Midnight Oil - Spirit of the Age - Non-Album Tracks (1996-2002)

This is the last of four stray tracks albums from Midnight Oil. It covers the last years from the main part of the band's career. (The band has reunited since 2017.)

The songs come from a wide variety of sources. In 2000, the band put out an album called "The Real Thing." Three of the songs were new, full-band studio tracks, and the rest were acoustic versions. I've included the three new ones here. I plan on putting all the rest into an all-acoustic album instead.

Only one song, the medley "Advance Australia Fair - Birdman," is officially unreleased. (Not counting the bonus track, that is.) This song was played on a TV show and there's an excellent recording of it, so the sound quality matches the other songs.

The bonus track, "Stand Your Ground," is a Midnight Oil original. But it was only played a few times in concert, and the recording is from an audience bootleg that isn't very good. Thus I only included it as a bonus track.

01 Land [Australian Lyrics Version] (Midnight Oil)
02 Cemetery in My Mind [True Believers Blind Version] (Midnight Oil)
03 Heaven and Earth (Midnight Oil)
04 Dreams of Ordinary Men (Peter Garrett with Jimmy Barnes)
05 Speak No Evil (Peter Garrett)
06 Advance Australia Fair - Birdman [Instrumental] (Midnight Oil)
07 Pub with No Beer (Midnight Oil)
08 The Real Thing (Midnight Oil)
09 Spirit of the Age (Midnight Oil)
10 The Last of the Diggers (Midnight Oil)
11 No Man's Land (Midnight Oil)
12 Kiss that Girl (Midnight Oil)

Stand Your Ground (Midnight Oil)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16696654/MIDNGTOL1996-2002_SprttheAge_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo is of the band's lead singer Peter Garrett, in concert in 1996.