there's a joke in there somewhere
― rahrah avis (imago), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link
I kinda gave up on discussing Failure on ILX. The new one is ok and possibly getting warmer on repeated listens.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 2 July 2015 05:28 (eight years ago) link
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.
― how's life, Thursday, 2 July 2015 13:44 (eight years ago) link
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.
― how's life, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 13:52 (eight years ago) link
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).
― soyrev, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 15:58 (eight years ago) link
at this point i love the new record and my esteem for it only grows with each listen
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 19:05 (eight years ago) link
prob my favorite rock album of the year
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 19:06 (eight years ago) link
I keep coming beck to it as well.
― can't stop won't stop chooglin (how's life), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 20:36 (eight years ago) link
Like, I listen to the whole thing every couple weeks, but I still don't feel like I've unlocked all its riches.
― can't stop won't stop chooglin (how's life), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 20:43 (eight years ago) link
Never really dug into it past the advance tracks, need to get on that
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 20:45 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzC8fyC4j_g
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 1 April 2018 03:24 (six years ago) link
the eps they've been releasing this year have been phenomenal
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 October 2018 19:10 (five years ago) link
and the new album is even better than the heart is a monster https://open.spotify.com/album/7xaaWnqHbVIJYBOFadtXKC?si=YEBBNhDfRpK8zXAueT4NCw
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 16 November 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
idk, simon, flappy, do you like this band? i feel like both of y'all could get down with this record
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 16 November 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
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
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 21:28 (two years ago) link
both previous failure albums were to the standard of fantastic planet and i still desperately need the ilm failure crew to reassemble
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 21:32 (two years ago) link
!!
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 21:32 (two years ago) link
fuck. yeah.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 21:40 (two years ago) link
omg “bad translation”
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 3 December 2021 14:42 (two years ago) link
this is all i've listened to today, it's phenomenal
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 3 December 2021 21:56 (two years ago) link
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.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 5 December 2021 20:02 (two years ago) link
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
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 5 December 2021 21:30 (two years ago) link
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
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 02:35 (two years ago) link
holy fuckin shit @ the last five tracks of this album
― imago, Friday, 27 January 2023 14:03 (one year ago) link
Damn I wish I could find a copy of In the Future...
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 27 January 2023 16:07 (one year ago) link
the last four tracks of in the future... >>>>>>
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 17:12 (one year ago) link
guess i'm heading there next
― imago, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 17:13 (one year ago) link
Headed to Magnified next. Whoa! Moth is amaaaaazing
― imago, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 12:26 (one year ago) link
the whole opening run is amazing, Frogs being all weirdly epic and then Bernie sounding like Slint doing an alt-rock slammer
― imago, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 15:35 (one year ago) link
but Moth is like, something else
― imago, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 15:36 (one year ago) link
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.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 15:40 (one year ago) link
I've met lots of people who like Magnified the best.
"Undone" might be my #1.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 17:39 (one year ago) link
Opening track of In The Future... is a Radioheadish 00s-indie song?
But a really, really good one lol
― imago, Thursday, 2 March 2023 14:55 (one year ago) link
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
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 March 2023 15:01 (one year ago) link
One of those bands I feel slightly affronted to not have been informed of earlier
― imago, Thursday, 2 March 2023 15:08 (one year ago) link