Place without a Postcard
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Place Without a Postcard is an album by Midnight Oil
that was released in 1981 under the Columbia Records
label. Cover photography and all other photographs by Robert Butcher.
From iTunes: "Midnight Oil went to England to record and turned to a major label (CBS Records) and a name producer (Glyn Johns) for its third full-length album. You might have expected this to make for a sonic breakthrough, but you'd be wrong. The band was experiencing growing pains, trying to stretch musically, and, at least at first, this made for a dilution of their hard rock focus moving toward a pop style they hadn't fully developed. Place Without a Postcard had its share of powerfully performed songs, but its sound was light compared to the band's first two albums, the stylistic experiments were not yet bearing fruit, and, with an emphasis placed on the vocals, Peter Garrett sounded overly strident."
Midnight Oil
Midnight Oil , were an Australian rock band from Sydney originally performing as Farm from 1972 with drummer Rob Hirst, bass guitarist Andrew James and keyboard player/lead guitarist Jim Moginie...
that was released in 1981 under the Columbia Records
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
label. Cover photography and all other photographs by Robert Butcher.
Reception
The album scored 3/5 from Allmusic.From iTunes: "Midnight Oil went to England to record and turned to a major label (CBS Records) and a name producer (Glyn Johns) for its third full-length album. You might have expected this to make for a sonic breakthrough, but you'd be wrong. The band was experiencing growing pains, trying to stretch musically, and, at least at first, this made for a dilution of their hard rock focus moving toward a pop style they hadn't fully developed. Place Without a Postcard had its share of powerfully performed songs, but its sound was light compared to the band's first two albums, the stylistic experiments were not yet bearing fruit, and, with an emphasis placed on the vocals, Peter Garrett sounded overly strident."
Track listing
- "Don't Wanna Be the One" (Robert Hirst, Peter Garrett, Martin Rotsey, James Moginie)
- "Brave Faces" (Moginie, Garrett)
- "Armistice Day" (Hirst, Moginie, Rotsey)
- "Someone Else to Blame" (Hirst, Moginie, Peter Gifford)
- "Basement Flat" (Rotsey, Garrett, Moginie)
- "Written in the Heart" (Hirst, Moginie, Rotsey)
- "Burnie" (Moginie, Garrett)
- "Quinella Holiday" (Garrett, Moginie)
- "Loves on Sale" (Garrett, Rotsey)
- "If Ned Kelly Was King" (Moginie, Garrett)
- "Lucky Country" (Moginie, Garrett, Rotsey, Hirst)
Personnel
- Martin RotseyMartin RotseyMartin Rotsey is an Australian guitarist, and was a member of the rock band Midnight Oil from 1977 until the band's dissolution in 2002.In 2006, he joined fellow Midnight Oil member Rob Hirst's projects Ghostwriters and The Angry Tradesmen...
– Guitars - Peter GiffordPeter GiffordPeter Gifford , sometimes known as "Giffo," is an Australian musician. From 1980 until 1987 he played bass guitar for Australian rock band Midnight Oil.-Midnight Oil:...
– Bass, Vocals - Rob HirstRob Hirst-External links:*******...
– Drums, Vocals - Jim MoginieJim MoginieJames "Jim" Moginie is an Australian musician. He is best known for his work with Midnight Oil, of which he was a founding member, guitarist, keyboardist and leading songwriter...
– Guitars, Keyboards - Peter GarrettPeter GarrettPeter Robert Garrett, AM, MP , is an Australian musician, environmentalist, activist and politician.Garrett was lead singer of the Australian rock band Midnight Oil from 1973 until its disbanding in 2002...
– Lead Vocals