Starfish (album) Starfish (album) Starfish is the fifth album by the Australian rock band The Church, released in February 1988. The band's breakthrough album, "Starfish" went gold in America and has remained their most commercially successful release. The album sold 600,000 copies in the United States alone. The first single, "Under the Milky Way", charted well in the American Top 40, peaking at No. 24 and No. 2 on Mainstream Rock Tracks, leading to significant exposure of the then relatively underground Australian act. In Australia "Under the Milky Way" climbed to No. 5, and "Starfish" reached No. 7 on the album charts,
Starfish (album) in the top 40 in the book, "100 Best Australian Albums". In 2011 the album, along with "Priest=Aura" and "Untitled #23", was played in its entirety on the band's 30th Anniversary "Future, Past, Perfect" tour. In a retrospective review for AllMusic, critic Ned Raggett wrote that "if sometimes too clean around the corners in comparison to the song-for-song masterpiece "Heyday", "Starfish" set up the band's well-deserved breakthrough in the States," and added that the performances throughout "are at the least fine and at the most fantastic." Credited to: RIAA:Gold Starfish (album) Starfish is the fifth album by the Australian rock