{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=April 2015}} {{Infobox album | name = Flat Chat | type = compilation | artist = [[Midnight Oil]] | cover = Flatchatcover.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|2006|8|14|df=y}} | recorded = 1978–2002 | venue = | studio = | genre = [[Rock (music)|Rock]] | length = {{Duration|m=68|s=25}} | label = [[Sony BMG]] | producer = | prev_title = [[Best of Both Worlds (Midnight Oil album)|Best of Both Worlds]] | prev_year = 2004 | next_title = [[Essential Oils (Midnight Oil album)|Essential Oils]] | next_year = 2012 }} {{Album ratings | rev1 = [[AllMusic]] | rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r865283}}</ref> | noprose = yes }}
'''''Flat Chat''''' is a [[compilation album]] from the Australian rock band, [[Midnight Oil]]. It is a collection of their heavier rock songs, which gave them their reputation.<ref name="NLA 1">{{Citation | author1=Midnight Oil | title=Flat Chat | publication-date = 2006 | publisher = [[Sony BMG|Sony BMG Music]]. [[National Library of Australia]] | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/25207393 | accessdate = 15 April 2015 }}</ref> ''Flat Chat'' peaked at No. 21 on the [[ARIA Charts|ARIA Albums Chart]].<ref name="AusCharts">{{cite web|url=http://australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Midnight+Oil |title=Midnight Oil discography |publisher=Australian Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung) |first=Steffen |last=Hung |accessdate=13 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101029102343/http://australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Midnight+Oil |archivedate=29 October 2010 |df=dmy }}</ref>
The title is taken from a lyric in their 1982 song, "[[Power and the Passion (song)|Power and the Passion]]".<ref name="Chirgwin">{{cite news | url = https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/09/pine_gap_is_an_nsa_station_write_the_book/ | title = Snowden's Australian 'revelations' are old news | last = Chirgwin | first = Richard | work = [[The Register]] | publisher = [[Mike Magee (journalist)|Mike Magee]], John Lettice | date = 9 July 2013 | accessdate = 16 April 2015 }}</ref> The Australian [[slang]] expression ''flat chat'' is used for "at the limit of one's powers or resources" or "working or moving as fast as possible".<ref name="Flat-Chat">{{cite web | url = http://andc.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/ozwords_oct05.pdf | title = From the Centre | publisher = [[Australian National University]] | last = Moore | first = Bruce | page = 5 | work = Ozwords | date = October 2005 | accessdate = 15 April 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110409200400/http://andc.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/ozwords_oct05.pdf | archive-date = 9 April 2011 | url-status = dead }}</ref>
Of the 18 songs included in ''Flat Chat'', four had previously been included in Midnight Oil's compilation album ''[[20,000 Watt R.S.L.]]'' (1997), and twelve would later be included in Midnight Oil's most comprehensive compilation album, ''[[Essential Oils (album)|Essential Oils]]'' (2012).
==Track listing== #Only the Strong - 4:34 #Progress - 3:57 #Don't Wanna Be the One - 2:59 #Dreamworld - 3:35 #Hercules - 4:28 #Read About It - 3:56 #Section 5 (Bus to Bondi) - 3:00 #Cold Cold Change - 3:29 #Redneck Wonderland - 3:08 #Tell Me the Truth - 4:03 #Stand in Line - 4:48 #Pictures - 3:13 #Written in the Heart - 3:10 #Mosquito March - 3:07 #No Time for Games - 4:34 #Best of Both Worlds - 4:04 #Say Your Prayers - 4:25 #Run by Night - 3:55
==Charts== {|class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |- !scope="col"| Chart (2006) !scope="col"| Peak<br>position |- {{album chart|Australia|21|artist=Midnight Oil|album=Flat Chat|rowheader=true|accessdate=30 November 2018}} |- |}
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