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". It was initially issued in Australia with a bonus disk of interview material listed as containing 2 tracks ("Interview" and "Track by track") but the CD was divided into 30 tracks, dividing the interview up so that past albums and each track on "The Real Thing" gets a short discussion followed by snippet from the album or song being discussed. Later international releases had a bonus disk with videos of "Cemetery In My Mind" and "Redneck Wonderland". Like the band's previous live album Scream in Blue, it was not included in the ''Full Tank'' box set, but three of the four studio tracks appear on the b-sides disc of the ''Overflow Tank'' box set (the fourth is included on ''Full Tank'' as part of Capricornia).

Track listing

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) 3:32 (studio recording) # "Say Your Prayers" (Moginie) 4:27 (studio recording, first released on the album ''Liberdade - Viva East Timor'' in 1999) # "Spirit of the Age" (Garrett, Moginie) 3:11 (studio recording) # "Feeding Frenzy" (Garrett, Moginie) 6:02 – The Metro Theatre, Sydney (October 1994) # "Tell Me the Truth" (Garrett, Moginie) 3:36 – The Metro Theatre, Sydney (October 1994) # " The Dead Heart" (Garrett, Hirst, Moginie) 6:04 – The Metro Theatre, Sydney (October 1994) # "Tin Legs and Tin Mines" (Garrett, Gifford, Moginie, Rotsey) 4:43 – The Metro Theatre, Sydney (October 1994) # "Short Memory" (Garrett, Hirst, Moginie) 4:53 – The Metro Theatre, Sydney (October 1994) # "In the Valley" (Garrett, Hirst, Moginie) 3:31 – Sony Studios

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# "The Last of the Diggers" (Hirst) 4:19 (studio recording)

Personnel

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- lead vocals, harmonica *

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- bass, vocals *

Rob Hirst Robert George Hirst (born 3 September 1955) is an Australian musician from Camden, New South Wales. He is a founding member of rock band Midnight Oil on drums, percussion and backing vocals (sometimes lead vocals) from the 1970s until the band ...

- drums, vocals *

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- guitars, organ, harmonium, autoharp * Martin Rotsey - guitars

Additional personnel

* Chris Abrahams - piano, organ (on all live tracks) *Basheri - percussion (on MTV Unplugged tracks) *Sunil de Silva - percussion (on all other live tracks) * Charlie McMahon - Didgeridoo (on "The Dead Heart") Horns on "Say Your Prayers": *Stewart Kirwan - trumpet *Andrew Bickers - tenor saxophone *Anthony Kable - trombone

Charts

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Real Thing, The Midnight Oil live albums 2000 live albums