Released on February 25th, 1990, Midnight Oil’s Blue Sky Mining
Because the band was in the strange position of suddenly being new to a massive alternate audience, it’s no surprise that Blue Sky Mining sounds so close to its predecessor, and all indications seem to point to that being intentional. Prior to their American discovery, the band was a highly political, charged-up surf/punk/pop collective with a wide streak of experimentation hidden deep down (check out 1984’s Red Sails in the Sunset
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Puberty is bad. Very bad. If you didn’t know that then you haven’t been following Menudo at all. Menudo is a rotating cast of children that got fired when they reached puberty to keep the group young looking. It must have been great for the gaggle of kids that were in this band at one point or another to sing for a while and then have your dreams shattered when you got a little hair on the family jewels. They’ve had like 40 records or so – which I guess isn’t so hard when you’re simply a corporation. “Hold Me” was their only US hit and one of the voices on here is courtesy of the most famous of all members of Menudo, Mr. Ricky Martin.