I am currently...

[hmpf]

so in love with some of the songs from Midnight Oil's early 1980s EPs - which, along with the debut album, are the only of their original releases I'm still missing - that it's a little scary.

I think I will have to hunt down the EPs at last. Which, at least in one of the cases, looks to be expensive. Arrgh.

2010 will be my 20-year Midnight Oil anniversary, btw. Wow. There's no other, comparable musical constant in my life.

Song I've just now become a bit obsessive about:
Blossom & Blood - this is about Hiroshima, if you can believe it. I'm not sure if there was ever another band that could make songs full of atomic angst even half as catchy, and, dare I say, danceable(!)

Song I obsessed about yesterday:
Hercules - another nuclear protest song. I find Rob Hirst's energetic drumming and singing(?) in the background endlessly endearing. Look at him! Such a happy drummer. He looks like he's having the time of his life.

ETA: That these guys fit my emotional needs perfectly when I was thirteen probably says a lot about my youth...

Comments

[nick-101.livejournal.com]

Midnight Oil is such a great band and I have been fan of them for 20 years, too. Never heard much of their early stuff, though. :)

Early stuff

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

It's worth checking out, IMO. Okay, I *would* say that, wouldn't I? *g* But, seriously, there's a lot of good stuff there. It sounds more 80s, obviously - more New Wave, more early electronic, and mostly harder and less melodious than the later stuff, too - but I like it.

If you're an audio nut, though, you may want to wait a couple of months. They're remastering some of the old albums currently; two of them should be released as a set in... April, I think.

What was your first MO experience? Me, it was Blue Sky Mining, in 1990. Got Diesel and Dust after that, maybe 1992 or so. (I didn't have a CD player of my own at the time, so I was reluctant about getting CDs, since I essentially had to negotiate for time on the family CD player to listen to them *g*) - Diesel and Dust literally was one of the first two or three CDs I owned. (Blue Sky Mining I only had on tape.)