Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mine Reaction (Fish Out Of Water Series)

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Fish Out Of Water Series

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@shamrockgerry 2 жыл бұрын

Great workers rights song.... love from Ireland 🇮🇪☘️. To America friends...workers united around the world.✊

@jonathanward6483 Жыл бұрын

As the comment above expressed this was a protest song for the many workers in the Blue Asbestos mine that claimed the lives of miners and their families, wives in particular succumbed to Asbestos entering their lungs while shaking out the clothes ready for washing. The Company fought and fought to deny responsibility and the Australian Government was limp to say the least in their support for the Miners. Money really is the root of all evil!

@staceyrobinson771 3 жыл бұрын

When he sang " And the company takes, what the company wants" your reactions to those lyrics was great, still knee deep in the same shit. Love and Respect from Australia 🇦🇺💯👍❤

@gordonhartwig1655 5 жыл бұрын

It is a protest song against asbestos mining in Australia and the health effects it had on the workers in the mines . Peter Garrett lead singer was a minister in the Australian govt after the Oils , and has played since retiring from politics

@cjjoe2385 5 жыл бұрын

This song is about the workers that worked the Blue Asbestos mine in a small town of Western Australia in the 50s and 60s. They kept turning up to work to put food on their families tables dispite the job slowly killing them and the town residents. The mine was shut down in the mid 60s due to poor profit and increased health issues. Slowly residents and works dies from Asbestos related diseases. The town was eventually shit down, isolated and formally removed from maps. Not a proud moment in Australia’s history.

@willrichardson519 5 жыл бұрын

Or capitalism's...

@jamesmorgan4121 5 жыл бұрын

The town was Wittenoom in the Pilbara about an hour from where I live. Still has 2 residents and the piles of blue asbestos are still there. You can find it on Google maps and look around the ghostly town

@gzeuskraiste 4 жыл бұрын

Building on what others have said, this is about Australian Blue Asbestos, a subsidiary of CSR (the "sugar refining company" reference in the lyrics). The town of Wittenoom, Western Australia was turned into a ghost town due to the contamination.

@nathanroberts355 Жыл бұрын

My dad was a deputy shire president for the shire of Ashburton and he told the western Australian government to shut down the old mines in Wittenoom gorge mines and town and killed 2000 miners and township of Wittenoom and then then the Australian government decided to shut off all power and water and telephone exchange site in the old town of Wittenoom

@fishoutofwaterseries1424 Жыл бұрын

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@oliasofsunhillow7116 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tre! I requested this a while ago, along with "Forgotten Years, "Bedlam Bridge" and a few others by them! I'm glad that you like this! They were a unique band and were politically conscious! I'm not much into the eighties and up music but a few bands stuck out for me including Midnight Oil, Saigon Kick, The Jesus And Mary Chain and Creed!

@deeg8849 3 жыл бұрын

Great tune Better message

@marceltroia9750 3 жыл бұрын

Watch them live!!!

@kdpflush 5 жыл бұрын

I think the lead singer became Australian Minister Of The Environment or something.

@willrichardson519 5 жыл бұрын

Yep

@fatroll1 5 жыл бұрын

good ole oils song. About Asbestos mining and the impact on the people in a outback town(illness from the asbestos). I think the video clip shows the town which now sits abandoned/evacuated with mounds of blue asbestos debry and dust. Nice choice of song, Midnight Oil where a very political cause band.

@TwelveDeck 5 жыл бұрын

Oils were at the best early in their career, imo. That was when they rocked the hardest. Pretty much anything from their first three albums is fire.

@worldfamouslanglois4805 5 жыл бұрын

Right on.. there was a time when working class was middle class..

@ellenmiller4839 5 жыл бұрын

And if the blue sky mining company won't come to my rescue, and if the sugar refining company won't save me, who's gonna save me?

@gregadeth1234 5 жыл бұрын

Good to see ya back bro

@JamesWilson-vr3ql 5 жыл бұрын

"and nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground!" Check out "Jimmy Sharman's Boxers" Great guitar, incredible calisthenics, brutal, heartbreaking lyrics. And horns!