Midnight Oil

[Powderworks] Capricornia connections

Jason Tattershall JasonT@selectcu.com.au
Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:48:33 +1100


Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think they've already done a Cane Toad cover
!
Only a single though, King of the Mountain with "NY Exonn" Instant Karma
B-Side.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jim Stanley [SMTP:jim_snappa@hotmail.com]
> Sent:	Monday, March 11, 2002 10:19 AM
> To:	powderworks@cs.colorado.edu
> Subject:	[Powderworks] Capricornia connections
> 
> 
> 
> Wobbegong is a kind of shark. Related to Leopard sharks, found around
> reefs 
> as well as a "sandy-bottom dweller". They're sometimes the exact colour of
> 
> sand and sightings are common here in Queensland. Yellow Box is part of
> the 
> Eucalyptus mob. "Prosperity Is Like The Tide" is a Fuzzface song, also the
> 
> name of a chapter from Capricornia the book. "Devilfish Shuffle " is an
> Oils
> 
> B-side, also a location in Capricornia the book is Devilfish Bay. Can
> anyone
> 
> else hear the background vocals in the chorus of Mosquito March? The
> chorus 
> in Been Away Too Long really reminds me of Weezer for some reason. I have
> a 
> feeling there might actually be a real place known as Luritya Way...but 
> there might not be, I dunno, I've never been those places (except in
> songs).
> 
> I think cows are quite symbolic of the European intervention in Australia.
> I
> 
> see cattle everywhere when I drive throught the bush. I imagine what the 
> hills and plains would have been like before they were stripped of trees. 
> Maybe this is a reference to consumers as cattle? Alot of the Capricornia 
> story centres around the Red Ochre cattle station and the cattle industry
> is
> 
> very important to these characters in the book, indeed is the cause of
> much 
> folly and headaches! This is 3 Midnight Oil albums in a row with an animal
> 
> on the front cover. I'm hoping for a Cane Toad to grace(!) the next album 
> cover! Capricornia rocks!
> 
> Jim.
> 
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