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The Church — Under The Milky Way
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treatment_bound
(Duluth to Madison)
Posted: May 21, 2013 - 07:16
 
 Proclivities wrote:

These guys were from Australia, not America.
 

CRIKEY!!

Proclivities
(Paris of the Piedmont)
Posted: May 21, 2013 - 07:13
 
 joempie wrote:
It's pretty much MOTR American Indie Radio Pop, but it is very well done and it has this subtle melancholy. 8.

 
These guys were from Australia, not America, but I agree that the song is well done and subtly melancholy.

joempie
(Switzerland)
Posted: Apr 19, 2013 - 23:55
 
It's pretty much MOTR American Indie Radio Pop, but it is very well done and it has this subtle melancholy. 8.

kaybee
(Lost in the Wilds of Toronto)
Posted: Mar 19, 2013 - 20:27
 
 rashad wrote:
The bagpipes delineate this arrangement's Australian-ness. It's nothing to do with Scotland, all about dissonance. Fits right into the Australian psyche, a terror of doing anythng that could be construed as sounding "nice" or "gentle". You just have to look at Australian cinema, its what makes us the violence-porn centre of the Universe.
(ok, /long-bow-drawing off...)
 
That's an interesting take, Rashad.  I love this song more every time I hear it...I just wish they had done something better than that yes, very dissonant bridge.   Then I would have given it a 10.  The rest of the piece is just magical though, so it goes from 8 to 9.

random1
(BC Coast)
Posted: Mar 19, 2013 - 12:45
 
Porcupine Tree 'Trains' into The Church 'Under the Milky Way'.... RP you just made my day (again)....{#Music}

Dav3thedog
Posted: Mar 09, 2013 - 00:01
 
Classic Church! Love those bagpipes.
kcar
Posted: Feb 25, 2013 - 22:50
 
 Hannio wrote:

A little sackbutt, perhaps.  Or maybe some krumhorn.  Personally, I love the pipes.  Stirs up something lurking in the blood.  Something the sassenach wouldn't understand.
  
rdo wrote:

{#No}   More sackbutt is never a good thing.
 
Sackbuts are played in the final and lowest circle of Hell.
 
Krumhorns? Truss Dept. of Quad Cities Medical Supplies. Fred Garvin's sexytime music:

Fred Garvin, male prostitute with pimp and client 

Biscobret
(Vashon, WA)
Posted: Jan 25, 2013 - 15:09
 
Thank you for the rare PSD moment, Bill.

Bobert_ParkCity
(Oakland Hills)
Posted: Jan 15, 2013 - 20:28
 
This song is used to great effect in Donnie Darko.

pontfarrer
(Sudbury, Ontario)
Posted: Dec 15, 2012 - 11:00
 
This song takes me back to my CFNY days !!!!   Always enjoyed this tune ... thanks RP  :-)

Biscobret
(Vashon, WA)
Posted: Nov 27, 2012 - 11:41
 
Could not be more BLAH!

kysmet
(Central Florida)
Posted: Nov 27, 2012 - 11:40
 
 Biscobret wrote:
God I hate this song - IDK why. 

    nails___
chalkboard
 
God I love this song!

rdo
(DC)
Posted: Nov 03, 2012 - 14:43
 
 Hannio wrote:

A little sackbutt, perhaps.  Or maybe some krumhorn.  Personally, I love the pipes.  Stirs up something lurking in the blood.  Something the sassenach wouldn't understand.
 
{#No}   More sackbutt is never a good thing.

ycb661
Posted: Sep 29, 2012 - 17:24
 
like this song - but it makes me think my phone is ringing

Biscobret
(Vashon, WA)
Posted: Sep 25, 2012 - 15:25
 
God I hate this song - IDK why. 

    nails___
chalkboard

4merdj
(donde el viento se devuelve)
Posted: Aug 11, 2012 - 16:51
 
Nice segue from Porcupine Tree to this tune ... this gewurztraminer goes *very* well with the homemade pizza ... cheers! {#Cheers}

Bobert_ParkCity
(Actually, No longer in Park City Utah)
Posted: Jul 11, 2012 - 06:26
 
Funny, I turned RP on as the Porcupine Tree song "Trains" was ending, with the notes I heard my mind segued right into this song and Voila!

eswiley2
Posted: Jul 11, 2012 - 06:25
 
 Larry_Rosenow wrote:
Disagree......play it again and again, RP.
 

Yepperdoodles!!!

Larry_Rosenow
(Bend, OR)
Posted: Jul 08, 2012 - 10:53
 
Disagree......play it again and again, RP.

westslope
(BC coast)
Posted: Jun 27, 2012 - 08:02
 
 Zep wrote:
Way way overplayed here at RP.
 
...{#Naughty}  

westslope
(BC coast)
Posted: Jun 27, 2012 - 08:00
 
 fredriley wrote:

.....  Sadly, due to light pollution, it's hard to see the Milky Way in all its galactic glory from urban locations, but if you do manage to get to a place where it's truly dark - I mean, so dark that you can see nothing at all at night, not even the hand in front of your face - then the starry sky is an absolute revelation, a thing of neck-straining wonder.

That's a big attraction for backcountry and wilderness travellers.  Star-light nights so bright they look like the milky way will burst.

 



Zep
Posted: Jun 23, 2012 - 06:29
 
Way way overplayed here at RP.

dw
(PHill, CA)
Posted: Jun 19, 2012 - 15:58
 
 {#Dancingbanana}dw wrote: 
I never get tired of this and many other '80s tunes. And if they are bagpipes...bring 'em on!
 



rashad
(Melbourne, Australia)
Posted: Jun 09, 2012 - 14:11
 
The bagpipes delineate this arrangement's Australian-ness. It's nothing to do with Scotland, all about dissonance. Fits right into the Australian psyche, a terror of doing anythng that could be construed as sounding "nice" or "gentle". You just have to look at Australian cinema, its what makes us the violence-porn centre of the Universe.
(ok, /long-bow-drawing off...)

Robbiem65
Posted: Jun 06, 2012 - 17:25
 
An Australian classic. Reminds me of jumping around to this with friends south of Sydney on a hot & humid night on New Year's Eve in 1998. Wonderful memories.

coloradojohn
(A Mile High and then some, Cherry Creek, Denver)
Posted: May 26, 2012 - 11:10
 
Never get tired of this, for sure...and here's hoping the set bends toward a mind-grooving path after!

nossytube
Posted: May 14, 2012 - 08:13
 
Bagpipes do good!

rockstarbro
(Up and to the right. A little higher. A little to the left. Ahhh... that's it. RIGHT THERE!)
Posted: May 02, 2012 - 06:36
 
Right now.. for the next three minutes and 12 seconds I'll happily be under the Mute Button Way.

Hannio
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Apr 20, 2012 - 17:26
 
 cohifi wrote:

Needs more Clarinet, maybe ?
 
A little sackbutt, perhaps.  Or maybe some krumhorn.  Personally, I love the pipes.  Stirs up something lurking in the blood.  Something the sassenach wouldn't understand.

On_The_Beach
(The Blue Planet)
Posted: Apr 07, 2012 - 01:23
 
 Ghiaap wrote:
Love the tune, hate the bagpipes!
 
I've got a FEVER, and the only prescription is more BAGPIPES! (OK, it's a stretch.)

TerryS
(Another SW)
Posted: Mar 31, 2012 - 13:37
 
 srose96 wrote:


it's called a planetarium..
 
Nope, under the Milky Way is a Mars Bar.

LongGoneDaddy
Posted: Mar 06, 2012 - 09:11
 
 srose96 wrote:


it's called a planetarium..
 

plane-arium...



nickypoos
Posted: Mar 03, 2012 - 14:22
 
Trigger happy tv !!

dw
(PHill, CA)
Posted: Mar 03, 2012 - 14:17
 
I never get tired of this and many other '80s tunes. And if they are bagpipes...bring 'em on!

cohifi
(Denver)
Posted: Feb 28, 2012 - 21:15
 
 Ghiaap wrote:
Love the tune, hate the bagpipes!
 
Needs more Clarinet, maybe ?

Ghiaap
(Haarlo, The Netherlands)
Posted: Feb 21, 2012 - 07:42
 
Love the tune, hate the bagpipes!

kaybee
(Lost in the Wilds of Toronto)
Posted: Feb 17, 2012 - 15:45
 
 Carl wrote:

Agree with your sentiment, totally. In my youth, I used to come home from my 2nd shift job in the middle of Nowhere Nebraska, lay on my trampoline in the back yard and contemplate the wonders of the universe under the Milky Way in total darkness. Every now and than, there would be an aurora to add wonderment. Now, I need to escape to western mesas to get that great experience, and sadly that doesn't happen much.

 
Your comment reminds me of one of my earliest memories.  I grew up on a farm outside of Toronto and one winter evening, my parents and I walked up to a neighbour's farm for a visit before Christmas.  It was a cold moonless night and the Milky Way was laid out in all its splendour across the sky. 

It was so cold (for winters in Ontario were a lot colder then) that you could hear the atmosphere ringing. For the longest time since then, I  thought  that was what they meant by the "singing of the spheres".




MiracleDrug
(Earth)
Posted: Feb 17, 2012 - 06:42
 
 Proclivities wrote:

I liked that when I first heard this song upon its release, and it doesn't leave me wondering.  It's always worked perfectly to me.

 

that's probably my favorite passage in the song... it sets up the final choruses just. right.

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Feb 03, 2012 - 16:49
 
 sronis wrote:
you mean the bagpipes or whatever that is that suddenly appear midway into the song and leaves you wondering "what the hell"? so true.
 
I liked that when I first heard this song upon its release, and it doesn't leave me wondering.  It's always worked perfectly to me.


Egrey
(WASH, DC)
Posted: Feb 03, 2012 - 16:46
 
 pollyh wrote:
what a great transition—porcupine tree to this...perfect. bill, i heart you. 
 


I second that!

echo_osbourne
Posted: Jan 20, 2012 - 13:45
 
Nice transition from the Wailin' Jennys' Starlight!

pollyh
(Redmond WA)
Posted: Jan 02, 2012 - 21:48
 
what a great transition—porcupine tree to this...perfect. bill, i heart you. 

srose96
(grandma's house)
Posted: Dec 27, 2011 - 10:21
 
 fredriley wrote:

Nice pic, worth a bump. Sadly, due to light pollution, it's hard to see the Milky Way in all its galactic glory from urban locations, but if you do manage to get to a place where it's truly dark - I mean, so dark that you can see nothing at all at night, not even the hand in front of your face - then the starry sky is an absolute revelation, a thing of neck-straining wonder.

 



it's called a planetarium..

Carl
(The Summit City)
Posted: Dec 15, 2011 - 19:42
 
 fredriley wrote:

Nice pic, worth a bump. Sadly, due to light pollution, it's hard to see the Milky Way in all its galactic glory from urban locations, but if you do manage to get to a place where it's truly dark - I mean, so dark that you can see nothing at all at night, not even the hand in front of your face - then the starry sky is an absolute revelation, a thing of neck-straining wonder.

 
Agree with your sentiment, totally. In my youth, I used to come home from my 2nd shift job in the middle of Nowhere Nebraska, lay on my trampoline in the back yard and contemplate the wonders of the universe under the Milky Way in total darkness. Every now and than, there would be an aurora to add wonderment. Now, I need to escape to western mesas to get that great experience, and sadly that doesn't happen much.


Frater_Kork
(Uppsala, Sweden)
Posted: Dec 12, 2011 - 03:28
 
 kaybee wrote:
I wish there was a way to rate parts of songs.  Most of this song is really growing on me and could easily be a 9. . . but that annoying bridge is only worth a 5!
 
I agree in a way.. Fantastic song worth a 9. Lazy production to use sampled re-pitched bagpipes instead of the real deal though.


Byronape
(Snorkeling in the River Styx)
Posted: Nov 14, 2011 - 02:59
 
 fredriley wrote:

Sadly, due to light pollution, it's hard to see the Milky Way in all its galactic glory from urban locations, but if you do manage to get to a place where it's truly dark - I mean, so dark that you can see nothing at all at night, not even the hand in front of your face - then the starry sky is an absolute revelation, a thing of neck-straining wonder.

 
That is one of the things I miss about back home.  It's so far in the sticks that it gets black as black gets on moonless nights.  It was actually so dark that my countryishsuburban born wife got freaked out about it.  But the stars...

I used to lay on the roof of my parents house on chilly fall nights when the sky was clear and the stars so bright that you could almost see them with your eyes closed.  Add in the rustle of leaves in the breeze, the fresh and crisp scent of the air, and an absolute lack of human made noise and you have paradise to me.



vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: Nov 02, 2011 - 19:34
 
 Stratocaster wrote:
Great song, always stops me from what I am doing... to close my eyes and listen....
 
bump
 

tooms
(Cleveland)
Posted: Oct 31, 2011 - 13:00
 
I hope my bag is filled with Milky Way tonight!

Happy Halloween........

badgerdano
(Madison WI)
Posted: Oct 28, 2011 - 19:36
 
Caught these guys last year in Madison WI. True story, a large meteor was seen across southern Wisconsin that very night and it coincided with the time the band was playing. Maybe this song. Who knows?

It made the national news it was so bright and seemed to burst into many smaller meteors as it sped through the atmosphere.

Great show, great night.

Under the Milky Way indeed.
The Church 4-14-2011

The Church at the Majestic in Madison WI 4-14-2010



cohifi
(Denver)
Posted: Oct 28, 2011 - 19:25
 
Got my WILCO Tickets, TOO