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Church
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.7543
Church Album Rankings
1
Signing to Arista might have seemed an unusual move to start with, getting produced by L.A. studio types likeWaddy Wachteleven more so.
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2
Whether it was the assistance ofPeter Walshon production, a decision to bear down and see what could be done, or some further combination of that and other factors, the Church came up with its best re
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3
On their debut,Of Skin and Heart, the Church play straightforward pop/rock firmly rooted in new wave, though owing no small debt to '60s pop.
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4
After such a fine debut asOf Skins and Heart, creating a follow-up might have been a burden for the Church -- and maybe it was, but the end result was well worth it.
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5
Buddha'sUnder the Milky Way: The Best of the Churchis a terrific, comprehensive anthology, tracing their career from their 1981 debut,Of Skin and Heart, to 1994'sSometime Anywhere.
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6
Following the success of 'Starfish,' the Church stood poised to break out of obscurity and into commercial stardom.
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7
When singer and bassist Steve Kilbey quips, "Here is the maven, signing the check/He bought us dinner, so what the fucking heck" onSometime Anywhere, he might be pondering the issue of commercial viab
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8
Sounds utterly contemporary even as it harks to the band's glory days.
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9
Longtime fans will find plenty to cherish on this very atmospheric and tuneful sortie.
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10
Wandering in from pop's Australian fringes at the dawn of the last decade, the Church spent the Eighties on the winding road of refined psychedelia.
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11
The Church released its debut, Of Skins and Hearts , in April of 1981.
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12
Can we all agree now the Church are back to form and have been for a few years? In the “best-album-since-X” stakes, every new entrant in the lengthy Church catalogue has its comparator: fo
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13
After such a fine debut as Of Skins and Heart, creating a follow-up might have been a burden for the Church -- and maybe it was, but the end result was well worth it.
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14
Over more than two decades, Australia's Church ranks as one of the most uncompromising and dependable groups in all of rock.
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26
You'd think The Church had dropped off the face of the earth after 1992's unfortunately titledPriest = Aura. In case you were wondering...
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28
The cover may have looked like something of a goth record of the era, though then again not many goths would have used pink as the dominant color of an album.
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30
Two Aussie EPs make for an album worthy of a religious experience, with the Byrds ian guitars of Willson-Piper and Koppes and the detached Bowie sque vocals of Kilbey.
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