I posted most of my Starfish history on the thread on First impressions. I never sent Brian Smith a message to post in the Shadow Cabinet's page about the 10 year anniversary of Starfish, but was greatly tempted (I've just noticed that the link to that page is inactive now) but that post is more or less what I would have said.

I'll just say now that it is still one of my favorite Church albums, and Under the Milky Way still grips me. Hotel Womb is also one of my top Church songs.

Maybe some others would like to add their opinions about it before we start discussing Parallel Universe?