Midnight Oil

Ang: [Powderworks] Oils survey

vmw129n at tninet.se vmw129n at tninet.se
Wed Sep 1 02:20:54 MDT 2004


Hoy! About me:

1.  what's your name?  Fredrik
2.  where do you live?  Sydney, Australia (Swedish though, on a 2-years 
job down here)
3.  how old are you?  29
4.  what do you do for a living?  Biochemistry/biotech scientist
5.  what was the first song you heard by the Oils?  Blue Sky Mine
6.  how old were you when you heard it?  14
7.  what are your two favorite albums, from one extreme to the other?  
BSM and ESM
8.  favorite energetic song?  Read about it (live, from Scream in Blue!)
9.  favorite slow song?  Mountains of Burma
10.  what song(s) defines the Oils?  MoB, Dead Heart, River runs red, Antarctica, 
..., ..., ..., so many... 
11. what song is *least* characteristic of the Oils?  Kiss That Girl
12.  Martin or Jim?  Them together
13.  what Oils song did you absolutely hate at first and now love?  
Can't think of any I hated. But I laughed and took it as a strange joke 
when I first listened to the Underwater / Gravelrash / I see you / Smash 
the wobbleboard / Kingdom of Flaunt EP, but now I really like it and the 
whole Breathe album.
14.  did you buy any Oils releases totally on faith, without having heard 
a single song before buying it?
All of them but BSM, which my dad gave me. Thank you, dad!
15.  do you play any instruments?  Guitar
16.  if you could go to any ONE place mentioned in an Oils song, where 
would you go?
Darwin down to Alice Springs
17.  have the Oils ever inspired you to take any direct action as part 
of any environmental/social activist cause?  No
18.  have you ever had any Oils-related dreams?  No
19.  Bones or Giffo?  Bones
20.  what forgotten song deserves another spin?  I see you


Cheers, Fredrik