Sails in the Sunset is an album by the Australian band Midnight Oil , released in October 1984 on Columbia Records . The album was recorded between June and August 1984 in Tokyo , Japan at the Victor Aoyama studio. Producers were Nick Launay and Midnight Oil. With the album Midnight Oil reached the top of the album charts in Australia for the first time. The cover shows Sydney Harbor after a nuclear attack. Two singles were released from the album: "When the Generals Talk" and "Best of Both Worlds".

background

Red Sails in the Sunset was produced by Nick Launay, who had already worked on their breakthrough album 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 . Columbia asked the band to return to the studio and record a more commercial single that could hit the charts in America, but the band refused. Drummer Rob Hirst said the band had asked Columbia to take the album as it is or leave it, and Columbia released the album as it was. The album stayed at number 1 on the Australian charts for four weeks and landed on the Billboard 200. Singles from the album were also released in the US and UK, but were unsuccessful in the charts. While the album relied unduly on gadgets, the lyrical stance was positive. The band increased their musical expression and expanded their range of topics to include politics, consumerism , militarism , the threat of nuclear war and environmental issues.

The album cover by Japanese artist Tsunehisa Kimura contained a photomontage of the city and port of Sydney, which was littered with craters and devastated after a hypothetical nuclear attack. Live concert recordings of the song Short Memory were used in the 1984 Australian independent anti-nuclear war film The Last Night . A promotional video for the song Best of Both Worlds was broadcast worldwide on cable TV station MTV . In January 1985, Midnight Oil played the Oils on the Water concert on Goat Island in Port Jackson to mark the tenth birthday of Triple J in front of a select audience of fans who had won tickets in a radio competition. This concert was filmed, broadcast live on ABC TV and Triple J, and released on video, which was remastered for Midnight Oils DVD Best of Both Worlds in 2004 .

reception

William Ruhlmann from AllMusic awarded 4 out of 5 stars and stated that the group “ambitiously took up various lyrical occasions in different musical styles” and “the warlike rhythms, voices and guitar textures of the album served as a stepping stone”. Garrett's vocals had a "relentless judgmental tone ... sung with deadly seriousness ... tended to detract from the potential enjoyment of the album." Don Shewey of Rolling Stone music magazine felt that the music "had the post-punk abrasiveness of clash and Gang of Four combined with the music hall variety of Kinks and the pure pop of groups like Cheap Trick ”. Shewey said that the "references to local politics and history that make up the group's songs, and in large part responsible for their enormous appeal down under, seem exotic or puzzling to Americans." Spin's Bill Wolfe wrote: "Midnight Oil isn't just the Australian band of the 80s, it could be the band of the 80s too."

title

  1. "When the Generals Talk" (Robert Hirst, James Moginie, Peter Garrett)
  2. "Best of Both Worlds" (Hirst, Moginie)
  3. "Sleep" (Moginie, Hirst, Garrett)
  4. "Minutes to Midnight" (Moginie, Garrett)
  5. "Jimmy Sharman's Boxers" (Hirst, Moginie)
  6. "Bakerman" (Hirst)
  7. "Who Can Stand in the Way" (Moginie, Garrett)
  8. "Kosciusko" (Hirst, Moginie)
  9. "Helps Me Helps You" (Hirst, Moginie)
  10. "Harrisburg" (Moginie, Kevans)
  11. "Bells and Horns in the Back of Beyond" (Midnight Oil)
  12. "Shipyards of New Zealand" (Moginie, Garrett)

occupation

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Magnus Holmgren, Carl-Johan Stenerlöv: Midnight Oil . Australian Rock Database . Passagen.se (Magnus Holmgren). Archived from the original on September 27, 2012. Retrieved February 12, 2014.
  3. ↑ Bill Wolfe: Bubblin 'Crude . In: Spin . 1, No. 4, August 1985, pp. 18-19.
  4. ↑ David Kent : Australian Chart Book 1970-1992 . Australian Chart Book, St Ives, NSW 1993, ISBN 0-646-11917-6 . NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.
  5. ↑ Midnight Oil - Charts & Awards - Billboard Albums . Retrieved October 21, 2008.
  6. ^ Midnight Oil . Howlspace. Archived from the original on July 27, 2012. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  7. ↑ Memorable TV - L to M . Memorable TV. Archived from the original on October 17, 2008. Retrieved October 22, 2008.
  8. ↑ One Night Stand (1984) soundtrack . Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Retrieved October 24, 2008.
  9. ↑ Best of Both Worlds (2004) . Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Retrieved October 24, 2008.
  10. ^ William Ruhlmann: Red Sails in the Sunset - Midnight Oil . AllMusic . Rovi Corporation . Retrieved April 30, 2012.
  11. ↑ a b Don Shewey: Midnight Oil - Red Sails in the Sunset. In: Rolling Stone , Jann Wenner , August 29, 1985. Archived from the original on July 25, 2008. Retrieved on April 30, 2012. 
  12. ↑ Bill Wolfe: Spins . In: Spin . 1, No. 4, August 1985, p. 29.