Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust
Columbia  (1988)
Rock

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7*
CD  42:56
10 tracks
   01   Beds Are Burning             04:16
   02   Put Down That Weapon             04:38
   03   DreamWorld             03:36
   04   Arctic World             04:21
   05   Warakurna             04:37
   06   The Dead Heart             05:10
   07   Whoah             03:51
   08   Bullroarer             04:58
   09   Sell My Soul             03:37
   10   Sometimes             03:52
Personal Details
Details
Studio Albert's Studio
Country Australia
Spars DDD
Sound Stereo
Notes
1988 Columbia Records CK40967

Midnight Oil:
Peter Gifford Bass, Singing
Jim Moginie Guitar, Keyboards, Singing
Martin Rotsey Guitar
Peter Garrett Singer
Rob Hirst Drums, Singing
Gary Morris Facilitator

CDCBS460005
Produced by Warne Livesey and Midnight Oil
Recorded at Albert's Studio, Sydney
Engineered by Guy Gray


GUNBARREL HIGHWAY

(Midnight Oil)

I'll give you something to write home about
And I'll take you somewhere, show you around
We burnt all the cars that laid down and died
We burnt all the trees to keep us alive
Sat 'round the fire, sang like a choir
With the ashes of a civilization in our eyes

I come alive, I read the signs on the Gunbarrel Higway
Far off a dull radio beats for the young uninvolved
The meaning's a football
A stick and a can and a Kakadu man
Will the speaker speak up or the talker talk down
The world is no oyster and here in this town
Shit falls like rain on a world that is brown

I come alive, I read the signs on the Gunbarrel Highway
I come alive, and the children will sing as the
satellite swings down that highway

Nothing could be longer than a corrugated road
No one ever follows where the road trains go
And nowhere in the country do the dust storms blow so hard
So hard

I come alive, I read the signs on the Gunbarrel Highway
I hear the sound, it's the wheels as they drive
And the cultures collide on that highway
ah, it's a hard day, the children will sing as the
Satellite swings down that highway




DISCOGRAPHY



Midnight Oil 1978
Head Injuries 1979
Bird Noises EP 1980
Place Without A Postcard 1981
10.9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 1982
Red Sails in the Sunset 1984
Species Deceases EP 1985
Diesel & Dust 1987
Blue Sky Mining 1990
Scream In Blue - Live 1992
Earth, Sun & Moon 1993
Breathe 1996
20,000 Watt RSL 1997
Redneck Wonderland 1998
The Real Thing 2000
Capricornia 2002