Midnight Oil

Subject: RE: [powderworks] midnight oil decline in australia ?
From: chris verdich
Date: 8/12/2011, 8:16 am
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After ESM the band took a different directionin 1993/94 which saw them move away from the spotlight slightly. ESM being my favourite album, did not have the commercial impact that say Diesel and BSM had and like all good things the light began to fade only to those who could not see past short term sight of what is deemed a commercial success.
In Australia, the band still had a fierce and popular presence. Many fans were still in love with their earlier material and that alone carried the band forward but the new albums - ESM, Breathe, Redneck Wonderland etc were all released and successful tours mounted. This did not translate into world wide tours and massive billboard chart successes but oblivion was not the scene.
 
so to answer your question - no the band never really fell into oblivion but just moved away from the international spotlight and played more locally and changed direction
 
Chris.
 

 
To: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au
From: vive_les_ours@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 20:38:45 +0100
Subject: [powderworks] midnight oil decline in australia ?

 
hi, i'm a french big fans of the oils and i was wondering...
in France, midnight oil became famous with 10-1 until blue sky mine but after, with E&S&M less people were listening to midnight oil, after blue sky mine was the decline of the oils in france

and after e&s&m it became worse and worse, they felt into oblivion

was it the same in australia ?

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From: stephan.jaensch@googlemail.com
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 20:21:29 +0100
Subject: Re: [powderworks] Best-ever Oils b-side?

 
I'm going to agree on Heaven and Earth. I also really like What's So Funny Bout Peace, Love and Understanding, but then that's just a cover. Gotta say that there's not too many really strong Oils B-Sides, though...

Cheers,

Stephan

Am 07.12.2011 19:43, schrieb Michael Blackwood:
 

Hey, Powderworkers!
 
I was reading some of the list's archives from ten years ago, and it made me nostalgic for some of our "What's your favourite Oils [blank]" discussions.  So I've decided to ask you all which Oils b-side you really think should have made the "host album" of the single it appeared on.
 
For me, it's Heaven and Earth, which is as good as any song on Redneck Wonderland, and would have been a brilliant album closer.  Drop in the Ocean would have been better as a b-side, for that matter, as it is really jarring in the context of the rest of the album.
 
Mike