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Studio album by
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Released | November 1982 | |||
Recorded | September 1982 | |||
Studio | Townhouse (London) | |||
Genre | Rock, new wave, post-punk | |||
Length |
45:55 |
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Label | Sprint Music / Columbia | |||
Producer | Nick Launay & Midnight Oil | |||
Midnight Oil chronology | ||||
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is the fourth studio album by Midnight Oil that was released on vinyl in 1982 under the Columbia Records label. It peaked at No. 3 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart and remained on the chart for 171 weeks.[1]
It also became the band’s first album to chart on the US
Billboard
200, where it peaked at number 178.
At the 1982 Countdown Music Awards, the album was nominated for Best Australian Album.[2]
[3]
In October 2010, the album was listed in the top 30 in the book
100 Best Australian Albums, with 1987’s
Diesel and Dust
at No. 1.[4]
In July 2011, the album was listed in Triple J Hottest 100 Australian Albums of All Time, 2011 at number 21.[5]
In December 2022, the album was listed at no. 19 in
Rolling Stone Australia’s
‘200 Greatest Albums of All Time’ countdown.[6]
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Content
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The album’s closing track “Somebody’s Trying to Tell Me Something” contains a note held by the group which would continue into the album’s runout groove, and emulated on the CD version for just over 40 seconds. This is an approximation of a locked groove, a method used a number of times on vinyl albums (such as
Diamond Dogs
and
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band) where the ending sound would continue into the runout groove, thus continuing indefinitely until the turntable arm was lifted off or the automatic return, present on some turntables, kicked in.
Garrett noted, “We wanted, as a band, to make this album lyrically stronger, because these are fucking desperate times. It’s very important for us to get immediate, because we can’t go on making records like this for years and years and people can’t go on ignoring it.”[7]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic |
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Rolling Stone |
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The Rolling Stone Album Guide |
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The Village Voice | C+[11] |
Mark Deming at AllMusic wrote: “It’s remarkably listenable and catchy, offering up one passionate anthem after another. The band’s politics are both well considered and unapologetically upfront throughout…
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
was [Midnight Oil’s] first undeniably great album and still ranks with their very best.”[8]
David Fricke said the album, “sounds like the end of the world turned up to 10”.[7]
Track listing
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No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | “Outside World” | Moginie | 4:24 |
2. | “Only the Strong” | Hirst, Moginie | 4:31 |
3. | “Short Memory” | Garrett, Hirst, Moginie | 3:52 |
4. | “Read About It” | Garrett, Hirst, Moginie | 3:52 |
5. | “Scream in Blue” | Garrett, Moginie, Rotsey | 6:22 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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6. | “US Forces” | Garrett, Moginie | 4:06 |
7. | “Power and the Passion” | Garrett, Hirst, Moginie | 5:39 |
8. | “Maralinga” | Garrett, Moginie | 4:44 |
9. | “Tin Legs and Tin Mines” | Garrett, Moginie, Rotsey | 4:28 |
10. | “Somebody’s Trying to Tell Me Something” | Garrett, Gifford, Hirst, Moginie, Rotsey | 3:58 |
Charts
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Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Certifications
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Personnel
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Midnight Oil
- Peter Garrett – lead vocals
- Peter Gifford – bass, vocals
- Rob Hirst – drums, vocals
- Jim Moginie – guitars, keyboards
- Martin Rotsey – guitars
Additional personnel
- Gary Barnacle, Peter Thoms & Luke Tunney – brass (on “Power and the Passion”)
References
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Kent, David (1993).
Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book Ltd. ISBN0-646-11917-6.
Note: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) created their own charts in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974. -
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“Australian Music Awards”. Ron Jeff. Retrieved
16 December
2010.
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“Final episode of Countdown”.
1970scountdown
. Retrieved
23 October
2022.
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O’Donnell, John; Creswell, Toby; Mathieson, Craig (October 2010).
100 Best Australian Albums. Prahran, Vic: Hardie Grant Books. ISBN978-1-74066-955-9.
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“Countdown #7 | Hottest 100 Australian Albums Of All Time | triple j”.
www.abc.net.au. 28 January 2011. Retrieved
9 January
2022.
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Rolling Stone’s 200 Greatest Australian Albums of All Time. Rolling Stone Australia,
Rolling Stone Australia, 06 December 2022. Retrieved 06 December 2022. -
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b
Toby Creswell and Martin Fabinyi (2000).
The Real Thing. Random House. p. 137. ISBN0091835488.
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b
Deming, Mark. “10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
– Midnight Oil”.
AllMusic
. Retrieved
5 February
2022.
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Puterbaugh, Parke (27 October 1983). “Midnight Oil:
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1“.
Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 12 November 2007. Retrieved
5 February
2022.
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Fricke, David (2004). “Midnight Oil”. In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.).
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide
(4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 541–42. ISBN0-7432-0169-8.
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Christgau, Robert (21 February 1984). “Christgau’s Consumer Guide”.
The Village Voice. New York. Retrieved
5 February
2022.
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Kent, David (1993).
Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN0-646-11917-6.
NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. -
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“RPM100 Albums”.
RPM, March 3, 1984. -
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“Charts.nz – Midnight Oil – 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1”. Hung Medien. Retrieved 30 November 2022. -
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“Top Selling Albums of 1984 — The Official New Zealand Music Chart”. Recorded Music New Zealand. Retrieved
2 February
2022.
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“ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2014 Albums”
(PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved
31 December
2014.
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10,_9,_8,_7,_6,_5,_4,_3,_2,_1