OFF: Sputnik Stan is Evil!

[M Holmes]

Andy Gilham writes:

> > Now that's what I call a coincidence! My mate Stan keeps buying me
> > drinks all the time too - "have another one buddy, good for yer
> > soul!" he sez and hands me another beer.  I am inclined to think
> > there's something MORE than a coincidence going on here! I think my
> > pal Stan may be some kind of hideous personification of EVIL leading
> > me on to TEMPTATION! And we all know where THAT one-way ticket of
> > temptation leads.

> So d'you reckon when Slade made that record, "My Frend Stan", it was
> really about...  STAN?!?

Hawkwind's "Sputnik Stan" could be some sort of symbolic message
concerning the evil of Stan. Let's have a closer look at the lyrics


> They call me Sputnik Stan

As everyone knows, the first part of summoning demons is naming them.

> I view the Earth from a garbage can

Clearly a reference to Hell.

> I'm in Earth's orbit

Of course he is. He's inside the Earth.

> It's a junkyard, man

Where human "junk" is collected?

> It's just a job,
> I'm a satellite junkman

This is transparently referring to Stan's method of spreading evil
through drugs.

> They call me Sputnik Stan
> Spaceways maintenance man

"Maintenance man" - absent fathers. A reference to Stan's plan to split
up families.

> I see a satellite about to fade

A soul about to fall.

> Got to collect
> Weigh it in and get paid

30 pieces of silver?


> My name's Stan
> I've been commissioned
> By the Alien Federation

A reference to God, who commissioned Stan to do this job.

> To collect all this junk
> Floating around in space
> So don't you go nicking it
> 'Cause it's all mine

Can a soul, once harvested by Stan, be stolen from him?

Mike "Get behind me Stan" Holmes