Midnight Oil (studio album)
by Midnight Oil

Midnight Oil by Midnight Oil
Year: 1978
Overall rank: 20,254th   
Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 35 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1978 (263rd)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (2,519th)
Award Best albums of all time (20,254th)

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Midnight Oil bestography

Midnight Oil is ranked 11th best out of 28 albums by Midnight Oil on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Midnight Oil is Diesel And Dust which is ranked number 907 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,908.

Midnight Oil album bestography « Higher ranked (17,823rd)
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This album (20,254th)
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(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Midnight Oil track list

   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 73 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Midnight Oil rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 20,254th | 1970s rank: 2,519th | 1978 rank: 263rd

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Midnight Oil ratings

Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 35 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.5/100, a mean average of 68.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.3.

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From 01/05/2018 11:37 | #204617
This is where it all began , very raw , very rough but the trade mark MO DNA is all there . Best track is 'Run By Night ' , followed by 'Surfing On A Spoon ' ( I always thought 'Surfing On A Spoon' was about drug use)
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