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{{Short description|1988 single by the Church}}
{{For|the Australian television comedy series|Under the Milky Way (TV series)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2013}}
{{Infobox song
| name          = Under the Milky Way
| cover         = The Church Under the Milky Way single cover.jpg
| alt           = 
| caption       = Australian region version
| type          = single
| artist        = [[The Church (band)|the Church]]
| album         = [[Starfish (album)|Starfish]]
| B-side        = * "Musk"
* "Warm Spell"
| released      = {{Start date|1988|2|15|df=y}}<ref name=amr>{{cite web|url=https://i.imgur.com/UzJYOmX.jpg|title=Australian Music Report No 707 – 15 February 1988 > Singles: New Releases|publisher=[[Kent Music Report|Australian Music Report]]|via=Imgur.com|access-date=24 September 2019}}</ref>
| recorded      = 1987
| studio        = The Complex (Los Angeles)
| venue         = 
| genre         = * [[Neo-psychedelia]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Milano|first=Brett|date=14 January 2023|title=The 25 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of All Time|url=https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/one-hit-wonders/|access-date=3 February 2023|publisher=uDiscover Music}}</ref>
* [[Psychedelic music|psychedelia]]<ref>{{cite web|date=24 August 2015|title=The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9700-the-200-best-songs-of-the-1980s/?page=6|access-date=16 October 2022|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|page=6}}</ref>
* [[New wave music|new wave]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Abed|first=Cyrus|date=12 April 2022|title=33 Best New Wave Songs in the World|url=https://www.musicindustryhowto.com/new-wave-songs/|access-date=6 June 2022|website=Music Industry How To}}</ref>
| length        = * {{Duration|m=4|s=05}} (Single Version)
* {{Duration|m=4|s=57}} (Album Version)
| label         = * [[Mushroom Records|Mushroom]]
* [[Arista Records|Arista]]
| writer        = * [[Steve Kilbey]]
* Karin Jansson
| producer      = * [[Greg Ladanyi]]
* [[Waddy Wachtel]]
* The Church
| prev_title    = Disenchanted
| prev_year     = 1986
| next_title    = [[Reptile (song)|Reptile]]
| next_year     = 1988
| misc          = {{External music video|{{YouTube|pWxJEIz7sSA|"Under the Milky Way"}}}}
}}

"'''Under the Milky Way'''" is a single by Australian [[alternative rock]] band [[The Church (band)|the Church]], released on 15 February 1988,<ref name=amr/> and appears on their fifth studio album ''[[Starfish (album)|Starfish]]''. The song was written by bass guitarist and lead vocalist [[Steve Kilbey]] and his then-girlfriend Karin Jansson of [[Curious (Yellow)]]. It peaked at No.&nbsp;22 on the Australian [[Kent Music Report]] Singles Chart, No.&nbsp;24 on the United States [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] and No.&nbsp;25 on the New Zealand [[Recorded Music NZ|Singles Chart]]; it also appeared in the Dutch [[Dutch Single Top 100|Single Top 100]]. At the [[ARIA Music Awards of 1989]], the song won 'Single of the Year'. It was issued simultaneously in both [[Single (music)|7" vinyl]] and [[Twelve-inch single|12" vinyl]] formats by [[Arista Records]] (internationally) and [[Mushroom Records]] (Australian region).

In 2006, the song was remixed and released as [[Craig Obey]] vs the Church. It peaked at number 91 on the ARIA charts.<ref name="ARIA2">{{cite Ryan|page=207}}</ref>

In January 2018, as part of [[Triple M]]'s "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time, "Under the Milky Way" was ranked number 33.<ref>{{cite news|work=[[Music Feeds]]|title=Here Are The Songs That Made Triple M's 'Ozzest 100'|url= https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/songs-made-triple-ms-ozzest-100/|access-date=4 January 2020|date=27 January 2018}}</ref>

==Background==
In 1987, the Church travelled to Los Angeles to record their fifth studio album, ''[[Starfish (album)|Starfish]]'', and worked with producers [[Waddy Wachtel]] and [[Greg Ladanyi]].<ref name="McFarlane">{{cite book | last = McFarlane | first = Ian | author-link = Ian McFarlane | title = [[Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop]] | chapter = Encyclopedia entry for 'The Church' | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040604042607/http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=205 | chapter-url = http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=205 | access-date = 11 August 2013 | year = 1999 | publisher = [[Allen & Unwin]] | location = [[St Leonards, New South Wales|St Leonards, NSW]] | archive-date = 4 June 2004 | isbn = 1-86508-072-1 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref name="Holmgren">{{cite web | url = http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/c/church.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20001118024600/http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/c/church.html | url-status = usurped | archive-date = 18 November 2000 |website=Australian Rock Database | title = The Church | publisher = Magnus Holmgren | last = Holmgren | first = Magnus | access-date = 11 August 2013 }}</ref>

The Church's line-up for the album was [[Steve Kilbey]] on bass guitar and lead vocals, [[Peter Koppes]] on guitars, [[Marty Willson-Piper]] on guitars, and [[Richard Ploog]] on drums and percussion.<ref name="McFarlane"/><ref name="Holmgren"/> However, while recording "Under the Milky Way", the band were unable to get a drum track which sounded right with Ploog, so they played to a [[click track]] and later session musician [[Russ Kunkel]] was brought in to add drums and percussion.<ref name="Lurie">{{cite book | first = Robert Dean | last = Lurie | title = No Certainty Attached: Steve Kilbey and The Church | location = [[Portland, Oregon|Portland OR]] | publisher = Verse Chorus Press | year = 2009 | page = 182 | isbn = 978-1-89124-122-2}}</ref>

==Composition==
"Under the Milky Way" was written by Kilbey and Karin Jansson of [[Curious (Yellow)]].<ref name="APRA Under">{{cite web | publisher = [[Australasian Performing Right Association]] (APRA) | title = 'Under the Milky Way' at APRA search engine | url = http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/worksearch.axd?q=Under%20the%20Milky%20Way | access-date = 11 August 2013 }}</ref><ref name="bestsong">{{cite news | url = http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/milky-way-best-song-from-down-under/story-e6frg8n6-1111117535402 | title = Milky Way Judged the Best Song from Down Under | author = Shedden, Iain | work = [[The Australian]] | date = 20 September 2008 | access-date = 1 June 2010 }}</ref> Kilbey and Jansson had become friends in 1983 and lived together in Australia from 1986.<ref name="Tingwell">{{cite news | url = http://www.shadowcabinet.net/454/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=314&Itemid=26 | title = Karin Jansson Talks About ''Charms and Blues'' | last = Tingwell | first = John | work = [[Drum Media]] | date = 16 October 1990 | access-date = 11 August 2013 }}</ref> Kilbey said, "I smoked a [[joint (cannabis)|joint]] and started playing the piano and she came in the room and we just made it up."<ref name="hutch" /> According to a press release issued with ''Starfish'', the title is from an [[Amsterdam]] music and cultural venue, [[Melkweg]] ([[Dutch language|Dutch]] for "Milky Way"), which Kilbey used to frequent.<ref name="Mathieson">{{cite book | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=6YVj4KwMIl0C&q=%22under+the+milky+way%22+melkweg+-wikipedia&pg=PA146 | title = Playlisted: Everything You Need to Know About Australian Music Right Now | last = Mathieson | first = Craig | author-link = Craig Mathieson | chapter = Answers First, Questions Later | pages = 144–148 | location = [[University of Sydney]], NSW | publisher = UNSW Press | year = 2009 | isbn = 978-1-74223-017-7 }}</ref>

{{quote box|width=30em|border=1px|align=right|bgcolor=#c6dbf7|fontsize=85%|salign=right|quote=I just stumbled upon it and for some reason it has struck this wonderful sense of universality with people that most of my songs don't.|source=Steve Kilbey<ref name="bestsong"/>}}

"Under the Milky Way" features a [[Twelve-string guitar|12-string acoustic guitar]] melody, along with a solo composed with an [[EBow]] on a [[Fender Jazzmaster]] and recorded on a [[Synclavier]], leading to a sound reminiscent of bagpipes.<ref name="Lurie"/> In October 1990, Jansson told John Tingwell of ''Drum Media'' about songwriting with Kilbey, "it's a very spontaneous thing. It's not as if someone has put us together to write a hit song. It's more like sometimes when we write together, a song comes knocking on the door".<ref name="Tingwell"/> While in September 2008, Kilbey discussed the track with Iain Shedden of ''[[The Australian]]''.<ref name="bestsong"/>

Willson-Piper said, {{"'}}Milky Way' is perfect really, in the way that it crosses over from our {{nat|past records}}. It's still this very beautiful, textured song, which is what we write, but it doesn't challenge people to find out its deepest hidden meaning the way our other songs have in the past."<ref>{{cite magazine| magazine= [[Smash Hits]], Australian edition | title="I wear a purple satin cloak!"|author=Andy Fife | date=18 April 1988}}</ref>

==Release history==
"Under the Milky Way" was released on 15 February 1988 in both [[7" vinyl]] and [[12-inch single|12" vinyl]] formats by [[Arista Records]] (internationally) and [[Mushroom Records]] (Australian region).<ref name=amr/><ref name="AusChartsUnder">{{cite web | url = http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=The+Church&titel=Under+The+Milky+Way&cat=s | title = The Church – 'Under the Milky Way' | publisher = Australian Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung) | last = Hung | first = Steffen | access-date = 11 August 2013 }}</ref> The Church's fifth studio album, ''Starfish'', was issued simultaneously with the single. In April the single was released in several formats worldwide including 7", double 7", 12", CD single, and compact cassette, using at least five different cover art designs.<ref name="SinglesDiscography">{{cite web | url = http://home.earthlink.net/~thechurch/singles/under-the-milky-way.html | title = The Church Discography – Singles: 'Under the Milky Way' (1988) | last = Grimm | first = Don | last2 = Skjefte | first2 = Morten | last3 = Allen | first3 = David | last4 = Marshall | first4 = Kevyn | last5 = Fulmer | first5 = Mike | publisher = Mike Fulmer | date = 8 August 2000 | access-date = 11 August 2013 }}</ref> The 12" [[B-sides]] were "Musk" and "Warm Spell", whereas the 7" B-side was "Musk".<ref name="SinglesDiscography"/> Different Spanish versions added either "Anna Miranda" or "Perfect Child". The music video for the song featured on the Church's video compilation ''Goldfish (Jokes, Magic & Souvenirs)''.

An acoustic version was initially released as a single in multiple formats including [[7" vinyl]], [[CD single]], and others. It also appears on the "Sum of the Parts" promotional release and the 2 CD re-issue of the ''Starfish'' album.

==Reception==
On the Australian [[Kent Music Report]] Singles Chart "Under the Milky Way" peaked at No.&nbsp;22.<ref name="Kent">{{cite book | title = [[Kent Music Report|Australian Chart Book 1970–1992]] | last = Kent | first = David | author-link = David Kent (historian) | publisher = Australian Chart Book Ltd | location = [[St Ives, New South Wales|St Ives, NSW]] | year = 1993 | isbn = 0-646-11917-6 }} Note: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until [[Australian Recording Industry Association]] (ARIA) created their own [[ARIA Charts|charts]] in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.</ref> However, it was not the band's highest-charting single: "Almost with You" (1982) and "[[Metropolis (The Church song)|Metropolis]]" (1990) charted at No.&nbsp;21 and No.&nbsp;19, respectively, on the Australian charts.<ref name="Kent"/> In the United States it reached No.&nbsp;24 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]<ref name="hot100" /> and No.&nbsp;2 on the [[Mainstream Rock (chart)|Mainstream Rock]] chart.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/the-church/chart-history/rtt/|title=The Church Chart History > Mainstream Rock Songs|magazine=Billboard|access-date=24 September 2019}}</ref> Other charting peaks include No.&nbsp;25 on the New Zealand [[Recorded Music NZ|Singles Chart]],<ref name=nz/> No.&nbsp;69 on the Canadian ''[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]'' 100,<ref name="CanRPM">{{cite web |url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.8720&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=191i2opdvfbtamc6mh0qr3elv4 | title = RPM100 Singles | publisher = Library and Archives of Canada | website = [[RPM (magazine)|RPM]] | access-date = 18 October 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121020013451/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.8720&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=191i2opdvfbtamc6mh0qr3elv4 | archive-date = 20 October 2012 | url-status = dead }}</ref> No.&nbsp;70 on the Dutch [[Dutch Single Top 100|Single Top 100]],<ref name=dutch/> and No.&nbsp;90 in the United Kingdom.<ref name=UK/>

At the [[ARIA Music Awards of 1989]] "Under the Milky Way" won 'Single of the Year',<ref name="ARIA1989">{{cite web | url = http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/year/1989 | title = Winners by Year: 1989 | publisher = [[Australian Recording Industry Association]] (ARIA) | access-date = 11 August 2013 }}</ref> though Kilbey refused to attend the award ceremony. He said, "You will note that I didn't collect the award. I don't give a fuck about winning that award. I've been a big critic of the Australian music industry. I think the whole thing is utterly embarrassing and repulsive."<ref name="hutch">{{cite book | author= Tracee Hutchison | author-link= Tracee Hutchison |title=Your Name's on the Door|page=167|year=1992 
|publisher=ABC Enterprises |location=[[Sydney]], New South Wales |isbn=0-7333-0115-0}}</ref>

In 2006, Kilbey said of the recording, "It's actually flat lifeless 'n' and sterile. Great song, sure, but the performance, the sounds are ordinary. We coulda got that in Australia in a week or two for a 20th of the money we spent. Hey, it's sold almost a million in the US alone, but we'll never see any money 'cause it cost so much to make".<ref name="Jenkins">{{cite book | title = Molly Meldrum Presents 50 Years of Rock in Australia | last = Jenkins | first = Jeff | last2 = Meldrum | first2 = Ian "Molly" | author-link2 = Molly Meldrum | chapter = 40 Great Australian Songs | page = 301 | year = 2007 | publisher = Wilkinson Publishing | location = Melbourne, Vic | isbn = 978-1-921332-11-1 }}</ref> Kilbey's assessment ignored its second life as a much-licensed track. In December 2011, he told [[News Limited]] reporter Cameron Adams:

:"There is almost nothing, except for maybe a cigarette ad, I'd say no to 'Under the Milky Way' being used for [...] It was used for a car advertisement in America, very lucratively for me. You'd think people would think it's been overused, but the more it's used the more people seem to want to use it. I'm signing off all the time for TV shows or chocolate bars using it. Sure, have it, it's just a song, do whatever you like with it. You can hear it wasn't written for profit. It's an accidental song I accidentally wrote and accidentally became a single and accidentally became a hit. It's been a nice earner [...] I've written 2000 songs. Thank God one of them came through! [...] The others aren't pulling their weight. They sit and grumble about 'Under the Milky Way' and I say, 'Well, boys, go out and earn the same dough as that one'. I never see 'Under the Milky Way' – it's so busy out there working..."<ref name="Adams">{{cite news | url = http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/the-church-milk-their-own-song/story-e6frfn09-1226222283027 | title = The Church Milk Their Own Song | last = Adams | first = Cameron | date = 14 December 2011 | access-date = 11 August 2013 }}</ref>

In 2001, the song was featured on the soundtrack for the film ''[[Donnie Darko]]''.  In 2006, it was performed with the [[Melbourne Symphony Orchestra]] at the [[2006 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony|opening ceremony of the 2006 Commonwealth Games]] in Melbourne. Kilbey said after the performance that it was as if the song had been made for the occasion, though in his blog he was critical of the Commonwealth Games as an event.<ref name="Kilbey">{{cite web | url = http://stevekilbey.blogspot.com/2006/03/games-people-play-noweverynight-n.html | title = The Games People Play Now ... Everynight n Everyday Now | publisher = The Time Being: Being the Diary of a Certain Mister Kilbey | last = Kilbey | first = Steve | author-link = Steve Kilbey | date = 16 March 2006 | access-date = 11 August 2013 }}</ref> In September 2008, readers of ''The Weekend Australian Magazine'' voted it as the best Australian song of the last 20 years.<ref name="bestsong" /> Sheet music for "Under the Milky Way" was published by [[Hal Leonard]].

In October 2010, the Church's ''Starfish'' was listed in the top&nbsp;40 in the book, ''[[100 Best Australian Albums]]''.<ref name="ODonnell">{{Cite book | title = [[100 Best Australian Albums]] | last = O'Donnell | first = John | author-link = John O'Donnell (music journalist) | last2 = Creswell | first2=Toby | author-link2 = Toby Creswell | last3 = Mathieson | first3 = Craig | author-link3 = Craig Mathieson | publisher = Hardie Grant Books | date = October 2010 | location = [[Prahran, Victoria|Prahran, Vic]] | pages = 106–107 | isbn = 978-1-74066-955-9 }}</ref> The authors, [[John O'Donnell (music journalist)|John O'Donnell]], [[Toby Creswell]] and [[Craig Mathieson]], described "Under the Milky Way" 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".<ref name="ODonnell"/>

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| headline        = 12" Australian region version

| title1          = Under the Milky Way
| writer1         = [[Steve Kilbey]], Karin Jansson<ref name="APRA Under"/>
| length1         = 4:57

| title2          = Warm Spell
| writer2         = Kilbey, [[Marty Willson-Piper]], [[Peter Koppes]]<ref name="APRA Warm">{{cite web | publisher = [[Australasian Performing Right Association]] (APRA) | title = 'Warm Spell' at APRA search engine | url = http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/worksearch.axd?q=Warm%20Spell | access-date = 11 August 2013 }}</ref>
| length2         = 4:35

| title3          = Musk
| writer3         = Willson-Piper, Richard Ploog, Kilbey, Koppes<ref name="APRA Musk">{{cite web | publisher = [[Australasian Performing Right Association]] (APRA) | title = 'Musk' at APRA search engine | url = http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/worksearch.axd?q=Musk | access-date = 11 August 2013 }}</ref>
| length3         = 3:55

| title4          = 
| writer4         = 
| length4         =

}}
{{Track listing
| headline        = 7" International version

| title1          = Under the Milky Way
| writer1         = [[Steve Kilbey]], Karin Jansson
| length1         = 4:05

| title2          = Musk
| writer2         = Willson-Piper, Richard Ploog, Kilbey, Koppes
| length2         = 3:55

}}
{{Track listing
| headline        = 2× 7" Spanish version

| title1          = Under the Milky Way
| writer1         = [[Steve Kilbey]], Karin Jansson
| length1         = 4:57

| title2          = Anna Miranda
| writer2         = [[Marty Willson-Piper]], Richard Ploog, Kilbey, [[Peter Koppes]], Jansson<ref name="APRA Anna">{{cite web | publisher = [[Australasian Performing Right Association]] (APRA) | title = 'Anna Miranda' at APRA search engine | url = http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/worksearch.axd?q=Anna%20Miranda | access-date = 12 August 2013 }}</ref>
| length2         = 2:57

| title3          = Antenna
| writer3         = Koppes, Kilbey, Willson-Piper, Ploog<ref name="APRA Antenna">{{cite web | publisher = [[Australasian Performing Right Association]] (APRA) | title = 'Antenna' at APRA search engine | url = http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/worksearch.axd?q=Antenna | access-date = 12 August 2013 }}</ref>
| length3         = 3:51

| title4          = Destination
| writer4         = Willson-Piper, Ploog, Kilbey, Koppes<ref name="APRA Destination">{{cite web | publisher = [[Australasian Performing Right Association]] (APRA) | title = 'Destination' at APRA search engine | url = http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/worksearch.axd?q=Destination | access-date = 12 August 2013 }}</ref>
| length4         = 5:51

}}
{{Track listing
| headline        = 12" Spanish version

| title1          = Under the Milky Way
| writer1         = [[Steve Kilbey]], Karin Jansson
| length1         = 4:57

| title2          = Perfect Child
| writer2         = Kilbey, Richard Ploog, [[Marty Willson-Piper]], [[Peter Koppes]]<ref name="APRA Perfect">{{cite web | publisher = [[Australasian Performing Right Association]] (APRA) | title = 'Perfect Child' at APRA search engine | url = http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/worksearch.axd?q=Perfect%20Child | access-date = 12 August 2013 }}</ref>
| length2         = 2:53

| title3          = Musk
| writer3         = Willson-Piper, Ploog, Kilbey, Koppes
| length3         = 3:55

| title4          = Warm Spell
| writer4         = Kilbey, Willson-Piper, Koppes
| length4         = 4:35

}}

== Charts ==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Chart (1988)
! Peak<br />position
|-
!scope="row" |Australia ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://i.imgur.com/Cf0LV3r.jpg|title=Australian ARIA Top 50 Singles Chart – Week Ending 15th May, 1988|publisher=[[Australian Recording Industry Association|ARIA]]|via=Imgur.com|access-date=24 September 2019}} N.B. The Kent Music Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and 12 June 1988.</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|22
|-
!scope="row" |Canada Top Singles (''[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]'')<ref name="CanRPM"/>
| style="text-align:center;"|69
|-
{{single chart|Dutch100|70|artist=The Church|song=Under the Milky Way Tonight|access-date=24 September 2019|rowheader=true|refname=dutch}}
|-
{{single chart|New Zealand|25|artist=The Church|song=Under the Milky Way Tonight|access-date=24 September 2019|rowheader=true|refname=nz}}
|-
{{single chart|UKsinglesbyname|90|artist=The Church|song=Under the Milky Way Tonight|access-date=24 September 2019|rowheader=true|refname=UK}}
|-
!scope="row" |US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]<ref name=hot100a>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1988-06-18/|title=Billboard Hot 100|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=18 June 1988|access-date=14 February 2025}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|24
|-
!scope="row" |US [[Album Rock Tracks]] (''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'')<ref name=hot100>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-mainstream-rock-tracks/1988-05-07/|title=Mainstream Rock Airplay|magazine=Billboard|date=7 May 1988|url-access=subscription|access-date=14 February 2025}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|2
|}
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Chart (2006)
! Peak<br />position
|-
!scope="row" |Australia ([[ARIA Charts|ARIA]])<ref name="ARIA2"/><br/>{{small|''Craig Obey vs. the Church''}}
| style="text-align:center;"|91
|}

== Sia version ==
{{Infobox song
| name          = Under the Milky Way
| cover         = Under the Milky Way by Sia (cover).jpg
| alt           = 
| type          = single
| artist        = [[Sia]]
| album         = 
| released      = {{start date|2010|01|26|df=y}}
| recorded      = 2009
| studio        = 
| venue         = 
| genre         = 
| length        = {{duration|m=3|s=34}}
| label         = Rhino Records ([[Warner Music Group]])
| writer        = * [[Steve Kilbey]]
* Karin Jansson
| producer      = 
| prev_title    = [[You've Changed (Sia song)|You've Changed]]
| prev_year     = 2009
| next_title    = [[Clap Your Hands (Sia song)|Clap Your Hands]]
| next_year     = 2010
}}

[[Sia]] recorded "Under the Milky Way" as a non-album single.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/au/album/under-the-milky-way-single/350514206|title=Under the Milky Way – single|publisher=iTunes Australia|access-date=26 June 2015}}</ref> It was released on 26 January 2010.

=== Other versions ===
In 2016, [[Metric (band)|Metric]] released a cover of "Under the Milky Way" for the [[AmfAR]] AIDS charity's benefit album ''The Time Is Now!''.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/phantogram-metric-dnce-prep-eighties-covers-for-aids-charity-comp-126945/ | title=Phantogram, Metric, DNCE Prep Eighties Covers for AIDS Charity Comp | magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] | date=8 September 2016 }}</ref>

[[Strawpeople]] recorded a cover for the album ''Broadcast'' (1994). It was released as a single and peaked at number 113 on the [[ARIA Charts|Australian singles chart]] in November 1995.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://i.imgur.com/oyPN1pW.jpg|title=RE: ARIA Chart Peaks|publisher=Imgur.com|access-date=11 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://i.imgur.com/bTDbh9b.jpg|title=ARIA Hit Seekers – Week Ending 19th November, 1995 (from The ARIA Report No. 301)|publisher=[[Australian Recording Industry Association|ARIA]], via Imgur.com|access-date=11 January 2020}}</ref>

==References==
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