Fantastic Planet (album)
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Fantastic Planet is the third and final studio album by the American
rock band
Failure
. It was the last album released on Slash Records
as distributed by Warner Bros. 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 Modern Rock 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 course through the album's lyrics, as well as various indirect references to drug addiction, drug-related experiences, and prostitution. Seven of the album's songs were also included on Failure's Essentials, a best-of collection from 2006.
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.
Recorded at F.P.S. Studios (Los Angeles
CA
) and Madhatter Studios Silverlake CA.
Mastered by Tom Baker at Future Disc, Hollywood
CA.
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Failure
Failure (band)
Failure was an American rock band that was active from 1990 to 1997, during which they recorded and released three critically acclaimed albums...
. It was the last album released on Slash Records
Slash Records
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as distributed by Warner Bros. The album failed to chart on Billboard
Billboard 200
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albums, but did produce a charting single with "Stuck on You", which reached #23 on Billboard
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.
Track listing
All tracks by Ken Andrews & Greg Edwards- "Saturday Saviour" – 4:27
- "Sergeant Politeness" – 4:05
- "Segue 1" - 1:56
- "Smoking Umbrellas" – 3:58
- "Pillowhead" - 2:11
- "Blank" – 5:38
- "Segue 2" - 1:19
- "Dirty Blue Balloons" – 4:23
- "Solaris" – 3:43
- "Pitiful" – 4:45
- "Leo" – 3:05
- "Segue 3" - 2:13
- "The Nurse Who Loved Me" – 4:25
- "Another Space Song" – 5:10
- "Stuck on You" – 4:28
- "Heliotropic" – 6:14
- "Daylight" – 6:00
Personnel
- Ken Andrews – vocals, guitar, bass
- Greg Edwards – bass guitar, guitar, percussion, piano
- Kellii Scott – drums
Credits
Produced by Failure; engineered by Ken Andrews.Recorded at F.P.S. Studios (Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
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CA
California
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) and Madhatter Studios Silverlake CA.
Mastered by Tom Baker at Future Disc, Hollywood
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
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CA.
Miscellany
- A videoMusic videoA music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
was produced for the single "Stuck on You" which closely resembles the opening credits of the James BondJames BondJames Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film The Spy Who Loved MeThe Spy Who Loved Me (film)The Spy Who Loved Me is a spy film, the tenth film in the James Bond series, and the third to star Roger Moore as the fictional secret agent James Bond. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert and the screenplay was written by Christopher Wood and Richard Maibaum...
(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 LeeuwenTroy Van LeeuwenTroy Dean Van Leeuwen is an American musician and producer. Van Leeuwen began playing music at young age and started playing guitar at age 13. Soon Van Leeuwen was playing in various local bands such as Jester, 60 Cycle and later Failure...
joined Failure around the time of this album's release. - "The Nurse Who Loved Me" was coveredCover versionIn popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
by A Perfect CircleA Perfect CircleA Perfect Circle is an American rock supergroup formed in 1999 by guitarist Billy Howerdel and Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan. The original incarnation of the band also included Paz Lenchantin on bass, Troy Van Leeuwen on guitar, and Tim Alexander on drums...
on their 2003 album Thirteenth StepThirteenth StepThirteenth Step is the second studio album by American rock band A Perfect Circle, released under Compact Disc format on September 16, 2003. It was a major success reaching the #2 position on the Billboard 200 in its premiere week, selling over 231,000 copies and staying on the charts for 78 weeks....
. - "Another Space Song" was covered by Statistics, the solo project of Denver DalleyDenver DalleyDenver Dalley is an accomplished singer-songwriter who got his start in Omaha, Nebraska.Dalley collaborated with Conor Oberst of the band Bright Eyes in the politically-charged indie rock band Desaparecidos. Dalley was the main songwriter while Oberst provided lyrics. The band released one album on...
of DesaparecidosDesaparecidos (band)Desaparecidos was a short-lived American emo/post-hardcore band. It was a side project headed by singer/guitarist Conor Oberst, the frontman of the indie folk band Bright Eyes....
, and released on Location is Everything Vol. 2, a Jade Tree RecordsJade Tree RecordsJade Tree International, Inc. was an independent record label formed by Darren Walters and Tim Owen in August 1991, out of Wilmington, Delaware....
sampler disc. - "Stuck on You" was covered by ParamoreParamoreParamore is an American rock band from Franklin, Tennessee, formed in 2004. The band consists of lead vocalist Hayley Williams, bassist Jeremy Davis, and guitarist Taylor York...
on their 2006 CD The Summer Tic EPThe Summer Tic EPThe Summer Tic EP is an EP by American rock band Paramore that was sold during the 2006 Warped Tour and the tour supporting their previously released album All We Know Is Falling. The name of the EP comes from a line in the song "Stuck on You", which is a cover of a song by Failure.-Track...
; the title of the CD is taken from the song's lyrics, albeit with "tick" changed to "tic". - "Smoking Umbrellas" was covered by Phil RitchiePhil RitchiePhil Ritchie was the lead singer of the band Lennex, who has also performed on the North American Television show Rock Star: Supernova on CBS in the summer of 2006...
on Rock Star: Supernova. - "Sergeant Politeness" was played live at solo concerts between 2004 and 2006 by Melissa auf der MaurMelissa Auf der MaurMelissa Auf der Maur is a Canadian rock musician from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her career has included 5 years as bassist with the band Hole and she later toured with The Smashing Pumpkins for their 2000 tour. Her second solo album, Out of Our Minds, was released on March 30, 2010. She is also a...
with her band Auf der Maur. A recording of a rendition was released on her Single "Taste YouTaste You"Taste You" is the third and final single from Auf der Maur's self-titled solo debut. Like the album's previous single, it failed to chart in the U.S. Due to a successful UK tour, the song received a moderate amount of airplay and peaked at number 51...
".
External links
- RockNet interview with Kellii Scott about the album (November 1996)