Midnight Oil 

Demos - 1978-1985 

Demo recordings from the Oils first album, Head Injuries, 

Place Without A Postcard, Red Sails In The Sunset, and 

Species Deceases 

An interesting collection where you can hear early versions 

of many songs, and many bits which later turned up in 

other songs. 

Midnight Oil have never released any sort of "box set", 

"rarities" or "special edition" CDs, so none of these tracks 

exist on any official releases. 

Songlist: 

Powderworks Demos (1978) 

- Head Over Heels 

- Powderworks 

- Run By Night 

Head Injuries Demos (1979) 

- Don't Wanna Be The One 

- Cold Cold Change 

- Back On The Borderline 

- No Reaction 

- Naked Flame 

- Bus To Coogee 

- Koala Sprint 

Place Without A Postcard (1981) 

- Lucky Country 

- Unknown Title 

- Burnie 

- Bakerman 

- Khartoum 

- Unknown Title 

- Basement Flat 

- Quinella Holiday 

- Written In The Heart 

- Brave Faces 

- If Ned Kelly Was King 

- Armistice Day 

Red Sails In The Sunset (1984) 

- Kosciusko 

- Minutes To Midnight 

- Sleep 

- Shipyards Of New Zealand 

- Who Can Stand In The Way 

- I Want To Live Here 

- Parking Station Blues 

- Best Of Both Worlds 

- Minutes To Midnight 

- Bells And Horns In The Back Of Beyond 

- Nothing Is Easy 

Species Deceases (1985) 

- Sad Dark Eyes (a cover of someone else's song, but I 

can't remember who)