Failure (King Missile album)

Failure
Studio album by King Missile
Released	September 15, 1998
Genre	Avant-garde
Length	47:50
Label	Shimmy Disc
Producer	Bradford Reed
King Missile chronology
King Missile (1994) Failure (1998) The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (2003)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Ink 19	(favorable)[2]
Lollipop	(unfavorable)[3]

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.

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
   • This track appears in a different arrangement on Hall's 1996 album The Body Has a Head.
4. "Up My Ass" (Forte, Hall, Reed) – 3:27
5. "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
6. "Despair" (Curtis, Forte, Hall, Reed) – 6:05
7. "Monks" (Forte, Hall, Reed) – 2:40
8. "Gay/Not Gay" (Forte, Hall, Reed) – 6:19
9. "Happiness" (Curtis, Hall) – 2:23
10. "Mr. Pomerantz" (Forte, Hall, Reed, Scarpantoni) – 1:50
11. "Juniper Dog" (Forte, Hall, Reed, Scarpantoni) – 4:20
12. "Tour Diary: Louisville" (Curtis, Hall, Reed) – 1:33
13. "The Adventures of Planky" (Forte, Hall, Reed, Scarpantoni) – 4:50
14. "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"

References