Midnight Oil... splitting a mix

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Say you're of the mind to make a 2-disc Midnight Oil compilation for a friend or perhaps yourself. You've got all the studio albums and eps, so you're at no loss for material.

If you were to go chronologically and with the intention of separating their career into two parts (old really fantastic Oils vs. newer often decent Oils), would you begin the second disc with Diesel and Dust material or with Blue Sky Mining material?

i.e. Did the quality first begin dropping 1987 or in 1990?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Blue Sky Mining

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

`87

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Midnight Oi!

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Now there's an idea.

― thee music mole, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

'87 is probably more correct, but I tend to view Blue Sky as the beginning of the slide.

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Whatever you do, no album should be more represented than "Red Sails In the Sunset."

― Hector Savage, Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

why would you inflict this on a 'friend'?

― keith m (keithmcl), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

keith, save it for here:

Midnight Oil: Classic or G'dud!

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

As above: BSM is when things began to slide, but I would probably start the second disc with D&D. I think there's more continuity from there forward.

― Mitch Mitchell, Thursday, 3 February 2005 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Mitch OTM. You're better off with a full disk of the pre-D&D material.

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Thursday, 3 February 2005 07:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, start it with D&D. I actually think D&D's pretty great, but it marked a shift for them in a lot of ways. (Without D&D, I would also be concerned about having enough good songs to fill out the 2nd CD, but that's just me.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 3 February 2005 07:41 (twenty-one years ago)

D&D for sure. Or even Species Deceases if you want to show that they could go RAWK without going boring; again, this will help to fill the second disc (by four songs one hopes) and give more room for the good stuff on the first.

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 3 February 2005 08:18 (twenty-one years ago)

wedding cake island would be an opener
all of 10,9,8,..1,diesel and dust,blue sky mining
one country would be the closer

― 80's ozrocck boy, Thursday, 3 February 2005 08:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The quality began dropping post 1981, their first 3 albums are far superior to their subsequent output

I suppose I should add an IMHO about here

― mentalist (mentalist), Thursday, 3 February 2005 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

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