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Shut Up And Sing: Midnight Oil

By The Daily Dish
Nov 23 2010, 11:12 AM ET

A reader writes:

For your contest I would like to nominate Midnight Oil's "Beds Are Burning", a gem from the late '80s about Indigenous Australian land rights. The video manages to combine close-ups of indigenous children and self-righteous head bobbing.

Another:

While the verses and chorus aren’t terrible, the bridge (“The time has come/To say ‘fair’s fair’/To pay the rent/To pay our share/The time has come/A fact’s a fact/It belongs to them/Let’s give it back”) is a horrid masterpiece of Rock Star Preaching.



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