as "[The Church's] signature track ... [which] caught them at their peak of guitar-fuelled creativity ... [it is] the elegiac centrepiece of the record ... sounded like an induction, with its soft, monkish keyboard washes and ringing guitar chords, but it never reaches the point of transition where one world gives way to the next ... possibly concerned with drugs, but it transcends any single setting or worldview". Track listing Charts Cover versions Sia recorded "Under the Milky Way" as a non-album single. It was released on 26 January 2010. In 2016, Metric released a cover of "Under the Milky Way" for AmfAR The Foundation for AIDS Research's benefit album The Time Is Now!. Strawpeople version Strawpeople recorded it for the album Broadcast (1994). It was released as a single and peaked at number 113 on the Australian singles chart in November 1995. References External links 1988 singles ARIA Award-winning songs The Church (band) songs Rock ballads 1987 songs Songs written by Steve Kilbey 1980s ballads