Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning

The music video to this huge 1988 international hit for the Australian band Midnight Oil. (4:13 min) This song helped to bring awareness to the plight of Aborigines and the dark hidden secrets of the land down under.

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5 Comments

  1. #1 Redroom Studios
    on Feb 9th, 2009 at 1:04 pm

    what a great anthem and political song this was / is! Not sure how much has changed but there is certainly a whole new generation of Australian protest songs… notably “Water” by Brown King Blue which I know I have sent you before.

  2. #2 Redroom Studios
    on Feb 9th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
  3. #3 ann
    on Feb 14th, 2009 at 7:59 pm

    i’ve always loved this song….thanks, I had not heard it in ages…

  4. #4 CS
    on Feb 20th, 2009 at 3:28 am

    Love this song - was pretty big when it first came out, wasn’t it. But of course I didn’t know much about the significance of it until I moved to Australia.

  5. #5 shapeshift
    on Feb 20th, 2009 at 8:03 pm

    It still sounds pretty good… I think the lead singer is now a politician.

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