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Certain Songs #1138: Midnight Oil – “One Country”

February 23, 2018 by Jim Connelly

Album: Blue Sky Mining
Year: 1990

After having their biggest world-wide album ever with Diesel and Dust, the Oils took a couple of years off and followed it up with 1990’s Blue Sky Mining, which was nearly as good, spawning a couple of major radio songs in “Blue Sky Mine” and “Forgotten Years.”

As good as those songs were, my favorite song on the album was the slow-burning “One Country,” which I guess is the closest Midnight Oil ever got to doing a U2-style anthem.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Blue Sky Mining, Midnight Oil, One Country

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