DEADICATED Various Artists 1991

 

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Bands covering The Grateful Dead songs. As long as no one forces me to listen to The Grateful Dead, I'm okay with this.

Tracklist 

1	–Los Lobos	Bertha	5:17
2	–Bruce Hornsby & The Range*	Jack Straw	5:51
3	–The Harshed Mellows	U.S. Blues	5:18
4	–Elvis Costello	Ship Of Fools	5:20
5	–Suzanne Vega	China Doll	3:25
6	–Suzanne Vega	Cassidy	3:34
7	–Dwight Yoakam	Truckin'	5:25
8	–Warren Zevon With David Lindley	Casey Jones	4:16
9	–Indigo Girls	Uncle John's Band	4:48
10	–Lyle Lovett	Friend Of The Devil	4:14
11	–Cowboy Junkies	To Lay Me Down	5:18
12	–Midnight Oil	Wharf Rat	6:05
13	–Burning Spear	Estimated Prophet	6:46
14	–Dr. John	Deal	4:17
15	–Jane's Addiction	Ripple	4:39

 

MIDNIGHT OIL The Green Disc 1990

Promo only compilation

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Artist Biography by Jason Ankeny

Australia's Midnight Oil brought a new sense of political and social immediacy to pop music: not only did incendiary hits like "Beds Are Burning" and "Blue Sky Mine" bring global attention to the plight of, respectively, Australia's indigenous people and working class, but the group also put its money where its mouth was -- in addition to mounting benefit performances for groups like Greenpeace and Save the Whales, frontman Peter Garrett later became a member of the Australian House of Representatives on the Labor ticket. Early on, Midnight Oil's music was rough-hewn hard rock with a punky vibe (this side of the band can be heard on 1979's Head Injuries), while they began taking on more adventurous melodic constructs and angular arrangements that sounded smart without slipping into pretension (their high points in this era were 1983's 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and 1984's Red Sails in the Sunset). The group adopted a slightly more accessible approach and more dynamic arrangements with 1987's international hit Diesel and Dust, and they kept up this engaging if less aggressive attack on 1990's Blue Sky Mining and 1993's Earth and Sun and Moon. 2002's Capricornia found them beefing up their sound again before the group went on hiatus, only to return for live work in the 2010s.  

Tracklist  

1	King Of The Mountain	3:51
2	Brave Faces	4:46
3	No Time For Games	4:33
4	The Dead Heart (Long Version)	6:07
5	Kosciusko	4:40
6	Don't Wanna Be The One	3:02
7	Power And The Passion (Remix)	6:43
8	No Reaction	2:57
9	Powderworks	5:37
10	Best Of Both Worlds	4:04
11	Beds Are Burning (Tamarama Mix)	8:02
12	Gunbarrel Highway	3:40
13	Hercules	4:28
14	Blue Sky Mine (Food On The Table Mix)	6:34
15	Stand In Line (Live)	5:52

GHOSTWRITERS Second Skin 1996

by request

 

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 Tracklist 

1	Second Skin	4:21
2	All Is Well With The World	5:45
3	International Rules Of Love	4:16
4	Impossible Shame	6:04
5	Lying On Me	4:08
6	Salvage Me	5:12
7	On The Commission	4:10
8	Empire Building	7:34
9	Sleepwalking	5:38
10	I Come To My Senses	5:03
11	Not My Time	4:23
12	Letter To Bill And Hillary	7:06
99	Come Clean	4:47

GHOSTWRITERS self titled 1991

by request

 

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Artist Biography by Dean Carlson

This awkward Australian side-project from Midnight Oil's Rob Hirst and the Hoodoo Gurus' Rick Grossman was the red-haired Richard Hell-indebted stepson that fans of either band could enjoy. While the Ghostwriters' rich lyricism and rotating supporting cast lacked the classic disobedience of Oil and the levity of the Gurus, their sweep of unpolished aboriginal garage rock and dense production topography made for a consistently unique sound. 

Tracklist  

1	...Someone's Singing New York New York	3:47
2	World Is Almost At Peace	3:59
3	Runaway Bay	4:29
4	...It Doesn't Take A House To Fall On Me	2:47
5	Wooden Ship	4:20
6	Hungry Mile	4:29
7	Keep You To Myself	2:46
8	Privileged Shoes / Minds Of Machinery	3:37
9	The Wolves Close In	6:17
10	Wreckery Road	3:07
11	Wrong Side Of The River	3:28
12	All Becomes Clear	4:23

MIDNIGHT OIL 20,000 Watt R.S.L. 1997

Biography

by Jason Ankeny

Australia's Midnight Oil brought a new sense of political and social immediacy to pop music: not only did incendiary hits like "Beds Are Burning" and "Blue Sky Mine" bring global attention to the plight of, respectively, aboriginal settlers and impoverished workers, but the group also put its money where its mouth was -- in addition to mounting benefit performances for groups like Greenpeace and Save the Whales, frontman Peter Garrett even ran for the Australian Senate on the Nuclear Disarmament Party ticket.

The band formed in Sydney in 1971 as Farm, and originally comprised guitarists Jim Moginie and Martin Rotsey, drummer Rob Hirst, and bassist Andrew "Bear" James; Garrett, a law student known for his seven-foot-tall stature and shaven head, assumed vocal duties in 1975, and the group soon rechristened itself Midnight Oil. After months of sporadic gigs, they began making the rounds to area record companies; following a string of rejections, the group formed its own …  » Read more