Fantastic Planet (album)

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The English language version of the 1973 film La Planète Sauvage was also titled Fantastic Planet.

Fantastic Planet
Studio album by Failure
Released	August 13, 1996
Recorded	Los Angeles: F.P.S Studios; Silverlake, CA: Madhatter Studios
Genre	Space rock, Alternative rock
Length	68:00
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer(s)	Ken Andrews
Professional reviews
All Music Guide: link
Failure chronology
Magnified (1994)	Fantastic Planet (1996)	Golden (2004)

Fantastic Planet was the third and final studio album by the American space rock band Failure.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Saturday Saviour" – 4:27
2. "Sergeant Politeness" – 4:05
3. "Segue 1" - 1:56
4. "Smoking Umbrellas" – 3:58
5. "Pillowhead" - 2:11
6. "Blank" – 5:38
7. "Segue 2" - 1:19
8. "Dirty Blue Balloons" – 4:23
9. "Solaris" – 3:43
10. "Pitiful" – 4:45
11. "Leo" – 3:05
12. "Segue 3" - 2:13
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

[edit] Personnel

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

Produced by Failure; engineered by Ken Andrews.
Mastered by Tom Baker at Future Disc, Hollywood, CA.

[edit] Covers

• The song "The Nurse Who Loved Me" was covered by A Perfect Circle on their 2003 album, Thirteenth Step.
• "Another Space Song" was also covered by the experimental outfit mindFIELD.
• "Another Space Song" was also covered by Statistics, the solo project of Denver Dalley of Deseparecidos.

[edit] Video

• There is one video for the single "Stuck on You", done in the style of a James Bond introductory sequence. Other songs, such as "Saturday Saviour" and "Pitiful", were released as radio singles, but no videos were made for them.

[edit] External links

• RockNet interview with Kellii Scott about the album (November 1996)