8R+Midnight+Oil

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**Group Members - Nicola H, Allegra H, Alice R, Emma T.**
Midnight Oil started in 1970 when Jim Moginie (guitar/keyboard) and Andrew 'Bear' James (bass), both fifteen, jammed at the local hall in Turramurra, northern Sydney. Rob Hirst (drums/vocals) joined in 1971 and they played as Schwampy Moose, a cover band performing songs by The Beatles. By 1976 they had changed their name to Farm and decided they needed a singer. Rob placed an ad in the Sydney Morning Herald and Peter Garrett turned up for the audition. In 1976 they first met their long-time manager Gary Morris, who is treated as the sixth member of the band. Also in 1976 Farm expanded with the arrival of Martin Rotsey (guitar). They changed their name to Midnight Oil after it was drawn randomly out of a hat.

**Characteristics of Midnight Oil **
Midnight oil have a country music, rock and roll style of music. Electric guitars, electric bass guitars and percussion from a drum kit (cymbals and drums) are characteristics of rock.

**Lyrics For The Song - “Beds are Burning” **
Out where the river broke The bloodwood and the desert oak Holden wrecks and boiling diesels Steam in forty five degrees

The time has come To say fair's fair To pay the rent To pay our share

The time has come A fact's a fact It belongs to them Let's give it back

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How can we dance <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When our earth is turning <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How do we sleep <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While our beds are burning

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How can we dance <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When our earth is turning <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How do we sleep <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While our beds are burning

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The time has come <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To say fair's fair <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To pay the rent <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now to pay our share

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Four wheels scare the cockatoos <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From Kintore East to Yuendemu <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The western desert lives and breathes <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In forty five degrees

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The time has come <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To say fair's fair <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To pay the rent <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To pay our share

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The time has come <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A fact's a fact <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It belongs to them <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Let's give it back

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How can we dance <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When our earth is turning <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How do we sleep <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While our beds are burning

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How can we dance <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When our earth is turning <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How do we sleep <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While our beds are burning

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The time has come <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To say fair's fair <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To pay the rent now <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To pay our share

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The time has come <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A fact's a fact <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It belongs to them <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We're gonna give it back

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How can we dance <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When our earth is turning <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How do we sleep <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While our beds are burning

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Successful songs: **

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Beds are burning
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Forgotten years
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dreamworld
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bedlam bridge
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">US Forces
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read about it
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My Country
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Blue sky mine
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">King of the Mountain
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Outbreak of love
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Power and passion
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Best of both worlds
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pictures
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Put down that weapon
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The dead heart
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the valley
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">White skin black heart
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kosciusko
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One country
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Redneck wonderland
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Underwater
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sometimes

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Analysis **
The instruments that are playing in the piece are drums, bass guitars, vocalists, a guitar and a synthesiser (keyboard). The tempo in this piece is very from soothing to harsh (quiet to very loud). Most of the ways through there is a guitar, and a drum. But in some parts there is voices, bugle, trumpet. The guitars definitely have a special effect, but nothing else does. There is an instrumental solo, as the drums play a small solo at nearly 2 minutes of the song (also at nearly 3 minutes). Sometimes, the keyboard has small solos during the song too. There are 8 beats per bar. The music sounds resigned, more minor than major, but not exactly what you would call sad. The guitar and drums play a constant beat throughout the entire song, and the trumpets always sound at the chorus. The highest point of the song is in the first verse to the pre chorus, then to the bridge towards the end of the song. It makes you think that it is the loudest part because the instruments play louder and the play more deep notes.