Ah, Midnight Oil! Now there's a great rock band! (With a freakishly charismatic lead singer.)
This song is a cut from Midnight Oil's 1996 album "Breathe," three albums and over eight years removed from their breakthrough album "Diesel and Dust." To the untrained eye (or ear,) Midnight Oil is a "one-hit wonder" band, as they only had one song make the Top 40. (Besides "Beds Are Burning" they had two other songs make the Billboard Hot 100, "The Dead Heart" and "Blue Sky Mine.")
Of course, Midnight Oil is much, much better than the run of the mill "one-hit wonder." The album this song comes from, "Breathe," had a couple of songs that made at least a blip on the scene. I heard the song "Underwater" on the radio a few times, and I saw them perform "Surf's Up Tonight" on Letterman. (Well, not literally on Letterman. On his show, near Letterman.) Both are very good songs, but this one is better.
"Bring On the Change" has a great, driving rhythm that makes me want to bob my head to the music. It's a great "pump you up" song. The lyrics? I'm sure it's some kind of environmental thing. Midnight Oil likes the environmental stuff.
COMING UP NEXT: Don't look now, but here come the 80s.
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