Failure (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Failure
Type = studio
Artist = King Missile


Released = September 15, 1998
Recorded =
Genre = Avant-garde
Length = 47:50
Label = Shimmy Disc
Producer = Bradford Reed
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gbfyxqrjld6e link]

*Ink 19 (favorable) [http://www.ink19.com/issues_F/98_12/wet_ink/music_hk/102_king_missile_nf.html link]
*Lollipop (unfavorable) [http://www.lollipop.com/issue48/48-04a-07.html link]
Last album = "King Missile"
(1994)
This album = "Failure"
(1998)
Next album = "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life"
(2003)

"Failure" is the seventh album by avant-garde band King Missile, and the band's first in its incarnation as "King Missile III." It was released on September 15, 1998.

Track listing

All lyrics by John S. Hall.

# "Failure" (Charles Curtis, Sasha Forte, Hall, Bradford Reed) – 4:23
# "The Boy Made Out of Bone China" (Forte, Hall, Reed, Jane Scarpantoni) – 3:02
# "A Good Hard Look" (Hall, Scarpantoni) – 2:01
#*This track appears in a different arrangement on Hall's 1996 album "The Body Has a Head."
# "Up My Ass" (Forte, Hall, Reed) – 3:27
# "The Little Sandwich That Got a Guilt Complex Because He Was the Sole Survivor of a Horrible Bus Crash" (Forte, Hall, Reed, Scarpantoni) – 2:31
# "Despair" (Curtis, Forte, Hall, Reed) – 6:05
# "Monks" (Forte, Hall, Reed) – 2:40
# "Gay/Not Gay" (Forte, Hall, Reed) – 6:19
# "Happiness" (Curtis, Hall) – 2:23
# "Mr. Pomerantz" (Forte, Hall, Reed, Scarpantoni) – 1:50
# "Juniper Dog" (Forte, Hall, Reed, Scarpantoni) – 4:20
# "Tour Diary: Louisville" (Curtis, Hall, Reed) – 1:33
# "The Adventures of Planky" (Forte, Hall, Reed, Scarpantoni) – 4:50
# "I Dare to Hope" (Forte, Hall, Reed) – 2:21

Personnel

*John S. Hall – lead and backing vocals, Indian bells
*Bradford Reed – melodica, kranton, synthesizer, programming, piano, pencilina, backing vocals, organ, drums, percussion
*Sasha Forte – bass, violin, guitar, backing vocals, Indian bells, viola, horn arrangements
*Charles Curtis – guitar, cello, backing vocals
*Jane Scarpantoni – cello, synthesizer
*John Walsh – trumpet on "A Good Hard Look"
*Chris Washburne – trombone on "A Good Hard Look" and "Gay/Not Gay"