Somebody to Shove "Limited Edition UK 7" single" A. "Somebody to Shove" - 3:15 B. "By the Way (Demo)" - 3:44 Somebody to Shove "Somebody to Shove" is a song by the Minneapolis alternative rock band Soul Asylum, released in 1992. Issued as a single from the album "Grave Dancers Union" (1992), it reached number one on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and number nine on the Mainstream Rock Tracks in the US. The song was written by Soul Asylum's lead singer Dave Pirner. It was the first single from their album ("see Soul Asylum discography"). The music video for the song was
Beds Are Burning of a world audience of millions at the closing ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Prime Minister John Howard had triggered controversy that year with his refusal to embrace symbolic reconciliation and apologise to Indigenous Australians and members of the Stolen Generations. But he had also claimed that the reconciliation-themed "Beds Are Burning" was his favorite Midnight Oil song. The band played it dressed in black, with the word "Sorry" printed conspicuously all over their clothes, as a popular apology to indigenous people and to highlight the issue to Howard, who was in the audience as the ranking Olympic host.