I saw this tour in NYC. One of the top 10 concerts I've seen in my life.

@chadbreeden1483

Жыл бұрын

Lucky you, twin towers across Brooklyn Bridge

Saw them live probs over 20 times, maybe more, got to meet Rob and Jim at a local gig not that long ago... Almost fainted with excitement.. Far Out. ha X :-)

@Ariesmount

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, Susan Stacey! From Kevin Stacey in Eugene.

Saw Midnight oil at the Horden Pavillion in 1987. The atmosphere was Awesome and very different in those days. I think someone was pouring buckets of water over Peter Garret and he was dancing his usual dance. We were sitting up the front right next to him. Great memories ❤️

Great POWERFUL song that never gets old. Saw MO open for UB40 in the states years ago and their performance remains one of my favorites of all time!

One of the greatest songs ever!

This is a song that stays in your head rent free! Love it!

GREAT song from a GREAT band.

@seahippies

5 жыл бұрын

You have a short memory. Do some research on Garret...

Hearing this song in Berlin this summer, a long jam section - Jim on piano dueting with special guest Carolina Eyck on theremin - was magical

I have been to 11 midnight oil concerts .... FANTASTIC BAND

Peter Garrett and midnight oil. You have made a difference in this world for the better. Whatever 'they' would like to have us believe...

@caveman4598

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

Went to see 10 of your concerts in California through the years..

@ILuvRocknRoll67

4 жыл бұрын

Really Rose ?

Fun fact, this performance was used in the 1984 movie One Night Stand. Good movie, would recommend.

Cool to see early Oils like this

Listening this again with the war in Ukraine raging, we really do have short memories. Will humanity ever learn, or will it all end with a big light flash? We just can't seem to get along.

@lisaservadei1271

9 ай бұрын

And Now Gaza!!!!😓😡🤬🤯

@goulddddable

5 ай бұрын

Big Flash.

@solgato5186

5 күн бұрын

USA is the holdout; we began with genocide, slavery, and theft, and never stopped. We hold the world back from better ways to live.

masterpiece

Apart from Peter's great singing most of what his singing about I remember, that lead guitar is absolutely beautiful thanks John

never forget history of pain .

Giffo, the master of bass!

@ericlebrun1640

Жыл бұрын

The best bassplayer of oils ever!!!

@rubenmartinezhernandez6916

Жыл бұрын

Peter Gifford the best Midnight Oil's bassist😃.

An awesome and intelligent song. 🤘🤘🤘

With all the events that have been happening lately including the coronavirus pandemic, Midnight Oil has plenty of material to make another album.

Truly magic

We need a return to music that actually SAYS something, that screams into the hurricane winds of Mankind's history of bloodlust and lunacy. Midnight Oil was the PERFECT band for those of us who despise injustice, racism, nationalism and Mankind's rape of the natural world.

Saw them live, with almost all lads there. Most respectfully concert of all kinds of people...being happy in a Lucky Land🥲

@user-yb2ob6im3c

5 ай бұрын

what happened.....shadow of a country

I love the wrecking ball hitting the mirror, for the final chorus.

way back in the early 80s, when they brought in simulcasts for radio and television (yes it was amazing then!!) it was so powerful to return to a university residential college just resonating with this song!!!!

@Murrangurk2

8 жыл бұрын

+Jacqueline Lucas Kinda funny how ALL those Uni Students went on to become Tony voting, Herald Sun Devouring, McMansion owning, prolific breeding, out of control consumerist, uni funding cutting, refugee torturing, footy headed dumb fucks.

Legendary song!

Long live the workers and solidarity ✊

I was at this concert

Punk Rock without being Punk Rock. . Very very good.....lyrics at all. A great band....and they are all right...

One of the best bands and songs. Bless The Oils.

short memory my fella!

One great song from Midnight Oil 😄

This would have been hard to play live (like much of 10 to 1 and also Sails) but they nailed it - the vocals, absolutely solid. Interesting to, see Rotsey the master of rhythm and riff, using freetime muffled noise on a Rickenbacker.

@daption71

Жыл бұрын

Rotsey played at least as much lead as rhythm across the Oils' career. His combination with Moginie was killer

wats done is done there still great musicians regardless, wish i seen them live

@siobhanbrock8430

8 жыл бұрын

I wish I had seen them live to but they de-grouped before I was born

@thelonelydoge0650

4 жыл бұрын

@@siobhanbrock8430 They're regrouped now

Thank you

"If you read the history books you'll see the same things happen again and again Repeat repeat short memory they've all got it When are we going to play it again Got a short, got a short, got a short, got a short They've got a short must have a short they've got a short aah Short memory, they've got a".

I was 15 when this was released. Too young to be allowed to concerts , but saw them a couple of yrs ago anyway. Karma !! :)

Goat island live concert 198??? best day out ever.

@baulko1

10 жыл бұрын

I think this clip might pre-date the Goat Island concert, which I think took place in 1985.

@stevengreen6715

9 жыл бұрын

Don't want to be the one

Cool tune!

this band was really like poetry rock, wasnt it . ..

@friedoutmukke864

5 жыл бұрын

It *is* * .. still and again :) so glad they are back

yeah from Guatemala!

@livitummmor2807

4 жыл бұрын

Guatemalan from US.

A disturbing song from one of MOs best albums. In 1983 at the height of the Cold War there was a dreadful feeling that the world was slipping towards nuclear annihilation.

@kevbhoy05

2 жыл бұрын

So relivant today m8.the clock is ticking.🤔

@MsSez

2 жыл бұрын

And here we are in 2021 feeling the same way 🥲

@berko79

2 жыл бұрын

2022: Hold my beer

@echelonrank3927

Жыл бұрын

​@@MsSez not even close, because we dont let the totally braindead mass media script readers dictate our feelings. im probably wrong.

@ettoretavilla3081

Жыл бұрын

@@berko79 Hold my beer whats that meam

Great video goes great with song

very good song only got in this band late

@vanessa11

3 жыл бұрын

Better then never....

Very well doneb

@lisaswift9122

7 ай бұрын

Bad ass love it

Go the Oils ❤

The anti "We Didn't Start the Fire"

Sick sounds

Still desperately seeking the official version of this video that was used to promote this song. It's their best, but Armistice Day and US Forces are pretty exceptional too.

@MsSez

2 жыл бұрын

Hercules 👍🏽

Good summary of the G20 event...

💖💖💖

Right On - STILL

Yah, a song that never gets old, but it should stop being true.

Rip brother..❤

Keep it there Pete.

DAYUM! Although I a first gen Aus with a Russian Dad..... GO GARRETT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

10-1 was a sliding scale to our own deaths destruction, Midnight oil made it easier to digest .

A smallish man, Afghanistan A watchdog in a nervous land They’re only here to lend a hand Short memory Prophetic words.

bikes fun work, bikes fun work... that was the order

Some who have held power have used it selfishly, even recklessly & have a lot of explaining to do both in this life & the next!

everyone has a short memory.....

in essence this song is about collective learning disabilities and societys failure to learn from the past.

Trippy

my countdown cassette was eaten up by an old Sony. that sucked. it's hard to find a copy of this album these days.

👍

in the intro i see trails

A UK police spokesman named Sean Memory was in a news item yesterday about a suppressed investigation of Edward Heath, for child abuse. His name reminded me of this song's title.

Most of the incidents referenced in this song I know but there is one I have been trying to find out about since I first herd this song. What is “the deadline in South Africa”?

Is there any other videos from this concert that are out there? If so, where can I find it?

2021 Building Nuke Subs in South Australia, Short Memory, right? Pete.

@imbecile126

2 жыл бұрын

You ummm, yeah. Don't mind hitting the target. Nice.

How much coal to power this?? Love it

tempo started slow then they sped it to where it needed to be.

OBRA PRIMA - Midnight Forever

I saw Midnight Oil at Sydney University, at Manning House, in 1987 and after ten minutes of their execrable noise, the crowd cleared out. Seriously, the band played to an empty hall. But Short Memories and Wedding Cake Island made up for the disaster.

2022 Election..

Americans will do a reaction to beds are burning, I would like to see them do this one

Such a great musician. Such a woeful letdown of a politician.

Aborigine- Look it up! They are always first in every country.

@jasonbarbush4991

6 жыл бұрын

read about it!

everyone has a short memory.....such as my ex slot wife

They lost a lot when Pete Gifford left tbh

Now connected from Democacy Now Share Out

Peter, how short was your memory when you approved gunns Ltd, and the Port Phillip Channel dredging? And the many other decisions we voted you in for on the understanding YOU'D DO THE OPPOSITE? Oh, sorry, is this yesterday's news? No one remembers? Perfect. Carry on....

@rods6405

5 жыл бұрын

Murrangurk2 very true!

@deang.ferris4618

5 жыл бұрын

Well your a fuck wit for voting

@skpy8249

4 жыл бұрын

You just focus on the negatives of going against a corruption.

@caveman4598

2 жыл бұрын

He can’t control what the party does

@gillianbullock-uf2gr

Жыл бұрын

hello, didnt know about this, port phillip dredge. I spent a night filming the animals living in the drains going to stkilda beach last month. Amazing but sad what still survives there in the filthy water. The tide tries to go out. But cant, gets trapped by the dredged sands. The animals keep trying to do there thing though, every night. Thats why ive been filming it. Politicians .!!!!!?

Gareet has lost the polt

I laughed at 1:14 when I saw all the pictures of political atrocities. I wonder when the clip will get updated to include insulation batts and electrocutions...

@wipout1

9 жыл бұрын

ceri mccoy Sounds like you've got a Short Memory. No soul? forgotten about: Matthew Fuller Mitchell Sweeney Ruben Barnes Marcus Wilson Garrett knew he fucked up, even tried to wash his hands of it and pass the scheme on to Combet.

@cerimccoy

9 жыл бұрын

No. I don't think that making a joke out of the death of people is right guarantee you I know my History better than you do. E.g. The Raj in British India have a chapati?

@cerimccoy

9 жыл бұрын

Your an idiot dude and KZread is Not the forum for trivialising anything and especially not people dying. Peter Garrett fucked up as minister that's for sure and those poor guys died but that shit happens all the time and people get away with it e.g. How many young aussie fellas died in wars for nothing and thats what this song is about besides which Midnight Oil was a band not a solo act.

@maccaADL

9 жыл бұрын

People die in roof spaces I have been at work when a worker has died. If you in a roof space and don't no the basics of electricity shouldn't be in there but people will always send the cheapest labor in to do there work if your really that worried there still plenty young men working in dangerous places right now you can save other than talk shit on here. Just enjoy the song and go improve somebodys day.

@wipout1

9 жыл бұрын

***** the song (and lyrics) covers off a bit more than Hiroshima. Good singer but should never have become a politician. Bit hypocritical to be an activist themed singer only to bed up with the enemy.

50th comment not bout installation batts or whatnot.. Got 2 simple-arse words 4 ya, Matey : DUMP DRUMPF

So much effort..for what?

Use to love the oils. But when they started to make shit up about history and blam us white ( or beige ) Australians for all the problems of black or beige people it just gave me the shits (ditto U2) this song which is very good is way off base with its insinuations and accusations to the listener white & beige!

Fearless chroniclers of imperialist oppression.

Long live Palestine long live arabia

Anti-Settler BS.

Cool tune!