The Church

Bye.

Eleanor Rigby Picks up the rice in the church where a wedding

has been Is it a dream? It's at the window Wearing a face that she keeps in a jar by the door Who is it for? All alone Until they all come back All alone We'll be right back.

I look at all the

Eleanor Hickman Tied in the church Who was buried Along with her name Nobody came Father McKenzie Wiping the dirt From his hands As he walks From the grave No one was saved And I've been on the judge for too very long to remain.

The next one is part of a long line of Jeff's songs that he can't think of titles for.

It's Jeff's Boogie 1 to 13, and this is Jeff's Boogie No. 2.

But now I'm so sick of this success.

There's too many good songs from the sixties and seventies and eighties that I could put on there.

So I've got like some Johnny Cash, I've got Led Zeppelin, but I also have like the church Nirvana, the killers, no patrol.

Cause I think part of the fun of the fire pit is that somebody actually might break out a guitar.

Yeah.

So like, Cold Place Yellow because everybody knows the words to that.

Snow Patrol's Chasing Cars and Led Zeppelin's Thank You because I think Led Zeppelin, that song in particular by Led Zeppelin is fantastic.

And then I've got some other songs like The Church is Under the Milky Way because it fits the theme of the night.

But a couple that I wanted to talk about in particular.

Their sympathy The emperor's clothes are the best for the pros Their equity The guys with the braids are all bitter and vain Their stupidity The guys with the luck with the bimbos and bucks It ought to be somewhere North, south and east and west I take my pain and I catch my flight Don't wait up for me tonight And you might find me there Going south and east and west

Music from the church here on The Bottom 40 with North, South, East, and West.

That one taken from their album Starfish that came out right around the end of 1989, snuck in there at the end of the 80s, and it is probably one of my all-time favorite albums, probably a top 25 album for me that I often forget about, but every time I hear it, I'm like, Like, oh man, that song's good.

That song's good.

So I wanted to play you something from it this week.

[laughs]

And number 101, The Church, Under the Milky Way.

So I just recently learned of this song.

I was not familiar with The Church or this song.

Um, but I've told you about this, Chris, and I, I actually recommend this to anybody.

If you're paying for Paramount Plus, every MTV Unplugged is on Paramount Plus.

So, like, when I'm just working, I'll throw it on, and I've just been watching them as they come up.

So, like, sometimes it'll be Nirvana, and I'm very familiar with the songs, and other times it'll be a band I've never heard, really.

It carries.

I interviewed Steve Kilbey, lead singer of The Church, Australian rock band, Australian Hall of Fame, AVRA, like huge, huge, and he talks to me, and he was, like, talking in camera.

He's still mad about his algebra class.

It still sits and it still carries, and it carries when you go into a meeting with, if you're a woman, with a bunch of salespeople, and they're looking at you, and they're tr- and they're throwing out all sorts of, like, "Well, what are the KPIs and ROIs and blah, blah, blah, and blah, blah, blah," and, you know, and trying to, like, push you and throw you off your game, or push back on questions, and throw, and try to throw you off your game by throwing a bunch of math at you, which is what somebody called me and talked to me about, about how they don't feel comfortable being in certain spaces and in certain meetings because of the math that's in, that's just standard.

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The musical lyric from the title, Wish I Knew What You Were Looking For, was from The Church, 1988's Under the Milky Way Tonight off their fifth album, Starfish.

Always liked this band, Australian band.

Always liked this song.

You can find me there in my boat or in many of the establishments around town.

Are you in the church most of the time? You're not in the bars.

Right, right.

Good answer.

morning they found his frozen corpse at the foot of the curral high.

At the wake they were lashing out the drops of brandy.

The old fetching happened in the church, they were lashing

out pounds of fibers.

He was the bass player for the group Foghat.

Steve Kilbey was born in 1954, lead singer, bassist, and songwriter for the Australian psychedelic alt-rock band The Church.

Love those guys.

Under the Milky Way Tonight is still one of my top five songs that I play on my way into work.

Welcome back to the 80s Underground Show.

Music from the church, dropping names, the track from the great remote luxury album.

What else do we have? Some R.E.M.

in there for you.

The wonderful The Raincoats from their Oddyshape album, 1981, shouting out loud.

Before that, Orange Juice, single from them, 1980, Simply Thrilled Honey, preceded by The Church from, I think it was their first album, of Skins and Heart, 1981, the track She Never Said.

Before that, from Dublin, DC9, the single Nightclub, recorded in 1980 at the Windmill Lane Studios.

that of U2.