image link Last year was the first proclaimed MOD when I made a playlist of my favorite songs from Midnight Oil’s 6th, 7th, and 8th albums, Diesel & Dust, Blue Sky Mining, and Earth & Sun & Moon. These are the three albums I owned at the time and had listened to a lot when…
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FFF 62 — Enbridge Line 5 developments
click on link to take you to a page with various live cams trained on Mackinac Straits area Today I’ve learned about two big developments in the fight against Canada’s Enbridge building a tunnel around their decrepit oil pipelines running under the Straits of Mackinac, where 21% of the world’s fresh water resides. The first,…
#SLS — “River Run Red” by Midnight Oil
Midnight Oil Photo: Oliver Eclipse When I saw Jim’s prompt for this week, the first environmental band I thought of was Pearl Jam and the song about the whale which makes me cry every time I listen to it. Next, I thought of Cake and the song about the long line of cars. But as…
Midnight Oil Day (aka MOD) Top 10 Songs from 6th, 7th, and 8th Albums
Photo: Oliver Eclipse I just happened to catch a glimpse of Midnight Oil in the CD carousel and thought today is a good Midnight Oil Day, which I proclaim shall be the 23rd of December and to be posted at noon (except this year!) because in Australia I believe it is midnight? Please Aussies, correct…
Shay’s Word Garden Word List #6 (Laura Marling)
“Dust in the Wind,” by Kent Whitaker Entombed between bullshit and holy ring mantras soft with the peculiar dust of the wounded. Their blues scour the bell of my soul with their red sand. Shay is the host of Shay’s Word Garden. Shay says: Hi everyone, it’s me with your weekly word list poetry prompt….
Renaissance Man by Midnight Oil
Max from Powerpop.blog and Dave from soundday.wordpress.com have inspired me to pull out an album I haven’t listened to in quite awhile. Australian band Midnight Oil’s two better-known albums, “Diesel and Dust” and “Blue Sky Mining”, have a companion in my collection that also kicks butt: “Earth and Sun and Moon.” Earth and Sun and…
SLS — Midnight Oil’s Mountains of Burma
image link which also takes you to Rolling Stone article on the group Jim Adams is the host of Song Lyric Sunday. Jim says: Music is in the air, lighting up our hearts and filling our dreams as an art form made up of sounds and silence. (and you said you weren’t a poet, Jim)…
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