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Scream in Blue

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Released
  
5 May 1992

Length
  
59:59

Release date
  
5 May 1992

Genre
  
Rock music

Recorded
  
1982 - 1990

Artist
  
Midnight Oil

Label
  
Columbia Records

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Producer
  
Midnight Oil & Keith Walker

Scream In Blue (Live) (1992)
  
Earth and Sun and Moon (1993)

Similar
  
Midnight Oil albums, Rock music albums

Midnight oil scream in blue promo video


Scream in Blue (Live) is a live concert album by Midnight Oil that was released in 1992 under the Columbia Records label. It contains songs carefully culled from 5 live concerts recorded over a 9-year period. The audiences sound quite large, but also included is material from a 1990 protest concert held on the street in front of Exxon headquarters in New York City. The album is mixed so as to sound like one continuous concert.

Contents

The album starts with a scathing, nearly atonal electric guitar solo and never lets up (until the final, more subdued studio bonus track Burnie), careening through a hooky hard-rock minefield of clever, socially conscious lyrics sung with passion over a rip-roaring but very tight band. The tracks were evidently recorded through the sound systems of the various concerts, then mixed to a clear and well-balanced sound in the style of audio verité. Also, at the end of Only the Strong, a short sound sample is inserted containing some chanting by unidentified American Indians which also sounds passionately rendered, although jarringly out of context.

Midnight oil scream in blue live


Reception

Critical reception of Scream in Blue (Live) was mixed. For instance, Allmusic's review by Roch Parisien was entirely in praise of the album, saying that it perfectly captured the edge and power of Midnight Oil's live performances, which consistently outshone the popular studio versions of the same material.

Track listing

  1. "Scream in Blue" 2:56 (Garrett, Moginie, Rotsey) - Horden Pavilion, Sydney, 1984
  2. "Read About It" 3:52 (Garrett, Hirst, Moginie) - Brisbane Entertainment Centre, 1990
  3. "Dreamworld" 3:42 (Garrett, Hirst, Moginie) - Brisbane Entertainment Centre, 1990
  4. "Brave Faces" 5:00 (Garrett, Moginie) - Capitol Theatre, Sydney, 1982
  5. "Only the Strong" 5:41 (Hirst, Moginie) - Capitol Theatre, Sydney, 1982
  6. "Stars of Warburton" 5:04 (Garrett, Moginie) - Brisbane Entertainment Centre, 1990
  7. "Progress" 6:17 (Garrett, Moginie) - Exxon Protest, 6th Ave, N.Y., N.Y., 1990
  8. "Beds Are Burning" 4:05 (Garrett, Hirst, Moginie) - Our Common Future Concert, Darlinghurst, 1989
  9. "Sell My Soul" 4:10 (Garrett, Moginie) - Brisbane Entertainment Centre, 1990
  10. "Sometimes" 3:29 (Garrett, Hirst, Moginie) - Our Common Future Concert, Darlinghurst, 1989
  11. "Hercules" 4:57 (Garrett, Hirst, Moginie) - Brisbane Entertainment Centre, 1990
  12. "Powderworks" 5:50 (Garrett, Hirst, James, Moginie, Rotsey) - Capitol Theatre, Sydney, 1982
  13. "Burnie" 5:04 (Garrett, Moginie) - Bonus Track, Acoustic Recording

Personnel

  • Peter Garrett - lead vocals
  • Peter Gifford - bass, vocals (tracks 1, 4, 5, and 12)
  • Bones Hillman - bass, vocals (tracks 2, 3, 6-11, and 13)
  • Rob Hirst - drums, vocals
  • Jim Moginie - guitars, keyboards, vocals
  • Martin Rotsey - guitars, vocals

    • Songs

    1Scream in Blue2:56
    2Read About It3:52
    3Dreamworld3:42

    References

    Scream in Blue Wikipedia
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