Album dossier / 1987
Diesel and Dust
Midnight Oil · Alternative Rock
Recorded at Albert Studios in Sydney with producer Warne Livesey, Diesel and Dust grew directly out of Midnight Oil's 1986 Blackfella/Whitefella Tour through remote Indigenous Australian communities with the Warumpi Band and Gondwanaland; the resulting concept album about Aboriginal land rights and environmental justice topped the Australian charts for six weeks and was later ranked #13 on Rolling Stone's 100 best albums of the 1980s.
Record facts
- Label
- Columbia/Sprint
- Producer
- Warne Livesey, Midnight Oil
- Chart peak
- #1 Australia (Kent Music Report)
- Notable tracks
- Beds Are Burning
- The Dead Heart
- Put Down That Weapon
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Last enriched: 2026-08-26