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'
Fantastic Planet cover
Studio album by Failure
Released August 13, 1996
Genre Alternative rock, Space rock
Length 68:00
Label Slash Records/Warner Bros.
Producer Failure
Professional reviews
Failure chronology
Magnified
(1994)		 Fantastic Planet
(1996)		 Golden
(2004)

Fantastic Planet is the third and final studio album by the American 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,bass
  • Greg Edwards – bass guitar, guitar, percussion, piano
  • Kellii Scott – drums

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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".

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