The Perfect Oils Set List

The following set lists are taken from the Powderworks mailing lists following a post by Benjamin I.B. McNeil stating his perfect Oils set. I've requested permission to re-print from the people who originally posted the lists, and in my usual way, if they don't want me to do so, they can simply mail me and the list will be removed. I hope you enjoy what the people on Powderworks think!

1. King of the Mountain
2. Progress
3. Powderworks
4. River Runs Red
5. Underwater
6. One Country
7. U.S Forces
8. Home
9. Burnie
10. Blue Sky Mine
11. Surf's Up Tonight
12. Armistice Day
13. No Time For Games
14. Forgotten Years

Encore 1
15. Gravelrash
16. Short Memory
17. Hercules
18. Sometimes

Encore 2
19. Stand in Line

This concert would be the greatest set up of all time for me. If any of the guys are reading, maybe this should be the set at the Woodford Festival, Dec 27.(Hint..Hint)

Regards

Ben

1. Outside World
2. Only the Strong
One of the best 1-2 punches to open an album.
3. Dust
4. Blue Sky Mine
5. Feeding Frenzy
6. Read About It
7. Koala Sprint
8. Warakurna
9. Best of Both Worlds
10. Stars of Warburton
11. Minutes to Midnight
12. Surfing with a Spoon
13. Brave Faces
14. Maralinga
15. Forgotten Years

Encore
16. Progress
17. Kosciusko
18. Pictures

Gee, is it obvious that the stuff from '82-'85 is my favorite?

Paul F. Glenn

1. King of the Mountain
2. Sell my Soul
3. I'm the Cure
4. Outbreak of Love
5. Maralinga
6. Naked Flame
7. Powderworks
8. When the Generals Talk
9. River Runs Red
10. Surfing with the Spoon
11. Power and the Passion.
12. Burnie
13. Forgotten Years
14. US Forces
15. Bus to Bondi

Encore
16. Progess
17. Gunbarrel Highway
18. Stand in Line
and every other song I haven't mentioned :)

Brian Go

1. Outside World
2. Only The Strong
3. Best Of Both Worlds
4. No Reaction
5. When The Generals Talk
6. Jimmy Sharman's Boxers
7. Short Memory
8. Mountains Of Burma
9. Outbreak Of Love
10. Bells and Horns in the Back of Beyond
11. Power & the Passion
12. The Dead Heart
13. Profiteers
14. Don't Wanna Be The One
15. Surfing With A Spoon

16. Antarctica
17. Lucky Country
18. Stand In Line

Deano

1 Head Over Heels
2 Run By Night
3 Scream In Blue
4 Bushfire
5 Armistice Day
6 One Too Many Times
7 Sins of Omission
8 The Dead Heart
9 White Christmas (a cover of the Irving Berlin-song sang by guest artist Bing Crosby)
10 Wedding Cake Island
11 Harrisburg
12 Bakerman
13 In The Rain
14 Cold Cold Change

ENCORE
15 Gravelrash
16 Who Can Stand In The Way
17 I'm The Cure
18 US Forces

Puck (Mathias Hermansson)

Progress
Truganinni
Dreamworld
Short Memory
Best Of Both Worlds
Written In The Heart
Surfing With A Spoon
Underwater
Jimmy Sharman's Boxers
No Time For Games
Blue Sky Mine
Blossom And Blood
Back On The Borderline
Dead Heart
Forgotten Years
Sometimes

Encore 1
Only The Strong
Now Or Never Land
Read About It

Encore 2
Stand In Line

John

1. Surfing with a spoon-- because of the excellent intro and because it's starting things off from near the beginning.
2. Hercules-- a classic rocker to get the crowd fired up.
3. Only the Strong and
4. Read About It-- continuing to pump up the crowd and generally do some kickass rock'n'rolling!
5. Dreamworld and
6. Kosciusko-- more fun, powerful rocking-type tracks.
7. Who can stand in the way-- time to slow down a bit. This one should fit in well right after Kosciusko.
8. Jimmy Sharman's Boxers-- because I love this track & it's time to get the audience thinking and feeling some angst.
9. Time to Heal-- a track about needless, horrifying war (JSB) is followed by one about putting things back together after conflict.
10. Star of Hope-- give the audience some more angst, let'em worry about the future and themselves.
11. Burnie-- every song from Who Can Stand... through to this one should combine for a real emotional low point. The audience must be made to question things, not just jump around and enjoy the powerful rocking tracks. The ending of Burnie ("I'll stay and I'll fight...") should bring back a sense of hope.
12. Lucky Country-- a bit more upbeat, time to start bringing the tempo back up. 13. Brave Faces and
14. Truganini-- bringing back the powerful sound without eliminating the sense of angst. This finishes out the regular set and kind of sums things up.

Encore (if the crowd doesn't demand an encore, well, they suck!)
15. Progress-- a killer track that would have been a glaring admission from the set list. It should satisfy any lingering urges for some thunderous rock'n'roll.
16. Shakers and Movers and
17. One Country and
18. Antarctica-- Aha, at last some material from BSM! Shakers and Movers because it's my personal favorite song. One Country because it's thoughtful and uplifting. (Actually all three of these are thoughtful and uplifting.) Antarctica because, as some people have said recently, it was a great way to end BSM. I think it's also a great way to end a concert.

Summary: this set list has 3 main parts: first the loud, powerful, fun-as-hell yet entirely serious rocking tracks from the beginning up to Kosciusko; then the quieter, more introspective stuff to affect the audience emotionally, Who Can Stand through to Lucky Country; then something of a reprise of the first part, Brave Faces through to Progress; then the last three tracks to leave people thoughtful and hopeful, in a somewhat elevated mental state. (well I guess that's sort of four parts.) I think I would leave this imaginary concert wanting to go to dinner someplace quiet with my best friend, my girlfriend and his girlfriend, and talk about the state of the world and what we, personally, are capable of doing about it. Maybe while drinking some wine or hot chocolate. Then go to sleep and have some spooky dreams. (Of course, before this could happen, I'd have to convince the aforementioned three people to start liking Midnight Oil. ah well...)

peace!

Tom :-)

1. Progress
2. Don't wanna be the one
3. Dreamworld
4. Pictures
5. Lucky country
6. Koala sprint
7. Best of both worlds
8. Only the strong
9. No time for games
10. U.s forces
11. Sometimes
12. Blue sky mine
13. Surfs up tonight
14. Knifes edge(razor day)
15. Back on the borderline
16. Read about it

encore 1 :
17. Sufing with a spoon
18. Bullroarer
19. Hercules

encore 2 :
20.stand in line

Read through this list again....imagine the roar of the crowd when that familiar distorted riff of Read About It begins, or of Garrett's raw anger in Progress, a song which you can't resist screaming along with. Obviously a few absences, particularly from Earth and Sun and Moon, Breathe and Blue Sky Mine. But don't you always find you scream the loudest when they play the opening chords of a song you never expected to.

Andrew Mayo

1. Bullroarer
2. No Time For Games
3. Best of both worlds
4. Sins of omission
5. My country
6. Beds are burning
7. Progress
8. Blue sky mine
9. Lucky country
10. Warakurna
11. Kosciusko
12. Forgotten years
13. Only the strong
14. Dreamworld
15. Sometimes

Encore
16. Read About it
17. Powderworks
18. Hercules

Miron

1. Read About It
2. Blue Sky Mine
3. Only the Strong
4. Don't Wanna Be The One
5. Cemetery In My Mind
6. Progress
7. My Country
8. Short Memory
9. Underwater
10. Armistice Day
11. Surf's Up Tonight
12. Redneck Wonderland
13. US Forces
14. The Dead Heart
15. Brave Faces
16. Truganini
17. Beds are Burning

Encore
18. Back on the Borderline
19. Power and the Passion

Encore 2
20. Forgotten Years

This for starters......

Sean

1. Only the Strong
2. My Country
3. Dreamworld
4. When the Generals Talk
5. Surfing With a Spoon
6. No Times For Games
7. King of the Mountain
8. Brave Faces
9. Read About It
10. Warakurna
11. Best of Both Worlds

Encore 1:
12. Burnie
13. Progress
14. Wedding Cake Island
15. Redneck Wonderland

Encore 2:
16. Blue Sky Mine
17. Hercules
18. Forgotten Years

From Justin R., Melbourne, Australia

1. Redneck Wonderland
2. Underwater
3. Who Can Stand in the Way?
4. Short Memory
5. Shipyards of New Zealand
6. Warakurna
7. Time to Heal
8. In the Valley
9. One Country
10. Earth and Sun and Moon
11. Gravelrash
12. US Forces
13. Read About It

Encore 1
14-17. The entire Species Deceases EP in order

Encore 2
18. Forgotten Years

Jeff, USA

1. Outside World
2. Short Memory
3. Safety Chain Blues
4. Basement Flat
5. Sleep
6. Back on the Borderline
7. Bedlam Bridge
8. Warakurna
9. Minutes to Midnight
10. Feeding Frenzy
11. Brave Faces
12. E-Beat
13. Maralinga
14. White Skin Black Heart
15. Arctic World

Encore
16. Tin Legs and Tin Mines (I'll play this song in my funeral)
17. Barest Degree
18. Put Down that Weapon (And we're all be gone)

Mariano Zamudio Zertuche

1. Dreamworld
2. Only The Strong
3. What Goes On
4. Truganini
5. Surfs Up Tonight
6. Sell My Soul
7. My Country
8. Outbreak Of Love
9. Say Your Prayers
10. White Skin, Black Heart
11. King Of The Mountain
12. Beds Are Burning
13. Scream In Blue
14. Blue Sky Mine
15. Forgotten Years

Encore
16. The Dead Heart
17. Brave Faces
18. Sometimes

Zac, Indiana, USA

If you want to add your own set-list mail it to The Dead Heart remembering that there should be no more than 18 songs if possible!!!