When I found this guys, and saw all the comments going like "Failure the most underrated band ever" etc. I thought fans were overreacting. Now that I've listened to all albums and tracks, I can deeply understand what me and so many have been missing. Even after they came back in 2021 with Wild Type Droid, a great album, and some of the best musicians like Maynard Keenan, Dean DeLeo, Troy Van Leeuwen showing so much appreciation and respect for them, they still don't have the recognize they deserve. I think they belong to that class of artists ahead of their time whose art will only be really recognized in a distant future.
They're often mentioned in tandem with HUM and Swervedriver, it's interesting that so many people agree those three bands were so underrated and yet... they're still underrated!
I don't understand why faliure weren't bigger in the 90's, they're waaaay more technically advanced than any other 90's band and are just so proficient at their instruments
At first glance, they sound kind of like a discount Nirvana/Early Tool type band. Which is unfortunate, because they do have some great songs, and severely underrated albums. I'm not surprised that they didn't get big back then, but now is a better time than ever for people to discover them.
@@marniestewart I don't think he meant it as a knock on Failure. I can understand as well why they weren't big in the 90's also, because well...I'm 39 and by the late 90's had never even heard of them. This was pre widespread internet and unless radio played you nobody knew you. Failure were/are a great band. But they didn't have the MTV flashiness of some of the other bands..they were more album oriented and cerebral. I first discovered them around 2001 from a Tool fan forum. And tried to get a friend into them but his response was along the lines of "they sound like a 90's band". But anyway, surprised I typed this much. This band ROCKS
The legend of the Wal Bass was born here. I believe it was Edwards who originally suggested to Tool bassist Chancellor that the Wal Bass sound would be perfect for the Tool sound.
I love the concept of distorted bass replacing rhythm guitar. Strumming bass that still fits inside the music isn't the easiest task. I think this is crucial to their original sound and I want to copy it so much.
Hello 7 months ago! I was surprised, having a binge of failure interviews this evening, and most are just the same old intervjuers not actually talking/listening/being there with their subjuect, but in this one, she felt like someone who enjoys doing her job and enojy the band.
A band you can actually feel. The first time I heard them was on my radio in the morning during the 90's before I went to school. Instead of an alarm it was the radio, and Stuck on you was playing - I'll never forget it.
0:00 KEXP Intro 0:31 Hot Traveler 5:33 Another Space Song 10:28 Interview (2014 Comeback) 19:03 Atom City Queen 23:32 The Nurse Who Loved Me Edit: For those that do want to hear the interview segments
Fantastic Planet helped me so much when I was strung out on painkillers. During the addiction, and after I kicked and got clean. When I was using, I was trying to deal with a bad breakup, and the album was just such a great escape while I was escaping the world and trying to find my own meaning in life. Then after I got clean, it serves as something of a reminder that I hope to never be in that place again. It's such a joy to have Failure back in the present day!
+MouthlyKnives I think these guys provides excellent sources, that helps. But yes, I totally agree, it is a really good mix. I guess KEXP are pretty good at this generally speaking.
i am pretty sure Ken had something to do with it! when they came to my town it sounded better than that anything came before! i am sure they brought gear and or sound man
Blessed to see Failure open for TOOL in '94 in a tiny club in West Palm Beach, Fl. Blessed again to see Failure "open" for TOOL again in 2016 in Denver, Co. They played the night before. Fantastic Planet in it's holy entirety. Sometimes I don't realize how lucky I am.
Wish I saw them when they toured with Deftones. Failure are reminding me of all sorts of awesome 90's bands I'd forgotten.HelmetSmoking PopesQuicksandOrange 9mmHandsomeGarden VarietyChavezShinerSmall Brown Biketons more...
Amazing performance. This band just reeks authenticity and understated brilliance. New record WILD TYPE DROID is spectacular. They're 3 for 3 since reuniting. I'm grateful for their gifts.
Mike Skinner from The Streets very publicly lamented that getting rich and famous made him lose his connection to the life that let him write so well. Failure definitely hasn’t had an easy road with serious addiction, as the guys have all spoken at length about. That shared trauma no doubt lends them some real strength and cohesion these days. Adversity can inspire, if you survive the adverse event. Lucky for us, the guys all pulled through. Opiates have taken too many musicians already.
It's great to see Ken Andrews and the guys together again, and releasing new music as well. I never understood why *Fantastic Planet* didn't get more attention when it was released.
Some of their tracks sound like alt metal mixed with space rock, some others are like grunge mixed with space rock... I don't even know their entire discography but I can already notice how versatile and good they are as a band, wow! I can totally understand why so many people love them.
I found MAGNIFIED at my local music store when it released. Thought the cover was badass, track list looked good, so gave it a shot. Blown away ever since!!!!
We're all kind of blessed all these guys are still around and healthy.. A lot of this Era is just dead and gone. I'm excited to see where this goes, awesome show!
I used to see these guys play all around LA back in the 90's. They were so good. Glad they're making music again. I had to stop listening to their first two albums, the songs made me wanna do heroin again. Enough time has passed, now I can enjoy them and not worry that it'll trigger a relapse. I can even listen to Dirty Blue Balloons. : )
Dirty Blue Balloons was the first song I ever heard. While cooking up a shot. Made me cry. I love failure so muh because I remember what it was like being addicted listening to their old stuff and then Dark Speed came along and I was like yes this is what it's like to be clean
Kevin Suggs, you deserve so much more recognition! Whenever I see a set with solid sound, I open the description and your name is right there, great stuff!
Great example of what modern amp modelers can do. I believe both are playing through Axe FXs. XLR straight to the panel. For those who commented on the mix, that's why it sounds so good.
God I’m so glad I discovered this band without trying to find a something old yet new to me. I was born in 93 and as a musician I love this type of tone and guitar technique
Not a bad performance for being the first time in my life I come to listen to these bloody monster musicians. Thanks god (or whatever exists beyond our limited senses) for bringing shuch a wonderful new musical discover to my existence. But, most of all, thanks to Failure for coming back
Wanted to add my voice to the "I can't believe it took me so long to find these guys". Some of my favorite bands over the years...Led Zeppelin, Rush, Van Halen, Queensryche, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Live, Smashing Pumpkins, Tool, Muse, others...feel like it's all been leading up to Failure. Discovered them with the talk of taking off the recent albums off Spotify. I believe Fantastic Planet is now my favorite album ever. These guys are so talented...
Failure was so far ahead of their time I listen to them a few time s when I got the CD and shelved it thinking what the hell is this Played it years later and thought boy this is great stuff . Why did I not listen to this earlier .
This band actually scream 'Anemoia'. Being born in 96 I feel like they perfectly encapsulate some cosmic nostalgia I never really experienced, but it keeps me coming back to them again and again.
So incredible seeing them. Another Space Song will always have a special place in my heart. I would love to see them do Heliotropic during one of their radio station sets and they should totally put Moth into their live set.
Failure didn't quite get the recognition they deserved in the 90's. Their fanbase grew by leaps and bounds in their initial absence and now they've come back with some of their best material. So happy to see them active.
So sad to be underrated, but also so great to be that far ahead of your time. I’d never forgotten Replicants’ cover of Cinnamon Girl which got played a little on my local radio station. As I was only 14 at the time in 1996, I had no real way of finding out who was behind it. Now I know! (My station never played Failure that I can recall.)
SO MANY PEOPLE don't recognize Magnified, not even this "educated" radio host. It's probably Failure's most experimental, but most creative, album. It's so fucking amazing. Stop saying Fantastic Planet is like, the best thing evar. GO BUY MAGNIFIED. Appreciate it for the transcendent, whimsical stop-gap between punk and post-grunge that it is.
+William Crafton Small Crimes.....nuff said! I love both albums equally and I agree with you 100%! I'm gonna see these guys on Saturday in Ft Lauderdale. I have to ask myself if I'm dreaming. I never thought this day would come!!!!
+William Crafton I was but a wee bean of 54 days old when that album came out. I've listened to it online a few times & bought a copy a few weeks ago. It has this incredible washy yet punky sound on the guitars along with the warm harmonic bass sounds. I think it & FP take turns as my favorite failure album, depending on my mood (haven't really made my mind up about THIM yet, and Comfort kinda sounds like a discount version of Tool to me). I saw them later that night the show was maybe 40/40 FP & THIM songs but they also had some stuff like Bernie & Undone in the set too.
I'm glad you got to see them live! I saw them back in August in Denver, it was pretty fucking great. I got to hear Bernie and Wet Gravity from Magnified on that tour set, and honestly, the only other track I would've asked for is Small Crimes. :) Although, I disagree with you on Comfort - it sounds a lot like Steve Albini's early bands (he produced Comfort), and I think that's why the band was originally disappointed with how it turned out. Recently, when they played 'Macaque" live, it sounded a lot deeper, with more resonating layers, than the studio recording. But, I still really enjoy Comfort. The lyrics on that album are really simple, but dark. The musical composition on 'Submission' is just such a badass arrangement. Comfort feels just like all of their really early, self-produced recordings, and those have a special place in my heart - I'd rather listen to the original live recording of 'I Can See Houses' from the Golden DVD than the recording on The Heart is a Monster! That fretless bass gets me every time.
If I may ask, where do you hear Big Black in Comfort, because I really do not hear it? I think it's that I associate Big Black with those hammered out drums, those rabid guitars somewhere between The Cure & Void, Albini hollering; I just don't hear that in Comfort. Sonically Comfort reminds me much more of something from Opiate or the Undertow era of Tool- somewhat chuggy crunch guitar, mids-high picked bass, stuff like that. As for I Can See Houses- I think both versions have their merits- the bass sounds so much better on the live version, it's watery, reverberating stuff, it sounds like it's recorded in a partially waterlogged warehouse (like... in a good way). The treatment it gets in THIM is a much more bland result. However Fabio's awesome parties do kinda take away from the live version. It's also nice to hear it in a studio setting where you can overdub stuff, making the song much more lush sounding. Although lushiouness can be both a plus and a negative. I dunno, I think I'm with you in preferring the original, I just wish it could have been better recorded.
Love KEXP and love Failure. I thought she had fantastic questions (no pun intended), a lot of great q's around recording and their process to deliver such sonically interesting music. Fucking great to hear they still focus on the album and record songs as a whole and avoid multi-tracking. So much music today is overproduced, one track at a time. Even great artists's from the 90's (cough cough... Trent Reznor) have let that have a noticeable impact on their sound. Another comment about their new younger following: great to hear i'm not the only young music listener with a brain... I grew up in the 90's, but i'll admit, I wasn't on the failure-crack-pipe until about 5 years ago. Great all around...
Such a great example of using an Axe FX to switch through loads of very involved tones and FX chains, and make mixing far easier for lack of actual amps, rather than just "I don't wanna change the tubes in my 5150".
Goosebumps still. Amazing. Caught em once at a weird little "showcase" gig at the Viper room when Fantastic Planet came out in 96'. The room was filled with industry suits checking out their viability, me my buddy Max and like 5 other fans. The 7 of us were going apeshit and grooving while the suits looked on in wonder. I brought a camera to that show and just rocked out. Kinda wish I snapped a few now. Stoked to see you guys still thriving.
I really want Troy Van Leeuwen to rejoin. He's damn good, I can imagine the writing process with him included would elevate the band. I mean they're great now, but Troy's a great writer and his popularity from Qotsa could bring in more fanbase too. Edit: There's no way of wording this at 4am without it sounding like an insult to the band, but you know what I mean!
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This is just gorgeous, I love every song more than the original recording.
When I found this guys, and saw all the comments going like "Failure the most underrated band ever" etc. I thought fans were overreacting. Now that I've listened to all albums and tracks, I can deeply understand what me and so many have been missing. Even after they came back in 2021 with Wild Type Droid, a great album, and some of the best musicians like Maynard Keenan, Dean DeLeo, Troy Van Leeuwen showing so much appreciation and respect for them, they still don't have the recognize they deserve. I think they belong to that class of artists ahead of their time whose art will only be really recognized in a distant future.
came back in 2014* my mistake, i meant the last album in 2021
They're often mentioned in tandem with HUM and Swervedriver, it's interesting that so many people agree those three bands were so underrated and yet... they're still underrated!
@@xxczerxx exactly, how the fk are they still underrated xd
I don't understand why faliure weren't bigger in the 90's, they're waaaay more technically advanced than any other 90's band and are just so proficient at their instruments
i guess that's exactly why lel, they're way ahead of their time
DeathlyHall0w try listening to hum
At first glance, they sound kind of like a discount Nirvana/Early Tool type band. Which is unfortunate, because they do have some great songs, and severely underrated albums. I'm not surprised that they didn't get big back then, but now is a better time than ever for people to discover them.
“Discount tool/nirvana” That is so fucking untrue it’s not even funny. Please
@@marniestewart I don't think he meant it as a knock on Failure. I can understand as well why they weren't big in the 90's also, because well...I'm 39 and by the late 90's had never even heard of them. This was pre widespread internet and unless radio played you nobody knew you. Failure were/are a great band. But they didn't have the MTV flashiness of some of the other bands..they were more album oriented and cerebral. I first discovered them around 2001 from a Tool fan forum. And tried to get a friend into them but his response was along the lines of "they sound like a 90's band". But anyway, surprised I typed this much. This band ROCKS
I dig his bass tone so hard
+Fabrizio Marra easy to recreate
+An4LDr1p616 you won most in The lottery
The legend of the Wal Bass was born here. I believe it was Edwards who originally suggested to Tool bassist Chancellor that the Wal Bass sound would be perfect for the Tool sound.
I like to think that Caleb from Cave In found his bass tone after listening to Failure
I love the concept of distorted bass replacing rhythm guitar. Strumming bass that still fits inside the music isn't the easiest task. I think this is crucial to their original sound and I want to copy it so much.
The host did a great job asking questions. Props to her.
Hello 7 months ago! I was surprised, having a binge of failure interviews this evening, and most are just the same old intervjuers not actually talking/listening/being there with their subjuect, but in this one, she felt like someone who enjoys doing her job and enojy the band.
0:30 - Hot Traveler
5:32 - Another Space Song
19:03 - Atom City Queen
23:32 - The Nurse Who Loved Me
@Callum Atlas yeah guys flixzone is totally not a scam or some dumb shit lmao
@@musicdump7795 not at all lmao
I just realized that a perfect circle covered this!! Wtf, never knew! (The nurse who loved me)
@@Chloedanielle0690yes the guitar player fills in for APC live sometimes
A band you can actually feel. The first time I heard them was on my radio in the morning during the 90's before I went to school. Instead of an alarm it was the radio, and Stuck on you was playing - I'll never forget it.
Thats such a dope way to discover them 🤘
@@jarrettmartinez4233a good memory
Another Space Song is still my favourite
I was transported somewhere else immediately once the bass/guitar came in
This engineer deserves a fucking award. WOW this mix sounds fantastic! One of my favorite bands ever, too!
maybe not engineer/s but the band :)
a lot of the stuff is done by the band. literally the best live guitar tones of any band ever.
Its the band actually.
They are doing it easy to the sound engineer, watch any of his shows.
Definitely one of the easiest bands to mix. I could bet the vocal effects are brought by the band.
Bring Hum to a session, please!!
Hum on my nuts for session
Their sound, just their sound....space, cosmos, drugs, space, PURE 90s vibe! just perfect sound!
Strangely beautiful... awkwardly calming... weirdly welcoming... hauntingly poetic.. So glad these guys are back...
Finally it is now time for the rest of the world 🌍 to take notice. The greatest f'king band on the planet.
😳 💥 -FAILURE- 💥😳
0:00 KEXP Intro
0:31 Hot Traveler
5:33 Another Space Song
10:28 Interview (2014 Comeback)
19:03 Atom City Queen
23:32 The Nurse Who Loved Me
Edit: For those that do want to hear the interview segments
Fantastic Planet helped me so much when I was strung out on painkillers. During the addiction, and after I kicked and got clean. When I was using, I was trying to deal with a bad breakup, and the album was just such a great escape while I was escaping the world and trying to find my own meaning in life. Then after I got clean, it serves as something of a reminder that I hope to never be in that place again. It's such a joy to have Failure back in the present day!
in my opinion this is one of the best mixed KEXP sessions ! !! ! it just sounds so awesome
+MouthlyKnives Totally agree!
+MouthlyKnives I think these guys provides excellent sources, that helps.
But yes, I totally agree, it is a really good mix. I guess KEXP are pretty good at this generally speaking.
It might have something to do with Ken Andrews. He IS and audio engineer
i am pretty sure Ken had something to do with it! when they came to my town it sounded better than that anything came before! i am sure they brought gear and or sound man
they brought their own soundboard! haha
Blessed to see Failure open for TOOL in '94 in a tiny club in West Palm Beach, Fl.
Blessed again to see Failure "open" for TOOL again in 2016 in Denver, Co.
They played the night before. Fantastic Planet in it's holy entirety.
Sometimes I don't realize how lucky I am.
Damn. I’d love to see that show. But I was lucky enough to see tool in 2012 with intronaut opening for them. Best show I’ve attended.
Flawless blowing hair.
When he's being interviewed and the hair is all over his face, technically it's flawed, but yeah, it's flawless.
A true hair band yes. In the 90’s it was breathtaking
Extremely underrated band honestly, they should be waaaay more famous, their latest album became one of my favorite of all time
For a radio studio, the sound-techs did an amazing job. This shit sounds incredicle
Wish I saw them when they toured with Deftones. Failure are reminding me of all sorts of awesome 90's bands I'd forgotten.HelmetSmoking PopesQuicksandOrange 9mmHandsomeGarden VarietyChavezShinerSmall Brown Biketons more...
totally agree- so many great bands that deserve a second coming
Quicksand are incredible.
Don't forget HUM, also swervedriver who just released a brilliant new album last year also.
Nic Garcia yep yep! Swervedriver!!! Also Lush reunited and are about to drop a new ep.
Nic Garcia holy shit, Swervedriver! 👍🏻
this might be one of the best KEXP sessions in history - not just b/c of Failure but the sound/video engineering. so spot on.
The guitar and bass outro at 9:36 is phenomenal. I love how some of the notes sound off pitch yet the exits in absolutely harmony with the song.
Beautiful dissonance my friend
It's so good.
Amazing performance. This band just reeks authenticity and understated brilliance. New record WILD TYPE DROID is spectacular. They're 3 for 3 since reuniting. I'm grateful for their gifts.
Mike Skinner from The Streets very publicly lamented that getting rich and famous made him lose his connection to the life that let him write so well. Failure definitely hasn’t had an easy road with serious addiction, as the guys have all spoken at length about. That shared trauma no doubt lends them some real strength and cohesion these days. Adversity can inspire, if you survive the adverse event. Lucky for us, the guys all pulled through. Opiates have taken too many musicians already.
Wow I'm french and I never heard of this band before, this is one of the biggest discoveries in recent years.
what does being French have to do with anything?
shinobikaz the band was mainly popular in America at its peak dumbass.
Quasi Moto ahah thanks
I'm Moroccan and I'm a massive fan!
@@kazuochaedi think they were probably saying that american media isn’t the primary channel they’re exposed to
"I've got no Houston to wind down to, I've got no protocol.". man this band is incredible.
26:57 When Ken shakes his head in agreement while singing the "pharmacy keys" part.... kinda says it all.
Weak sauce. Not cool.
I don’t get it. What do you mean?
I think he just didn't hit the pitch right and that was his reaction to it.
Love this band so much! Failure ..along with Quicksand should of been huge in the 90's.
Josh Martins and Hum. Failure and Hum go great together
It's great to see Ken Andrews and the guys together again, and releasing new music as well. I never understood why *Fantastic Planet* didn't get more attention when it was released.
Dave Lampton bad marketing
@@richardroberson2564Yeah and a bit late to the alternative rock scene, it peaked in 94-95
Some of their tracks sound like alt metal mixed with space rock, some others are like grunge mixed with space rock... I don't even know their entire discography but I can already notice how versatile and good they are as a band, wow!
I can totally understand why so many people love them.
I found MAGNIFIED at my local music store when it released. Thought the cover was badass, track list looked good, so gave it a shot. Blown away ever since!!!!
We're all kind of blessed all these guys are still around and healthy.. A lot of this Era is just dead and gone. I'm excited to see where this goes, awesome show!
Oh "The Nurse Who Loved Me". Thanks a million, great to hear!
i wish this version of atom city queen was on spotify
I used to see these guys play all around LA back in the 90's. They were so good. Glad they're making music again. I had to stop listening to their first two albums, the songs made me wanna do heroin again. Enough time has passed, now I can enjoy them and not worry that it'll trigger a relapse. I can even listen to Dirty Blue Balloons. : )
+Condiment Refraction lol
Dirty Blue Balloons was the first song I ever heard. While cooking up a shot. Made me cry. I love failure so muh because I remember what it was like being addicted listening to their old stuff and then Dark Speed came along and I was like yes this is what it's like to be clean
Oh shit, so happy right now seeing failure.
Kevin Suggs, you deserve so much more recognition! Whenever I see a set with solid sound, I open the description and your name is right there, great stuff!
Another Space Song, man..... great song!
+Bruno Lopes Always been one of my favs
@@CosmicConnection968 I need a code book to decipher that message
Great example of what modern amp modelers can do. I believe both are playing through Axe FXs. XLR straight to the panel. For those who commented on the mix, that's why it sounds so good.
Yes, sir. Amazing how those units sound. Jimmy Eat World is now using them as well after seeing what Failure has done with them. Amazing units. $$$
God I’m so glad I discovered this band without trying to find a something old yet new to me. I was born in 93 and as a musician I love this type of tone and guitar technique
This was just unbelievable. Was going to bed but now it's gonna be hard to...
Not a bad performance for being the first time in my life I come to listen to these bloody monster musicians. Thanks god (or whatever exists beyond our limited senses) for bringing shuch a wonderful new musical discover to my existence. But, most of all, thanks to Failure for coming back
The 2 albums they’ve made since reforming are just as great as their early stuff IMO
My friend told me about this band. I enjoyed it very much
Wanted to add my voice to the "I can't believe it took me so long to find these guys". Some of my favorite bands over the years...Led Zeppelin, Rush, Van Halen, Queensryche, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Live, Smashing Pumpkins, Tool, Muse, others...feel like it's all been leading up to Failure. Discovered them with the talk of taking off the recent albums off Spotify. I believe Fantastic Planet is now my favorite album ever. These guys are so talented...
Saw these guys at Lollapalooza 97 in Kansas City. Most underrated band ever
Failure was so far ahead of their time I listen to them a few time s when I got the CD and shelved it thinking what the hell is this Played it years later and thought boy this is great stuff . Why did I not listen to this earlier .
Great to see these guys back in action and giving the younger acts a run for their money. If you can see them live, I highly recommend it!
One of the best bands of our time.
I love Failure, Fantastic Planet is one of the best albums of all time
They are one of the best bands in LA. They change my life.
Wow! One if my all time favorite bands. Such a unique and talented group.
How did I miss this band? Amazing talent.
Ken's voice has always been one of my favorites in rock, he still sounds great - the whole band does
This band actually scream 'Anemoia'. Being born in 96 I feel like they perfectly encapsulate some cosmic nostalgia I never really experienced, but it keeps me coming back to them again and again.
I wish this was an hour longer!! Soooo happy they're back!!
We can all agree Failure succeeded.
Such a huge sound from just a three piece rock band. God bless those sound engineers!
What a GREAT mix..thanks Dave Gaume & Kevin Suggs
So incredible seeing them. Another Space Song will always have a special place in my heart. I would love to see them do Heliotropic during one of their radio station sets and they should totally put Moth into their live set.
+ANoDYNUSjosh they played both in Vancouver unless im totally mistaken, but they played a lot of music that night!
+Guy Guarino I mean for something like this.
+ANoDYNUSjosh +11111111 for Moth
i love how clean it sounds
soooooooooo glad i've found this band, better late than never !
Fantastic Planet...was my Highschool years. So many times, i listened to tthat album, and magnified HIGH AS BALLS. love Failure
Kelli always has the perfect, most musical fills. The transition out of the bridge is masterful.
Failure didn't quite get the recognition they deserved in the 90's. Their fanbase grew by leaps and bounds in their initial absence and now they've come back with some of their best material. So happy to see them active.
So sad to be underrated, but also so great to be that far ahead of your time. I’d never forgotten Replicants’ cover of Cinnamon Girl which got played a little on my local radio station. As I was only 14 at the time in 1996, I had no real way of finding out who was behind it. Now I know! (My station never played Failure that I can recall.)
The bass and guitar tone with that SNARE is a powerhouse
SO MANY PEOPLE don't recognize Magnified, not even this "educated" radio host. It's probably Failure's most experimental, but most creative, album. It's so fucking amazing. Stop saying Fantastic Planet is like, the best thing evar. GO BUY MAGNIFIED. Appreciate it for the transcendent, whimsical stop-gap between punk and post-grunge that it is.
+William Crafton Small Crimes.....nuff said! I love both albums equally and I agree with you 100%! I'm gonna see these guys on Saturday in Ft Lauderdale. I have to ask myself if I'm dreaming. I never thought this day would come!!!!
+William Crafton There's just something about that record that I love. It just draws me in, it's so good.
+William Crafton I was but a wee bean of 54 days old when that album came out. I've listened to it online a few times & bought a copy a few weeks ago. It has this incredible washy yet punky sound on the guitars along with the warm harmonic bass sounds. I think it & FP take turns as my favorite failure album, depending on my mood (haven't really made my mind up about THIM yet, and Comfort kinda sounds like a discount version of Tool to me). I saw them later that night the show was maybe 40/40 FP & THIM songs but they also had some stuff like Bernie & Undone in the set too.
I'm glad you got to see them live! I saw them back in August in Denver, it was pretty fucking great. I got to hear Bernie and Wet Gravity from Magnified on that tour set, and honestly, the only other track I would've asked for is Small Crimes. :) Although, I disagree with you on Comfort - it sounds a lot like Steve Albini's early bands (he produced Comfort), and I think that's why the band was originally disappointed with how it turned out. Recently, when they played 'Macaque" live, it sounded a lot deeper, with more resonating layers, than the studio recording. But, I still really enjoy Comfort. The lyrics on that album are really simple, but dark. The musical composition on 'Submission' is just such a badass arrangement. Comfort feels just like all of their really early, self-produced recordings, and those have a special place in my heart - I'd rather listen to the original live recording of 'I Can See Houses' from the Golden DVD than the recording on The Heart is a Monster! That fretless bass gets me every time.
If I may ask, where do you hear Big Black in Comfort, because I really do not hear it? I think it's that I associate Big Black with those hammered out drums, those rabid guitars somewhere between The Cure & Void, Albini hollering; I just don't hear that in Comfort. Sonically Comfort reminds me much more of something from Opiate or the Undertow era of Tool- somewhat chuggy crunch guitar, mids-high picked bass, stuff like that.
As for I Can See Houses- I think both versions have their merits- the bass sounds so much better on the live version, it's watery, reverberating stuff, it sounds like it's recorded in a partially waterlogged warehouse (like... in a good way). The treatment it gets in THIM is a much more bland result. However Fabio's awesome parties do kinda take away from the live version. It's also nice to hear it in a studio setting where you can overdub stuff, making the song much more lush sounding. Although lushiouness can be both a plus and a negative. I dunno, I think I'm with you in preferring the original, I just wish it could have been better recorded.
5:46 man that bass sounds so thick and heavy compliments the song so well!!
The Bass tone is phenominal. and the drumer concentration (and skill) is awe inspiring.
these songs are even better live! great performance 10/10.
how come I never fucking heard of them in the 90's?! I discovered them in 2012.
this band inspire us so fucking much. absolutely love them.
I saw them in SF on Monday. I'm so glad these guys are finally getting their due after all these years.
"How about an old one" Loved it! One of my favorites off that album!
For such a mellow song that bass tone is pure savagery
Thank you for this KEXP! And thank you, Failure!
Can't wait to see Autolux on the show when their album drops!
Cory Y. Are you high? Autolux! Are you serious?
Basslines soooo goooood.
Failure has some of the most underrated bass lines EVER. It's a crime that they're not talked about more.
drumtravelfun would you say it was a.. "small crime". No seriously though best bass tone to date
Good one ;)
Another Space Song sends me exactly there...... Space.... Love it.
Failure is your favorite bands favorite band. God I miss them and this time of my life so much
I still have the video for Stuck On You recorded on VHS.... This live its brilliant !
These three are excellent musicians! Thus is my first time hearing of this band! ❤
I keep coming back to this. Beautiful.
Love KEXP and love Failure. I thought she had fantastic questions (no pun intended), a lot of great q's around recording and their process to deliver such sonically interesting music. Fucking great to hear they still focus on the album and record songs as a whole and avoid multi-tracking. So much music today is overproduced, one track at a time. Even great artists's from the 90's (cough cough... Trent Reznor) have let that have a noticeable impact on their sound. Another comment about their new younger following: great to hear i'm not the only young music listener with a brain... I grew up in the 90's, but i'll admit, I wasn't on the failure-crack-pipe until about 5 years ago. Great all around...
6 short years ago and not a single grey hair to be seen. Crazy how fast that happens. Loved you guys in SF a few days ago!
I was at that show. It was just fantastic.
Such a great example of using an Axe FX to switch through loads of very involved tones and FX chains, and make mixing far easier for lack of actual amps, rather than just "I don't wanna change the tubes in my 5150".
KEXP is awesome for having bands. this is an awesome band!!
Goosebumps still. Amazing. Caught em once at a weird little
"showcase" gig at the Viper room when Fantastic Planet came out in 96'. The room was filled with industry suits checking out their viability, me my buddy Max and like 5 other fans. The 7 of us were going apeshit and grooving while the suits looked on in wonder. I brought a camera to that show and just rocked out. Kinda wish I snapped a few now. Stoked to see you guys still thriving.
Saw them live last night and they might be the best “sounding” bands I’ve ever live
This band I discovered for the tribute to Depeche mode, the cover of Enjoy the silence song. Anywhere, now is one of my favorite bands.
Same here.
Excellent cover
Incredible sound mix on this. That bass tone is seriously cool
This sound is huge. Nice.
Maybe the best 90´s bands and still one of my favorites.
Jesus they made that look so effortless. Love Failure forever
Amaze Balls. Great quality and sound. Sick set list to play too. Discovered this band a year ago. Changed my World.
when it ends and you hear her go "oh my God" 😂
Greg Edwards is underrated. Holy shit, he's good!
I really want Troy Van Leeuwen to rejoin. He's damn good, I can imagine the writing process with him included would elevate the band. I mean they're great now, but Troy's a great writer and his popularity from Qotsa could bring in more fanbase too.
Edit: There's no way of wording this at 4am without it sounding like an insult to the band, but you know what I mean!
Fantastic band Fantastic planet
Your right Ken. Significant appetite for new material.
One my Favourite bands all time it was one of the first bands I chose for myself & not something my brother or friends turned me on to.