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Best of Both Worlds (Midnight Oil album)

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Released
  
5 April 2004

Artists
  
Midnight Oil, Jayadev

Label
  
Universal Music Australia

Best of Both Worlds(2004)
  
Flat Chat(2006)

Release date
  
5 April 2004

Genre
  
Rock music

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Length
  
135 min (DVD) / 72:42 (CD)

Producer
  
Keith Walker / Justin Heitman / Jim Moginie

Similar
  
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Best of Both Worlds is a DVD-Video release of two significant concerts performed by Australian rock band Midnight Oil. The featured concerts are Oils on the Water (from 1985) and Saturday Night at the Capitol (1982). Best of Both Worlds was released in 2004 by Triple J as part of their Live at the Wireless programme.

Contents

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Oils on the Water

Oils on the Water was staged on 13 January 1985 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Triple J, Australia's publicly owned youth radio network. This concert was performed on Sydney's Goat Island for a small audience of competition winners, and was simulcast on ABC-TV and Triple J.

This concert is included on the DVD and also as a bonus audio CD.

Track listing

  1. "Best of Both Worlds"
  2. "When the Generals Talk"
  3. "Minutes to Midnight"
  4. "Sleep"
  5. "Only the Strong"
  6. "Short Memory"
  7. "Kosciuszko"
  8. "US Forces"
  9. "Jimmy Sharman's Boxers"
  10. "Back on the Borderline"
  11. "Tin-legs and Tin Mines"
  12. "Don't Wanna Be the One"
  13. "Power and the Passion"
  14. "Read about It"
  15. "Harrisburg"
  16. "Stand in Line"

Saturday Night at the Capitol

An incendiary show from 1982 at the Capitol Theatre, Sydney, shot for the band by award-winning filmmaker Dave Bradbury on 27 November, 1982 for ABC radio station Triple J.

Track listing

  1. "Only The Strong"
  2. "Brave Faces"
  3. "Short Memory"
  4. "Knife's Edge"
  5. "Power and the Passion"
  6. "Armistice Day"
  7. "No Time For Games"
  8. "Quinella Holiday"
  9. "Lucky Country"
  10. "Don't Wanna Be the One"
  11. "Burnie"
  12. "Powderworks"

Personnel

  • Peter Garrett - vocals
  • Peter Gifford - bass guitar, vocals
  • Rob Hirst - drums, percussion, vocals
  • Jim Moginie - guitars, keyboards
  • Martin Rotsey - guitars

    • Songs

    1Best of Both Worlds4:05
    2When the Generals Talk3:36
    3Minutes to Midnight3:48

    References

    Best of Both Worlds (Midnight Oil album) Wikipedia
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