#94 – Midnight Oil – “Beds Are Burning” – (1987)

Midnight Oil is an Australian band – if you can’t quite place the weird accent at the beginning (or in the rest of) the song. This song, from Diesel and Dust, charted at #17 on the Hot 100 in the U.S. and it is their biggest hit and likely the only one most Americans know. The chorus is fairly well known, “How can we dance when our Earth is turning / How can we sleep while our beds are burning.”