I’ve always liked the song Beds Are Burning by the Australian rock band Midnight Oil. The Oils have a unique sound that caught me early on, listening to Chicago’s WXRT radio that my dad has running whenever there’s a stereo with power.
Right, then. Let’s start with the original.
Now, in 2004, a europop group covered it:
This is a nice cover from an English South African band- the song is very apropos.
A “French Hardcore Band” called Black Bomb A also did a cover. I think they pull it together nicely by the end of the start, but at the very beginning, if they’re wrong, I most certainly want to be right.
Antiflag does a sweet acoustic version at an Aussie radio station; skip ahead to 1:30 if you don’t want to hear radio banter beforehand:
And from later in the day, the event that Antiflag was talking about:
I think that’s quite enough, don’t you?
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