Success didn't change Midnight Oil with their 1990 album Blue Sky Mining.
The Australian band had finally broken through with their previous record, Diesel and Dust, but chart accomplishments didn't temper the group.
Blue Sky Mining found lead singer Peter Garrett and the boys singing about familiar themes with their usual passion.
The songs aren't quite on par with those from Diesel and Dust, but there's still enough here to make it a worthy follow-up.
The lead track "Blue Sky Mine" deals with the oppression of the lower working class within the context of a mining company.
The immediately catchy cut managed to find mid-chart success.
Other notable tracks are the driving "Forgotten Years," which also managed a bit of airplay, and the menacing "Mountains of Burma." The band stumble only once, on the clumsy love song "Shakers and Movers.".
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blue Sky MinePeter Garrett, Bones Hillman, Dwayne "Bones" Hillman, Rob Hirst, Jim Moginie, Midnight Oil, Martin Rotsey | Midnight Oil | Play | 04:15 | 9 MB | 26 MB |
| 2 | Stars of WarburtonPeter Garrett, Jim Moginie | Midnight Oil | Play | 04:54 | 11 MB | 29 MB |
| 3 | Bedlam BridgeRob Hirst | Midnight Oil | Play | 04:23 | 10 MB | 23 MB |
| 4 | Forgotten YearsRob Hirst, Jim Moginie | Midnight Oil | Play | 04:24 | 10 MB | 27 MB |
| 5 | Mountains of BurmaRob Hirst | Midnight Oil | Play | 04:57 | 11 MB | 30 MB |
| 6 | King of the MountainRob Hirst, Jim Moginie | Midnight Oil | Play | 03:51 | 8 MB | 23 MB |
| 7 | River Runs RedRob Hirst, Jim Moginie | Midnight Oil | Play | 05:22 | 12 MB | 28 MB |
| 8 | Shakers and MoversPeter Garrett, Jim Moginie | Midnight Oil | Play | 04:28 | 10 MB | 26 MB |
| 9 | One CountryPeter Garrett, Jim Moginie | Midnight Oil | Play | 05:53 | 13 MB | 32 MB |
| 10 | AntarcticaPeter Garrett, Rob Hirst, Jim Moginie, Martin Rotsey | Midnight Oil | Play | 04:19 | 9 MB | 21 MB |
| 46 mins | 107 MB | |||||
| 46 mins | 270 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peter Garrett | Composer, Vocals |
| 2 | Phillip Hartl | Strings |
| 3 | Bones Hillman | Composer |
| 4 | Dwayne "Bones" Hillman | Bass, Composer, Vocals |
| 5 | Rob Hirst | Composer, Drums, Vocals |
| 6 | Felix Kendall | Engineer |
| 7 | Warne Livesey | Keyboards, Producer |
| 8 | Midnight Oil | Composer, Primary Artist, Producer |
| 9 | Jim Moginie | Composer, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals |
| 10 | Brendan Morley | Engineer |
| 11 | David Nicholas | Engineer |
| 12 | Martin Rotsey | Composer, Guitar, Vocals |
| 13 | Jeremy Smith | French Horn |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |