Midnight Oil
Place Without a Postcard
Columbia
COCBS460897 2
(1981)
Rock/Pop
CD, 11
Tracks, 40:57
Length
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01 |
Don't Wanna Be The One |
Peter Garrett; Rob Hirst; Jim Moginie; Martin Rotsey |
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03:04 |
02 |
Brave Faces |
Peter Garrett; Jim Moginie |
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04:47 |
03 |
Armistice Day |
Rob Hirst; Jim Moginie; Martin Rotsey |
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04:27 |
04 |
Someone Else to Blame |
Peter Gifford; Rob Hirst; Jim Moginie |
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02:47 |
05 |
Basement Flat |
Peter Garrett; Jim Moginie; Martin Rotsey |
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04:33 |
06 |
Written In The Heart |
Rob Hirst; Jim Moginie; Martin Rotsey |
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03:14 |
07 |
Burnie |
Peter Garrett; Jim Moginie |
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04:43 |
08 |
Quinella Holiday |
Peter Garrett; Jim Moginie |
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02:34 |
09 |
Loves On Sale |
Peter Garrett; Martin Rotsey |
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02:21 |
10 |
If Ned Kelly Was King |
Peter Garrett; Jim Moginie |
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03:38 |
11 |
Lucky Country |
Peter Garrett; Rob Hirst; Jim Moginie; Martin Rotsey |
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04:49 |
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Packaging |
Jewel Case |
Spars |
DDD |
Sound |
Stereo |
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Vocals |
Peter Garrett |
Drums |
Rob Hirst |
Guitar |
Jim Moginie |
Guitar |
Martin Rotsey |
Bass |
Peter Gifford |
Musician |
Midnight Oil |
Producer |
Glyn Johns |
Engineer |
Glyn Johns |
Cover by |
Robert Butcher |
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Index |
#
2177 |
Owner |
Dave |
Tags |
Alternative Rock |
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Purchased |
New |
Imported from |
Australia |
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Midnight Oil went to England to record and turned to a major label (CBS Records) and a name producer (Glyn Johns) for its third full-length album. You might have expected this to make for a sonic breakthrough, but you'd be wrong. The band was experiencing growing pains, trying to stretch musically, and, at least at first, this made for a dilution of their hard rock focus moving toward a pop style they hadn't fully developed. Place Without a Postcard had its share of powerfully performed songs, but its sound was light compared to the band's first two albums, the stylistic experiments were not yet bearing fruit, and, with an emphasis placed on the vocals, Peter Garrett sounded overly strident. (Originally released in 1981 in Australia on CBS Records, Place Without a Postcard was re-released in 1990 in the U.S. on Columbia Records as Columbia 46145.) -- William Ruhlmann (allmusic.com)