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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Are you talking about, what are you writing songs about aboriginal people, about black people for, what's that got to do with us' and over time, I think people got to understand why we were doing it and what it meant to us."So after the excitement from 'Diesel And Dust' had settled, the next hurdle was, how to follow it up? In early 1990 the band did just that with the striking 'Blue Sky Mining.' A Gold and Platinum hit across the board, especially in their native Australia where is went five time platinum, it was a self-assured statement that these guys were a force all their own. Songs like 'Forgotten Years,' 'King Of The Mountain,' and the classic ‘Blue Sky Mine’ would all drive the album. Produced by Warne Livesey along with the band, a conscious effort was made to expand on the signature band sound throughout the LP. ‘Mountains of Burma’ had a full orchestra and I believe Warne did all of the arrangements for that, which was pretty incredible," recalled engineer Brendan Anthony in Mixdown magazine. "The strings were set up in the drum room, but the rest of the orchestra spilled out over the recording space, which was quite large.” The entire approach to the album was steeped in adventure and experimentation, straying from the norm, even when it came to the lyrics. “Peter Garrett is probably the most talented person I’ve ever met to make up lyrics on the spot,” adds Brendan. “If you listen to “King of the Mountain” at the last vocal section, I think he sings lyrics like “over liquid tarmac wastelands of cactus and heat, down cobblestone alleyways of washing day sheets” etc. Have a listen to it. He made those lyrics up on the spot. Warne said, ‘Okay, just ad
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