Midnight Oil - King Of The Mountain

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  • @robertnightingale3824
    @robertnightingale3824 12 ปีที่แล้ว +443

    I saw Midnight Oil in Chicago when I was 15 years old (1987) at the Aragon Ballroom and it changed my life. It was a school night, and had no drivers license, but had a friend a year older who was willing to drive into the city. Aboriginal people were on stage playing instruments I have never heard before. Midnight Oil has influenced me dedicate my career to helping improve the environment and the safety of employees in the workplace. Thank you Midnight Oil!

    • @juliekay3662
      @juliekay3662 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I think they opened a hell of a lot of eyes

    • @rohcool323
      @rohcool323 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      And they still are

    • @rohcool323
      @rohcool323 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I only got into them a month or two ago and I love ‘em

    • @loisknight3179
      @loisknight3179 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@rohcool323 it's never too late 😊

    • @caveman4598
      @caveman4598 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      God bless you sir from Australia

  • @Agslions
    @Agslions 9 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    BY FAR their most underrated song.

  • @argwyth
    @argwyth 12 ปีที่แล้ว +202

    This American has loved Midnight Oil for almost 30 years now :-)

    • @lornastrachan9234
      @lornastrachan9234 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      sorry unless you saw then play in pubs here......... in their hey day ......you really dont understand

    • @fargeeks
      @fargeeks 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I like Paul Kelly
      You should listen to Leaps and Bounds
      From your fellow American

    • @pdenn1s
      @pdenn1s 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@lornastrachan9234 That's a wanky thing to say....

    • @pdenn1s
      @pdenn1s 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@fargeeks Unless you clipped Paul Kelly's toenails, you wouldn't understand... Please ref earlier comment by someone saying unless you saw midnight oil live you could never understand them.

    • @sp4263
      @sp4263 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      argwyth you got good taste in music. Good on ya 👍

  • @vodeankandosii3982
    @vodeankandosii3982 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    As a kid I thought this was about Peter Brock. It'll always be Brocky's song for me.

  • @warrenduff5900
    @warrenduff5900 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    R.I.P bones Hillman your in rock heaven now♥️

    • @stevensons78
      @stevensons78 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Right on my brother
      Great bassist...great band....

    • @MikeLandicovers
      @MikeLandicovers 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Oh man.
      Just found out today. Playing Oils in memory.

  • @ggaryj
    @ggaryj 12 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    im american i do get it .i have seen the oil live twice and have been a fan since 1981.have all midnight oils albums

  • @markwhalley1176
    @markwhalley1176 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    I remember coming across the oils in the late 80s and they changed my life. Listening to the lyrics puts you in Australia. I have just started to listen to their music again and the messages they portray are still relevant now.

    • @matthewmcclure5218
      @matthewmcclure5218 ปีที่แล้ว

      Have a go at the 20,000watts RSL album brother it's brilliant

  • @RisingTidesAC
    @RisingTidesAC ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I so miss the 80's!

    • @dmariebella6309
      @dmariebella6309 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      me too

    • @RisingTidesAC
      @RisingTidesAC 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@dmariebella6309 Literally the best decade of my life!

  • @amartinjoe
    @amartinjoe 14 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    arguably one of the best bands to come out of the 80s.....and Australia!!!!

  • @ASDPOWER
    @ASDPOWER ปีที่แล้ว +7

    this song makes cry every time I hear it.
    OILs forever

  • @michaeld.thomas5049
    @michaeld.thomas5049 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This American has loved Midnight Oil for almost 30 years now :-)
    No 1 Australian rock band ever

  • @eugeneking3288
    @eugeneking3288 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Have seen these fellas perform in concert 6 times. Drove from San Diego to Los Angeles once to see them, and saw them again next day in San Diego. Could not get enough. Hunters and collectors, another awesome Aussie band and to me one of best EVER rock groups, on the same bill. Pure heaven, that show... I recall just where I was in 1983, the first time I ever heard Oils coming out of my car speakers on 91X radio station in San Diego. Power and the passion. I was heading south on Kettner Bvd. It smacked me right in the face. I though holy shit! Who are these guys...? Tower records was close by. I drove right to there and bought that album. Had to hear more, and asap...

    • @swissshepherd1186
      @swissshepherd1186 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You have some great tastes. Always remember Doc Neeson from The Angels!! Holy shit

    • @PalaniRides
      @PalaniRides 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The change of format by 91X back in 1983 was literally a life saver for me. I had been in a deep funk for three YEARS at the time after two back to back break-ups and simply looking forward to listening to new sounds and bands from everywhere kept me distracted and interested. Midnight oil was one of them that provided interest. These bands had their own unique sounds and styles, and most of all they had what the late great Sam Cooke once said distinguished a good song from an unsuccessful one - HOOKS. In this one it's the "Raaaaaaaaaiiin in the valley below". Today's songs lack those hooks. I'll take the sounds from the '80s over those of the '70s and '90s. No contest.

    • @DownundaThunda
      @DownundaThunda 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      One Aussie band I'd recommend you look into if you like these guys and Hunters and Collectors is Cold Chisel.

  • @The_OneManCrowd
    @The_OneManCrowd 5 ปีที่แล้ว +143

    I saw these guys in Pittsburgh in '93. Still talk about it to this day with my brother. They made me dance, and I DO NOT dance lol

  • @ramius4689
    @ramius4689 9 ปีที่แล้ว +193

    "Don't put me up on your bedroom wall" was always kinda funny to me because I had a Midnight Oil poster on the wall of my bedroom when I listened to this song every day.

    • @Andos2325
      @Andos2325 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +Marko Ramius Rebel.

    • @tasmankirkby1331
      @tasmankirkby1331 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’s about what we believe in, our care for, and then our act upon that matters, that’s his point I feel. We may idolise our wise ones and they are only there to be before us, that where we can also be, in our ways~

    • @tasmankirkby1331
      @tasmankirkby1331 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Best memory of peter was Melbourne `1982ish, walking down the street outside, toward the parliament. My father refused to stop the car...May we may see more~ US

    • @wyldc4t316
      @wyldc4t316 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      What a coincidence

    • @dabble778
      @dabble778 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Was it the Red Sails In The Sunset cover? Me too :-)

  • @nativemangregory9210
    @nativemangregory9210 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Greatest protest ever..... i was in grade 5 when our teacher showed us .. in class.. just right after the Exxon Valdez disaster oil spill... and i was in Papua New guinea..😎😎😎😎 Australian living treasures...

  • @LeftIsBest001
    @LeftIsBest001 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Love those Americans in the crowd who pretty quickly realised they were hearing some excellent stuff and started rockin out! ✌✊

  • @0monstergrendel0
    @0monstergrendel0 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Goodbye Bones! RIP. Play on Midnight Oil!
    We need your message & music now more than ever!

  • @Geekman333
    @Geekman333 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Midnight Oil was my teens. I saw them live in Melbourne in 1982. It was my first concert and I was fifteen.
    I saw them many times live, last time in Hobart, 2018. I was fifty one.
    Awesome band.

  • @lopaaione
    @lopaaione 13 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    Won't hear this from many Kiwis but this is one aussie band I would drink a steiny with. Cheers to the band for sticking up for the little people.

    • @matthewmcclure5218
      @matthewmcclure5218 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Love from Australia cuzzy

    • @Adam-tf9nb
      @Adam-tf9nb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bro I'm a kiwi and I'd love to sink a few steinys and have a good long yarn with them they are legends who used their platform to raise awareness on so many issues. Absolute champions

    • @ianwebb3496
      @ianwebb3496 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I think you'd hear this from an awful lot of Kiwis. First time for me was the DB Sandridge, Sydenham, Christchurch, NZ in 1981, I think. Most outstanding was the 10-to-1 show at the CHCH Town Hall in, maybe, 1983 or 4?? Also heard PG speak at Cant'y Uni in about '83; very impressive. I'd say that the correct attitude to strike is to consider Midnight Oil as being an 'antipodean band' rather than an Australian band (like, say, Cold Chisel - they can have them to themselves).

    • @glennplumb2313
      @glennplumb2313 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ahh Cmon Bro your not still brewing because we took Dragon & Split Enz it was 40 years ago! You can have Rolf Harris back isn’t he a kiwi? Well he is now take him! lol

    • @andrewbishop4447
      @andrewbishop4447 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Im from US what the hell does it mean to be a Kiwi

  • @sumroy75
    @sumroy75 14 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    A band ahead of their time. saw them live four times....unbelievable energy and passion.

  • @Frank-dv4zu
    @Frank-dv4zu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    and more than 20 years later oil is still king of the mountain

  • @jeremiahblanch5596
    @jeremiahblanch5596 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    The rhythmic flow of the lyrics in this song is just perfect. The choppy phrasing in the verses. The drawn out "raaaaaiiiiiiin in the valley" pre-chorus. "Say you're Peter / Say you're Paul". It's so catchy. I loved this as a little kid even when I had no idea what it was about. Lesson to all political bands: wrap your message in gorgeous pop hooks - that's how you get it out there.

  • @MrChooka69
    @MrChooka69 12 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Rob Hurst has to be one of the best Aussie drummer... ever!!!! Love Midnight Oil.

  • @SoL2BaK3D
    @SoL2BaK3D 10 ปีที่แล้ว +294

    I only discovered this band recently, and i cannot get enough of them. Being a teenager in todays modern generation, I wish more bands would be more like this. Sing about the troubles of our world, to try and sway opinion to fix these troubles. But everything is about money anymore

    • @carywhitt
      @carywhitt 10 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      unfortunately that ship has sailed, thanks to the devalue-ing of music in today's short-attention spanned internet culture. Anything of substance is passed over for someone shaking their ass or whatever pop-country teen idol is the flavor of the day

    • @shaunhamilton8217
      @shaunhamilton8217 10 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Don't feel bad. I remember 'Beds Are Burning' from when I was a wee little tyke, and decades later giving them a good listen. Now I'm hooked like a crackhead on payday. To me, this is who U2 wishes they were!

    • @farsicle1
      @farsicle1 10 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Shaun Hamilton so true shaun it was never about the money it was about getting the message through

    • @cl9925
      @cl9925 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You don't look hard enough. You aren't edgy and cool if you scratch the surface and then tell everyone else about how hard your "struggles" are.

    • @danielbourne9598
      @danielbourne9598 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Dont get to excited. Peter got into politics and ruined his reputation royaly

  • @zew1414
    @zew1414 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    By far ome of the most underrated bands of the 80s!

  • @jsunshine9871
    @jsunshine9871 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This song brings me back to the golden era of the Walk About -Shepherds Bush -London 😁

  • @markheidema3699
    @markheidema3699 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Another GREAT Band from the 80's.

  • @peteryyz43
    @peteryyz43 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    3:12 That section, to when it ends on "out further than the bush, I will follow you"...is just phenomenal genius vocal phrasing by Garrett!

  • @fabiomoreira6237
    @fabiomoreira6237 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    God, every time I hear this song, I shiver with joy. It may be after years, it doesnt matter. This is one of the songs that will come together forever, until the end.

  • @liverpoolgaming2042
    @liverpoolgaming2042 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This song playing over loud speaker at Bathurst while Peter Brock flew across the top of the mountain. Just beautiful

  • @johnwalker1911
    @johnwalker1911 9 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Both the video and the song are so contagious: you're leaving your job after another boring job day and then you run into Midnight Oil playing FOR FREE!

  • @MrDarknesstolight
    @MrDarknesstolight 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I started listening to the Oils as a kid, I'm 32 now! still jamming to them. glad to be going to their last ever tour

  • @richardwalden1012
    @richardwalden1012 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Few 80's bands really stand up to time. Midnight Oil is one that does, magnificently.. In some ways they are as fresh, and as urgent, as they were 40 years ago.

  • @jessej3509
    @jessej3509 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    No 1 Australian rock band ever
    just discovered this. born in 93
    I am in love.
    just discovered this. born in 93
    I am in love.
    I'm starting to love this band

  • @jaguaracioliveira4424
    @jaguaracioliveira4424 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    🌊🏄aloha.. issaaaaa !! Esses caras são d mais.. q som e esse mano.. m lembra 1989 eu querendo aula pra ir surfa.. Issa aloha.. viva lá vida.. nossa.. como eu gosto deles.. quem concorda da um Issa aí !!🌊🏄

  • @wendelllima5956
    @wendelllima5956 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Melhor banda do mundo!!!!!
    Sao amados no Brasil !!!!

  • @evandrogoncalves5642
    @evandrogoncalves5642 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    A melhor banda de Rock do mundo sou policial e amo

  • @martingoodrich5839
    @martingoodrich5839 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thank god there are people like the 'Oils' that care about the serious issues affecting people and raise awareness by producing songs like this.

  • @ConsepsMusic
    @ConsepsMusic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What a ripper. Pure energy captured in 4 minutes.

  • @sCulturefan
    @sCulturefan ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One of my favorites by the Oils; especially the crisp drumming and Rickenbacker “jingle jangle”

  • @MrVanjica93
    @MrVanjica93 12 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    I'm Serbian,and i love them from the childhood.I have all albums of them.Unfortunately, in my country, very few people even know about them because they are not as frequent.

    • @noelbowerman1562
      @noelbowerman1562 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We certainly were bless to live in Australia during this time.
      Check out other Aussie bands like Hunters and collectors.
      Red gum
      Goanna .

    • @Sara-bv3nc
      @Sara-bv3nc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      As a fellow Serbian - Australian born, you have good taste, old school aussie bands are top ✌👌

    • @1holibill
      @1holibill 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I’m a fellow Serbian raised in Australia. When I was 20 I moved over there and introduced my whole extended family & friends to Midnight Oil and many other Australian bands! They fell in love with the music and felt a bit of Australian culture in them too. Pozdrav!

    • @1holibill
      @1holibill 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Sara-bv3nc yep old school Aussie bands are VRH! 🤘🏻💕

  • @skywalker72465
    @skywalker72465 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I grew up in the 70s and 80s, the best times and music, trust me!! Now 53 I would go back lol

  • @christophersutton7242
    @christophersutton7242 8 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    "King Of The Mountain"
    Walking through the high dry grass
    Pushing my way through slow
    Yellow belly black snake
    Sleeping on a red rock
    Waiting for the stranger to go
    Sugar train stops at the crossing
    Cane cockies cursing below
    Bad storm coming
    Better run to the top of the mountain
    Mountain in the shadow of light
    Rain in the valley below
    Mountain in the shadow of light
    Rain in the valley
    Well you can say you're Peter, say you're Paul
    Don't put me up on your bedroom wall
    Call me king of the mountain
    Blacksmith fires up the bellows
    Cane cutters burning the load
    Workers of the world
    Run to the top of the mountain
    Mountain in the shadow of light...
    I can't take the hands from my face
    There are some things we can't replace
    Mountain...
    Over liquid tarmac wastelands of cactus and heat
    Down cobblestone alleyways of washing day sheets
    Up ghost prairie mountains of sunset and space
    Down the road a familiar face
    Across the wilderness
    Out further than the bush
    I will follow you

  • @bellabear653
    @bellabear653 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    This song is fantastic and the backing vocals really make it great. The musical hooks in this song well it speaks for itself. Miss the good Aussie bands we had so many once upon a time. Midnight oil, Hunter and collectors, AC/DC, INXS, The saints, Neil fin, Nick Cave, the list really goes on. I'm sure there is some great bands around now they get drowned out by garbage all over youtube and other areas unfortunately.

    • @fredchild8813
      @fredchild8813 ปีที่แล้ว

      ....don't know about the rest but pretty sure Neil Finn is a New Zealander

    • @ColinStevens-xn9yl
      @ColinStevens-xn9yl 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You would like aTb

  • @nigelperera673
    @nigelperera673 9 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Peter Garrett will always be King of The Mountain no matter what.

    • @cl9925
      @cl9925 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Peter Brock*

    • @lukemarris6017
      @lukemarris6017 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Cameron Stevens Brock crashed, garrett crashed the party

  • @LeftIsBest001
    @LeftIsBest001 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I love the fact they rock up out the front of Exxon-Mobil @ the WTC in New York City and tell them how it is in the form of some of the best songs ever written. 😎🤘✊

    • @TheMichaelseymour
      @TheMichaelseymour 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      influenced my band ...thats for sure ....see if you can spot it th-cam.com/video/VjxLtraxGTU/w-d-xo.html

  • @MSterlingM
    @MSterlingM 13 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Agree -- I seen hundreds of bands but seeing Midnight Oil Live still has stuck with me all these years later -- Ive seen U2, Stones, AC/DC,GNR, and all the other great bands...

  • @strohclydec.7094
    @strohclydec.7094 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    No 1 Australian rock band ever
    This American has loved Midnight Oil for almost 30 years now :-)
    My a
    The best Aussie band ever, if you saw them live, you know what I mean

  • @randys1557
    @randys1557 10 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I was lucky enough to discover them on my trip to Austrailia in the 80's and then being able to see them in concert and meet up with them over the years.On their last world tour I was able to have my son meet them twice as they came through Seattle. These were show's we will never forget.

    • @TheMichaelseymour
      @TheMichaelseymour 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Randy...check my aussie band too ...you might dig it as we were very influenced by them th-cam.com/video/VjxLtraxGTU/w-d-xo.html

    • @adrianthered9876
      @adrianthered9876 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mate we get to see them into days to.e I can t wait it's been a long ti.e since I seen them ply

    • @caveman4598
      @caveman4598 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      God bless from Australia

  • @troythuroczy7955
    @troythuroczy7955 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    midnight oil lives forever
    great Aussie Band

  • @cahlindinhaloira
    @cahlindinhaloira 10 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    I'm starting to love this band

    • @aussiebeck1
      @aussiebeck1 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Never to late to start loving Midnight oil!

    • @nippenillson1815
      @nippenillson1815 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I've seen you on 2 of their videos now XD

    • @cahlindinhaloira
      @cahlindinhaloira 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I've told you so, they're great

    • @MegaMumiah
      @MegaMumiah 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      wow! it's about time!!! looolll!

    • @caldonegro
      @caldonegro 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      the time has come

  • @martyschwartzhere9290
    @martyschwartzhere9290 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Martin Rotsey is one of the most criminally underrated guitarists ever.

  • @TheCory42
    @TheCory42 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Back in 1997 when i was 15 my Grandmother died of a heart attack suddenly. I was due to compete against the year 12's in the school athletics carnival i wasn't going to compete but after listening to this song i was so motivated i wasn't only going to compete, i was going to win. I won and Australia's leading racecaller Matty Hill who was a colleague called me a courageous boy then even better my Dad was in tears when i won. Peter Garrett is a true Australian icon and even better vocalist.

    • @Louis-kp7pz
      @Louis-kp7pz 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah and then you woke up. Nice dream,

    • @TheCory42
      @TheCory42 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Louis-kp7pz Ok

  • @amberlynn5503
    @amberlynn5503 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    My a
    The best Aussie band ever, if you saw them live, you know what I mean
    🔊MEU DEUS, QUE SAUDADES DESSA ÉPOCA.
    ESSES CARAS SÃO MAGNÍFICOS!!!!
    ETERNA BANDA😎👍.

  • @sharbizzare
    @sharbizzare 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was raised on this music, still awesome today in 2018, and the message is not lost it's probably more relevant than ever tbh

  • @dryter
    @dryter 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In the middle of the continent USA where everyone's out to sea, lovin that people put the Oils on the Tube! Love em.

  • @ctsaopaulodacruz2043
    @ctsaopaulodacruz2043 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Eu amo essa banda, rock comprometido com oplaneta.
    Só por hoje. Just for today !!

  • @MasalaiMeri
    @MasalaiMeri 12 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I was there....great concert, great times, back in the day....... the Oils were a group born of their time, along with all those amazing Aussie bands we use to go to the pub to listen to on a sunday arvo....

  • @thomasherzog2292
    @thomasherzog2292 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    No 1 Australian rock band ever
    My a
    The best Aussie band ever, if you saw them live, you know what I mean

  • @matthewjones2696
    @matthewjones2696 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    This song is about Mt. Cooroora, in the Noosa Hinterland In Queensland Australia in the town of Pomona. I have spoken to Robbie Hirst, Midnight Oil 's former drummer and he confirmed this. There is a foot race up Mt. Cooroora on the fourth Sunday of July every year called 'King of the Mountain’. Plus it’s part of a larger mountain range in the area and have spectacular views and large valleys where the mist rolls off the hills. The area surrounding Pomona contains many cane fields and the term ‘cane cockies’ refers to a farmer.
    In Australia there are a number of cockies including cow cockies, cane cockies and wheat cockies. Cocky arose in the 1870s and is an abbreviation of cockatoo farmer. This was then a disparaging term for small-scale farmers, probably because of their habit of using a small area of land for a short time and then moving on, in the perceived manner of cockatoos feeding.

  • @DownundaThunda
    @DownundaThunda 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Seeing these guys in just a few days for their final ever Aussie tour. Can't wait!

  • @ricardowilsonalvestimoteo
    @ricardowilsonalvestimoteo 8 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    🔊MEU DEUS, QUE SAUDADES DESSA ÉPOCA.
    ESSES CARAS SÃO MAGNÍFICOS!!!!
    ETERNA BANDA😎👍.

  • @stevebluh
    @stevebluh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you Midnight Oil. Legends.

  • @warrenwalpole6101
    @warrenwalpole6101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Brocky will always be king of the mountain 👍😎

  • @纪彬-j5q
    @纪彬-j5q 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    just discovered this. born in 93
    I am in love.
    I'm starting to love this band

  • @CatherineLouise-m8h
    @CatherineLouise-m8h 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    😊 Hello, A close friend of mine went to a Midnight Oil concert and he never wanted to go home......that's how BRILLIANT you guys are...❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😅😊🎉

  • @OfficialAshArcher
    @OfficialAshArcher 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Midnight Oil are truly something special ❤️ we need more bands like them that sing about the big issues. Loved them my whole life - my dad played their stuff when he drove me around as a kid

  • @vaggelisskodrianos7918
    @vaggelisskodrianos7918 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    No 1 Australian rock band ever
    just discovered this. born in 93
    I am in love.
    i thought peter BROCK was the king of the mountain.
    By far ome of the most underrated bands of the 80s!

  • @tnc1618
    @tnc1618 14 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I was a fan waaaay back when they broke in the states- and I still love em- they were way ahead of anything back then and their music translates quite nicely in 2010. You guys ROCK.

  • @Obiwan-R2D2
    @Obiwan-R2D2 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mille ans plus tard....merveilleusement actuel...🙏🙏🙏

  • @fabiomoreira6237
    @fabiomoreira6237 9 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Onde estão as bandas que cantam por uma razão verdadeira e inteligente? Midnight Oil eternamente em meu coração.
    Como dizia minha avó... hoje em dia não se faz música como antigamente.

  • @Fischifier
    @Fischifier 13 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    He has climbed the most difficult mountain of all and is trying not to sell his soul and I have to admire him..

  • @tatiwehrmeister9317
    @tatiwehrmeister9317 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Forever deeply in love with these guys!❤❤❤

  • @94hayster
    @94hayster 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    One of the greatest bands to come out of oz

  • @NB0301
    @NB0301 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love you Oils reminds me of my Dad driving his torana up from Sydney to Coffs Harbour in the 80s and I was just a kid in the back. So much has changed mass this mass that makes me appreciate the simplicity of what I knew my country Australia to be.

  • @shagster1970
    @shagster1970 10 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    They really put on a good show - and powerful lyrics to boot!

    • @TheMichaelseymour
      @TheMichaelseymour 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Aye...they did ....so do we! th-cam.com/video/VjxLtraxGTU/w-d-xo.html

  • @MONSTER0GRENDEL
    @MONSTER0GRENDEL 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've seen them 10 times .. we need them now!

  • @henryhammer3342
    @henryhammer3342 8 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    My a
    The best Aussie band ever, if you saw them live, you know what I mean

    • @jonnightrain
      @jonnightrain 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Henry Hammer hell yeah, never ever give in. Quitters never win, winners never quit.

    • @simoncfly
      @simoncfly 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Seen them live. Great but INXS better live. Hutchence was the best on stage performer, as good as anyone ever.

    • @troythuroczy7955
      @troythuroczy7955 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Henry Hammer
      the Day Michael Hutchence passed away Australia lost a true Star

    • @1makalu
      @1makalu 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Simon Clements yep, Oils are awesome - seen many times over the years - but just gotta say - INXS at the Sydney Entcent in October 1988, first concert back in Oz after the global KICK tour......................,,..,,,,,,spine tingling - Michael and the boys were ON FIRE💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥🐝

    • @vehindthesun5813
      @vehindthesun5813 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      hands down, i agree from south Am

  • @hawks9020
    @hawks9020 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I’m going to the show at riviera country club in June 10

  • @fishbowl62
    @fishbowl62 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "Yellow Belly red Snake sleep'n on a red rock, wait'n for the stranger to go.........BRILLIANT

    • @RaphaelKrausz
      @RaphaelKrausz 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Make that yellow belly black snake sleeping on a red rock....

  • @evanwilson9111
    @evanwilson9111 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    king of the mountain

  • @dineshk26
    @dineshk26 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Alguém no Brasil em 2018 esteve aqui ouvindo esse clássico inesquecível!
    Peter Brock The King!

  • @williamrowland8727
    @williamrowland8727 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    just flat-out "WOW"....miss ya boys- and the time x

  • @gazzleonard11
    @gazzleonard11 12 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Songs by the Oils make me DAMN proud to be australia....I really wish the message was spread further. Good to see folks from an international audience viewing their videos though.

  • @loveworksofheartsmile5847
    @loveworksofheartsmile5847 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Peter Brock was King of the Mountain, Happy Birthday "Peter Perfect" this 26th January Australia Day Peter Garrett and Midnight Oil Aussie legends loveLoveLOVE

  • @demonhalo67
    @demonhalo67 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    One of my favourite Oil songs, what a trailblazer.

  • @AniTarrillo
    @AniTarrillo 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    No 1 Australian rock band ever
    just discovered this. born in 93
    I am in love.

  • @peternolan1028
    @peternolan1028 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Walking through the high dry grass
    Pushing my way through slow
    Yellow belly black snake sleeping on a red rock
    Waiting for the stranger to go
    Sugar train stops at the crossing
    Cane cockies cursing below
    Bad storm coming
    Better run to the top of the mountain
    Mountain in the shadow of light
    Rain in the valley below
    Mountain in the shadow of light
    Rain in the valley below
    Well, you could say you're Peter
    Say you're Paul
    Don't put me up on your bedroom wall
    Call me king of the mountain
    Blacksmith fires up the bellows
    Cane cutters burning the load
    Workers of the world
    Run to the top of the mountain
    Mountain in the shadow of light
    Rain in the valley below
    Mountain in the shadow of light
    Rain in the valley below
    Well, you could say you're Peter
    Say you're Paul
    Don't put me up on your bedroom wall
    Call me king of the mountain
    Well, I can't take the hands from my face
    There are some things we can't replace, yeah
    Mountain in the shadow of light
    Rain in the valley below
    Mountain in the shadow of light
    Well, you could say you're Peter
    Say you're Paul
    Don't put me up on your bedroom wall
    Call me king of the mountain
    Well, you could say you're Peter
    Say you're Paul
    Don't put me up on your bedroom wall
    Call me the king of the mountain
    Over liquid tarmac wastelands of cactus and heat
    Down cobblestone alleyways of washing day sheets
    Up ghost prairie mountains of sunset and space
    Down the road, a familiar place, across the wilderness
    Out further than the bush, I will follow you
    I will follow you, I will follow you

  • @jdawglengman3556
    @jdawglengman3556 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    No 1 Australian rock band ever
    just discovered this. born in 93
    I am in love.
    just discovered this. born in 93
    I am in love.
    i thought peter BROCK was the king of the mountain.

  • @gandalf802
    @gandalf802 14 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    first time i listened to diesel and dust i was blown away, and i've been a fan ever since. i wore out the blue sky mining cassette when i was deployed in desert storm. too bad the world wasn't ready for them.

  • @darrenmudge3986
    @darrenmudge3986 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Old Peter. Most unique rock star ever dedicated to the environment and first nations people of Australia

  • @cimontanari
    @cimontanari 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Midnight Oil me traz boas lembranças!

  • @kenlawrence3841
    @kenlawrence3841 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Midnight Oil really gave it to THE MAN , they couldn't stop them , power to the people .

  • @59771006
    @59771006 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "King of the Mountain was inspired by the footrace up Mt Cooroora in SE Qld, and the incredible natural beauty and unique history of the Noosa hinterland; it is not a reference to motor racing at Mt. Panorama in Bathurst. Best wishes.” - Rob Hirst (drummer for Midnight Oil)

  • @alanporter2769
    @alanporter2769 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    ❤you Peter AND paul

  • @MegaRockgirl7
    @MegaRockgirl7 12 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Even if you're pushed to the wall, for the things you believe in, you don't give in. Nicely said, Peter!! I like that. I love Midnight Oil. Such a totally awesome band!! "KEEP ROCKING, AUSTRALIA!!"

  • @jimmyoshea2158
    @jimmyoshea2158 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love his dancing

  • @gerryboudreault9403
    @gerryboudreault9403 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Great stuff from the best Aussie band! They did an Outback tour in mid-80s= down under video! Thanks, Peter. We miss you songsters!.

  • @2inthecorner
    @2inthecorner 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    We saw all the really cool bands in the '80s. The Oils are just one, but one of the best!!

  • @elprofesormiguel
    @elprofesormiguel 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Me encanta este grupo musical australiano.
    Sus letras son comprometidas y el sonido de su música es puro.