Midnight Oil

Subject: Re: [powderworks] Re: Dormant? It's over!!
From: "Beth Curran" <bcurran@columbus.rr.com>
Date: 3/05/2008, 1:27 am
To: <powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au>, <bawolski@aol.com>

Ha ha, reminds me of the time I had Diesel on in the car, since I was driving, and my father-in-law, who knows I love the Oils and likes to push my buttons, started complaining about it.  He said it sounded just like somebody going down an old dirt back road in a beat-up truck, and then made a bunch of "thumpa-thumpa" noises.  He was quite surprised when I congratulated him on his interpretive ability and explained that that was what that album was all about.  Then he wanted to know who cared about the sound of Australian dirt roads.

But with respect to Gunbarrel, I never thought it fit very well on Diesel because to me it sounds really different from the rest of that album.  Maybe it's the way it was produced - the guitars sound so different from the other songs.  The other songs sound more "raw" to me than that one does.  I dunno - it's hard to explain. - Beth
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  Subject: Re: [powderworks] Re: Dormant? It's over!!




  I'm pretty sure it was left off because of the word 'shit' cause I think l can recall Hirst or Garrett talking about it in an interview. Can't recall whether it was radio or magazine.

  I don't see how that could be the reason when that word plus many others considered more profane have appeared on albums from the late '60s on.
  I seem to recall having this discussion before and someone mentioned that it may have simply because the band considered Gunbarrel as "too 
  Australian" (it refers to a highway that cuts Australia in half which is "straight as a gunbarrel," right)?? As much as I love the song, it does seem?
  like a throw-in, "Sometimes" seems for like the logical album closer?for Diesel and Dust.

  Mike?

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