Building Bridges (1989 album)


Building Bridges is an Australian compilation album containing tracks from both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal performers inspired by a 1988 community concert called Building Bridges. The vinyl album was released in 1989 to raise money for the National Coalition of Aboriginal Organisations. It includes songs sung in Aboriginal languages. The vinyl album was released by CAAMA Music and distributed by CBS in 1989, followed by a CD album released by ABC in 1990. It reached #47 on the Australian album charts and may have symbolised "the embrace of indigenous rock by the mainstream". The original double-vinyl release features twenty-seven tracks while the later CD release features nineteen.

Track listing

  1. Special Treatment – Paul Kelly
  2. Gudurrku – Yothu Yindi
  3. Justice Will Be Done – Les Shillingsworth
  4. Solid Rock – Goanna
  5. Birth Of A Nation – Wild Pumpkins At Midnight
  6. Breakneck Road – Hunters & Collectors
  7. Yil Lull – Joe Geia
  8. Warakurna – Midnight Oil
  9. Woma Wanti – Areyonga Desert Tigers
  10. Strychinine – Swamp Jockeys
  11. That Hanging Business – Do-Re-Mi
  12. Injustice – V. Spy V. Spy
  13. Hungry Years – Weddings Parties Anything
  14. Do It Rite – Cal Callaghan
  15. Bad Blood – The Stetsons
  16. Original Sin – INXS
  17. Broken Down Man – Scrap Metal
  18. Dancing In The Moonlight – Coloured Stone
  19. Heaven On A Stick – James Reyne
  20. Speak No Evil – Dragon
  21. Tjamu Tjamu – Ilkari Maru
  22. Mansion In The Slums – Crowded House
  23. Spirit Of The Land – The Gravy
  24. Bullant – Gondwanaland
  25. Swing For The Crime – The Saints
  26. Living In The Land Of Oz – Ross Wilson
  27. We Have Survived – No Fixed Address