About "Forgotten Years"
"Forgotten Years" is a song by Australian rock band Midnight Oil, released in April 1990 as the second single from their seventh studio album, Blue Sky Mining (1990). The song peaked at No. 26 on the Australian Singles Chart, No. 1 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Chart and No. 11 on the Billboard Album Rock Chart.
The song was inspired by drummer Rob Hirst's grandfather and father's experience of war and how they said it was up to future generations to avoid wars in the future and not to forget how horrible wars are. The music video was filmed in Douaumont Ossuary, France.
Top songs by Midnight Oil
- Beds Are Burning
- Earth And Sun And Moon
- Forgotten Years
- Bedlam Bridge
- Short Memory
- Outside World
- Power And The Passion
- E—beat
- Best Of Both Worlds
- If Ned Kelly Was King
- Arctic World
- King Of The Mountain
- Hercules
- Mountains Of Burma
- Blue Sky Mine
- The Dead Heart
- Barest Degree
- One Too Many Times
- Truganini
- Antarctica
- Nothing Lost — Nothing Gained
- Blossom And Blood
- Redneck Wonderland
- One Country
- Surf's Up Tonight
- Star Of Hope
- Somebody's Trying To Tell Me Something
- What Goes On
- Sins Of Omission
- Us Forces
- Pictures
- Scream In Blue
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