Album: 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
Year: 1982
After three practice albums that built up a huge fanbase in their native Australia, but didn’t do jack shit here, Midnight Oil had a minor breakthrough on MTV and a major breakthrough on college radio with their fourth album 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1, which combined lead singer Peter Garrett’s walked-it-like-he-talked-it politics with his band’s unique brand of beat-heavy post-punk.
And for me, no song resonated more on that record than the nuclear paranoia of “Read About It.”
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