Diesel and Dust is the sixth studio album by Australian rock band Midnight Oil, released in August 1987 by SPRINT Music label under Columbia Records. Diesel and Dust was produced by Warne Livesey and the band. It is a concept album about the struggles of Indigenous Australians and environmental causes, issues important to the band. It drew inspiration from the Blackfella/Whitefella Tour of remote Indigenous communities with the Warumpi Band and Gondwanaland in 1986. The album peaked at No. 1 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart for six weeks. Diesel and Dust has been critically lauded since its release. Rolling Stone editors named it the best album of 1988 (the year of its United States release), and later ranked it the 13th greatest record of the 1980s. In October 2010, Diesel and Dust was listed at number 1 in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums. In December 2021, the album was listed at no. 5 in Rolling Stone Australia’s “200 Greatest Albums of All Time” countdown.
Tracklisting
| Position | Title |
|---|---|
| A1 | Beds Are Burning |
| A2 | Put Down That Weapon |
| A3 | Dreamworld |
| A4 | Arctic World |
| A5 | Warakurna |
| B1 | The Dead Heart |
| B2 | Whoah |
| B3 | Bullroarer |
| B4 | Sell My Soul |
| B5 | Sometimes |
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Release Information
| Key | Value |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia URL | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_and_Dust |
| Format | 1× Vinyl (Red Label) LP, Album, Stereo |
| Label | CBS |
| Catalog Number | 460005 1 |
| Notes | Non-gatefold sleeve with generic inner sleeve. Recorded at Albert Studios, Sydney, Australia. ⓟ 1987 Midnight Oil Shorepak by Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd., England Made in England. |
| Discogs URL | Midnight Oil - Diesel And Dust |