[Matthew Cowdery]

Yes, definitely wrong.

Should be:

>From Brave Faces:
"I've known many restless summers the sand dunes I imagine
A place without a postcard"

>From Burnie:
"Brought up in the world of changes, part time cleaner in a holiday flat"

Matt

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From: <cherni@pipeline.com.au>
To: "Kate Parker Adams" <kate@dnki.net>
Cc: <powderworks@cs.colorado.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Powderworks] androporosphere


> Hi all,
>
> This is my first post to this list, so sorry if I ask/say/do anything
> obvious/stupid...
>
> I was just looking at the official website, (it looks like its been
> updated recently? When did that happen?), specifically the lyrics for
> Brave Faces and Burnie.
>
> From Brave Faces:
> "I've known many restless summons the sand dunes I imagine
> A place without a postcard"
>
> From Burnie:
> "Brought up in the world of changes, part time cleaner in a holiday feat"
>
> Does anyone else think these are wrong? I hope so, otherwise I've had a
> pretty bad case of mis-heard lyrics myself! Especially since that line
> from Brave Faces is one of my favorite lines.
>
> I had to go to a different location to pick up PWAP and check. The
> "Handwritten" lyrics on the CD sleeve are inconclusive, but
> on listening again I think the website is wrong. But now I'm like
> 20 minutes late for work....
>
> Chris
>
> PS Was reading lyrics for those two because I was going to put them
> in my top 5... but I can't pick just 3 more so have given up!
>
>
> > VERILY the official website sayeth unto the Powderworking cistern and
> > brethren with regard to Albums 7:7
> >
> > Girls are not smiling
> > The stars have gone out
> > The man with the landslide
> > Got his head in the ground
> > Like an unopened letter
> > Left under the door
> > He says I am the answer you're looking for
> >
> > Whoah - oh
> > Don't wanna see you back here again
> >
> > Above we dream in Andropovosphere
> > Who maintains the drunken machinery
> > Below we dream of a time
> > When those men come from West Point
> >
> > http://www.midnightoil.com/music/album-diesel.html#whoa
> >
> > It all comes together if you consider:
> >
> > The man with the landslide = Ronald Reagan and his friends referred to
his
> > 1984 victory as a landslide because they won the elections in nearly all
> > 50
> > states.  The reality was that Reagan was elected by a small plurality of
> > half of the eligible voters, but very evenly so across the
> > country.  Slightly more than 50% of 50% thus meant nearly 100% of the
> > electors.
> >
> > When those men come from West Point = West Point is the US Military
> > Academy
> > at West Point, New York. West Point is the source of much of the officer
> > corps and all the elite officers in the US Army.  Probably symbolic of
> > Reagan's saber-rattling "gunboat diplomacy" based on the projection of
US
> > military might around the world.  Sound familiar?
> >
> > Within this context, "Andropovosphere" holds up the Soviet component of
> > the
> > sort of on-the-brink-of-nuclear-war and escalating arms race madness
which
> > characterized the early and mid-1980s segment of the cold war era.
> >
> > This is the background material - the *real* meaning of whole or of the
> > rest is up to you *scary* folks to figure out, with electronic brickbats
> > if
> > necessary.  Anyone know why it is the seventh song of the seventh
> > album?  Must be symbolic of something! ;-)
> >
> > I love this place!
> >
> > Best,
> > Kate
> >
> >
> > At 02:32 PM 9/24/03 -0400, Bruce Robertson wrote:
> >>Greetings Scholarly Workers!
> >>
> >>I guess you do learn something new every day. In a classic case of
> >>mis-heard lyrics, I thought this term was 'Anthropodosphere' and read it
> >>as a reference to the earth, as a sphere inhabited and dominated by
> >>creatures roughly resembling human beings. I'm intrigued by the
reference
> >>to Andropov, and fear now I have probably misunderstood this song from
> >> the
> >>get-go. Time to give it another listen.
> >>
> >>bruce in calgary
> >>
> >>Kate Parker Adams <kate@dnki.net> wrote:
> >>It's "Andropovosphere" and it refers to a Yuri Andropov, very briefly
the
> >>leader of the Soviet Union in the 1980s prior to the Glasnost of
> >> Gorbachev
> >>and the collapse of communist rule. As I recall, Andropov was very
> >>reclusive and very possibly murdered, given the length of his tenure.
> >>
> >>At 12:31 PM 9/24/03 -1000, you wrote:
> >>
> >> >i am loathe to ask, because i know somewhere in the powdies deep dark
> >> past
> >> >this subject was covered, but does anyone know to what the
> >> >"androporosphere" refers?
> >> >
> >> >cheers,
> >> >joffa
> >> >http://www.jeack.com.au
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