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Failure (King Missile album)

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Released
  
September 15, 1998

Artist
  
King Missile

Producer
  
Bradford Reed

Genre
  
Experimental music

Length
  
47:50

Release date
  
15 September 1998

Label
  
Shimmy Disc

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Failure (1998)
  
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (2003)

Similar
  
Royal Lunch, The Way to Salvation, They, Fluting on the Hump, The Body Has a Head

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.

Contents

King missile failure


Track listing

All lyrics by John S. Hall.

  1. "Failure" (Charles Curtis, Sasha Forte, Hall, Bradford Reed) – 4:23
  2. "The Boy Made Out of Bone China" (Forte, Hall, Reed, Jane Scarpantoni) – 3:02
  3. "A Good Hard Look" (Hall, Scarpantoni) – 2:01
  4. This track appears in a different arrangement on Hall's 1996 album The Body Has a Head.
  5. "Up My Ass" (Forte, Hall, Reed) – 3:27
  6. "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
  7. "Despair" (Curtis, Forte, Hall, Reed) – 6:05
  8. "Monks" (Forte, Hall, Reed) – 2:40
  9. "Gay/Not Gay" (Forte, Hall, Reed) – 6:19
  10. "Happiness" (Curtis, Hall) – 2:23
  11. "Mr. Pomerantz" (Forte, Hall, Reed, Scarpantoni) – 1:50
  12. "Juniper Dog" (Forte, Hall, Reed, Scarpantoni) – 4:20
  13. "Tour Diary: Louisville" (Curtis, Hall, Reed) – 1:33
  14. "The Adventures of Planky" (Forte, Hall, Reed, Scarpantoni) – 4:50
  15. "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"

    • Songs

    1Failure4:24
    2The Boy Made Out of Bone China3:02
    3A Good Hard Look2:01

    References

    Failure (King Missile album) Wikipedia
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