9/4/26 - 🎸Four Tune Friday! On Nineties Friday! One Band! Four Tunes! 🎶 Nineties Alternative Rock Band Spotlight! Failure & There 1996 Masterpiece “Fantastic Planet” 💿

9/4/26 - 🎸Four Tune Friday! On Nineties Friday! One Band! Four Tunes! 🎶 Nineties Alternative Rock Band Spotlight! Failure & There 1996 Masterpiece “Fantastic Planet” 💿

Today I’ll be bringing ya 4 tunes and doing a special band Spotlight on this #FourTuneFriday on #NinetiesFriday

From the year 1996 I’ll be sharing tunes from the band Failure. All tunes from the bands 1996 album (Fantastic Planet). I’ll also bring you a bonus jam from each of the bands earlier albums (1994 & 1992). I only learned today that the band themselves produced two of there three nineties albums, very uncommon practice and I must say for 1996’s Fantastic Planet it worked out well! It sounds great! I do wonder though if it could have even been better?

Let’s Go!

Band - Failure
Song - Saturday Saviour
Album - Fantastic Planet (1996)

Band - Failure
Song - Sergeant Politeness
Album - Fantastic Planet (1996)

Band - Failure
Song - Smoking Umbrellas
Album - Fantastic Planet (1996)

Band - Failure
Song - Stuck On You
Album - Fantastic Planet (1996)

Album: Fantastic Planet by Failure (1996)
Genre: Alternative Rock / Space Rock /
Release Date: August 13, 1996
Producer: Failure

All songs above are from this album ⬆️

For bonus jams here’s two songs from the first two Failure records! The first released in 1992. The second released in 1994.

Band - Failure
Song - Macaque
Album - Comfort (1992)
Producer - Steve Albini

Band - Failure
Song - Frogs
Album - Magnified (1994)
Producer - Failure (The band Themselves)

The band broke up in 1997 after Fantastic Planet tour run. The album sales increased quite a bit from the 1994 record and the label was pushing the band to record a follow-up but sadly the band was unable to do so. Two of the four members were heavy into drugs and couldn’t function so they broke up. That said they released a new album in 2014 and another in 2018 which was followed by another in 2021 & a brand new one in 2026. I’m not feeling the same vibe on these four albums but here’s one more bonus tune from latest!

Band - Failure
Song - The Rising Skyline (featuring Hayley Williams of Paramore)
Album - Location Lost (2026)

Thanks for swinging by! Not any big hits this week but definitely a good band who deserved more love and attention. Stuck On You was a minor hit but this band commercially just didn’t get its due. This album should be in every single persons Alternative Rock Album collection!