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Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line

Songs played and conceived and written by teenagersand 20-somethings

[Rob] Songs played and conceived and written by teenagers
and 20-somethings

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[Rob] Songs played and conceived
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and written by teenagers and 20-somethings.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
20
Timestamp in Movie
01:28:55
Uploaded
Apr 11, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Blink TV,Beyond Entertainment

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Movie Summary

Contrary. Passionate. Outspoken. Over 45 years Midnight Oil helped shape modern Australia. This is their trailblazing story for the first time on film.
And here we were in our early 60s - Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line 00:05
And here we were in our early 60s
As far as the intensity and the speed - Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line 00:05
As far as the intensity and the speed
[audience cheering] - Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line 00:11
[audience cheering]
♪ The rich get richer The poor get the picture♪ - Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line 00:15
♪ The rich get richer The poor get the picture♪
♪ The bosses want decisions Workers need ambitions♪ - Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line 00:15
♪ The bosses want decisions Workers need ambitions♪
♪ What am I to know?♪ - Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line 00:15
♪ What am I to know?♪
I wanted us still to be seen as a creative force. - Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line 00:05
I wanted us still to be seen as a creative force.
[John] For any band who's had a long break, - Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line 00:08
[John] For any band who's had a long break,
Will people still want to hear what they've got to say? - Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line 00:06
Will people still want to hear what they've got to say?
Will they be able to create something - Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line 00:06
Will they be able to create something
[waves crashing] - Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line 00:07
[waves crashing]
"We've got such a past to live up to." - Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line 00:08
"We've got such a past to live up to."
He played straight up. He played "First Nation" - Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line 00:06
He played straight up. He played "First Nation"
And I was like, - Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line 00:06
And I was like,
"And that is the Midnight Oil essence, those songs." - Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line 00:08
"And that is the Midnight Oil essence, those songs.&quo...
♪ First nation♪ - Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line 00:14
♪ First nation♪
It's almost 20 years and quite a lot has happened - Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line 00:08
It's almost 20 years and quite a lot has happened
[Peter] Promises of a treaty that historically - Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line 00:07
[Peter] Promises of a treaty that historically
-[crowd applauding] -[Peter] We really felt that - Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line 00:08
-[crowd applauding] -[Peter] We really felt that
We needed to come back and recognise how important, - Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line 00:10
We needed to come back and recognise how important,