Midnight Oil

Subject: Flat Chat Rambling
From: Sena
Date: 25/03/2009, 10:21 am
To: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au


As some of you may remember, I met my husband on Powderworks, back in 1996.  Midnight Oil was so much a part of how we met and who we both were, that when we split in '04 I didn't listen to a single Oils song for several years.  I just couldn't.

But as evidence that time is a great healer, late last year I heard Blue Sky Mine on the radio (we have an indie station here in Vermont that occasionally plays MO) and it caused such a sudden ache in me - not heartache, but the realization that I missed that music so much.  It was time.

I went to my CD rack to survey the damage (you divorcees know what I mean).  I had left everything behind except what we had duplicates of: Breathe, RW, BSM, Place, RSIS, Capricornia.  No Head Injuries!  No Species!  I didn't even have Diesel & Dust, for crying out loud.

I went to Amazon to rebuild.  I was delighted to find that a couple of pleasant surprises had debuted during my hiatus, including something called Flat Chat.

It arrived in the mail yesterday, and today on my way home from work I popped it in my car's CD player.  Only The Strong came blasting out, but not anything like I remember it sounding - 100 times better!  It was so clear and fresh it sounded like they were right in the car with me.  And then into one of my all time favorites, Progress - and when they ripped into Hercules I could feel my soul beating against the inside of my body, trying to get out.  This stuff is too good.  

All those old favorites remastered like that - what a serious treat.  I'm glad I found my way back.

-Sena