Song · Midnight Oil
“Bullroarer” by Midnight Oil
From the album Diesel and Dust (1987)
“Bullroarer” by Midnight Oil appears on 6 radio countdowns from 1 station between 1999 and 2004. It was first released in 1987 on the album Diesel and Dust. Its best result is #1703 on the CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #4,386 alternative song of all time.
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"Bullroarer" sits on Diesel and Dust, the sixth Midnight Oil album, released in 1987 and produced by Warne Livesey with the band. The whole record takes up two causes close to the band, the fight of Indigenous Australians and the fate of the land itself, and it grew out of the Blackfella/Whitefella Tour of remote Indigenous communities that the band made with the Warumpi Band and Gondwanaland in 1986.
Peter Garrett, Rob Hirst and Jim Moginie wrote it. Moginie and Martin Rotsey play guitars, Peter Gifford bass and Hirst drums, while Moginie and Livesey handle keyboards, and the arrangement reaches past the rock lineup for John Ockwell's cello, Glad Reed's trombone and Jeremy Smith's French horn. Guy Gray engineered.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1728 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 1728 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 1728 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1718 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 1703 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 1703 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
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