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THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER

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THE BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER

To compliment my recently completed ‘1000 BEST SONGS LIST,’ here is another that just missed the cut.

1035-Midnight Oil-Beds Are Burning.
1987-Number 6 single.
Best Bit-At 0.21.Don’t get excited this isn’t about sex.
Midnight Oil are one of Australia’s most celebrated, and revered bands,they formed in Sydney,New South Wales in 1972, originally calling themselves ‘Farm.’The original line up was Peter Garrett (vocals,) Rob Hirst (drums,) Jim Moginie (guitar and keyboards,) Martin Rotsey (guitar,) and Bones Hillman (bass guitar.) They were active between 1972-2002,then reformed again in 2016,the name change occurred in 1976, when they chose Midnight Oil, from the Jimi Hendrix song, ‘Burning of the Midnight Lamp.’
‘Beds Are Burning’ is rated by the ‘Australasian Performing Right Association’ as the third best Australian song of all time, behind the Easybeats,’Friday on my Mind'(see also best songs 939) It’s parent Album ‘Diesel and Dust’ is listed as the best Australian Album ever.
‘Beds Are Burning’ is a political song about giving native Australian lands back to the Pintupi,who were among the very last people to come in from the desert.During the 1930’s through to the 1960’s, these aboriginal people were forcefully removed from land that their forefathers had lived on for generations, and taken to settlements elsewhere.This song says that was wrong, and these people should be allowed to return.
‘The time has come,a facts a fact,it belongs to them, lets give it back.’
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