Place Without a Postcard

Midnight Oil

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 18, 1990)
• Original Release Date: 1981
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000002742
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #280,741 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Most underrated release by the Oils, March 9, 2001

By	K. H Mark "karl_7" (Geneva, IL.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Postcard has to be the Oils most underrated release. Postcards was not released in the United States until the success of Diesel & Dust. Don't let this deceive you, this cd offers everything from the Oils. Bold lyrics, raw guitar & great variety. This release is very progressive for the date of it's release. Been listening to this cd for over a decade, and it still rocks. If your a big fan of Red Sunsets and 10-1, I would definitely suggest Postcards. If you have a chance check out the songs Lucky Country, I don't wanna be the one, Basement flat & Burnie.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An unknown masterpiece, February 7, 2001

By	Tom Browne "TB" (USA) - See all my reviews

We all have our favorite album, and this is certainly mine. Now, I wouldn't say it's the best album I own, but being a favorite is a much different matter. This was actually the first album I ever bought (I still have the broken cassette tape), when I was 12. I hated it at first, as any 12 yr old raised on bad late 80s pop would, but as I listened to it again and again it--without getting too pretentious about it--changed the way I listen to rock. It's really that good. I can't praise Place Without a Postcard enough; almost every song is masterfully done. Listen to Basement Flat, and you will know, definitively, what all the faux-alternative pop bands today could not do even if they tried. And even for those among us who are not Australians, Lucky Country is a touching and satiric paean to what makes Australia unique. Here I'm slipping into cliches, I know; and yet what can one say about an album like this? It is, in my opinion, the best album Midnight Oil has yet made. Listen and be moved.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Slogans that used to be scrawled on the wall..., August 7, 1999

By	S. Johnston (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

...are written in The Heart". Possibly the most overlooked piece of brilliance in the Oils discography. This is without a doubt my ultimate Oils album. It's passionate, angry, honest, blunt, raw, deliberate... all those things. Every song on the album gels, individually the songs are good, but taken collectively in one listen this is one awesome album. I especially love the pointed musical trilogy of Quinella Holiday, Loves On Sale and If Ned Kelly Was King, just fantastic. The slow thumping bass riffs of Burnie are haunting, Written In The Heart explodes with the Oils jagged edge of Moginie/Rotsey, Armistice Day & Lucky Country dispell myths with that powerful anthemic spell, and Don't Wanna Be The One just rocks. I could go on and on. I dug this album in 81, and I still do now in 99 - it's the Oils white-hot with passion.