Song · Midnight Oil
“Sell My Soul” by Midnight Oil
From the album Diesel and Dust (1987)
“Sell My Soul” by Midnight Oil appears on 4 radio countdowns from 1 station between 1999 and 2002. It was first released in 1987 on the album Diesel and Dust. Its best result is #1785 on the CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #5,628 alternative song of all time.
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"Sell My Soul" comes from Diesel and Dust, Midnight Oil's sixth album, the 1987 record the Australian band built as a concept album around the struggles of Indigenous Australians and the fight for the environment, fired up by a 1986 tour of remote Indigenous communities with the Warumpi Band and Gondwanaland.
Peter Garrett and Jim Moginie wrote it, and Warne Livesey produced it with the band. Rob Hirst drums, Peter Gifford plays bass, Moginie and Martin Rotsey handle the guitars and Moginie and Livesey share the keyboards, but the surprises are in the corners: John Ockwell's cello, Glad Reed's trombone and Jeremy Smith's French horn, unexpected colors on a record with this much on its mind. 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 | 1796 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 1798 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 1798 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1785 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
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