Fantastic Planet (album)

:"The English language version of the 1973 film" La Planète Sauvage "was also titled" Fantastic Planet.Infobox Album |
Name = "Fantastic Planet"
Type = Album
Artist = Failure

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Released = August 13, 1996
Genre = Alternative rock, Space rock
Length = 68:00
Label = Slash Records/Warner Bros.
Producer = Failure
Reviews = * Allmusic: Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:sa8gtq2znu48 link] |
Last album = "Magnified"
(1994)
This album = "Fantastic Planet"
(1996)
Next album = "Golden"
(2004)__NOTOC__ "Fantastic Planet" is the third and final studio album by the American rock band Failure.

Track listing

# "Saturday Saviour" – 4:27
# "Sergeant Politeness" – 4:05
# "Segue 1" - 1:56
# "Smoking Umbrellas" – 3:58
# "Pillowhead" - 2:11
# "Blank" – 5:38
# "Segue 2" - 1:19
# "Dirty Blue Balloons" – 4:23
# "Solaris" – 3:43
# "Pitiful" – 4:45
# "Leo" – 3:05
# "Segue 3" - 2:13
# "The Nurse Who Loved Me" – 4:25
# "Another Space Song" – 5:10
# "Stuck On You" – 4:28
# "Heliotropic" – 6:14
# "Daylight" – 6:00

Personnel

*Ken Andrews – vocals, guitar,bass
*Greg Edwards – bass guitar, guitar, percussion, piano
*Kellii Scott – drums

Credits

Produced by Failure; engineered by Ken Andrews.Recorded at F.P.S. Studios (Los Angeles CA) and Madhatter Studios Silverlake CA.Mastered by Tom Baker at Future Disc, Hollywood CA.

Miscellanea

*A video was produced for the single "Stuck on You" (done in the style of a James Bond introductory sequence), which is included on the DVD portion of the 2004 Failure compilation "Golden". Other songs, such as "Saturday Saviour" and "Pitiful", were released as radio singles, but no videos were made for them.
*Guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen joined Failure around the time of this album's release.
*"The Nurse Who Loved Me" was covered by A Perfect Circle on their 2003 album "Thirteenth Step".
*"Another Space Song" was covered by Statistics, the solo project of Denver Dalley of Desaparecidos, and released on "Location is Everything Vol. 2", a Jade Tree Records sampler disc.
*"Stuck On You" was covered by Paramore on their 2006 CD The Summer Tic EP; the title of the CD is taken from the song's lyrics, albeit with "tick" changed to "tic".

External links

* [http://www.rocknet.com/nov96/failure.html RockNet interview with Kellii Scott about the album] (November 1996)