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"Under the Milky Way" is a single by Australian alternative rock band the Church, released on 15 February 1988, [1] and appears on their fifth studio album Starfish. The song was written by bass guitarist and lead vocalist Steve Kilbey and his then-girlfriend Karin Jansson of Curious (Yellow) .
The US 7" had two tracks on the B-side, "Under the Milky Way (Acoustic Version)", and "Tantalized" in a 3:58 edit from the version on Heyday. [5] A US cassette single, playing all three tacks on both sides, was also released. [6] The same tracks appeared on the Canadian 7" release. [7]
The first single, "Under the Milky Way", charted on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #24, [3] and at #2 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, [4] leading to significant exposure of the then relatively underground Australian act. In Australia "Under the Milky Way" climbed to #22, [5] and Starfish reached #11 on the album charts. [6]
Singer, songwriter, and bass guitarist Steve Kilbey first played with guitarist Peter Koppes in a glam rock band called Baby Grande in Canberra, Australia in the mid-1970s. [5] [6] After each had left to travel and play in other bands, including Tactics (Kilbey) and Limazine (Koppes), they met again in Sydney in March 1980 and formed the initial three-piece version of The Church, with Limazine ...
The band performed the song, as well as "Under the Milky Way", for MTV Unplugged on 30 January 1990 at the National Video Center in New York City. The episode aired 18 March 1990. [ 14 ] An acoustic version was included on the 2004 album El Momento Descuidado .
After some success in their native Australia in the early 1980s, Kilbey and The Church went on to international fame when "Under the Milky Way", from the 1988 album Starfish, achieved success (Kilbey had co-written the song with Karin Jansson of Pink Champagne and Curious Yellow [12]). "Under the Milky Way" appeared in the top-selling singles ...
McLennan said of writing the song, "I was listening to 'Under the Milky Way' and I was just working it out–cause I'm a big fan of The Church. And that afternoon I came up with a chord progression and a chorus." [5] The song was written in McLennan and Amanda Brown's apartment in Bondi. Brown said, "It was written in, I would say, 10 minutes.
The Blurred Crusade is the second album by the Australian alternative rock band the Church, released in March 1982 by EMI Parlophone. [3] Moving away from the new wave leanings of their debut, it was stylistically more complex and "a smoother, fuller release". [3] "