Well, as you may have picked up in a couple of threads, my home hi-fi copped a major upgrade in the last week or so, and I'm currently dragging out some old favourites to see how they sound.
One of them, which I haven't had out in absolute ages, is Midnight Oil's 10 to 1 (correct title is the thread name).
It has one of my all time favourite tracks, 'Maralinga'. For people who don't know, the British conducted nuclear testing at Maralinga (in South Australia) in the 1950's, and there's all sorts of scandals about radiation testing on soldiers (and the fact that they kind of forgot to remove the local aboriginal population, who got fairly irradiated as well).
There's a brilliant piece of the song where the lead singer speaks (in a calm voice) rather than sings the following lyric - it's almost drowned in the music, but it's cleary discernable.
'And the grass became granite
And the sky a black sheet
Our bed was a graveyard
We couldn't feel our blistered feet
And the moaning and groaning and sighing of death
And the silence that followed
And the very harsh reality'
I had kind of forgotten about how powerful the last three lines were - it was a bit of a shock to hear them again.
One of them, which I haven't had out in absolute ages, is Midnight Oil's 10 to 1 (correct title is the thread name).
It has one of my all time favourite tracks, 'Maralinga'. For people who don't know, the British conducted nuclear testing at Maralinga (in South Australia) in the 1950's, and there's all sorts of scandals about radiation testing on soldiers (and the fact that they kind of forgot to remove the local aboriginal population, who got fairly irradiated as well).
There's a brilliant piece of the song where the lead singer speaks (in a calm voice) rather than sings the following lyric - it's almost drowned in the music, but it's cleary discernable.
'And the grass became granite
And the sky a black sheet
Our bed was a graveyard
We couldn't feel our blistered feet
And the moaning and groaning and sighing of death
And the silence that followed
And the very harsh reality'
I had kind of forgotten about how powerful the last three lines were - it was a bit of a shock to hear them again.
