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Midnight Oil: "Red Sails in the Sunset" - 40 Years On


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"For the follow up to that album, the band decided to record in Japan with Nick Launay staying on as producer. Their record company apparently pushed for the band to record a more commercial single so that they could push for better opportunities in the US, something about which drummer Rob Hirst was quoted as saying “this is the album, take it or leave it”. The opportunity was there for the band to continue with their bold statements, and this was certainly the case for the album cover, designed by Japanese artist Tsunehisa Kimura, which depicts Sydney Harbour after a hypothetical nuclear strike. It is a stark image, and one that stood out in the record racks in the music stores. The end result was an album that again pushed the band’s boundaries, and also became their first number one album in Australia, and also charted in the US. And thus came the album that was appropriately named “Red Sails in the Sunset”."


On this episode we are going to talk about “Red Sails in the Sunset” by Midnight Oil, the band’s 5th studio album released 40 years ago this week, on today’s episode where ‘no end to the hostility, now they wanna be somewhere else’ on Music from a Lifetime.

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