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| | Fantastic Planet | | | Music Artist : | | Failure | | Music Style : | | Alternative Metal | | Record Label : | | Warner Bros / Wea | | Release Date : | | 1996-08-13 | | Store Price : | | $13.96 | | Artistopia's Price: $13.96 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Saturday Saviour
2. Sergeant Politeness
3. Segue 1
4. Smoking Umbrellas
5. Pillowhead
6. Blank
7. Segue 2
8. Dirty Blue Balloons
9. Solaris
10. Pitiful
11. Leo
12. Segue 3
13. Nurse Who Loved Me
14. Another Space Song
15. Stuck on You
16. Heliotropic
17. Daylight
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Fantastic!
Submitted on: 2009-09-16 |
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| I listened to this for the first time yesterday and haven't listened to anything else since. The texture is orgasmic, the continuity flawless. The songs tend to start out with a grungy sound before transcending into the realm of psychedelic progressive, kind of like The Toadies meets Pink Floyd. The Nurse Who Loved Me pwns A Perfect Circle's cover of it, and that says a lot. Other favorites of mine are Saturday Savior, Blank, Pitiful, and of course the closing track, Daylight. It really leaves you with the feeling that this isn't just a collection of songs, but a concept album of sorts. To me, its a story about someone that lives a shallow life, finds meaning then loses it again, but listen for yourself and see what it says to you. At any rate it seems to go through four phases, divided by the segues. The lyrics are powerfully honest, a little poppy but I like that in this context. Its a shame they broke up after this album, they could have made some great contributions to music. Not that this album alone isn't enough. I highly recommend it to anybody, but especially people that like grunge and space rock as this will be right up your alley. |
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 Sounds better now that I've gotten past "Stuck On You"
Submitted on: 2009-08-13 |
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| In all seriousnesss "Stuck On You" is definitely one of the top 10 worst songs of the 90's. I found this to be a cross between Nine Inch Nails and Foo Fighters. I was rather impressed with how edgy this actually sounds. My personal favorite is "Sergeant Politeness", with "Pitiful", and "Segue 3" running in at a close 2nd. I found out about this group when I was looking for who did "Stuck On You", and a radio station pointed me in the right direction. I may want to sample some more albums by this group as the debut sounded pretty good. Let's face it I'm a sucker for a grungy guitar. |
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The Opposite of Failure
Submitted on: 2009-07-12 |
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| Ok, this one really struck me big time. It is an amazing piece of work in several aspects. Incredibly creative, insightful and well produced. The great quality about them is that they manage to put up something really unique, without getting away from the melody -- they are experimental, but won't exaggerate on it like some bands do (Sonic Youth, for instance). It's the perfect balance between pop and grunge. I'd give it 6 starts if I could! |
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 Best when brooding
Submitted on: 2009-02-20 |
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| Failure's third and final attempt not to be one was another successfully underground attempt to further breed their slickly distorted, hard-rock depressants into an even catchier, and sometimes friendlier sound, with mixed results. With a name like theirs, it needn't be said that the group works best in a negative melodic musical context, and songs to the contrary, while still mainly competent and even mildly infectious, do not serve Failure's strength. |
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Failure? A Success!
Submitted on: 2007-09-17 |
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As seems to happen all too much throughout the history of music, Failure is one of those magnificent bands that go overlooked in the mainstream. Fantastic Planet is arguably one of the best albums of the 90's. There is nothing drastically revolutionary about this album. Yet in this lies it's brilliance. What you are presented with here is a collection of straight-up rock songs that flow prefectly in and out of one another.
In the vein of Hum, Failure was dubbed a "space rock" band, and judging from the aptly titled "Solaris" and "Another Space Song", the tag is pretty dead on. The melodies on this album will float you on a cloud before thundering you back to earth. One of the better songs on the album, "The Nurse Who Loved Me" is probably better known from being covered by A Perfect Circle, but the original here holds it's own brand of magnificence.
There is not a bad song on the album. Period. |
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