allmusic still lists Failure's Fantastic Planet as merely a 2-star album

"Daylight" is also a keeper, and not just for the killer plinky-plunky mistuned-piano hook.

Yes yes DC is a legend 'round these parts. We quote him like we quote Morrissey and Sly Stone. Quite a while back, someone wrote this in honor of him:
Artist: Nirvana
Album Title: Nevermind
Date of Release: Sep 24, 1991
AMG Rating: * [one star]
Genre: Rock
Styles: Grunge, Alternative Pop/Rock
1994: Doug Fieger, phone your brother. Poncey Knack-ered pop songs that add pinch-upon-punch of guitar sludge with all the enthusiasm of Jamie Oliver in front of the prawn case at the local butcher have now become de rigueur on US radio. Invisible airwaves crackle with strife. The two-note tortes are all Kurdt's fault, and no it isn't pukka. Black Francis lectures on Soft/Loud but that Spicoli bloke is in the back with spitballs. Care to share some with the rest of the class? Ed Kowalczyk's up front scrawling "I Alone" while having a spell of Rum-Tum-Tug-That-Daft-Pontytail with the Hairy One from the Melvins. Even the headmaster loses the plot. "Aloha, Mr. Stomachcramps." Loverboy's been warned: Nirvana's got a fuzzbox and they're gonna throw it through their SUV window. What's worse, there's a Youngbloods reference. Is that Freedom Rock, mate? Someone's pulling our hole-knee bekecked legs. Yanks raise a collective eyebrow. 2001: Gregg Alexander sticks up Cinnabon with his droogs and kicks all our asses. An Ark 21 bigwig by the name of Miles chokes on his shark steak sandwich. Fibonacci rips off Diophantus. This is tardcore. And I swear that I don't have a pun.
-- Andy K (andke...), June 11th, 2002.

Dudes who give a shit (all one of you): PARAMOUR covered "Stuck On You" a few years ago!!!

Like I said PARAMORE

Great album, pulled it out tonight for a spin.

"PARAMOUR covered "Stuck On You" a few years ago!!!"

really?

FAILURE ANNOUNCE TREE OF STARS TOUR

April 7, 2014, Los Angeles - Failure, the influential LA trio who recently reunited for their first shows in sixteen years, have announced the Tree of Stars North American 2014 Tour.

The tour kicks off with the band's previously announced Cinquanta shows on May 10 and 11 in Los Angeles and will see shows throughout North America including Chicago, New York and Toronto.

Tree of Stars North American Tour 2014

May 10 Los Angeles, CA Cinquanta (The Greek Theatre)
May 11 Los Angeles, CA Cinquanta (The Greek Theatre)
May 14 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall*
May 15 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall*
May 17 Vancouver, BC Rickshaw Theatre*
May 18 Seattle, WA The Showbox*
May 21 Minneapolis, MN The Varsity*
May 22 Chicago, IL The Metro**
May 24 Milwaukee, WI The Rave II**
May 25 Detroit, MI St. Andrew's Hall**
May 26 Toronto, ON Mod Club*
May 27 Toronto, ON Mod Club*
May 29 New York, NY Irving Plaza*
May 30 Philadelphia, PA Theatre of Living Arts*
May 31 Asbury Park, NJ The Stone Pony*
June 1 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club*
June 3 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg*
June 5 Silver Spring, MD The Fillmore*

Dunno when it happened, but it looks like it's now a 2 and a half star album.

new album coming out this month.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2015/06/failure_share_m.html

streaming

http://www.stereogum.com/1811275/stream-failure-the-heart-is-a-monster/mp3s/

Out now. I've only made it through half the album because, unsurprisingly, it's very dense, but it sounds great.

Velvet Rope - 2.5 stars
Out of Time - 2.5 stars

Oh, I thought this was an Allmusic gets it wrong thread.

afaik this is the only thread for Failure the band. Apparently they don't have much of a following on ilx.

there's a joke in there somewhere

I kinda gave up on discussing Failure on ILX. The new one is ok and possibly getting warmer on repeated listens.

Yeah, I guess discussion on in an A Perfect Circle thread led me to believe that they were super popular here.

Anyway, I find that I'm warming to the album, but it still takes me a while to get through. Hot Traveler has been stuck in my head for the last few days though.

Mulholland Drive kinda trips me up in the middle. I don't need a Beatles/Beach Boys patische in the middle of a Failure record. It is no Nurse Who Loved Me either.

The rest of the album is holding up really well for me though.

fantastic planet is incredible.

the new one is okay, though i think it'd be better if it started four or five tracks later than it does (forget where). i like "mulholland drive" but it's maybe a little weird in context. cool to hear "i can hear houses" recorded finally but they either lost something in the studio or it's less than i'd imagined it to be based on the bootleg i heard years and years ago.

also, kinda lame to begin and end the record with "segues" imo, especially numbering them 4 through 9, as though this album were a literal sequel to FP. just underscores how this album's best only barely beats out that one's worst (though by pre-FP standards, however questionable those may be, it fares much better).

at this point i love the new record and my esteem for it only grows with each listen

prob my favorite rock album of the year

I keep coming beck to it as well.

Like, I listen to the whole thing every couple weeks, but I still don't feel like I've unlocked all its riches.

Never really dug into it past the advance tracks, need to get on that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzC8fyC4j_g

the eps they've been releasing this year have been phenomenal

and the new album is even better than the heart is a monster https://open.spotify.com/album/7xaaWnqHbVIJYBOFadtXKC?si=YEBBNhDfRpK8zXAueT4NCw

idk, simon, flappy, do you like this band? i feel like both of y'all could get down with this record

periodic update that a new failure album is coming out, wild type droid, december 3rd, both singles rule ass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC8AQ7uWKk0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWjQlQWcsI4

both previous failure albums were to the standard of fantastic planet and i still desperately need the ilm failure crew to reassemble

!!

fuck. yeah.

omg “bad translation”

this is all i've listened to today, it's phenomenal

idk what it is but I feel like I already know what every new Failure song is going to sound like before pressing play.

I'll definitely give the new one a shot. So far I simply don't hear any 2015-present Failure at the same level of dopeness as stuff like Smoking Umbrellas or Dirty Blue Balloons or Solaris.

not “counterfeit sky”? “what makes it easy”? “heavy and blind”? idk i think they picked up right where they left off and i never get tired of the sound

Looks like I posted on this thread 16 years ago (!) but I'm not sure I've thought about Failure since then.

Stuck On You still sounds good, even as a bedroom youtube acoustic cover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMsdGChZRus

holy fuckin shit @ the last five tracks of this album

Damn I wish I could find a copy of In the Future...

the last four tracks of in the future... >>>>>>

guess i'm heading there next

Headed to Magnified next. Whoa! Moth is amaaaaazing

the whole opening run is amazing, Frogs being all weirdly epic and then Bernie sounding like Slint doing an alt-rock slammer

but Moth is like, something else

Just finally got a copy of In the Future, looks like I gotta track down Magnified next. Kicking myself now because I definitely remember that one popping up in the bins regularly in college, but I hadn't yet discovered the magnificence of Fantastic Planet and the cover always gave me "corny alt-rock also-ran" vibes so I never checked it out.

I've met lots of people who like Magnified the best.

"Undone" might be my #1.

Opening track of In The Future... is a Radioheadish 00s-indie song?

But a really, really good one lol

was revisiting the heart is a monster last week and i think i just have to admit it's my favorite failure album, the songs all slap and the dream concept is extremely my shit

One of those bands I feel slightly affronted to not have been informed of earlier

Wild Type Droid sounding absolutely amazing tonight

"You haven't heard 90 percent of what I record (no-name bands, many of whom are just starting out), who make Failure sound like Stravinsky" - Steve Albini.

Huh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU0XQNbiBuc

I’m not sure what compelled me, but I watched this doc today (streaming on Hulu). It was… ok.

I know of Failure—I bought their debut back in the day and I might have bought the others, I don’t remember—but I am not of the cohort that thinks Fantastic Planet is a lost masterpiece. I don’t think it’s bad, either, I just am basically ambivalent to them. Nevertheless I was attracted to this doc because I think the story of a mid-tier 90s band is kind of interesting.

This doc gets into some of what I was looking for—that era of alt rock where the labels were throwing money at bands, most of whom failed to take off. And as rock docs go I liked that this was necessarily NOT structured like a “rise and fall” behind-the-music doc. I mean, it’s two hours long and they get to the point of breaking up before the first hour is over. The drug addiction portion is substantial (if not always palpable).

Then again, it has to be noted that this documentary is directed by the lead singer of the band. And you can tell—the sheer number of people in this film bowing down to Failure and Fantastic Planet as otherworldly/next-level genius is just bewildering. Every time you have someone saying something like “I couldn’t believe these sounds, NO ONE was doing this!!!” it’s followed by some generic alt-rock riff from one of their not-at-all recognizable songs. And then the last 30 minutes is dedicated to their reunion album which, you might be surprised to learn from the filmmaker, is just as good as anything they’d ever done before and might even be better!

Ultimately there is something interesting buried in here, you just have to look under the massive grains of salt.

You just made some powerful enemies on this borad

lol, still?

allmusic holding firm with that 2.5 stars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_Z5OXxLRRQ

Failure and Suede are pretty much the gold standard in turning an extended comeback into a new creative blossoming. This sounds great as ever

new album will feature hayley williams on a song

oh yeah and the new song rules

new album will feature hayley williams on a song

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i did see that and think of you lol