Midnight Oil

Subject: Re: [powderworks] Hey! I remember that fish ...
From: david earle
Date: 16/07/2010, 11:15 am
To: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au, Kate Adams

Heh heh - sure stuck the stick in the bull ants' nest with this one.

E-beat is awesome - goosebumps every time I hear it.

Can't understand the general consensus that Gravelrash makes it onto the "good tracks" list - to me it would be a great B-side to come across, but as an album track - nah (in fact, I'd probably do a swap with it and Devilfish shuffle B side from Redneck sessions)

I think (Gravelrash excepted) it does hang together pretty well as an album - as Rob H described it, it's MO's late night album...which probably has the double meaning of it's good to listen to it late at night plus his own lost sleep over his lack of involvement in its writing and production!

--- On Fri, 16/7/10, Kate Adams <kate@dnki.net> wrote:

From: Kate Adams <kate@dnki.net>
Subject: Re: [powderworks] Hey! I remember that fish ...
To: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au
Received: Friday, 16 July, 2010, 1:06 AM

 

I LOVE Underwater ... can't get it out of my head in those rare times that I get to play in the surf with my body board or surfyak. 

But E-beat has to be one of my all-time Oily faves.  I have an enduring connection with E-Beat and surf and the carnival-ish seaside town that surrounds my favorite break ...
"The devil was a dancing on the old foreshore
Hitting up on bright lights and the liquor stores"
I loved it when the random shuffle function cued it up for me on my i-touch as I was leaving there a couple weeks ago.

As for "Surfs Up Tonight" ... I forgot it was on that album because I never ripped it.  I have long maintained that Breathe should have been an EP, but when I put that up for Powderworkers to pick the 4 or 5 cuts, well ... no consensus.

My most powerful associations with the entire album come from great screaming piles of angst - when I finally got back to my lab on 9/11/01, it was the only CD I had with me.  A horrified mess, and stressed from keeping everybody else around me calm, I crawled under my desk to listen to it with head phones in fetal ball mode.  More recently, cuts I rarely listen to crept into my head when I was down in New Orleans in late January.  After touring the still unrepaired devastation in the 8th and 9th wards, it was all I could do to get a gigantic toxic-waste orange alcohol slurpee and put Breathe on repeat while roaming the French Quarter and that Famous Cemetery.  In that sense, the album as a whole is serious thumbsucking music.  (http://www.flickr. com/photos/ multimodalmama/ sets/72157623301 508792/) BTW, does anyone know which tracks were laid down in the Big Easy?

Of course, the modern track-by-track way of storing and listening to music tends to redeem this album - keep what you like, ditch what you don't, and organize it in the way you think it should go.

-kPa

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:55 PM, david earle <canadavros@yahoo. com.au> wrote:


Glad to hear there's two of us!

Breathe's funny - seems to be the least liked MO album on the Powdies list. I must admit that everytime I hear it I like it more - Sins of omission is great, with that menacing intro. I even like the rolling guitar picking sounds at the intro (and other points) of One too many times.

--- On Thu, 15/7/10, The Oilman <TheOilman@new. rr.com> wrote:

From: The Oilman <TheOilman@new. rr.com>
Subject: Re: [powderworks] Hey! I remember that fish ...
To: "david earle" <canadavros@yahoo. com.au>
Received: Thursday, 15 July, 2010, 12:12 PM


You're not the only one who likes it, but that album sure had some clunkers. Surfs Up Tonight and One Too Many Times are my least favorite Oils songs.
 
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Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 8:47 PM
Subject: Re: [powderworks] Hey! I remember that fish ...

 

A dark silhouette flashes by in the wet
It is glistening flesh in the deep marine...

And from previous posts I realise I'm probably in a minority of one,
but I love this song!



--- On Thu, 15/7/10, Tom <tomspencer@eml. cc> wrote:

From: Tom <tomspencer@eml. cc>
Subject: [powderworks] Hey! I remember that fish ...
To: powderworks@ yahoogroups. com.au
Received: Thursday, 15 July, 2010, 8:23 AM