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The Church - Under The Milky Way (HQ music video) Play Video

The Church - Under The Milky Way (HQ music video)

Official promo music video for "Under The Milky Way" performed by The Church in HQ. Released on Arista Records. This video is posted courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment. "Under the Milky Way" is a 1988 song by...

The Church-Reptile Play Video

The Church-Reptile

(c) Arista Records 1988 From The Album Starfish,Made In Guthrie Theater (Minneapolis)

The Church, Lost My Touch Play Video

The Church, Lost My Touch

From the album "Sometime Anywhere"

Cobra Starship: The Church Of Hot Addiction [OFFICIAL VIDEO] Play Video

Cobra Starship: The Church Of Hot Addiction [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

© WMG 2006. Cobra Starship's video for 'The Church Of Hot Addiction' from their album, While The City Sleeps, We Rule The Streets, in stores now on Decaydance / Fueled By Ramen.

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The Church Biography

The Church is an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1980. Initially associated with new wave and the neo-psychedelic sound of the mid 1980s, their music later became more reminiscent of progressive rock, featuring long instrumental jams and complex guitar interplay. Founding members are Steve Kilbey on lead vocals and bass guitar, and Peter Koppes and Marty Willson-Piper on guitars, while Tim Powles has played on drums since 1994. Three of the members recorded material as The Refo:mation in 1997.

The Church's debut album, Of Skins and Heart (1981), delivered their first radio hit "The Unguarded Moment". They were signed to major labels in Australia, Europe and the United States. However, the US label was dissatisfied with their second album and dropped the band without releasing it. This put a dent in their international success, but they returned to the charts in 1988, with the album Starfish and the US Top 40 hit "Under the Milky Way". Subsequent commercial success proved elusive, however, and the band weathered several line-up changes in the early 1990s. The last decade has seen them settle on their current line-up. On 27 October 2010, The Church were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in Sydney.

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The Church Lyrics

The Church - Under The Milkyway Lyrics

Sometimes when this place gets kind of empty
Sound of their breath fades with the light
I think about the loveless fascination
Under the milky way tonight

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The Church - North, South, East and West Lyrics

A war's being waged and the world's just a stage in this city
The real estate's prime, the number plates rhyme, liquidity
Wear a gun and be proud, but bare breasts aren't allowed in this city
Dream up a scam and then rake in the clams, liquidity

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The Church - Welcome Lyrics

Camus and Tony Curtis and Donna Stone
Harry Houdini and Al Capone
Scipio Africanus, Leon Redbone
And Harold Flowers

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The Church - Reptile Lyrics

Too dangerous to keep
Too feeble to let go
And you want to bite the hand
Should have stopped this long ago

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The Church - The Unguarded Moment Lyrics

So hard finding inspiration
I knew you'd find me cryin'
Tell those girls with rifles for minds

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The Church - A New Season Lyrics

Shaded crystal water, bathed in by God's daughter
Sighing, whispers near, a new season passes here

Sensory gifts to all who come

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The Church - Almost With You Lyrics

See the chains which bind the men
Can you taste their lonely arrogance
It's always too late and your face is so cold
They struggled for this opulence

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The Church Discography

The Church albums.

  • Untitled #23 - 12/05/2009 (Second Motion Records/US)
  • El Momento Siguiente - 03/02/2007 (Liberation Music/AU)
  • Uninvited, Like the Clouds - (Liberation Music/AU)
  • El Momento Descuidado - (Liberation Music/AU)
  • Forget Yourself - (spinART Records/US)
  • The Blurred Crusade - 08/07/2002 (EMI Music Australia/AU)
  • Of Skins and Heart - 08/07/2002 (EMI Music Australia/AU)
  • Of Skins and Heart (bonus disc) - 08/07/2002 (EMI Music Australia/AU)
  • Seance (bonus disc) - 08/07/2002 (EMI Music Australia/AU)
  • After Everything Now This - (Cooking Vinyl/GB)
  • Heyday (bonus disc) - (EMI Music Australia/AU)
  • A Box of Birds - (Cooking Vinyl/GB)
  • Magician Among the Spirits Plus Some - (Cooking Vinyl/GB)
  • Heyday - (Zonophone/GB)
  • Hologram of Baal - (Cooking Vinyl/GB)
  • Bastard Universe - (Cooking Vinyl/GB)
  • Sometime Anywhere - (Arista Records/US)
  • Sometime Anywhere (bonus disc: Somewhere Else) - (Arista Records/US)
  • Priest = Aura - (Arista Records/US)
  • A Quick Smoke at Spot's - (Mushroom Records/AU)
  • Gold Afternoon Fix - (Arista Records/US)
  • Starfish - 16/02/1988 (Arista Records/US)
  • Seance - (Arista Records/US)

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