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Post by Nonfatman on Jan 26, 2010 11:48:20 GMT -5
Australia's two greatest rock artists, Jimmy Barnes and Peter Garrett (the latter from Midnight Oil), do a cover of Locomotive Breath. I don't know anything about Barnes, but Midnight Oil is one of my favorite bands, probably my second or third favorite after Tull. Garrett quit five or six years ago to launch a career in politics.
Jeff
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Post by TM on Jan 27, 2010 10:29:40 GMT -5
Australia's two greatest rock artists, Jimmy Barnes and Peter Garrett (the latter from Midnight Oil), do a cover of Locomotive Breath. I don't know anything about Barnes, but Midnight Oil is one of my favorite bands, probably my second or third favorite after Tull. Garrett quit five or six years ago to launch a career in politics. Jeff Great Jeff, very enjoyable thanks. I like Barnes' vocals BTW. |
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Post by Nonfatman on Jan 27, 2010 10:42:07 GMT -5
Glad you liked that, Paul. Midnight Oil is great band, and one of the best live acts when they were still going. They blow their closest counterparts U2 away, but never got the same kind of recognition, except for a brief period in the late eighties and early nineties when they did some more commercial albums like Diesel and Dust, Blue Sky Mining and Earth, Sun and Moon. (All great albums by the way.) But my favorite is Redneck Wonderland, their second to last album (before Peter Garrett left to go into politics); it is absolutely killer starting right off from the title track and sustained throughout the entire record. If you love heavy rock, with great melodies and a sprinkling of fine acoustic numbers too, each song is angry as hell, with intelligent, cynical and well-written lyrics that hit on some of the same themes as Tull: concern for the environment, a yearning for a simpler pre-industrial age, the plight of the working man, political hypocrisy, bigotry, hatred and war. Sample this album on Itunes, and I think you will really like it:  Any Oil fans out there? Jeff |
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