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Fantastic Planet (album)

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Released
  
August 13, 1996

Producer
  
Failure

Artist
  
Failure

Label
  
Warner Bros. Records

Length
  
67:51

Fantastic Planet (1996)
  
Golden (2004)

Release date
  
13 August 1996


Recorded
  
F.P.S. Studios, Los Angeles; Madhatter Studios, Silverlake

Genres
  
Alternative rock, Space rock, Grunge, Alternative metal, Art rock, Progressive rock

Similar
  
The Heart Is a Mons, Magnified, Comfort, Golden, Essentials

Failure fantastic planet full album


Fantastic Planet is the third studio album by the American alternative rock band Failure, released on August 13, 1996. It was the last album released on Slash Records as distributed by Warner Bros. Records. The album failed to chart on Billboard 's Top 200 albums, but did produce a charting single with "Stuck on You", which reached #23 on Billboard 's Alternative Songs Chart. The album was produced by Failure themselves in a process that took longer than their previous two albums, with one song being recorded and produced soon after being written, and repeating this process. Space-rock themes are present in the lyrics, as well as various indirect references to drug addiction, drug-related experiences, and prostitution. The artwork is based on the cover of the L. Ron Hubbard novel Return to Tomorrow. Seven of the album's songs were also included on Failure's Essentials, a best-of collection from 2006.

Contents

In 2009, JustPressPlay named Fantastic Planet the third-best album of the 1990s. They also ranked the song "The Nurse Who Loved Me" at #10 in its list of the Top 100 Songs of the 1990s.

On March 24th 2015 it was announced the album was to be reissued on 180g clear and 120g black vinyl via the band's own PledgeMusic page.

Saturday savior


Track listing

All tracks written by Ken Andrews & Greg Edwards

  1. "Saturday Saviour" – 4:27
  2. "Sergeant Politeness" – 4:05
  3. "Segue 1" - 1:54
  4. "Smoking Umbrellas" – 3:58
  5. "Pillowhead" - 2:09
  6. "Blank" – 5:38
  7. "Segue 2" - 1:17
  8. "Dirty Blue Balloons" – 4:23
  9. "Solaris" – 3:43
  10. "Pitiful" – 4:45
  11. "Leo" – 3:05
  12. "Segue 3" - 2:11
  13. "The Nurse Who Loved Me" – 4:25
  14. "Another Space Song" – 5:10
  15. "Stuck on You" – 4:28
  16. "Heliotropic" – 6:14
  17. "Daylight" – 6:00

Personnel

  • Ken Andrews – vocals, guitar, bass
  • Greg Edwards – bass, 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).

    Chart Position

    "Stuck On You" had charted on Billboard's Alternative Rock (January 11th) and Mainstream Rock charts (January 25) in early 1997. The single left both charts nine weeks after appearing.

    Influences

  • "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".
  • "Smoking Umbrellas" was covered by Phil Ritchie on Rock Star: Supernova, and was also covered by SouthFM.
  • "Sergeant Politeness" was played live at solo concerts between 2004 and 2006 by Melissa Auf der Maur with her band Auf der Maur. A recording of a rendition was released on her Single "Taste You".
  • New York alternative rock band Pillowhead is named after the track of the same name.
  • Songs

    1Saturday Saviour4:28
    2Sergeant Politeness4:05
    3Segue 11:54

    References

    Fantastic Planet (album) Wikipedia