Midnight Oil - Short Memory (1983)

Music from Australia and New Zealand in th year 1983:
Midnight Oil's live performance of the track 'Short Memory', taken from the 1982 album '10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1'.
Band Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
Track: Short Memory
Album: 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
Composed By:
Produced By:
Label: CBS
Chart Position:
Release Date:
Footage Information:
Links:
- en.wikipedia.or...
- www.midnightoil...
- www.deadheart.o...
Line-up:
Peter Garrett -- Vocals
[ Farm (1973-1976) -- Midnight Oil (1976-2002) ]
Rob Hirst - Drums
[ Schwampy Moose-- Farm (1973-1976) -- Midnight Oil (1977-2002) -- Ghostwriters (1991-1992) -- Backsliders -- The Angry Tradesmen -- Hirst and Greene -- The Break ]
Peter Gifford - Bass
[ Midnight Oil (1980-1987) ]
Jim Moginie - Guitar
[ Farm (1973-1976) -- Midnight Oil (1976-2002) -- solo (2007) -- The Break ]
Martin Rotsey - Guitar
[ Midnight Oil (1976-2002) -- Angry Tradesmen -- The Break ]
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NZOZ NZOZ1983 1983 Australia Early Eighties 1980's 1980s 80's 80s
Extended Tags: Peter Garrett, Rob Hirst, Jim Moginie, Martin Rotsey, Peter Gifford
Musical Terms: New Wave, Ballad, Political, Aussie, Old Australian Band

[@suzanneolsen9895]

This is a song that stays in your head rent free! Love it!

[@mnemosine93]

I saw this tour in NYC. One of the top 10 concerts I've seen in my life.

[@chadbreeden1483]

Lucky you, twin towers across Brooklyn Bridge

[@rebeccadelbridge2998]

Peter Garrett and midnight oil. You have made a difference in this world for the better. Whatever 'they' would like to have us believe...

[@caveman4598]

Absolutely

[@susanstacey4569]

Saw them live probs over 20 times, maybe more, got to meet Rob and Jim at a local gig not that long ago... Almost fainted with excitement.. Far Out. ha X :-)

[@Ariesmount]

Hi, Susan Stacey! From Kevin Stacey in Eugene.

[@genesiegel2884]

Great POWERFUL song that never gets old. Saw MO open for UB40 in the states years ago and their performance remains one of my favorites of all time!

[@bverheijden]

Listening this again with the war in Ukraine raging, we really do have short memories. Will humanity ever learn, or will it all end with a big light flash? We just can't seem to get along.

[@lisaservadei1271]

And Now Gaza!!!!😓😡🤬🤯

[@goulddddable]

Big Flash.

[@solgato5186]

USA is the holdout; we began with genocide, slavery, and theft, and never stopped. We hold the world back from better ways to live.

[@ninaanka550]

Two years ago? Where are our heroes? Fucking nowhere.

[@kelliefrancis2433]

Saw Midnight oil at the Horden Pavillion in 1987. The atmosphere was Awesome and very different in those days. I think someone was pouring buckets of water over Peter Garret and he was dancing his usual dance. We were sitting up the front right next to him. Great memories ❤️

[@debbienye6002]

One of the greatest songs ever!

[@progmeup]

Hearing this song in Berlin this summer, a long jam section - Jim on piano dueting with special guest Carolina Eyck on theremin - was magical

[@Duendito]

GREAT song from a GREAT band.

[@seahippies]

You have a short memory. Do some research on Garret...

[@pazzoredento2191]

One of the greatest Aussie bands

[@Lila21697]

Went to see 10 of your concerts in California through the years..

[@ILuvRocknRoll67]

Really Rose ?

[@tobyoneil1969]

Fun fact, this performance was used in the 1984 movie One Night Stand. Good movie, would recommend.

[@jimm3379]

Giffo, the master of bass!

[@ericlebrun1640]

The best bassplayer of oils ever!!!

[@rubenmartinezhernandez6916]

Peter Gifford the best Midnight Oil's bassist😃.

[@Danimal1577]

Cool to see early Oils like this

[@11henger]

masterpiece

[@jasmineb7106]

An awesome and intelligent song. 🤘🤘🤘

[@johnkinnane547]

Apart from Peter's great singing most of what his singing about I remember, that lead guitar is absolutely beautiful thanks John

[@robert333ism]

never forget history of pain .

[@MrSeezero]

With all the events that have been happening lately including the coronavirus pandemic, Midnight Oil has plenty of material to make another album.

[@shamusobrien1959]

Truly magic

[@thoorne6677]

Saw them live, with almost all lads there. Most respectfully concert of all kinds of people...being happy in a Lucky Land🥲

[@user-yb2ob6im3c]

what happened.....shadow of a country

[@caveman4598]

Long live the workers and solidarity ✊

[@DustinTV8]

Legendary song!

[@paulburrows6617]

I have been to 11 midnight oil concerts .... FANTASTIC BAND

[@captainsensiblefan3385]

Punk Rock without being Punk Rock. . Very very good.....lyrics at all. A great band....and they are all right...

[@MsCaladenia]

way back in the early 80s, when they brought in simulcasts for radio and television (yes it was amazing then!!) it was so powerful to return to a university residential college just resonating with this song!!!!

[@Murrangurk2]

+Jacqueline Lucas Kinda funny how ALL those Uni Students went on to become Tony voting, Herald Sun Devouring, McMansion owning, prolific breeding, out of control consumerist, uni funding cutting, refugee torturing, footy headed dumb fucks.

[@LuvHrtZ]

One of the best bands and songs. Bless The Oils.

[@Brennan_Dale3169]

I love the wrecking ball hitting the mirror, for the final chorus.

[@natishajoycebarry7986]

wats done is done there still great musicians regardless, wish i seen them live

[@siobhanbrock8430]

I wish I had seen them live to but they de-grouped before I was born

[@thelonelydoge0650]

@@siobhanbrock8430 They're regrouped now

[@dolphinberserk]

This would have been hard to play live (like much of 10 to 1 and also Sails) but they nailed it - the vocals, absolutely solid. Interesting to, see Rotsey the master of rhythm and riff, using freetime muffled noise on a Rickenbacker.

[@daption71]

Rotsey played at least as much lead as rhythm across the Oils' career. His combination with Moginie was killer

[@rubenmartinezhernandez6916]

One great song from Midnight Oil 😄

[@Pamela-q8s]

You know they are underrated I swear

[@waynegretzky3895]

short memory my fella!

[@maxwellsmith80]

I was at this concert

[@mguarisco77]

"If you read the history books you'll see the same things happen again and again Repeat repeat short memory they've all got it When are we going to play it again Got a short, got a short, got a short, got a short They've got a short must have a short they've got a short aah Short memory, they've got a".

[@ILuvRocknRoll67]

I was 15 when this was released. Too young to be allowed to concerts , but saw them a couple of yrs ago anyway. Karma !! :)

[@elliotoblio]

this band was really like poetry rock, wasnt it . ..

[@friedoutmukke864]

It *is* * .. still and again :) so glad they are back

[@christopherkeane2295]

A disturbing song from one of MOs best albums. In 1983 at the height of the Cold War there was a dreadful feeling that the world was slipping towards nuclear annihilation.

[@kevbhoy05]

So relivant today m8.the clock is ticking.🤔

[@MsSez]

And here we are in 2021 feeling the same way 🥲

[@berko79]

2022: Hold my beer

[@echelonrank3927]

​@@MsSez not even close, because we dont let the totally braindead mass media script readers dictate our feelings. im probably wrong.

[@ettoretavilla3081]

@@berko79 Hold my beer whats that meam

[@user-oo9vi1uw3c]

Government At 97 Years Old Is Very Very Tricky Singer!!!

[@jackit905]

Goat island live concert 198??? best day out ever.

[@baulko1]

I think this clip might pre-date the Goat Island concert, which I think took place in 1985.

[@stevengreen6715]

Don't want to be the one

[@Lila21697]

yeah from Guatemala!

[@livitummmor2807]

Guatemalan from US.

[@user-oo9vi1uw3c]

Most Riddle Problems Is Back Too Tribes Like Start Of A Planet!!!

[@cogleypeter6697]

very good song only got in this band late

[@vanessa11]

Better then never....

[@melissabarrett9750]

Still desperately seeking the official version of this video that was used to promote this song. It's their best, but Armistice Day and US Forces are pretty exceptional too.

[@MsSez]

Hercules 👍🏽

[@bradmurnane209]

Cool tune!

[@treeguyfly]

A smallish man, Afghanistan A watchdog in a nervous land They’re only here to lend a hand Short memory Prophetic words.

[@timwright1563]

Thank you

[@brettdwyer2822]

Go the Oils ❤

[@writerspen010]

The anti "We Didn't Start the Fire"

[@lisaswift9122]

Great video goes great with song

[@darrenreed3257]

Right On - STILL

[@user-oo9vi1uw3c]

Melbourne Has Crossbow For Sale Australia!!!

[@janeamandaford4199]

💖💖💖

[@JasonThorneMagicLAMP]

Yah, a song that never gets old, but it should stop being true.

[@user-oo9vi1uw3c]

Got Ya Moneys Worth So I Dialled In End Of Life!!!

[@rickypetrie2725]

Rip brother..❤

[@user-oo9vi1uw3c]

Caught Peak Hour Train Today Was So Many Alian Catch UPS!!!

[@lisaswift9122]

Very well doneb

[@lisaswift9122]

Bad ass love it

[@catherinelouise9062]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊🎉

[@echelonrank3927]

in essence this song is about collective learning disabilities and societys failure to learn from the past.

[@debbieross2508]

DAYUM! Although I a first gen Aus with a Russian Dad..... GO GARRETT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@MrKingmino]

Good summary of the G20 event...

[@alexanderlewisreed2343]

Sick sounds

[@wombah0070]

Some who have held power have used it selfishly, even recklessly & have a lot of explaining to do both in this life & the next!

[@markw6586]

10-1 was a sliding scale to our own deaths destruction, Midnight oil made it easier to digest .

[@kdobbinhale]

Keep it there Pete.

[@jonnightrain]

bikes fun work, bikes fun work... that was the order

[@TheMurdic]

A UK police spokesman named Sean Memory was in a news item yesterday about a suppressed investigation of Edward Heath, for child abuse. His name reminded me of this song's title.

[@brettdwyer2822]

👍

[@darrenspence2516]

everyone has a short memory.....

[@WocklessGamingforAnimeMoms]

Trippy

[@user-oo9vi1uw3c]

6am Newspaper Is Ok

[@jasonbarbush4991]

my countdown cassette was eaten up by an old Sony. that sucked. it's hard to find a copy of this album these days.

[@davros270]

tempo started slow then they sped it to where it needed to be.

[@Asguard82]

Most of the incidents referenced in this song I know but there is one I have been trying to find out about since I first herd this song. What is “the deadline in South Africa”?

[@paulmitford5189]

I saw Midnight Oil at Sydney University, at Manning House, in 1987 and after ten minutes of their execrable noise, the crowd cleared out. Seriously, the band played to an empty hall. But Short Memories and Wedding Cake Island made up for the disaster.

[@balung]

2021 Building Nuke Subs in South Australia, Short Memory, right? Pete.

[@imbecile126]

You ummm, yeah. Don't mind hitting the target. Nice.

[@johncahill5418]

Aborigine- Look it up! They are always first in every country.

[@jasonbarbush4991]

read about it!

[@jakejive7760]

Is there any other videos from this concert that are out there? If so, where can I find it?

[@gusadamson5241]

How much coal to power this?? Love it

[@jasonbarbush4991]

in the intro i see trails

[@chadbreeden1483]

Americans will do a reaction to beds are burning, I would like to see them do this one

[@operationscomputer1478]

Such a great musician. Such a woeful letdown of a politician.

[@ray.shoesmith]

They lost a lot when Pete Gifford left tbh

[@ettoretavilla3081]

everyone has a short memory.....such as my ex slot wife

[@user-oo9vi1uw3c]

Best Alians Dice Monopoly Game Is Owner Of Planet Earth Yes Or No

[@DrewBlack-or9kr]

Nwo oil.

[@Dyegolock]

OBRA PRIMA - Midnight Forever

[@user-oo9vi1uw3c]

Control A Bad Bad Planet Alians Do

[@user-oo9vi1uw3c]

I Get Time Stopped In Head Technology If Required

[@Murrangurk2]

Peter, how short was your memory when you approved gunns Ltd, and the Port Phillip Channel dredging? And the many other decisions we voted you in for on the understanding YOU'D DO THE OPPOSITE? Oh, sorry, is this yesterday's news? No one remembers? Perfect. Carry on....

[@rods6405]

Murrangurk2 very true!

[@deang.ferris4618]

Well your a fuck wit for voting

[@skpy8249]

You just focus on the negatives of going against a corruption.

[@caveman4598]

He can’t control what the party does

[@gillianbullock-uf2gr]

hello, didnt know about this, port phillip dredge. I spent a night filming the animals living in the drains going to stkilda beach last month. Amazing but sad what still survives there in the filthy water. The tide tries to go out. But cant, gets trapped by the dredged sands. The animals keep trying to do there thing though, every night. Thats why ive been filming it. Politicians .!!!!!?

[@lunagem784]

Now connected from Democacy Now Share Out

[@gypsylee73]

2022 Election..

[@user-oo9vi1uw3c]

Japan Started Robots

[@michaelwebber6804]

Gareet has lost the polt

[@ninaanka550]

Short memory. He is now a politician. The World is fucked when you can say more in lyrics than you can being a politician with your hands tied by Government bullshit. No one has heard if Midnight Oil.

[@gusadamson5241]

So much effort..for what?

[@wipout1]

I laughed at 1:14 when I saw all the pictures of political atrocities. I wonder when the clip will get updated to include insulation batts and electrocutions...

[@wipout1]

ceri mccoy Sounds like you've got a Short Memory. No soul? forgotten about: Matthew Fuller Mitchell Sweeney Ruben Barnes Marcus Wilson Garrett knew he fucked up, even tried to wash his hands of it and pass the scheme on to Combet.

[@cerimccoy]

No. I don't think that making a joke out of the death of people is right guarantee you I know my History better than you do. E.g. The Raj in British India have a chapati?

[@cerimccoy]

Your an idiot dude and KZbin is Not the forum for trivialising anything and especially not people dying. Peter Garrett fucked up as minister that's for sure and those poor guys died but that shit happens all the time and people get away with it e.g. How many young aussie fellas died in wars for nothing and thats what this song is about besides which Midnight Oil was a band not a solo act.

[@maccaADL]

People die in roof spaces I have been at work when a worker has died. If you in a roof space and don't no the basics of electricity shouldn't be in there but people will always send the cheapest labor in to do there work if your really that worried there still plenty young men working in dangerous places right now you can save other than talk shit on here. Just enjoy the song and go improve somebodys day.

[@wipout1]

***** the song (and lyrics) covers off a bit more than Hiroshima. Good singer but should never have become a politician. Bit hypocritical to be an activist themed singer only to bed up with the enemy.

[@mikewalker4092]

Fearless chroniclers of imperialist oppression.