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{{Use Australian English|date=August 2013}}
{{Infobox song
| name = Under the Milky Way
| cover = The Church Under the Milky Way single cover.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Australian region version
| type = single
| artist = [[The Church (band)|the Church]]
| album = [[Starfish (album)|Starfish]]
| B-side = * "Musk"
* "Warm Spell"
| released = {{Start date|1988|2|15|df=y}}<ref name=amr>{{cite web|url=https://i.imgur.com/UzJYOmX.jpg|title=Australian Music Report No 707 – 15 February 1988 > Singles: New Releases|publisher=[[Kent Music Report|Australian Music Report]]|via=Imgur.com|access-date=24 September 2019}}</ref>
| recorded = 1987
| studio = Los Angeles
| venue =
| genre = * [[Neo-psychedelia]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Milano|first=Brett|date=14 January 2023|title=The 25 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of All Time|url=https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/one-hit-wonders/|access-date=3 February 2023|publisher=uDiscover Music}}</ref>▼
▲* [[Neo-psychedelia]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Milano|first=Brett|date=14 January 2023|title=The 25 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of All Time|url=https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/one-hit-wonders/|access-date=3 February 2023|publisher=uDiscover Music}}</ref>
* [[Psychedelic music|psychedelia]]<ref>{{cite web|date=24 August 2015|title=The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9700-the-200-best-songs-of-the-1980s/?page=6|access-date=16 October 2022|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|page=6}}</ref>
* [[New wave music|new wave]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Abed|first=Cyrus|date=12 April 2022|title=33 Best New Wave Songs in the World|url=https://www.musicindustryhowto.com/new-wave-songs/|access-date=6 June 2022|website=Music Industry How To}}</ref>
| length = * {{Duration|m=4|s=05}} (Single Version)
* {{Duration|m=4|s=
| label = * [[Mushroom Records|Mushroom]]▼
▲* [[Mushroom Records|Mushroom]]
* [[Arista Records|Arista]]
| writer = * [[Steve Kilbey]]
* Karin Jansson
| producer = * [[Greg Ladanyi]]
* [[Waddy Wachtel]]
* The Church
| prev_title = Disenchanted
| prev_year = 1986
| next_title = [[Reptile (song)|Reptile]]
| next_year = 1988
| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|pWxJEIz7sSA|"Under the Milky Way"}}}}
}}
"'''Under the Milky Way'''" is a single by Australian [[alternative rock]] band [[The Church (band)|
In 2006, the song was remixed and released as [[Craig Obey]] vs the Church. It peaked at number 91 on the ARIA charts.<ref name="ARIA2">{{cite Ryan|page=207}}</ref>
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==Background==
In 1987,
The Church's line-up for the album was [[Steve Kilbey]] on bass guitar and lead vocals, [[Peter Koppes]] on guitars, [[Marty Willson-Piper]] on guitars, and [[Richard Ploog]] on drums and percussion.<ref name="McFarlane"/><ref name="Holmgren"/> However, while recording "Under the Milky Way", the band were unable to get a drum track which sounded right with Ploog, so they played to a [[click track]] and later session musician [[Russ Kunkel]] was brought in to add drums and percussion.<ref name="Lurie">{{cite book | first = Robert Dean | last = Lurie | title = No Certainty Attached: Steve Kilbey and The Church | location = [[Portland, Oregon|Portland OR]] | publisher = Verse Chorus Press | year = 2009 | page = 182 | isbn = 978-1-89124-122-2}}</ref>
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{{quote box|width=30em|border=1px|align=right|bgcolor=#c6dbf7|fontsize=85%|salign=right|quote=I just stumbled upon it and for some reason it has struck this wonderful sense of universality with people that most of my songs don't.|source=Steve Kilbey<ref name="bestsong"/>}}
"Under the Milky Way" features a [[Twelve-string guitar|12-string acoustic guitar]] melody, along with a solo composed with an [[EBow]] on a [[Fender Jazzmaster]] and recorded on a [[Synclavier]], leading to a sound reminiscent of bagpipes.<ref name="Lurie"/> In October 1990, Jansson told John Tingwell of ''Drum Media'' about songwriting with Kilbey, "it's a very spontaneous thing. It's not as if someone has put us together to write a hit song. It's more like sometimes when we write together, a song comes knocking on the door".<ref name="Tingwell"/> While in September 2008, Kilbey discussed the track with Iain Shedden of ''[[The Australian]]''.<ref name="bestsong"/>
Willson-Piper said, {{"'}}Milky Way' is perfect really, in the way that it crosses over from our {{nat|past records}}. It's still this very beautiful, textured song, which is what we write, but it doesn't challenge people to find out its deepest hidden meaning the way our other songs have in the past."<ref>{{cite magazine| magazine= [[Smash Hits]], Australian edition | title="I wear a purple satin cloak!"|author=Andy Fife | date=18 April 1988}}</ref>
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|publisher=ABC Enterprises |location=[[Sydney]], New South Wales |isbn=0-7333-0115-0}}</ref>
In 2006, Kilbey said of the recording, "It's actually flat lifeless 'n' and sterile. Great song, sure, but the performance, the sounds are ordinary. We coulda got that in Australia in a week or two for a 20th of the money we spent. Hey, it's sold almost a million in the US alone, but we'll never see any money 'cause it cost so much to make".<ref name="Jenkins">{{cite book | title = Molly Meldrum Presents 50 Years of Rock in Australia | last = Jenkins | first = Jeff | last2 = Meldrum | first2 = Ian "Molly" | author-link2 = Molly Meldrum | chapter = 40 Great Australian Songs | page = 301 | year = 2007 | publisher = Wilkinson Publishing | location = Melbourne, Vic | isbn = 978-1-921332-11-1 }}</ref> Kilbey's assessment ignored its second life as a much-licensed track. In December 2011, he told [[News Limited]] reporter Cameron Adams:
:"There is almost nothing, except for maybe a cigarette ad, I'd say no to 'Under the Milky Way' being used for [...] It was used for a car advertisement in America, very lucratively for me. You'd think people would think it's been overused, but the more it's used the more people seem to want to use it. I'm signing off all the time for TV shows or chocolate bars using it. Sure, have it, it's just a song, do whatever you like with it. You can hear it wasn't written for profit. It's an accidental song I accidentally wrote and accidentally became a single and accidentally became a hit. It's been a nice earner [...] I've written 2000 songs. Thank God one of them came through! [...] The others aren't pulling their weight. They sit and grumble about 'Under the Milky Way' and I say, 'Well, boys, go out and earn the same dough as that one'. I never see 'Under the Milky Way' – it's so busy out there working..."<ref name="Adams">{{cite news | url = http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/the-church-milk-their-own-song/story-e6frfn09-1226222283027 | title = The Church Milk Their Own Song | last = Adams | first = Cameron | date = 14 December 2011 | access-date = 11 August 2013 }}</ref>
In 2001, the song was featured
In October 2010, the Church's ''Starfish'' was listed in the top 40 in the book, ''[[100 Best Australian Albums]]''.<ref name="ODonnell">{{Cite book | title = [[100 Best Australian Albums]] | last = O'Donnell | first = John | author-link = John O'Donnell (music journalist) | last2 = Creswell | first2=Toby | author-link2 = Toby Creswell | last3 = Mathieson | first3 = Craig | author-link3 = Craig Mathieson | publisher = Hardie Grant Books | date = October 2010 | location = [[Prahran, Victoria|Prahran, Vic]] | pages = 106–107 | isbn = 978-1-74066-955-9 }}</ref> The authors, [[John O'Donnell (music journalist)|John O'Donnell]], [[Toby Creswell]] and [[Craig Mathieson]], described "Under the Milky Way" as "[The Church's] signature track ... [which] caught them at their peak of guitar-fuelled creativity ... [it is] the elegiac centrepiece of the record ... sounded like an induction, with its soft, monkish keyboard washes and ringing guitar chords, but it never reaches the point of transition where one world gives way to the next ... possibly concerned with drugs, but it transcends any single setting or worldview".<ref name="ODonnell"/>
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== Cover versions ==
{{Infobox song
| name = Under the Milky Way
| cover = Under the Milky Way by Sia (cover).jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = [[Sia]]
| album =
| released = {{start date|2010|01|26|df=y}}
| recorded = 2009
| studio =
| venue =
| genre =
| length = {{duration|m=3|s=34}}
| label = Rhino Records ([[Warner Music Group]])
| writer = * [[Steve Kilbey]]
* Karin Jansson
| producer =
| prev_title = [[You've Changed (Sia song)|You've Changed]]
| prev_year = 2009
| next_title = [[Clap Your Hands (Sia song)|Clap Your Hands]]
| next_year = 2010
}}
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* {{MusicBrainz release group|id=cb6b3f99-eed0-3b2a-9fc1-3664d025f54c|name=Under the Milky Way|type=single}}
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[[Category:1987 songs]]▼
[[Category:1988 singles]]
[[Category:The Church (band) songs]]▼
[[Category:Arista Records singles]]
[[Category:ARIA Award-winning songs]]
▲[[Category:The Church (band) songs]]
▲[[Category:1987 songs]]
[[Category:Songs written by Steve Kilbey]]
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