Hey Stefan,

You got it in one mate, with "don't want to be an overly demanding
fan....They won't shortchange us..."

I wouldn't mind betting all the work is in the pipeline and the strategy
is all but complete.  I'll be very happy for whatever we get.

Cheers,
Jeff

I guess here's a good list of what we'd want to see:

http://rarerecordings.tripod.com/id1.html

But also stuff that's been unreleased, like "Wedding Cake Island" with
lyrics-
and yeah, live footage, but good quality stuff.... including the two
reunions in
'05 and '09 ( I do think they will play again one day, at least I imagine
so).

I'd be most excited if there are some great unreleased tunes that we don't
expect, although I don't want to be an overly demanding fan, expecting
blood
from a stone. They won't shortchange us, I'm sure.



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While I'd enjoy all of these, I'd also like to see more official live
material,
especially video of said live material (after all, that's what they did/do
best).  I'm really only interested in stuff that is already commercially
available if it's remastered.


On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Michael Blackwood
<blackwood_michael@hotmail.com> wrote:

I'd rather they take their time and make the box set into something
epic...
Really, the most important thing is that they compile ALL the
officially-released non-album tracks.  If they can't do that, here's how
I think
they should prioritize them:

1st priority:  Non-album Midnight Oil originals.  This would be the
b-sides like
Heaven And Earth, You May Not Be Released, etc.

2nd priority: Alternate versions of Midnight Oil album tracks.  This
would include the shorter "single" versions of several songs, the
remixes, the
live b-sides etc.

3rd priority: Non-album covers of other artists.  There are a few of
these as
b-sides (live and studio) and on tribute albums.

What do you other Powdies think?  I know I'd rather have ALL of the first
group
above than an incomplete set from each category.  I'd put the Non-album
Midnight Oil originals on one disk, the live b-sides on a second disk,
the
single versions (and alternate versions like Cemetery In My Mind <True
Believers
Blind version>) plus covers on the third disk, and the Remixes on a
fourth disk.

Of couse, any unreleased songs would be in a new "ultimate priority"
group, but
I suspect we'd be lucky to get even one of those, so it could go into the
compilation of non-album originals.

Anybody want to pass this on to Arlene?  ;-)

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From: rob10@liveonthe.net
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:37:37 +1000
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On 19/07/2011 1:53 PM, Midnight Oil Office wrote:

Hi everyone

I bring bad news I'm afraid... Oils box set release has been
rescheduled for March.
I'm very sorry for the disappointment and for putting a big hole in
some of your Xmas stockings.
We will do our best to make it worth the wait.
Arlene