ONE HIT WONDERLAND: “Beds Are Burning”
Presenting the band Midnight Oil, the ’80s rockers who taught us all about Australian social issues. Once.
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Presenting the band Midnight Oil, the ’80s rockers who taught us all about Australian social issues. Once.
@joshuakeller634
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
fair is fair, a fact's a fact. Give it back.
@joshuakeller634
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
meh…let's give it back
@unkelkreepy8529
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
The vanilla bic pen guy dances like an epileptic
@jameshutchingsmusic
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
By the way, we use Celsius in Australia, so "the Western Desert lives and breathes" at 113 degrees for Americans.
@jameshutchingsmusic
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
In Australia at the time, they weren't considered alternative. They were very much mainstream/top 40 rock (in those days, of course, rock bands could be in the top 40). To me, this shows how arbitrary these distinctions can be, because, yeah, they totally sound alternative.
@deanmccaskill5495
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
Saw Midnight Oil at this Temu Lollapaooza called Another Roadside Attraction. Peter G stops during some song. Proceeds to scold the audience for pushing around too much. Then starts pointing out people and getting security to toss them. “You and you and him and that one over there! “ As well meaning as it may sound it was gross. But the fun part was after I read some press on this festival, turns out that was part of the act. He did it at every show during the same “ some song” and it was called “ crowd rant” on the set list. I didn’t see this part mind you I only read about it in Exclaim or something.
Efff Midnight Oil
@1998_MIN
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
Since this video came out, the Oils released two last albums, one a collaborative project with Aboriginal artists and their final one themed largely around climate change. I haven't heard them yet but their cover art game is on point.
@jollyjohnthepirate3168
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
The nuclear bombs tested didn't belong to Australia. They belonged to Great Britain.
@Lyendith
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
"I have to revamp this show entirely"
And he never did lol.
@EspyCrime
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
"can't be any sillier than what we have now" oh you sweet, sweet boy, Todd from 8 years ago
@theantisocials
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
Johnny Sins has lived so many different lives.
@thatfaebasterd
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
"Michael Stipe on steroids". That killed me. The wake is being held this weekend, funeral date TBA.
@N8oRMusic
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
One of the greatest bands ever with one of the best songs ever written.
@FLStelth
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
I hated this song from the first time I heard it in 1987. The singer's voice is as grating as his "The Hills Have Eyes" look.
@tradward
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
The amount of irony of a man singing "our country was never invaded, our shoreline was never in flames" although Darwin was bombed by the Japanese in World War II, and then becoming a politician is laughable.
@SaltyBob355
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
Boy I hated this song. Lead singer reminded me of the guy from The Hills Have Eyes.
@biseinerheult78
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
Met a 50 something Australian guy at a party in Berlin and asked him how many Midnight Oil concerts he's been to. He first looked a bit offended by me stereotyping him like that before he answered "Four".
@kateroyce2699
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
I loved this band so much in the 80s and 90s, it's so surprising to me they're considered a one hit wonder.
@TotoDG
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
I don't know if you researched Sir Robert Menzies or just chose him at random, but as an Australian history buff, I can assure you that there is a LOT of blood on the hands of "Pig Iron Bob".
@cowetascore8476
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
No way were they a One Hit Wonder, but I get it.
@cm6534
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
I'm from Washington State, born in '78. I always liked them growing up. I never considered then one hit wonders. But I was young and liked them
@funkyjbass7762
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
Lol, laughed so hard when you said that the Mad Max universe is an improvement on actual Australian history. That is so close to true it is hilarious.
@VanBurenOfficial
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
Oh hell yeah, I was almost as hyped for this one as I will be for Trainwreckords: Demon Days
@loxhisk2243
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
3:56 even men at work, the band who sings down under, are a genuinely prolific band. They sing who can it be now, be good Johnny etc. they’re very good and no one knows about them except Aussie’s
@MatrixGuitar
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
Midnight Oil has never been a one hit wonder.
@alanm2809
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
Peter Garratt has a law degree
@EvolvingPickleball
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
I remember getting their CDs from Columbia House. My CD changer provided me the best playlist around in those days.
@jamesrichards2980
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
I'm australian and I utterly hate Midnight Oil. I have this theory that Peter Garrett saw his friends create a band, had no musical talents, so they let him be the singer just so he would stop bothering them. Can't stand his voice, can't stand his politics, can't stand how much of a sell out he was when he became a poltician
@bruceholloway1123
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
Power of the passion was pretty popular I don’t know I’ve heard it before, at least
@TonySpike
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
Well of course Air Supply aint in that book
1) they aint really technically Australian,
they have like …1 Australian out of 2 people (yes i am aware of where they were formed)
but the other dude is technically English so they dont really count as simply "Australian" (AC/DC count as Aussie since Bryan joined AFTER they were formed for the record)
2) ……they are Air Supply 😂
@MrThomyorkey
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 pm
Fun facts: Peter Garrett studied law and politics in university so he’s more than qualified to do what he did and still doing
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