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Midnight Oil
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.9934
Midnight Oil Album Rankings
1
Midnight Oil frontmanPeter Garretthas long been active in elective politics in Australia, and like any good politician, he knows that sometimes the most important thing is to get your message out to t
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2
Who would have thought the apocalypse would sound so damn beautiful? When Midnight Oil releasedBlue Sky Miningin 1990, there wasn't a more timely album out there.
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3
Throughout its 20 year career, Midnight Oil has always managed to weave through different trends of music and make it their own.
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4
Still recording on their own Powderworks label, Midnight Oil broke through to commercial success in their native Australia with their second album,Head Injuries, which, like their debut, was a record
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5
This is not an abridged concert; rather, it's one of those so-called "live albums" that is pieced together with highlights taken from various shows, and the sound quality is surely tweaked so that eve
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6
Midnight Oil's second international release found them ambitiously taking on a variety of lyrical causes in a variety of musical styles.
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7
Several fans are critical of this album because of its poor production, a serious folly that deprives 'Place Without a Postcard' of its potential to be a more highly regarded classic.
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8
Well, here it is, the inevitable Midnight Oil greatest hits album.
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9
Midnight Oil were already one of Australia's most popular bands when they made their American debut with10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and while some knowledge of the intelligent but physical hard roc
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10
Sometimes, I can't explain why certain things are in the Pierce Archives.
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11
Wow. The outcome of this album is truly ironic. Midnight Oil attempt to revitalize their sound with aggressive playing common of heavy metal and embellishments of dancable "techno" music.
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12
With Capricornia, the Australian political rockers return with their first album of new material in four years.
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15
With Midnight Oil's live album (Scream in Blue) and their first "greatest-hits" collection (20,000 Watt R.S.L.
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18
In all honesty, it's pretty clear from listening to Midnight Oil 's first album why not a single record label in Australia was interested in signing them.
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19
On this four-cut EP, the Midnight Oil boys seem to be gaining some precision in the songwriting department.
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20
This four-song, 21-minute EP contains the catchiest song from Midnight Oil's Blue Sky Mining album, "Forgotten Years," as well as a remixed version of "Blue Sky Mine," a "special version" of the 1982
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22
This is hardly worth mentioning, because it's a little difficult to find, the sound quality is rusty and uninteresting, and, for the obvious one, it only has four songs.
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