THE CHURCH - Under the milky way REACTION - First time hearing

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  • @AudiophileTubes
    @AudiophileTubes 2 роки тому +10

    Incredible and timeless beauty! What an iconic song!

  • @ursulabklyn_mia6148
    @ursulabklyn_mia6148 2 роки тому +25

    This was and is my favorite style of 80s music. Really takes me back to a totally awesome time in my life.

    • @O_Towne_Bear
      @O_Towne_Bear 2 роки тому

      Then you must check out (if you don't already know it): The Grapes Of Wrath - "All The Things I Wasn't"

    • @susanmurray7654
      @susanmurray7654 Рік тому +2

      Peter Murphy's Cuts you Up

  • @captjeter2
    @captjeter2 2 роки тому +4

    listen to METROPOLIS by them , that song is great

  • @allisonreed7682
    @allisonreed7682 2 роки тому +14

    Harri this is one of my favorite songs of ALL time! So beautiful and atmospheric! 💙🖤💙🌌

  • @bfallingstar
    @bfallingstar 2 роки тому +2

    The instrument you were thinking sounds like bagpipes is called a Synclavier It was an early digital synthesizer that could do a sort of sampling. The band described the settings they used for that sound as a "backward African bagpipe" sound.

  • @racinnut77
    @racinnut77 2 роки тому +11

    This always take me back to the summer of '88. I've loving this song ever since and still listen to it regularly.

  • @JaneDoe-se8ku
    @JaneDoe-se8ku 2 роки тому +2

    Another great Aussie band!

  • @zoeherriot
    @zoeherriot 2 роки тому +4

    This is their most famous song - but they've released 25 albums and are working on a new one currently. They are often labelled as post punk, new wave, but they actually have a lot in common with some of the psychedelic bands of the 60's and 70's. As a band (although they apparently never met) The Cure and The Church cross influenced each other over the years - with Steve Kilbey (the bass player) also using the Fender Bass VI sound, and the cure "potentially" borrowing the chord structure of under the milky way for Love Song. Robert Smith invited The Church to play at Cureation (which they did) - but he had to leave during their set due to a family emergency.
    One of the most amazing things about the Church is the guitar work - I suspect Radiohead was somewhat influenced by the ethereal use of sustainers and Ebows.

  • @ronparsons8786
    @ronparsons8786 2 роки тому +4

    The church are underrated. Great music that stands up pretty well all these years later. Their music I would describe as atmospheric...
    Metropolis and reptile are also good songs, but my favorite of theirs is an unguarded moment such a great song

  • @dlbeal
    @dlbeal 2 роки тому +5

    Thank you, I love this song. it's a great driving song.

  • @derfzus1040
    @derfzus1040 10 місяців тому +1

    You are one of the very few best reactors of music and vids! So many pause the music every few seconds to comment and that is very annoying, at least to me. When those type of reviewers do that, I immediately quit viewing. Please keep up your method. p.s. I bought The Church CD years ago when I first heard this song.

  • @stephenulmer3781
    @stephenulmer3781 2 роки тому +2

    Reminds me of better times

  • @neumanmachine3781
    @neumanmachine3781 2 роки тому +2

    Thanks for reacting to this -
    My favourite band (my avatar is the cover of their 1983 album “Seance”. The reason that the song only got to number 22 is twofold- 1. The song was a slow burner in the charts here in Australia, it never made the top 20, but it stayed in the chart for months and months so sold a lot of copies over that time and stayed on high rotation on the commercial radio stations; and 2. The Church are mainly an albums band- the bigger part of their sales are albums rather than singles so the chart position for the single tends to underplay how popular it was at the time.

  • @LynnThompsonAuthor
    @LynnThompsonAuthor 2 роки тому +9

    I've always loved this song! So sublime.

  • @jrgarciab
    @jrgarciab 2 роки тому +3

    Ethereal. Beautiful. Thanks for reacting, Harri.

  • @oakhillfound847
    @oakhillfound847 2 роки тому +3

    One of the best Australian groups of all time. Very moody and sometimes sardonic.

    • @haydenwittig8877
      @haydenwittig8877 Рік тому

      Damn right look up Constant In Opal and Shadow Cabinet from 1984 from their REMOTE LUXURY LP.

  • @Kant19
    @Kant19 2 роки тому +12

    Oh love that you listened to this one. a classic of Australian Rock. Great composition and lyrics. Kilbey and the guys are subperb! The Church are still around and will release a new album this year (hopefully) - speaking of Australian bands... PLEASE react to The Go-Betweens - you will enjoy it :) cheers

  • @rscottus5454
    @rscottus5454 2 роки тому +1

    That..and they are not blinded by the rest of the worlds lights. I never realized how bad our light pollution is until flying from Vegas back to Wash DC.
    This song led me once..to a once in a life time experience with a younger sister....a meteor sure was that night. Not on great relations now..but then..woke her up at 2 am....took a few lounge chairs out...and just stared at the stars,and as the meteors came down. Was playing this song, softly...and we just watched, focused and could see the whole milky way, , and watched meteors burn up.
    Probably closest ever was to my sister.

  • @echopryme
    @echopryme 2 роки тому +1

    Quite possibly the best arrangement and mix of any song in the last 50 years! 💯💯💯

  • @michaellynch5254
    @michaellynch5254 2 роки тому +12

    love this song. just really cool sounding

  • @TheLaurkenGroup
    @TheLaurkenGroup 2 роки тому +5

    Bagpipes and 80’# New Wave music. Love it.

    • @zoeherriot
      @zoeherriot 2 роки тому +1

      that's actually a weird story... it's not bagpipes as such - it's a sample of African bagpipes playing backwards and played through a Synclavier and mixed with Ebow guitar.

    • @TheLaurkenGroup
      @TheLaurkenGroup 2 роки тому +3

      @@zoeherriot Funny you mention that. Not long after writing that comment, I watched an interview with the Church’s lead singer who’s name escapes me. He explained that when writing the song they were playing around with instruments to give the bridge a certain sound & they happened upon those African instruments that sound a lot like classic bagpipes. They create a unique sound that make unique song even more so.

  • @VivezMarcos
    @VivezMarcos 7 місяців тому +1

    As I heard this song here in Brazil... they were magical decades in music.

  • @peermenkens6622
    @peermenkens6622 2 роки тому +1

    Very important band.

  • @wayne_twentyfive
    @wayne_twentyfive 2 роки тому +8

    The Church had a number of reasonably successful songs on the Australian charts .. This song and their first single "The Unguarded Moment" are the ones they are best known for .. Please check out the latter .. It's a fantastic song and really showcases Steve Kilbey's distinctive voice .. Go Aussies !!

    • @Tully_23_32
      @Tully_23_32 2 роки тому +1

      I love Unguarded Moment, i play that song nearly daily on my play list, it's a great song & it's a song Harri should defs do next!
      Steve does have a distinctive voice but that's what 80's pub rock was all about, making a genre of our own. Singing like Aussie's was what the Aussie public wanted, something different, something of our own & unique. I know Aussie Crawl singer James Reyne was told to sing with the American accent coz they'll never make it in America with his Aussie voice, he pretty much told them to fuck off lol. I'm glad, we are too Americanised as it is, look at Acca Dacca. Yes Brian is a Pom but even he sang with an American accent & the world think they're American & are shocked when they find out they're from Australian

    • @wayne_twentyfive
      @wayne_twentyfive 2 роки тому +1

      @@Tully_23_32 You definitely know your Aussie music, Nat 👍 .. There were so many great singers and bands that we locals know and love, but got hardly any recognition overseas .. Bands like Sports ( Steven Cummings was another singer with a distinctive voice ), Paul Kelly and the Dots / Coloured Girls / Messengers, The Triffids, The Go-Betweens, etc .. The list is endless !

    • @Tully_23_32
      @Tully_23_32 2 роки тому +1

      @@wayne_twentyfive I love my 80's music & our 70's & 80's pub rock genre. I wasn't old enough to see them perform live but that was my music, that was our music that we grew up with & that we were proud of. We understood what they were singing about but the rest of the world didn't & i loved that coz our music is uniquely Aussie! Today's music i don't listen to, I'm not into rap crap.
      I went about 20yrs ago to the Horden with a group of mates to see Cold Chisel reunion tour.... I cried the whole concert coz i actually couldn't believe i was watching Cold Chisel live! The band i grew up thru my parents, my mates, all boys, were singing & dancing & crying aswell. It was the best night of my life, I'll never forget it, hope ya well mate & no "covid" floating around ur area lol, Nat 😊

    • @wayne_twentyfive
      @wayne_twentyfive 2 роки тому

      @@Tully_23_32 I love your patriotism, Nat .. Too many "woke" people seem to think it's great to put your own country down and attack it for whatever reason happens to be trendy at the time .. You are clearly proud of Australia, and I admire that.
      Like you, I managed to see Cold Chisel perform live ( at the 21st Century Hotel in Frankston, Melbourne ), and they were fantastic ! .. Saw a number of my favourite 70s and 80s Aussie bands at that venue .. Divinyls, Hoodoo Gurus, The Angels, and more.
      Yes, I'm healthy and well, and manging so far to avoid that damn Covid, which unfortunately is still floating around Melbourne, just like in Sydney ( where I assume you are from ) and everywhere else for that matter.
      Hope you are well too .. Thanks for the entertaining chat 👌 .. Wayne

  • @xH0TCH0C0L4T3x
    @xH0TCH0C0L4T3x 2 роки тому +2

    Love the Church...so many great songs. " Unguarded Moment" next...

  • @KAMUI138
    @KAMUI138 Рік тому +1

    The lead singer was propositioned after a show in Memphis Tennessee. And that was the catalyst for him doing this song. That's what the loveless fascination part is about. As for lower the curtain down on Memphis is about the ending of the show that night.

  • @taniaPBear
    @taniaPBear 2 роки тому +10

    Love The Church, and I do love this song, but one of their biggest hits was The Unguarded Moment, still one of my favourite songs ever. If you ever get a chance, give it a listen. Steve's voice is haunting. Great reaction Harri, thank you.

  • @MisterWondrous
    @MisterWondrous 2 роки тому +5

    Love this song, and it's pretty easy to play. A round of four similar chords, as I recall. Atmospheric.

  • @cmccracken5976
    @cmccracken5976 2 роки тому

    This song brings back memories of the late 80's

  • @mikefixx7177
    @mikefixx7177 2 роки тому +2

    This is a beautiful song and wish it would never end,

  • @susanmurray7654
    @susanmurray7654 Рік тому

    One of my all time favorite songs😊

  • @stevebarber8501
    @stevebarber8501 6 місяців тому

    Great band.

  • @itsme_mandyp
    @itsme_mandyp 2 роки тому +1

    In the 80s this was only played on MTV on "120 minutes" in the middle of the night...it was considered edgy and alternative...but man did I love it..this meant to be listened to in your teenage bedroom in the dark...

  • @sylvimichelle6447
    @sylvimichelle6447 2 роки тому +1

    Such a beautiful 😍 🎵!!💙🤍💙🤍

  • @johnsrensen3366
    @johnsrensen3366 2 роки тому +1

    I was a huge fan before this song i still hear churchs music today

  • @Katehowe3010
    @Katehowe3010 2 роки тому

    Talk Talk Harri! You were up for it my friend.

  • @Cosmo-Kramer
    @Cosmo-Kramer 2 роки тому +2

    Stellar choice, Best Of It Movies!!! One of my all-time favorite songs! Top 10, at worst Top 15. Just wondrous. Great reaction, guvnor!

  • @johnboehmer6683
    @johnboehmer6683 7 місяців тому

    A word jumped into my hat rack listening to this recently that seemed to describe this beautiful song well - "atmospheric." So i looked it up to see...
    atmospheric - creating a distinctive mood, typically of romance, mystery, or nostalgia.
    Pretty accurate for this... this song really gives me a feel of being out on a recently chilly, breezy, autumn night. It's cool enough someone nearby has an early fire going that gives off that great hickory smell, mixing perfectly with the cool, crisp air, the half-moon casting just enough light on just the few nearby clouds moving steadily, to give them a beautiful, illuminated multi-toned quality. Being in the country, with no city lights for miles, the rest of the star-filled sky is spectacular! As my wife and I continue to make our way home through the countryside, our eyes meet, just then the wind catching her beautiful long, black hair dramatically...her and I, under the milky way...😁...well, something like that anyway...
    When a song can transport you to a beautiful atmosphere like that, you've got a winner! And my best try at describing the intense feel of it didn't even come close to doing it justice...

  • @bhumanishaya
    @bhumanishaya 2 роки тому +1

    randomly searched to see if anyone has reacted to this - one of my favorites from this time - thanks!

    • @AudiophileTubes
      @AudiophileTubes 2 роки тому +1

      Me too! Was hoping there would be many reactions to this timeless wonder of a song!

    • @bhumanishaya
      @bhumanishaya 2 роки тому

      @@AudiophileTubes it probably will over time - it's probably not been reacted to buy others enough yet. But such a smooth song

  • @trufflehund
    @trufflehund 2 роки тому +1

    Good reaction. Beautiful outro. The Church live with George Ellis Orchestra "Psychedelic Symphony" takes on their 80s songs from a much more seasoned, contemplative and mature perspective. What they do with their own music orchestrally is very impressive. Try "Myrrh" and "Tantalised" is epic. BTW, why does no one react to Nick Drake?

  • @greghansell5115
    @greghansell5115 2 роки тому +1

    This is another one of those songs that I never get tired of listening to, no matter how many times its played. I have a very good friend from the Netherlands (though he is no longer with us) who was a fan of The Church. I believe they had a reasonable sized following in parts of mainland Europe including the Netherlands. I was never a hardcore fan, but I do remember seeing them live many years ago in a hotel on the northern beaches.

  • @cnocbui
    @cnocbui 2 роки тому +1

    This song takes me back; what a time musically in Oz and this one is so good. Something a lot of people living in the northern hemisphere who have never been to the southern hemisphere, likely wouldn't realise, is that the southern night sky is so much richer than in the north. The Milky Way, in particular, is full on in all it's spectacular glory. Australia is a dark continent at night, anywhere away from cities and their lights. This song always reminds me of the spectacular night sky above when travelling in a semi (lorry,truck) from Perth to Melbourne and the deep darkness of the Nullarbor in South Australia. Anyone who visits Oz should try and get far away from any towns or cities, just to look up, as ironically, one of the greatest sights in Australia, isn't in Australia.
    A great, under appreciated Australian band from the same time as this, you might want to check out, is Boom Crash Opera. The tracks 'The Best Thing' or 'Great Wall' would be good starters.

  • @bmiamiwai
    @bmiamiwai 2 роки тому

    one of my fav groups

  • @michaellynch5254
    @michaellynch5254 2 роки тому +2

    I always thought this song sounded like a Depeche mode song.

  • @futurereflections4097
    @futurereflections4097 26 днів тому

    Came up on recommended. Clicked because this might me my favorite album! The Church is awesome. Check out more from them! I suggest metropolis

  • @JMD1965
    @JMD1965 2 роки тому +1

    There is a Celtic rock band called 'Seven Nations' that does a version of this song with live bagpipes... Either version reminds me of those starry night concerts at the Highland Games

  • @Tully_23_32
    @Tully_23_32 2 роки тому +5

    Beautiful Aussie band with beautiful songs.
    The song was written by the lead singer about his ex-girlfriend. Also alot of Aussie bands back in the 80's sang with an Aussie accent instead of an English or American accent. Icehouse, Hunters & Aussie Crawl sang with Aussie accents aswell
    Edit: sorry I thought lead singer wrote it but i knew it was about an ex-girlfriend

    • @wayne_twentyfive
      @wayne_twentyfive 2 роки тому +1

      You were right .. It was written by the lead singer, Steve Kilbey, who was also the band's bass player .. Cheers, Wayne

    • @Tully_23_32
      @Tully_23_32 2 роки тому +1

      @@wayne_twentyfive Ta Wayne, i thought it was the lead singer, i didn't know he played bass aswell. I knew i read or watched it somewhere, so I'm not crazy....well maybe just abit crazy 🤣. Ta again mate, Cheers Nat! 😊

    • @wayne_twentyfive
      @wayne_twentyfive 2 роки тому +1

      @@Tully_23_32 My pleasure, Nat .. I couldn't let a fellow Aussie go on thinking they were wrong when they weren't ! 😁 .. Wayne

    • @Tully_23_32
      @Tully_23_32 2 роки тому +1

      @@wayne_twentyfive You're such a gentleman Wayne for letting me know i was right! Ta so much again Wayne! I love my fellow Aussie's, if we don't have each other backing us up then who do we have? Cheers again mate, Nat ☺️

    • @wayne_twentyfive
      @wayne_twentyfive 2 роки тому

      @@Tully_23_32 All good Nat 👍 .. You sound like a top notch person, so it makes me even happier that I was able to do something ( minor though it was ) to assist you .. Cheers, my Aussie friend !

  • @jonpopelka
    @jonpopelka 2 місяці тому

    Proper off the cuff reactions are few and far between. Big respect to you for doing it right, mate.

  • @douglastaggart9360
    @douglastaggart9360 Рік тому

    This was in the series miami vice and one of the best episodes, great song.

  • @moogdome2562
    @moogdome2562 2 роки тому +1

    Wow never heard this before. Must have been over the milky way. This should have been huge.enjoying your vids. Thank you, must learn it on guitar.

  • @mikecaetano
    @mikecaetano 2 роки тому +3

    Nice! "Under the Milky Way" was a top forty hit in the US for The Church back in 1988. The bagpipe sound comes from running a electric guitar through a Synclavier and then playing the guitar with an EBow device. I bought the album this song is from back when. Perhaps the paradox between where the song charted as a single and the accolades it received can be explained as the difference between the waning reach of singles in the late eighties compared with the waxing reach of albums.

    • @Cosmo-Kramer
      @Cosmo-Kramer 2 роки тому +1

      Kudos to you for using the words, "waning", and, "waxing", in describing a song about celestial bodies of the sky. lol Very nice, indeed.

  • @jgsheehan8810
    @jgsheehan8810 2 роки тому +1

    Great band, saw them at Corrimal NSW when we were all much younger 😄

  • @johndrum6613
    @johndrum6613 Рік тому

    Mate. Your are right. It is bagpipes playing. They got the idea from AC/DC (believe it or not) recording of "Long Way to the Top". The story is that the writer was making the choice to disconnect from Heroine. And more, there are place here where you can sit at night and just watch the Milky way pass over.

  • @madmogwai6098
    @madmogwai6098 2 роки тому

    Come to Australia brother, you will love it.

  • @TheLaurkenGroup
    @TheLaurkenGroup 2 роки тому

    Hi Hari…..love your authenticity & human realness. Would love for you to give your ears a treat with Ship of Fools by World Party. Also, Fresh Air by Quicksilver Messenger Service….Lastly, White Bird by Its A Beautiful Day . Enjoy!!!! Or as we said back in the day, “dig it”.

  • @alisonhammer5662
    @alisonhammer5662 2 роки тому

    Such a good song

  • @Pait728
    @Pait728 2 роки тому

    We had an alt cover band in college that did this song. I played the middle solo on a synthesizer with a modified bagpipe setting.

  • @naomit95
    @naomit95 7 місяців тому

    There’s a version of this song on a great Aussie movie called The Dry. I recommend it if you like Australia 2:55

  • @MrBiggles53
    @MrBiggles53 Рік тому

    Never heard this when it came out but 8-10 years ago by Band called Tearwave on an electronica channel.

  • @jamesfitzsimmons2392
    @jamesfitzsimmons2392 2 роки тому

    Great analysis…I live in Oz…it’s in the soundtrack of the new movie The Dry…set in OZ. Jim

  • @deanmaynard8256
    @deanmaynard8256 2 роки тому

    Ah! the soundtrack of my youth! We even used to dress like Kilby (paisley shirt and black jeans) Saw them live so many times. - Their song Reptile is a good one to check out next. They were just as big if not bigger in the UK than in Oz or US.

  • @nnoddy8161
    @nnoddy8161 Рік тому

    Maate, you need to check out The Triffids and The Go Betweens...some real hidden gems.

  • @gevlar
    @gevlar 2 роки тому

    Great song from a great era. I thought for a long time those were bagpipes.

    • @zoeherriot
      @zoeherriot 2 роки тому

      I thought so to - Its a sample of African bagpipes playing in reverse blended with a guitar played with Ebow.

  • @veerchasm1
    @veerchasm1 Рік тому

    Starfish is the greatest album ever

  • @jeffcobb2734
    @jeffcobb2734 2 роки тому

    This sounds like it might have inspired Oasis. I hear a lot of this song in "Wonderwall."

  • @jimilove7773
    @jimilove7773 2 роки тому

    Great 80's track! Ya should do Duran Duran ''Notorious'', or any other!

  • @brianh9358
    @brianh9358 2 роки тому

    I looked it up - they used a device called an E-bow with an electric guitar. I have no idea how it works to make a bagpipe sound but anyway here is some information about it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBow

    • @skanderfish3641
      @skanderfish3641 2 роки тому

      They used a Synclavier to achieve the bagpipe sound.

    • @brianh9358
      @brianh9358 2 роки тому

      @@skanderfish3641 Well supposedly that was recorded to a Synclavier - assuming the wikipedia entry is correct. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Milky_Way

    • @zoeherriot
      @zoeherriot 2 роки тому +1

      @@skanderfish3641 Yeah, it's actually a blend of the Synclavier playing an African bagpipes sample mixed with Ebow guitar. There's quite a few layers to it.

  • @debbiechang5781
    @debbiechang5781 2 роки тому +4

    This song has that 80’s Donnie Darko feel to it. Did it come from the movie? Nice pick!🌺✌️

    • @zoeherriot
      @zoeherriot 2 роки тому +2

      It was on the soundtrack, but was recorded in the 80's.

    • @douglastaggart9360
      @douglastaggart9360 Рік тому

      It was also in the series miami vice.

    • @pequalsa
      @pequalsa Рік тому

      Segments of it have also been in Prison Break, Scorpion, and the NFL has used it for outro/intro to commercial breaks, including a couple Super Bowls. It's a great song to create atmosphere in scenes.