Midnight Oil

Midnight Oil were an Australian rock band known for their driving hard rock sound, superb live performances and their overt left-wing political activism. Peter Garrett, the former lead singer, is an active campaigner for social and environmental issues (currently a member of the Australian Parliament) and this is reflected in many of the band's songs, although the band's early status as icons of leftist polemicism has since been undercut by the revelation that both guitarist (and main songwriter) Jim Moginie and singer Peter Garrett are both "born-again" Christians.

Discography

• Midnight Oil (1978)
• Head Injuries (1979)
• Bird Noises (EP) (1980)
• Place without a Postcard (1981)
• 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 (1982)
• Red Sails in the Sunset (1984)
• Species Deceases (EP) (1985)
• Diesel and Dust (1987)
• Blue Sky Mining (1990)
• Scream in Blue (Live, 1992)
• Earth and Sun and Moon (1993)
• Breathe (1996)
• 20,000 Watt R.S.L. (1997, also on videotape and DVD)
• Redneck Wonderland (1998)
• The Real Thing (2000)
• Capricornia (2001)
• Best Of Both Worlds (2004, also on DVD)