Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning // AUSTRALIAN MUSIC REACTION 

Epic 80s Australian song. I’m an Aboriginal woman 53 years young, I work all over the UK. I carry this song on repeat in my 🍎iPhone 🎧 throughout Scotland, Northern Ireland and England. Love your reaction. 👍🏽💯

Thank you mstv, you prove to me that there are people out there with a big heart. I'm an Aussie aboriginal my friend. Thank you for being a kind man. Your respect and genuine humanity is so appreciated mate.thank you.

The lead singer of Midnight Oil is Peter Garrett, who also served as Minister for the Environment from 2007-2010, then Education Minister from 2010-2013.

Portuguese woman here. I just have to thank you for this! Its 2 AM and I was about to close the computer when I saw this Midnight Oil reaction and said to myself well... f*ck it I HAVE to see this. Oh so good!!! So many good memories attached to this song 🥰 (I´m 57 btw). Loved your reaction and once again: Thank you!!

For a song about Aboriginal reconcilliation try "Treaty" by Yothu Yindi - great music with heart and a terrific message

Incase you’re wondering, yes that is how Peter Garrett dances! Midnight Oil have some banga songs ❤

If you would like to hear some of our First Nations People speak for themselves you may like to listen to Yothu Yindi and their song "Treaty".

Honestly, I don’t think there is any better country for you and your family to live in other than Australia! Watching you learn about us and your excitement fills my heart with so much joy and pride! Thank you for loving us because we LOVE you. Thanks mate!

Blue Sky Mine, another of the Oil's song is about CSR/Asbestos. Well worth the listen

You have now had a taste for what we have had for the past 40+ years. Aussie music is unlike any other, especially the 80's

Great reaction mate. Midnight Oil is a great Aussie band that has always tried to focus on First Nation people's rights and climate change issues. I really think you would like King of the Mountain by the Oils, it was about the Exxon spill and they performed it in New York on the street outside Exxon building. Definitely worth the watch

The Oil's go back to the late seventies have a big array of songs you would like one of the best live Australian bands going round

Please also react to The Dead Heart by Midnight Oil as well. It's another first nation's rocker. Including the brilliant Rob Hurst on the sticks. (the great drummer from down under). The video's filmed at Uluru. Magic!

one of the great Aussie bands of all time. Peter Garrett (the singer) has a unique approach to his vocals and dancing

Peter Garrett certainly walked the walk as well. He was an MP for about 6 years.

The Lead singer was an elected member of our Federal parliament in two different parties, first with the Greens and then with the ALP ( Australian Labor Party ) as Minister for the Environment.

I saw Midnight Oil when I was 16, 18, and just last year on their final world tour. Peter Garrett still has the energy to dance like that at 69 years of age!! Check out a relatively newer on called " First Nation"!

thanks for your reaction much love and gratitude from Australia

Peter Garrett (singer) went on to become Minister for Environment with the Labour party, although no longer in office, and officially retired from Midnight Oil, he is still involved with both, he will be 70 this year

Thanks ❤ from an Aboriginal person ❤

One of the best ever live bands, world wide. Their albums, particularly the first few are sublime. I'm old enough to have seen them when they were young men, as I was, and a more powerful band is hard to imagine (The Angels matched them). Their second album went ballistic and they were off. Live their best videos would be from the Capitol theatre shows but "Oils on the water" where the backdrop is Sydney Harbour at dusk is mind blowing ,particularly songs such as "Stand in line". Phenomenal.

Great reaction as always Matt.... Try listening to Goanna singing Solid Rock another anthem with a message in it!

Gangajang - Sounds of then. Another iconic Australian song.

you need to post a video of yourself doing your best Peter Garrett dance

I Love this band..and the lyrics are so powerful..this song is one of my favorites of theirs.

Thanks for your reactions 😊🌏🪐🌕🙏😎🇦🇺🌟👣🦜🌸🍂🏡🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

Awesome song, you'd love their other songs too in particular I'd recommend Dead Heart, Truganini and Blue Sky mine. But they have so many great songs!

So happy you enjoyed it. Love your intelligent analysis

Great old Video. Love the Oils, mega popular band back in the day. Their still one of the best live rock bands ever!

Great reaction to one of our fantastic Aussie bands and one of our classic anthems 💥

This is such a powerful song and I love the beat.❤❤

I’ve seen Midnight Oil in pubs back in the day, excellent.

I am 1st Nation from Canada....I can rorally relate to this..Thanx so damn much...like your reactions young sir

Thanks for showing respect for my people

At the risk of sounding preachy, Aboriginies are portrayed as desert people but that ignores the fact is all the fertile land was taken by colonialists and the desert was all that was left to them. As you would expect, most Aborigines lived in fertile lands on the coast with rivers. That pretty much describes our main towns and cities.

AUSSIE GOATS OF BANDS

I love to see you young people appreciate good music!

This is the best reaction to one of my favorite songs from the 1980's .. by the way the Lead singer "Peter Garrett" went on to become an elected member of the Australian house of representatives (Parliament)..

80's Music Rules 😊

Blue sky mine is also one of my fave songs from the oils

As a 15 year old white, American girl with no internet, I missed a lot of the meaning of this song. But I loved it the first time I heard it. All I caught was a message of justice and amends. This song and others shaped me in ways I didn’t understand until I was older.

You will love a song by Yothu Yindi - Treaty Now. The brilliance of young Aboriginal music.

The Oils were a very political band. The lead singer Peter Garrett spent several years in Federal parliament.

Yes they are dancing 😊

Black Heart is another Midnight Oil favourite!

Thank you. You're reaction responses to your videos always have a degree of intelligence and appreciation of the culture from which they come. Keep it up. Cheers

I’ve always loved the oils . Distinct sound. Politically great lyrics. I spent 12 hours at the Newcastle earth quake fund raiser just to hear the oils in 1989 lol sun burnt but was worth it :) 🎉❤

this is great and the original video clip but they did a concert in Ellis Park , South Africa in 1994 (it's on You Tube ) and it'll blow your mind ...They were an incredible live band too as that video will demonstrate ...Beds Are Burning Ellis Park 1994 , Midnight Oil will find it for you ....Cheers

You’ve NEVER heard of the Oils?!?! 😮 They’re one of the best Australian bands ever - right up there with AC/DC and Cold Chisel. You should check out a few more of their classics: Forgotten Years Power & the Passion Blue Sky Mine US Forces Best of Both Worlds Read About It The Dead Heart If you dig them, I’d strongly suggest checking out a few live performances from the “Oils on the Water” concert. I t’s classic stuff, one of the best live bands you’ll ever see.

A classic.

Midnight oil was a great protest group, and lead singer even ran for Parliament and became the environment minister omg

Such a great band, great song with powerful message.. can you please react to INXS “original sin” live at Wembley 1991 remastered in 4K

Outside World is my absolute song of theirs. Just beautifully done and reminds me of driving back from Sydney with my bestie in 1983 listening in the cassette, which I still have.

As an old hippy rocker from way back, Midnight Oil are legendary, listen to any song, you'll be impressed.

Classic Aussie Rock. ❤

🥰Lead singer became a 🇦🇺member of Parliament 🙏when he left the band.🤗This band was very socially oriented,🫶most of their songs 👍have a really strong message.💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋👍

Make sure you go see the new doko out in a few weeks/months worldwide - Midnight Oil: The hardest line - just premiered to sell outs at the Sydney Film Festival - in fact it opened the 2-week festival!

More of their songs: Blue Sky Mine , Short Memory, Forgotten Years, Read About It

Your reaction was great especially at the beginning Thanks!😊

Great stuff man, awesome to see you taking in the cultural aspects of our home.

Check out this song live at Ellis Park. It will give you a much better appreciation of his voice and passion. A reaction would be good too. Thanks for this reaction.

I remember paying a whole $1.50 to see this band before they became famous. The drummer I would rate in my top three in the world (check out power and passion). Midnight oils wrote lots of songs against the wrongdoing of people. The lead singer ended up being a politician for the Green Party (social justice, sustainability and such). They still tour occasionally.

Peter Garit lead singer was a member of the Australian parliament

I saw midnight oil yrs ago and they were fantastic. Love Peter Garrett and what he has done for indigenous people and the environment ❤

How can we dance when our earth is turning? How can we sleep when our beds are burning? Powerful chorus

One of the great live bands I have ever seen,and I’ve seen some legends ❤❤❤

The original video of this song on you tube has had about 250 million plays...such an iconic song! Great review!

Blue Sky Mine is another charged piece - the suppression of Asbestosis knowledge by the mining operators, CSR Holdings (the Sugar Refining Company)

another aussie singer to watch for is Paul Kelly, PK is a legend in Aust music scene. Songs like, To Her Door, Careless, Dumb Things, Making Gravy, Etc etc etc

I saw them on their 'Diesel and Dust' tour, where they had old car bodies on stage, and Peter was having a great time dancing and kicking up the red soil.

My 14 yr old son is a Midnight OIl fan.

I had the honour of meeting and chatting with Peter Garrett. His passion for social justice had no end. Unfortuntately the political party machine stifled his ideals. He (like many others) thought he coul;d make change from within where, realisitcally, the only option is to tear the institutional party political system down and get true, representational democracy happening.

They are hotbfirst nations ppl. They are the people.

If you ever get to see the Oils live, your life will change. Possibly one of the best live bands in the world

It belongs to them let's give it back

Great song and reaction, as always. Please have a look at Yothu Yindi - Treaty, another great one for your listening ears :)

The Beds are Burning title also has a very dark side. Peter Garrett's mother died in a house fire while she slept in her bedroom. Garrett, in his early 20s, made efforts to save his mother but escaped the fire. In an interview with Peter Garrett, her death still haunts him.

Check out the '80s Australian band, Beasts of Bourbon, particularly their video for, "Psycho".

A couple of really important court cases returned First Nations land rights to them. Paul Kelly details one of those cases in the song From Little Things Big Things Grow, a song whose lyrics tell the story, and the music video uses real footage from the 1966 court case. Later the Nabo case enshrined Land ownership if you could provide family/tribe continual use since before Colonial settlement. Yothu Yindi has the fantastic Treaty Now, a song sung by Aborigines demanding what they still lack: a very belated treaty between the native people of Australia and the government and inhabitants that descend from the colonial invaders.

YOU NAILED IT

I’d like to see you react to “the Power and the Passion”. ☺️

Look up midnight oil big red bash 2018... still got it live after 35 years plus. I went to the 2017 big red bash, one of the best out door concerts ever.

One of my fave songs! Love your reaction! Everyone has given great 👍 info.

Tell anyone in Australia to dance like Peter Garrett and this is what you will get.

The lead singer with that strange voice is Peter Garrett. To say the band was political is accurate. Peter, himself, pursued a political career from 1984 to 2013… with varying degrees of success.

This album charted in the US when it came out. Guess great Britain wasn’t in to songs about its crimes. For a more jovial song about convict life, there is an Australian band, weddings parties anything. The pogues say they are the best folk band in the world. Their song “a tale they won’t believe,” is aboot convict Alexander Pearce and his cannibalistic ways. Made in to many, many movies. Including one with Sean Bean, where guess what, his character dies

"We are Australian" by The Seekers is as good as an anthem that tells Australia's past and present.

Love your reactions, though I gotta say….when you were saying chorus, I was hearing coitus 😂😂😂

The Oils are Aussie legends and have been around the Australian music scene for 50+ years but didn’t really become prominent until around 1987 with the Diesel and Dust album which this was a single from. The Blue Sky Mine album in 1990 was also hugely powerful. Unlike other musicians who released songs with political and social messages, Peter Garrett (Midnight Oil lead singer - bald dude with the signature jerky dance moves) put his money where his mouth is and actually gave up music and joined the Australian political scene. His goal was to try and change things for all Australians but specifically for the Indigenous First Nations peoples of our country. He ran and was elected member of Kingsford in 2004. Continuing on, he subsequently became the Australian Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Arts from 2007-2010, then Minister for Education, Early Childhood and Youth from 2010-2013. He resigned from politics in 2013 after becoming disillusioned with the government’s stubborn resistance to change, but hung around a bit until finally completing giving up in 2016 to go back to music. Midnight Oil reformed and as far as I know they are still touring, The Oils released their 15th and final studio album last year. Peter was also the recipient of an Order of Australia in 2003 for “service to the community as a prominent advocate for environmental conservation and protection, and to the music industry”. He also received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France) in 2009.

Funny you mentioning music with a message when every time I see you I’m reminded of Billy Bragg

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❤this song... You should check out Aboriginal band yothu Yindi ..they have some great songs..

You might try yothu Yindi song treaty. Or more àtmospheric was Icehouse singing great Southern land

The Oils always wrote songs that made you think about your place in history and questions how will you make this planet better for future generations... You must have a look at the Indigenous band Yothu Yindi sing "Treaty". This song is very relevant to Australia today as we prepare to add the Indigenous Voice to Parliament this year.

You should watch "Sounds of then"... ITS a great Aussie song!

Next up: Yothu Yindi singing Treaty

Subscribing....hope to see more midnight oil reactions! My favs are forgotten years, short memory, stand in line (check out the live performance of this - the oils on water concert) and blue sky mine

It is so strange that Australia and Scotland are so linked in Australia's history, music and their mind set. Two of this group are decended from Scottish immigrants, and the greatest song about the Aussie soldiers efforts on Gallipolli is written by a Scott in Eric Bogle.

Have a look at blue sky mine song by midnight oil

OMG! YOUR ACCENT!!!