Midnight Oil Place without a Postcard Cassette

Insert has some wear.

Album Features
UPC: 074644614541
Artist: Midnight Oil
Format: Cassette
Release Year: 1990
Record Label: Columbia (USA)
Genre: Alternative, Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. Don't Wanna Be the One
2. Brave Faces
3. Armistice Day
4. Someone Else to Blame
5. Basement Flat
6. Written in the Heart
7. Burnie
8. Quinella Holiday
9. Loves on Sale
10. If Ned Kelly Was King
11. Lucky Country

Details
Playing Time: 41 min.
Producer: Glyn Johns
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (
Recording Type: Studio
Recording Mode: Stereo
SPAR Code: AAD

Album Notes
Personnel: Peter Garrett (vocals); Jim Moginie (guitar, keyboards); Martin Rotsey (guitar); Gisele Scales (violin); Rob Hirst (drums).Recording information: 06/1981-07/1981.Photographer: Robert Butcher.Midnight Oil went to England to record and turned to a major label (CBS Records) and a name producer (Glyn Johns) for its third full-length album. You might have expected this to make for a sonic breakthrough, but you'd be wrong. The band was experiencing growing pains, trying to stretch musically, and, at least at first, this made for a dilution of their hard rock focus moving toward a pop style they hadn't fully developed. Place Without a Postcard had its share of powerfully performed songs, but its sound was light compared to the band's first two albums, the stylistic experiments were not yet bearing fruit, and, with an emphasis placed on the vocals, Peter Garrett sounded overly strident. (Originally released in 1981 in Australia on CBS Records, Place Without a Postcard was re-released in 1990 in the U.S. on Columbia Records as Columbia 46145.) ~ William Ruhlmann