- Failure (album)
Infobox Album
Name = Failure
Type = studio
Artist =King Missile
Released =September 15 , 1998
Recorded =
Genre = Avant-garde
Length = 47:50
Label =Shimmy Disc
Producer =Bradford Reed
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gbfyxqrjld6e link]*Ink 19 (favorable) [http://www.ink19.com/issues_F/98_12/wet_ink/music_hk/102_king_missile_nf.html link]
*Lollipop (unfavorable) [http://www.lollipop.com/issue48/48-04a-07.html link]
Last album = "King Missile"
(1994)
This album = "Failure"
(1998)
Next album = "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life"
(2003)"Failure" is the seventh
album by avant-garde bandKing Missile , and the band's first in its incarnation as "King Missile III." It was released onSeptember 15 , 1998.Track listing
All
lyrics byJohn S. Hall .# "Failure" (Charles Curtis,
Sasha Forte , Hall,Bradford Reed ) – 4:23
# "The Boy Made Out of Bone China" (Forte, Hall, Reed,Jane Scarpantoni ) – 3:02
# "A Good Hard Look" (Hall, Scarpantoni) – 2:01
#*This track appears in a different arrangement on Hall's 1996 album "The Body Has a Head ."
# "Up My Ass" (Forte, Hall, Reed) – 3:27
# "The Little Sandwich That Got a Guilt Complex Because He Was the Sole Survivor of a Horrible Bus Crash" (Forte, Hall, Reed, Scarpantoni) – 2:31
# "Despair" (Curtis, Forte, Hall, Reed) – 6:05
# "Monks" (Forte, Hall, Reed) – 2:40
# "Gay/Not Gay" (Forte, Hall, Reed) – 6:19
# "Happiness" (Curtis, Hall) – 2:23
# "Mr. Pomerantz" (Forte, Hall, Reed, Scarpantoni) – 1:50
# "Juniper Dog" (Forte, Hall, Reed, Scarpantoni) – 4:20
# "Tour Diary: Louisville" (Curtis, Hall, Reed) – 1:33
# "The Adventures of Planky" (Forte, Hall, Reed, Scarpantoni) – 4:50
# "I Dare to Hope" (Forte, Hall, Reed) – 2:21Personnel
*John S. Hall – lead and backing vocals, Indian bells
*Bradford Reed –melodica ,kranton ,synthesizer , programming,piano ,pencilina , backing vocals, organ, drums, percussion
*Sasha Forte – bass,violin ,guitar , backing vocals, Indian bells,viola , horn arrangements
*Charles Curtis – guitar,cello , backing vocals
*Jane Scarpantoni – cello, synthesizer
*John Walsh –trumpet on "A Good Hard Look"
*Chris Washburne –trombone on "A Good Hard Look" and "Gay/Not Gay"
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