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Fantastic Planet is the third album by the American alternative rock band Failure, released on August 13, 1996, by Slash Records and Warner Bros. Records. It was the last album released on Slash Records prior to its acquisition by London Recordings in 1996. The album was produced by Failure themselves in a process that took longer than their previous two albums, with each song being recorded and produced soon after being written. Space rock themes are present in the lyrics, as well as various indirect references to drug addiction, drug-related experiences, and prostitution. The album is cyclical, in that the chiming sound effect which ends the final track "Daylight" begins the opening track "Saturday Saviour", and was the beginning of a system of numerically designated segues in Failure's studio work, which would continue on later albums. Despite receiving critical acclaim, the album failed to make an appearance on the Billboard 200 chart, but it did produce a charting single with "Stuck on You", which reached No. 23 on Billboard's Alternative Songs Chart. Seven of the album's songs were also included on Failure's Essentials, a best-of collection from 2006. Fantastic Planet would be Failure's last studio album for nineteen years until the release of The Heart Is a Monster (2015).
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I long thought that any Grunge band couldn't impress me anymore, but I've found something different in Failure and this album's probably their best. I don't know if I would've added it to the list, but it's quite fun!
An incredibly dense, massive LP, reminds me of a darker, sludgier Hum in many ways. The core instrumental sound (or wall thereof) is striking, the heavy guitar interlocking perfectly with the pounding rhythm section to create tracks as dense as a concrete slab. The album's only weakness is too much of a good thing – there's a few repetitive tracks thrown in, cut out the fat and this would easily be a 5. Awesome add, we need some heavier 90s' era grunge/sludge on the list for sure.
Good enough
Decent
I like quite a lot of this. When I say quite a lot of it, I mean about forty minutes of it. Given it's 67 minutes long, I guess that's just over half. The shoegazey, over-long stuff really should have been cut. There's easily a great forty minute album in this - I'd possibly even extend to 45, because hey, leeway, but over an hour? Ouch.
Alternative rock, post-grunge, space rock, art rock. Ni fu ni fa.
Sure sounds like 1996 rock
It's just alright for me. Sounds like they were trying hard to be the next Nirvana. 3 stars.
Source material for APC and some underlying influences. Somewhat boring though.
Late era grungey rock, would have done well a few years earlier
Saw the cover and inwardly groaned but it's actually ok. Solid tunes and varied enough to be interesting.
Solid alt-rock of this particular era and genre, but there is a lot of this kind of thing out there. A little persistently down-tempo for me, and lyrically it never really grabbed me. Still, some interesting sounds, I certainly didn't dislike it.
I don’t think this brought anything new to the my brain disco and nothing stood out I’m afraid
Wtf, eh