Diesel and Dust (1987)

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Title: Diesel and Dust
Artist: Midnight Oil
Genre: Rock
Released: 1987

Tracks:
1 - Beds Are Burning - 4:16 -
2 - Put Down That Weapon - 4:38 -
3 - Dreamworld - 3:37 -
4 - Arctic World - 4:21
5 - Warakurna - 4:37
6 - The Dead Heart - 5:11
7 - Whoah - 3:50
8 - Bullroarer - 4:59
9 - Sell My Soul - 3:37
10 - Sometimes - 3:51 -

Overview:
Diesel and Dust is the sixth studio album by Australian rock group Midnight Oil which was released in August 1987 by Spirit Music label under Columbia Records. Diesel and Dust was produced by Warne Livesey and the band. It is a concept album about the struggles of Indigenous Australians and environmental causes, issues important to the band. It drew inspiration from the Blackfella/Whitefella Tour of remote Indigenous communities with the Warumpi Band and Gondwanaland in 1986. The album peaked at No. 1 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart for six weeks.

In 1989, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it No. 13 on their list of the 100 best albums of the 1980s.
Music information in first post provided by The AudioDB
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