10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 is the fourth studio album by Midnight Oil that was released on vinyl in 1982 under the Columbia Records label. It peaked at No. 3 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart and remained on the chart for 171 weeks. In October 2010, the album was listed in the top 30 in the book, "100 Best Australian Albums" with 1987's "Diesel and Dust" at No. 1. In July 2011, the album was listed in Triple J Hottest 100 Australian
The Black Riders and Other Lines years." Amy Lowell, however, found these themes reflective of Crane's own struggle with belief: "He disbelieved it and he hated it, but he could not free himself from it... Crane's soul was heaped with bitterness and this bitterness he flung back at the theory of life which had betrayed him". Elbert Hubbard, who had encouraged Crane's unusual poetry, was impressed by their unconventional structure: "The 'Lines' in "The Black Riders" seem to me wonderful: charged with meaning like a storage battery. But there is a fine defy in the flavour that warns the reader not to take too much or