The Church

Ive Massively got in this awesome 1980's autralian new wave band

i dont like much of there stuff from the 90's forward. but the 80's albums (after there post punk stage)are awesome music. which sounds a bit like the jesus and marychain/echo and the bunnymen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-mQyRuHIuA

You might find intresting in this track, the solo isnt a bagpipe, but a Ebow solo on a jazzmaster! and its a song about the melweg in holland

anyone else a fan?

I've always liked Under The Milky Way

appreciates. nice to hear lead singers who aren't first tenors bordering on alto.

yes i am. many years ago someone put milky way on a mixtape for me, and that was the song that was playing in my car when i was coming up on E for the first time. (i liked them before that too, mind)

couldnt be more disappointed when i saw a bullshit cover of this song on a car commercial a few months ago.

Car commercials ruin fucking everything!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7E1xcGgRzU

lincoln is the main offender. they've done this more than once. i will never buy a lincoln

There need to be laws against that shit!

  On 2/2/2010 at 8:28 PM, Fred McGriff said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7E1xcGgRzU

 

lincoln is the main offender. they've done this more than once. i will never buy a lincoln

that makes me sick the bone... Quick i must post a Good Church Song, with ultimate 80's Gated snare rushes!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9IRwVyQAc0

I played guitar in a band that opened for them sometime around 1998.

There was a very small crowd.

They didn't play "Under the Milky Way" at the show, despite it being their only big US hit.

I do remember enjoying their show though, despite them seeming like bitter jerks.

The guitar player was using one of those Roland midi pickups a lot to control synths.

and they think people like it. they ran an ad during the grammys letting the american people vote for their next song to butcher. man, fuck lincoln.

  On 2/2/2010 at 8:25 PM, Deepex said:

Car commercials ruin fucking everything!

Short but sweet. You are so right

man i love the church. actually just lastnight i was asking my girlfriend if many australian bands got international coverage.

my personal favourite albums are heyday and the blurred crusade. fuck, i love australian 80s music! i might just start a thread.

I love Under the Milkyway, is it really about the Melkweg? That would ruin it somewhat for me.

About 5 years ago I had a very haunting dream that heavily featured the song and I was in a daze for a couple of days, spent the first day after the dream almost entirely biking around the woods listening to that track.

The Church were one of my favourite bands back in the 80s!

They're one band I never ever thought I'd see discussed here. (Even thought I suppose it fits in a way considering their textural noodlings especially on Seance and Kilby's solo work.)

Blurred Crusade, Seance and Remote Luxury were all massive teenage touchstones for me. Still have a hard time getting with Heyday, though - probably one of my favourite album covers of all time, but the production drives me nuts, I find it hard to listen to.

But honestly, people who go all "Oh, I love Under The Milky Way..." but don't know any further are the "Ooh, Aphex Twin, I love them, really into Windowlicker..." of the paisley underground. Sigh. {/snob}

reckon we arent anywhere near a paisley undeground forum though so maybe just take what you can get

Regardless of genre, saying "Ooh, I love the ONE TOP 40 HIT of ::cult band with huge back catalogue and obsessive following::" is a sure way to piss any music fan off.

Just sayin' like.

good. the genre that this messageboard focuses on is far superior to all other music genres, so those other fans deserved to be pissed.

lol, seems vaguely familiar but I don't specifically hearing under the milky way before, not a bad song. despite the dreamy guitar work and uber croon vocals, I found it most interesting how little low end their seemed to be in the track.

guys im pretty sure that new guy troon said he hates this band

be on the look out for him if he tries to post in this thread it could be bad news on your good times

sorry to interruppt

Never heard of them before. Under The Milky Way seems alright, but really they just kind of seem like bland new wave stuff...nowhere near the calibre of Echo and the Bunnymen/Jesus and Mary Chain judging from that track...

  On 2/2/2010 at 10:59 PM, Masonic Boom said:

Regardless of genre, saying "Ooh, I love the ONE TOP 40 HIT of ::cult band with huge back catalogue and obsessive following::" is a sure way to piss any music fan off.

 

Just sayin' like.

calm down sweetcheeks. gotta start somewhere!

  On 2/3/2010 at 6:13 AM, chenGOD said:

Never heard of them before. Under The Milky Way seems alright, but really they just kind of seem like bland new wave stuff...nowhere near the calibre of Echo and the Bunnymen/Jesus and Mary Chain judging from that track...

don't judge them from the one track, get some of their other stuff too!

I like that one track of theres, what was it? under milky ways tonight?

OK, clearly some edufication is needed around here. I wish there were better quality clips of their stuff on YouTube..

This is probably my favourite song (ignore the terrible 80s video) but it's kind of ruined by some wierd tape phasing in the video transfer process:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRpsneqQ_Ds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZT7p8jGyTA

GOD THEIR VIDEOS ARE JUST SO PAINFULLY BAD and the sound quality is naff but...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rI4_akDh-o

and OK, maybe I need to give Heyday another listen because I had forgotten how gorgeous this song is...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7q6oLvHOwU

p.s as Ivanova off Babylon 5 would say, call me sweetcheeks again and I'll space you out the nearest airlock!

yeah, i look like a dick for posting one of there most popular songs, even though i dont even like ''starfish'' all that much, everything before it is really good :) Seance and heyday are standout albums imo

  On 2/3/2010 at 2:48 PM, chris moss acid said:

yeah, i look like a dick for posting one of there most popular songs, even though i dont even like ''starfish'' all that much, everything before it is really good :) Seance and heyday are standout albums imo

Ha ha, no, you started the thread with Seance so I'm not gonna give you grief. ;-)

Starfish has its moments (Hotel Womb!!!) but it's far from their best album.

Do you not like Of Skins And Heart? I know you said you didn't like the early post-punk stuff, but that's got Is This Where You Live on it, which is pretty much the ground zero, for me, of that classic 80s Church sound!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbImnmQ_k08

It's funny though, how much of whether I like them or not is linked to which drummer played on the album. Even though they're not a particularly rhythmically focused band, I think it was just Richard Ploog's light hand on the kit that gave them the really airy quality I loved most - which is missing on the first album and the later stuff.