Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust LP
Release Date: 01/30/2026
First released in August 1987, Diesel and Dust is a concept album about the struggles of Indigenous Australians and environmental causes, issues important to the band. This was Midnight Oil’s sixth album and drew inspiration from the Blackfella/Whitefella Tour of remote Indigenous communities with the Warumpi Band and Gondwanaland in 1986. In 1989, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it No. 13 on their list of the 100 best albums of the 1980s. In October 2010 it was listed at No. 1 in the book 100 Best Australian Albums. Diesel and Dust, produced by Warne Livesey and the band, has been remastered and comes on black biovinyl in FSC certified packaging.
Track Listing:
Side A
1.Beds Are Burning
2.Put Down That Weapon
3.Dreamworld
4.Arctic World
5.Warakurna
Side B
1.The Dead Heart
2.Whoah
3.Bullroarer
4.Sell My Soul
5.Sometimes
Release Date: 01/30/2026
First released in August 1987, Diesel and Dust is a concept album about the struggles of Indigenous Australians and environmental causes, issues important to the band. This was Midnight Oil’s sixth album and drew inspiration from the Blackfella/Whitefella Tour of remote Indigenous communities with the Warumpi Band and Gondwanaland in 1986. In 1989, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it No. 13 on their list of the 100 best albums of the 1980s. In October 2010 it was listed at No. 1 in the book 100 Best Australian Albums. Diesel and Dust, produced by Warne Livesey and the band, has been remastered and comes on black biovinyl in FSC certified packaging.
Track Listing:
Side A
1.Beds Are Burning
2.Put Down That Weapon
3.Dreamworld
4.Arctic World
5.Warakurna
Side B
1.The Dead Heart
2.Whoah
3.Bullroarer
4.Sell My Soul
5.Sometimes
Description
Release Date: 01/30/2026
First released in August 1987, Diesel and Dust is a concept album about the struggles of Indigenous Australians and environmental causes, issues important to the band. This was Midnight Oil’s sixth album and drew inspiration from the Blackfella/Whitefella Tour of remote Indigenous communities with the Warumpi Band and Gondwanaland in 1986. In 1989, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it No. 13 on their list of the 100 best albums of the 1980s. In October 2010 it was listed at No. 1 in the book 100 Best Australian Albums. Diesel and Dust, produced by Warne Livesey and the band, has been remastered and comes on black biovinyl in FSC certified packaging.
Track Listing:
Side A
1.Beds Are Burning
2.Put Down That Weapon
3.Dreamworld
4.Arctic World
5.Warakurna
Side B
1.The Dead Heart
2.Whoah
3.Bullroarer
4.Sell My Soul
5.Sometimes
