Midnight Oil
by Midnight Oil

Midnight Oil by Midnight Oil
Year: 1978
Overall rank: 20,776th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 37 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1978 (270th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (2,549th)
Award Best albums of all time (20,776th)

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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 908 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,908.

Midnight Oil album bestography « Higher ranked (17,877th)
Capricornia
This album (20,776th)
Midnight Oil
Lower ranked (21,753rd) »
The Makarrata Project

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Midnight Oil rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 20,776th | 1970s rank: 2,549th | 1978 rank: 270th

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Midnight Oil ratings

Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 37 votes)
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65/100
 
03/28/2026 21:04 TheHutts  Ratings distribution  2,05276/100
 
65/100
 
01/21/2026 13:45 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  9,31870/100
 
80/100
 
04/04/2025 15:47 markl73  Ratings distribution  59178/100
 
75/100
 
04/15/2024 17:12 TonySayers61  Ratings distribution  24,17764/100
 
70/100
 
08/13/2023 14:05 JamesMowbray  Ratings distribution  5,40469/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.3/100, a mean average of 68.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.0.

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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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