80s Jams #47: The Church “Under The Milky Way" (1988)

Scoring a left-field pop hit in America might not have been the goal when Starfish was being recorded, but that's what "Under the Milky Way" did - even more impressively, with a strange, downright gloomy song musically and lyrically, rather different from what R.E.M.'s at-least tunefully upbeat "The One I Love" did for them. With a quiet acoustic guitar start - a bit of production effects making it sound almost lost and forlorn, much like Steve Kilbey's singing with it - the song then picks up a calm, steady energy to add a bit of subtle contrast. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:dvfixcw5ldke