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Burning the Midnight Oil Once Again Lyrics

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1987 single past Midnight Oil

"Beds Are Burning"
Beds Are Burning Australian edition.jpg

Australian 7-inch vinyl single
Single by Midnight Oil
from the album Diesel and Dust
B-side
  • "Gunbarrel Highway"
  • "Bullroarer" (U.s. simply)
Released ten August 1987[one]
Studio Albert Studios, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Length 4:18
Label Columbia
Songwriter(due south)
  • Rob Hirst
  • Jim Moginie
  • Peter Garrett
Producer(s)
  • Warne Livesey
  • Midnight Oil
Midnight Oil singles chronology
"The Dead Heart"
(1986) 		"Beds Are Called-for"
(1987) 		"Put Down That Weapon"
(1987)
Culling comprehend
Side A of the US single

Side A of the US single
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Beds Are Burning on YouTube

"Beds Are Burning" is a 1987 vocal by the Australian rock ring Midnight Oil, the first rails from their anthology Diesel and Dust. This vocal was released as the second unmarried from the anthology. It reached No. 1 in New Zealand, South Africa and Canada, No. 3 in the netherlands, No. v in France, No. half-dozen in the Great britain, Australia and Ireland, No. 17 in the United States and Sweden.

Information technology is i of The Stone and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Coil and it was named number 95 on VH1'southward 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80s and number 97 by the Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time in 2009.

In May 2001, Australasian Performing Right Clan (APRA) celebrated its 75th anniversary by naming the Best Australian Songs of all time, equally decided by a 100 strong manufacture panel. "Beds Are Burning" was declared third behind the Easybeats' "Friday on My Listen" and Daddy Absurd's "Eagle Rock".[2]

In Jan 2018, as part of Triple M's "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all fourth dimension, "Beds Are Burning" was ranked number 9.[3]

Limerick [edit]

After Midnight Oil toured through the Outback in 1986, playing to remote Aboriginal communities and seeing beginning mitt the seriousness of the issues in health and living standards, Peter Garrett, Jim Moginie and Rob Hirst wrote "Beds Are Burning" to criticize how said populations were frequently forcibly removed from their lands, highlighted by the pre-chorus lines "it belongs to them, let'southward give it dorsum". Considering such a local affair inspired a worldwide hitting, Garrett commented "Who would have thought an Ancient land rights vocal would travel that far?"[4] There are specific references to certain Australian places and politics, such as Kintore Ranges and the town of Yuendumu, vehicles produced by the Holden visitor, the "Information technology's Time" slogan and the notion of "off-white go".[5]

Track listings [edit]

Australian 7" single
No. Title Writer(southward) Length
ane. "Beds Are Burning" Hirst, Moginie, Garrett 3:52
2. "Gunbarrel Highway" Hirst, Moginie, Garrett 3:37
Australian 12" /CD Maxi single
No. Championship Author(southward) Length
1. "Beds Are Burning" Hirst, Moginie, Garrett iii:52
two. "Gunbarrel Highway" Hirst, Moginie, Garrett iii:37
3. "Sometimes" Hirst, Moginie, Garrett iii:45
UK 12" single
No. Title Writer(southward) Length
1. "Beds Are Burning" (Unmarried Version) Hirst, Moginie, Garrett iv:15
two. "Beds Are Called-for" (Yuendumu Percapella Mix) Hirst, Moginie, Garrett 4:27
3. "The Expressionless Centre" (Long Version) Hirst, Moginie, Garrett, Martin Rotsey, Peter Gifford vi:07

Charts [edit]

Certifications and sales [edit]

Live version [edit]

"Beds Are Burning"
Beds are Burning live.png

Live Maxi-Single
Single by Midnight Oil
from the album Scream in Blue
Released 1992
Recorded Our Common Future Concert, Darlinghurst, 1989
Length 4:05
Label Columbia
Songwriter(south)
  • Rob Hirst
  • Jim Moginie
  • Peter Garrett
Midnight Oil singles chronology
"Sometimes"
(1992) 		"Beds Are Burning"
(1992) 		"Truganini"
(1993)

A alive recording from 1989 was released in 1992, as the second and last single from the band'due south compilation of live recordings album, Scream in Blue.

Runway list [edit]

CD Maxi
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Beds Are Burning" (live) Hirst, Moginie, Garrett iv:05
ii. "No Reaction" (live) Hirst, Moginie, Martin Rotsey 2:56
3. "Instant Karma!" (live) John Lennon 3:44

Cover versions [edit]

  • In 2001, a cover of "Beds Are Burning" was included on the eponymous Underground Moon anthology, a i-off modernistic stone project by former State of war & Peace band mates, Jeff Pilson (Foreigner, Dokken), using the pseudonym Dominic Moon, and Tommy Henriksen (Alice Cooper, Warlock).[34]
  • On ii October 2009, 60 musicians and celebrities from around the world released a free reworked version to highlight climatic change bug before the United nations' talks in Copenhagen. Singers included Lily Allen, Klaus Meine of the Scorpions, Simon Le Bon from Duran Duran, Tyson Ritter of The All-American Rejects and Bob Geldof. The old UN secretary-full general Kofi Annan, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the French actress Marion Cotillard also added their voices to the cover version. The song is role of Global Humanitarian Forum TckTckTck Fourth dimension for Climate justice entrada and is a part of the greater "TckTckTck" project,[35] which aims to draw attending to what they perceive every bit the urgency of global warming, past signing a "musical petition" with each download.
  • On one May 2018, Canadian hardcore punk band Comeback Kid released a beefed up version of the song on a digital/7-inch release along with a new original vocal "Niggling Soldier".[36]
  • On xviii February 2020, US musician Amanda Palmer released a version of the song, as the lead unmarried from her anthology Forty-V Degrees - A Bushfire Clemency Flash Record. Palmer's version features Missy Higgins, Brian Viglione and Jherek Bischoff.[37]
  • On 18 Feb 2020, Australian Julia Stone released a version of the song. The song is the atomic number 82 single from the 2020 various artists compilation album Songs for Commonwealth of australia.[38]
  • On 25 February 2022, American band Awolnation released a cover of the song in collaboration with Tim McIlrath of Rise Against. The vocal is the second release for the album of covers My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers, fix for release on vi May 2022.[39]

See likewise [edit]

  • List of number-one singles of 1988 (Canada)
  • List of number-ane singles from the 1980s (New Zealand)

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  39. ^ Cashmere, Paul (25 February 2022). "Awolnation Covers Midnight Oil's 'Bed Are Burning' with Tim McIlrath of Ascent Against"". Noise11.com . Retrieved xx March 2022.

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