Editing Place without a Postcard (section)

==Background==
The band's third LP ''Place Without a Postcard'', released by [[Columbia Records|CBS Records]] in November 1981, was recorded in [[Sussex]] with English producer [[Glyn Johns]] ([[The Rolling Stones]], [[The Who]]) at a studio/barn on Johns' property.<ref name="ARDb">{{cite web |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927020538/http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/m/midnightoil.html |url=http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/m/midnightoil.html |title=Midnight Oil |last1=Holmgren |first1=Magnus |last2=Stenerlöv |first2=Carl-Johan |publisher=[[Australian Rock Database]]. Passagen.se (Magnus Holmgren) |archivedate=27 September 2012 |url-status=usurped |accessdate=12 February 2014 }}</ref><ref name="Howl">{{cite web |archiveurl=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20120726191200/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/14231/20120727-0512/www.howlspace.com.au/en/midnightoil/midnightoil.htm |url=http://www.howlspace.com.au/en/midnightoil/midnightoil.htm |title=Midnight Oil |publisher=Howlspace |editor=Ed Nimmervoll |editor-link=Ed Nimmervoll |archivedate=26 July 2012 |accessdate=22 January 2014 }}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Garrett said, "The main reason we travelled to Britain was that, at that time, the feeling was that the records
sounded better."<ref>{{cite magazine| magazine= Australian Musician | title=A Studio Tour| date=Winter 1998|page=13|issue=14}}</ref> Creative tensions between the band and Johns plagued the recording and the group were not totally happy with the outcome. Johns had an arrangement with [[A&M Records]] and they asked Midnight Oil to return to the studio to record material suitable for an American single release – the group refused and returned to Australia.<ref name="Howl"/> ''Place without a Postcard'' peaked at No.&nbsp;12 on the albums charts and related singles "[[Don't Wanna Be the One]]" (No.&nbsp;40) and "[[Armistice Day (song)|Armistice Day]]" reached the Top 40 in Australia.<ref name="Kent">{{Cite book |title=[[Kent Music Report|Australian Chart Book 1970–1992]] |author-link=David Kent (historian) |last=Kent |first=David |publisher=Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W. |year=1993 |isbn=0-646-11917-6 }}</ref> Cover and other photography by Robert Butcher.