윤

Where’s a band like Midnight Oil when we need them? (2003)

Could be Peter Garrett is the marginalized Ralph Nader of Australia, the reaction the mention of one of my favorite bands got from a young LS mate down under, and who knows, in an alternate universe where they had more deservingly gone on to all the success U2 enjoys in ours, their message may have become the same commercialized crap. Still, Amazon got the sale when they finally marked down the price of their concert video (it said out of stock afterward, meaning the last one went to me—or better yet, other fans with whom I experienced a communion of mind) because his channeling Michael Berryman as some kind of electrified Frankenstein’s monster onstage was truly a highlight of my concert-going days. Could be I’ve missed out on stuff just as relevant in the interim yearsdecades, but to my knowledge no one’s put them quite as succinctly as, “The rich get richer/ The poor get the picture/The bombs never hit you when you’re down so low”.

Tagged movies, music, politics, retro