Latest / Deprogrammed Music Podcast / Failure
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- 0:32It's Deprogram, the podcast where we try to get you into a
- 0:37band. That's right, we've done all the
- 0:39work for you. All you have to do is press play
- 0:41and listen and you could say that I'm banned curious.
- 0:44I've been trotting that one out. I'm trying to get it back out
- 0:48there. I'm banned curious.
- 0:49I like to talk to my friends about bands that they like and I
- 0:53do the deep dive with them and try to figure out a nice
- 0:58playlist for you come the end of it.
- 1:01Today, I'm not a failure. We're not a failure, but the
- 1:06band indeed is Failure. My playlist for this was
- 1:09something like Failure the Band, not me.
- 1:11I think it's what I called it. Hello, Not my best work.
- 1:16That's OK, Peter, you put failure on the board, and I
- 1:20honestly can't recall when. I can't remember if this was
- 1:22like something you kind of threw in the Discord or if you just
- 1:26put them up on the on the board at some point.
- 1:29But talk to me about failure. I think I just put them up on
- 1:33the board at some point, but my story with this band is pretty
- 1:39much the same story I tell for like 9 out of 10 episodes.
- 1:42I do hear Failure is a band who had a single that was in the MTV
- 1:48buzz bin and it did reasonably well.
- 1:52So I I like the song. So I went and got the album and
- 1:56I was like, something's fucking good.
- 1:58Like this guy should be bigger. And then they just kind of
- 2:03vanished. I did go back and get their
- 2:11first comfort and I like that a lot.
- 2:16I couldn't find magnified at the time when I was getting into
- 2:19them and then they broke up for a while and then they came back.
- 2:25But they didn't make it easy for you to get their music.
- 2:30Like it was all on like band camp and stuff wasn't streaming.
- 2:35But there's one of those bands where, like, I don't know, I, I
- 2:39just feel like they've, they're overlooked and they deserve
- 2:42reappraisal. Yeah, we've been you and I have
- 2:46been doing a lot of those I feel like over the last year and some
- 2:49change, some reappraisals, even though this band didn't enter
- 2:53the ether like like some of the other bands that we've done.
- 2:58Andrew, I don't recall when you jumped on, but I remember that
- 3:03you did obviously because you're here.
- 3:04So talk to me about failure. Yeah.
- 3:09So I my introduction to failure was kind of like indirect.
- 3:19I was in like the early 2000s. I was like a big, you know, I
- 3:26don't want to say new metal, but I will say new metal.
- 3:29I guess like kind of new metal adjacent stuff is kind of where
- 3:33I was in the early 2000s, you know, like Deftones pool, stuff
- 3:39like that. And A perfect circle.
- 3:42I was in love with A perfect circle.
- 3:44And me and all my friends, like we loved Mayor de Nom and then
- 3:4913th Step came out. None of my friends liked it.
- 3:52They were like, Oh yeah, like they've they're going soft or
- 3:55whatever, like this ain't the same.
- 3:57It ain't as good. Whatever bullshit.
- 3:59And I loved 13th Step and one of my favorite songs on it was the
- 4:05nurse who loved me. And I was like it, it.
- 4:11It just seemed like such a departure for not a complete
- 4:18departure for, for what A perfect Circle was doing at the
- 4:21time. But anyway, just the song.
- 4:23It really stood out to me. And obviously I looked in the
- 4:27liner notes and I find it, Oh, it's this band failure.
- 4:30It's a cover of this, a song by this band failure.
- 4:34So I kind of, I checked them out as as much as I could because
- 4:40back then, you know, I lived in the country, I didn't really
- 4:43have access to music, which, which is a huge, a huge part of
- 4:51the way that I discover bands in the past because like I didn't
- 4:58have access to anything in living in like rural Nova
- 5:01Scotia. Like we didn't get Internet, we
- 5:04didn't get cable. Like I kind of had to like
- 5:07really dig to find things. So I did download a couple songs
- 5:15off Limewire by them, obviously The nurse who loved me and I
- 5:22believe I've been stuck on you. And you know, I thought they
- 5:27were fine back then. I was young, I didn't have great
- 5:31taste. But then I, I rediscovered them
- 5:39around, oh, I'd say 20/12/13 somewhere around there.
- 5:48And yeah, I was just immediately hooked.
- 5:55I got Fantastic Planet and yeah, just right from the moment I let
- 6:01start listening to it, I was like, this is it.
- 6:03And like this is the exact like this right in my Q zone.
- 6:11Like, this is the exact band that I need right now.
- 6:16Yeah. And it just kind of went from
- 6:18there. I I went backwards through the
- 6:20discography and checked out Magnified and Comfort.
- 6:26Love those as well. And then luckily that was around
- 6:29the time when they started, when they got off hiatus or breakup.
- 6:36They called it breakup, but I mean, you know, they got back
- 6:38together so we could probably call it a hiatus now.
- 6:42And yeah, they got back together in 2014 and put out My heart as
- 6:45a monster. Even that album is really great.
- 6:49A little different than the old stuff, but yeah, then they they
- 6:52didn't really miss a beat when they came back.
- 6:54And yeah, they're just I, I love this band.
- 6:56They're so good. And they just, they don't miss
- 7:00like every everything they do is is really good.
- 7:03But those that first era of their career is definitely like
- 7:10the truest version of of failure and what kind of what they're
- 7:15about it. So I think immediately when I
- 7:21started listening to Comfort, I might have jumped in immediately
- 7:23to the to the chat and went, where's this band been my whole
- 7:26life? So this is this is another one
- 7:29of these bands that is like it screams Justin like this should
- 7:33have been, you know, this should have been something I've been
- 7:36listening to all along. And you know, it's it's funny.
- 7:41You bring up a perfect circle. Like I didn't clock going
- 7:47through this playlist. You know, I've heard that cover
- 7:51when we just did that episode last year.
- 7:53I I did I just didn't clock that.
- 7:57But this we were talking just before I went on and while I
- 8:01didn't get the notes of like direct sound of Smashing
- 8:05Pumpkins, what you were saying, Andrew, about the way they fill
- 8:08out sound like it's big. This is this band is big.
- 8:14Like you listen to it and it's it's everywhere.
- 8:18And you know, I love how much space they take up with the
- 8:22sound. It's so great.
- 8:25And you know, I think sound wise, like the the band I kept
- 8:31coming back to is like Silverchair.
- 8:33They definitely remind me of a little bit of Silverchair local
- 8:36H at times. Like really early stuff gave me
- 8:41filter vibes. So like it's it's all these like
- 8:46it's close enough to all these bands that I love.
- 8:48And then you you put in like what?
- 8:51Like what you said about the way they fill in space.
- 8:53Hum also would be another band kind of close to to here.
- 8:58Yeah, that that's kind of where I where I would put them with
- 9:02like that kind of like hum and far those kind of predecessors
- 9:09to what Deftones would kind of go on to do.
- 9:15Just with the way, you know, like we were saying, like they
- 9:18just kind of there's no, there's no air to the music.
- 9:23There's there's so many layers and it's all like building and
- 9:26building and building. Like like layered but not quite
- 9:30shoegaze. Yeah, yes, yeah, yeah.
- 9:33I just. I've fallen in love with this
- 9:36band and I again, I, you know, I hate to keep rehashing things
- 9:39that I said just before we hit record, but like I, I honestly
- 9:44wish I wasn't working on so many episodes like right now,
- 9:48currently. And as we brought this up, this
- 9:51I need to find space to put this band.
- 9:53Like this band belongs in, it's already in my wheelhouse.
- 9:56It belongs in my, my repertoire. It it belongs in, in my
- 10:03rotation. And I'll figure that out.
- 10:06And one last thing I wanted to note is like, I feel like this
- 10:11was a band that has always kind of just been way just under,
- 10:16under me. Like, you know, I'm not, I'm not
- 10:19necessarily ignored it. I I feel like Spotify is trying
- 10:21to tell me, hey, dude, listen to Fantastic Planet like God knows
- 10:25how many times because I remember seeing that album cover
- 10:29and, you know, I was, you know, listening to God knows what that
- 10:33week and just couldn't get to it.
- 10:35But yeah, man, Spotify number one, you was right.
- 10:40I should have listened to that and #2 kind of to echo what
- 10:45Peter said, this band deserves more like more people should
- 10:51know this band. This is this is just a great, a
- 10:55great band with great songs. We, you know, you pointed out,
- 11:02you both have pointed out, you know, that that they they got
- 11:04back together and made more music.
- 11:06Unfortunately, we're kind of a Spotify.
- 11:11We're kind of held to what's on Spotify just because it's easier
- 11:16that way. Is is the best way to put it.
- 11:17I know, not great, but that's just the way it is.
- 11:22So we were only able to do the first, the front half of their
- 11:25catalog, Peter, which brought us to like 48 songs.
- 11:30Theoretically that makes it easier.
- 11:31Yeah, but but was it? Yeah, it kind of was.
- 11:40I'm showing my hand here a little bit, but like I'm a
- 11:42little fantastic planet heavy on my list just because that's the
- 11:46album that's sat with me the most over the years, right.
- 11:52But yeah, like going back and revisiting the first album and
- 11:56then kind of checking out the second album for the first time,
- 12:00there were some tough cut, tough cuts to make there because like,
- 12:03those are also both really good albums.
- 12:06Like these guys knew what they're doing, like right out of
- 12:08the gate. Yeah, yeah, they, they knew,
- 12:13they knew the sound immediately and they just refined it with
- 12:16with each record. And I, I feel like you were, you
- 12:21were pretty quick on it, Andrew. Like how how was it putting 20
- 12:25together for this one? Again, you you get almost half
- 12:27of the discography, but is it? Does that make it easier?
- 12:36It was, yeah. I would say it was definitely
- 12:38easier. Wouldn't say it was easy.
- 12:44I I'm really familiar with these four albums anyway, So kind of
- 12:55like going into it, I kind of knew already knew what was
- 13:03definitely going on the list. And I mean, maybe a couple songs
- 13:08that definitely weren't. There really aren't any bad
- 13:11songs is, is the thing. It's just there's either good
- 13:16songs or great songs. But there was, you know, there
- 13:20was probably a dozen songs which were right off the bat for me,
- 13:25like, OK, be there on. And I just got to fill up the
- 13:28rest of it. And that was kind of the hard
- 13:31part for me. I, you know, I got down to about
- 13:372425 and from there it was just like pulling teeth trying to,
- 13:45because I would listen to the playlist every day in the car
- 13:49because like I, I work on the road, so I'm always driving.
- 13:53So I'm always listening to music.
- 13:55Umm, and getting, getting from 25 to 20 was really, really
- 14:01difficult. And even now I'm, I'm, I sat at
- 14:0521 for like a week and I just couldn't make the decision.
- 14:11And then I made the decision yesterday, getting it down to
- 14:1620. And then even today I'm like
- 14:20questioning the one that I took off.
- 14:25So yeah, it, it was easier than it would have been with the, you
- 14:32know, this this the second era of their career if that had been
- 14:37included, because then I would have had to get rid of even more
- 14:41of the songs that I have right now.
- 14:45Yeah. I again, as somebody who kind of
- 14:51fell in love with them almost immediately on on pushing play,
- 14:56I found this rather difficult because as you're listening,
- 15:00it's like, well, I can make a case for all of these songs.
- 15:06Ultimately, like I, I pulled it back to something that's
- 15:10relatively even considering, you know, it doesn't, it doesn't
- 15:15bear out to five songs each, but I did.
- 15:21I do give a slight nudge to fantastic planet because I, I
- 15:25think that's their best work and I feel like that's where we want
- 15:30to draw people to and then they, they can go backwards.
- 15:32But you know, we'll discuss that as, as we get into like song
- 15:35specific stuff. But even going back and
- 15:39listening to the to my list just beforehand, like I was looking
- 15:45at some of the answers that I got and I was like, I don't have
- 15:47any of these. And then like one came up a
- 15:52couple times specifically and I was like, wait, I don't have
- 15:55that one. So I, I actually did make a last
- 15:57minute cut just before we got on and re added a song that I
- 16:04thought I had on anyway, So you know, you this, this feels like
- 16:10with 48 songs, it should be easy.
- 16:13It should be easy for us to like really hammer home a list like
- 16:20easily, but it also feels like it has every possibility to to
- 16:27just be a mess and be a low, low unanimous count and, you know,
- 16:33really have to build the list from the ground up based on
- 16:36that. Peter, again, 48 songs isn't
- 16:39that much. So each of us gets half of that.
- 16:42But we we could be we could all be in our own corners.
- 16:46How many do you think we get through unanimously for the
- 16:48final say? I'm going to go with six.
- 16:56OK. I like that.
- 16:59I like that six is off the board.
- 17:01Andrew, what do you think? I'm going optimistic with this
- 17:06one where you guys have both already mentioned that you're a
- 17:12little heavy on Fantastic Planet.
- 17:17I also have plenty of songs from Fantastic Planet, and I think
- 17:23that we will probably line up on a couple songs outside of that
- 17:27as well. I'm going to go 80.
- 17:31I love it. I love that.
- 17:35Dang, I was going to, I was going to do that like in order
- 17:39to, you know, skate winning. I I I I'd almost consider going
- 17:46and like the Boston episode, but I think that might might be a
- 17:49little too optimistic. Maybe just because, you know,
- 17:54kind of to your point out, outside of fantastic planet, we
- 17:57might all be kind of, you know, in different places.
- 18:01So the question is, do I, do I take you a step further or do I
- 18:04split the difference? You know, I don't want to win
- 18:07anyway, so I'll take the seven. And with that, we're going to
- 18:11take a quick pause and when we come back, we want to play the
- 18:14game. It's the programmed.
- 18:29And with that, the name of the game is deprogrammed and the
- 18:32three of us have come through almost exactly half of Failures
- 18:36discography and plucked out 20 songs that are now going to
- 18:39match together in an attempt to create a top 10 starter kit for
- 18:42you. In case you are like me and have
- 18:44never given failure the time of day.
- 18:48I got to do the thing with this band because I knew I you know,
- 18:51it's OK if if this one misses, but I'd be lying if I didn't say
- 18:56I I already told you guys I fell in love immediately.
- 19:00I heard the first song and it did the thing.
- 19:03I was like, Oh my God, where the fuck is this band been my whole
- 19:06life? I'm going with submission.
- 19:10Yeah, I've got it. Hell yeah, I've got it.
- 19:13Yes, yes. I mean, you never know, you
- 19:17know, but like it, it did the thing where it tells me exactly
- 19:22what to expect from this band. And I love that it does that.
- 19:27And then like, as you go on, like it actually gets even
- 19:32better. Like when when I put that into
- 19:35the chat, I said, man, I'm loving this, and I'm only on the
- 19:37first record. And Andrew, you said something.
- 19:39Oh, my God, if you love that first record so much, like wait
- 19:42until wait until you get the fantastic Planet.
- 19:45So yeah, I mean, what a great tone setter, what a great way to
- 19:50tell me what this band is about. And yeah, Submission is in boom.
- 19:57Love it, Peter. I think I'm just going to get
- 20:05this right out of the way and go with the the hit, the one that
- 20:08got me into them stuck on you. I got it.
- 20:13Absolutely. Boom yeah, 2/3.
- 20:21I just love that opening riff like the.
- 20:27It's infectious. Yeah, what's funny is you had
- 20:33said that I I'd probably heard, you know, some of these songs
- 20:36and I really don't recall them. But like there is this feeling
- 20:42of especially with Fantastic Planet, like they feel like they
- 20:46they're especially even this song, like it feels like I've
- 20:50known them forever. Like if I never, I don't think
- 20:54I'd ever heard this song, but it feels like it feels like it's
- 20:59been in my cranium forever. I I don't think I'm making sense
- 21:02but. Now that that 100% makes sense
- 21:06like that with that song too. That's how I felt when I when I
- 21:14had heard Stuck On You. Not when I had originally heard
- 21:16it, like when I was younger, but when I really got into the band
- 21:19and I heard it, I was like, God damn, like this sounds like
- 21:24something that would have been on the radio every single day in
- 21:29the 90s. Like it.
- 21:32It feels like it would have been right there with Chair Brock.
- 21:38And my name is Jonah, you know. Yeah.
- 21:41It it did, it did about the same as well as stars by Hum.
- 21:47Like it was like just under the radar, but like, still widely
- 21:51known if you watched Alternative Nation on MTV.
- 21:56Well, you know. It might have been one or two
- 21:59years late to be on Beavis and Butt Head.
- 22:02You know, maybe, you know, maybe I did catch it there and that's
- 22:06why it sits somewhere in in my brain.
- 22:08But yeah, man, love that one. Boom.
- 22:12No pressure, Andrew 2 for two. Let's go for the hat trick.
- 22:22The nurse who loved me. Yes, I got it.
- 22:25Of course, that was the song I added back on today 'cause.
- 22:32Oh wow, you had it off. Yeah, well, that was my exact
- 22:36reaction. I was like, what?
- 22:39Yeah, I. Remember during the Perfect
- 22:41Circle episode, you picked that and I was like, dude, that's a
- 22:45cover. And you're like, what?
- 22:49I was like, yeah, great song, but it's a cover.
- 22:51Yeah, I went, I went back and listened to it today and I was
- 22:55like, Oh yeah, this has got to go on my list.
- 22:57So I had to make a hard choice and lose something else.
- 23:00You know, we'll get get to that later and see if one of you guys
- 23:03have it. But yeah, I I was like, this is
- 23:07a grave mistake. This needs to be on here.
- 23:10So All right, nurse who love me, we are three for three.
- 23:18I'm not going to. I'm not going to put any
- 23:24pressure on myself. Where do I want to go?
- 23:32Do I keep? Yeah, let's keep it going.
- 23:34Let's, let's stay on. Fantastic point.
- 23:38And how about that? How about Sergeant Politeness?
- 23:45No. No, I don't have it either.
- 23:48Oh, no. OK.
- 23:52All right. I went to Niche.
- 23:54OK, into the bin it goes, Peter. I'm going to go out a fantastic
- 24:04planet. Does anybody have a Princess
- 24:09from comfort? Yes.
- 24:12Absolutely. Oh hell yeah.
- 24:15That was, that was the last one that made it like when I got
- 24:21when I, like I mentioned before, when I had it down to 21 and I
- 24:24kind of had it between a couple songs and one didn't make it and
- 24:27one did. That is the one that did.
- 24:31So by the skin of its teeth, it gets in.
- 24:33There's a little bit of a punk influence.
- 24:36Yeah, absolutely. That's that's why I kept it.
- 24:41Yeah, I I hate to keep coming back to the sounds, but like,
- 24:45God, the sounds like just how big and it's like like it's got
- 24:54a heaviness to it. Like it's just there's a weight.
- 24:58Well, that that that first album, Comfort was produced by
- 25:03Eval Beanie and he's, you know, obviously notorious for bringing
- 25:06like the best, like most raw sounds out of a band.
- 25:12That makes a ton of sense because I was also gonna kind of
- 25:15say like there, there were times where I got shellac vibes, so.
- 25:20Yeah. That makes.
- 25:22Like, yeah, like the cord voicings they use.
- 25:25They they like to, they like to use some weird, weird cords that
- 25:30kind of like bleed into like almost dissonant territory.
- 25:35Yeah, all right, so Princess gets 3 boom boom boom, Andrew
- 25:44all. Right.
- 25:49I'm going to go for one off magnified.
- 25:52Let's go undone. Yes.
- 25:57Now all. Right, we'll take that too.
- 26:00That was one that I actually got a couple times as an answer on
- 26:06threads. It's a good song, but.
- 26:11Yeah, we can't take that to go. Yeah, you can't take them all.
- 26:15So, all right, back around to me.
- 26:20All right, I want to. I'm trying to remember the Dang
- 26:23words to this, the reason I didn't pick at last go because I
- 26:30was just listening to it. Dang it.
- 26:32Whatever. But it has something to do with
- 26:33getting my head checked off magnified frogs.
- 26:38Yeah. Oh yeah.
- 26:39Yes. Oh man, that makes me so happy.
- 26:43Yes. I was on rules.
- 26:46God yes it does. This is interesting.
- 26:52We're like nailing all the stuff outside of Fantastic Planet.
- 26:57I should have gone 10. Oh. 12.
- 27:03I know, right? Yeah, all.
- 27:06Right, hold on. I got to play a little bit of
- 27:08this, but you know, we were just talking about like that kind of
- 27:13like shellac thing that, you know, the big, big sound, like
- 27:16it opens with that just really, you know, driving bass line.
- 27:22And then it just builds off that like from from RIP.
- 27:25It's just boom, like here, here I am.
- 27:29And then this is the first time, like I've really, this was the
- 27:31first time where like lyrics kind of came into the
- 27:34conversation. Hold on, I'm I'm actually
- 27:38looking at it right now because I caught it again.
- 27:43I've gone away to have my head checked, I guess to need it.
- 27:45I guess I need to have it looked at.
- 27:47That just really got my attention and like, it's at the
- 27:51end score. It's so catchy, like, oh, it's
- 27:54great. And the way they kind of key
- 27:57change it too, like the first time through, they keep it like
- 28:00in a in more of a like AI think you'd say it's like a kind of a
- 28:07downward direction is kind of where they're moving.
- 28:10But then the end of the song it it feels almost like it goes a
- 28:13little bit major and they go higher with it.
- 28:18Yeah, yeah, man, I love this band.
- 28:23All right, Frogs is me. Peter, let's.
- 28:31See if we can keep going outside of Fantastic Planet.
- 28:36How about let it drip? Yeah.
- 28:41Oh yeah, yes. Boom boom boom.
- 28:46Are we at my 6 already? Just like that?
- 28:48Yes Sir, Already at your 6. Oh shit.
- 28:52With only one in the bin. Like somebody over here got too
- 28:58big for his britches and all right, let me cue that up.
- 29:08But again, like, this is another track one.
- 29:11But like the song like that, the album starts off different.
- 29:17Like they've already added like something new.
- 29:19Like it's a bit noisier on top of just the heaviness.
- 29:25I like it. I like it.
- 29:27Walk it a lot. All right, let it drip.
- 29:31Brings us up to 6. Andrew All right, I'll go.
- 29:39I'll go off the beaten path here.
- 29:41And I got I got a couple off the B side album.
- 29:48This one actually ended up being on a later album when they
- 29:55reformed. I think the album was called In
- 29:59the Future. Your body will be the furthest
- 30:02thing from your mind Anyway. Yeah it's on, but the original
- 30:07version of it is an acoustic version and it was on the B
- 30:11sides album. Annies.
- 30:19No, wait, make sure. No wait.
- 30:23What was it? Annies.
- 30:28Pennies. Oh, there it is.
- 30:29No, no. All right, Peter.
- 30:38Oh, no, wait. We're back around to me.
- 30:40That is Andrew. Yeah, I'm smart.
- 30:44Sorry. There's things going on in my
- 30:46house and it's got me slightly distracted.
- 30:48It's OK. You know, I'll try one out from
- 30:57from that the besides the how about petting the carpet?
- 31:05No. That was #21 Oh, and also
- 31:11petting the carpet that ended up being on their return out.
- 31:17My heart is a monster. The one from when they when they
- 31:20reformed. Oh.
- 31:21All right. Yeah.
- 31:24All right, into the Bennett goes.
- 31:27That's all right. Plenty of space here, Peter.
- 31:34The Steve Albini thing makes sense for me for a lot of
- 31:38comfort, and I chose the song because the guitar solos sounds
- 31:43like something Kurt would have played and it's Swallow, no?
- 31:51I don't have it. Oh, I know.
- 31:56Are we entering that territory the All right, Andrew?
- 32:08All right, let's go back to Fantastic Planet.
- 32:14Go smoking umbrellas. Yep.
- 32:20Dammit, that was 21. We'll.
- 32:27Take that too, though, Fill out our, you know, our our extras.
- 32:34All right, back around to me, I guess Maybe I'll stay here on
- 32:42fantastic Planet. Oh, I just did the wrong one.
- 32:48I sure did. I did.
- 32:51Sergeant Playlist was incorrect. Supposed to be smoking
- 32:57umbrellas. All right, how about Saturday,
- 33:01Saviour? Oh yeah.
- 33:05Yes, Sir. Hey, OK, so we're at 7, which
- 33:10means you know what? I can, I can maybe consider
- 33:13figure out. I can take that pressure.
- 33:16I think with this band. I like, I like all these songs.
- 33:20So if we if we land on that seven, I think I can figure it
- 33:24out. All right, boom, boom, boom.
- 33:27Let me get that queued. Great track, 1 band.
- 33:34Really good job of of telling you.
- 33:36Hey, by the way, this is another record.
- 33:40We're going to do something else here while still very much
- 33:44sounding like themselves. I feel like they're one of those
- 33:47bands who just doesn't throw all the songs that they've recorded
- 33:51onto a album that and that they actually pay attention to track
- 33:54order. Yeah, yeah.
- 33:57All right. Let's see.
- 34:01Let me reshuffle this and then Peter.
- 34:10I'll stay, I'll stay on this album.
- 34:13Another Space song. Yeah, I got it.
- 34:17They also have it. Wow, smoked right past my 7
- 34:23right to Andrew's 8. All right, let me get that
- 34:30queued. I like how it comes out of the
- 34:38Segway into this one. Yeah, and this whole album just
- 34:46seems like a loose concept album about general sci-fi stuff.
- 34:52Yeah, makes sense to me. Fantastic planet.
- 34:58Fantastic. Yeah, well that have have you
- 35:01guys seen that movie Fantastic Planet?
- 35:03I have not. No.
- 35:06It's a it's a really weird animated film from the 70s where
- 35:13they're these there's these aliens that are like these
- 35:17highly intelligent beings and outside of their like civilized
- 35:25colonies, there lives these like humans that are basically like
- 35:34Neanderthals, like they're unintelligent.
- 35:36They can't speak. They just like are on a beneath
- 35:41these, you know, all knowing beings and they they'll go out
- 35:46and they'll catch them and use them as pets.
- 35:49And then eventually the humans like attempt to rise up and just
- 35:57revolt against these these big like alien creatures.
- 36:02It's it's really, really cool, really cool movie.
- 36:06I I feel like I need to watch this because now it makes me
- 36:10wonder if they wrote to that movie like I'd really have to
- 36:14pay attention to like what some of the lyrics are and stuff but.
- 36:18It's certainly possible. They seem again, what what
- 36:22little I know about them, they seem like, yeah, they'll be
- 36:25what? Absolutely.
- 36:25Right. Right on the album.
- 36:28Some weird movie. All right.
- 36:32Another space song was Andrew, so were background to me, right.
- 36:36I don't know what I got. Left.
- 36:39I don't think I picked that one, did I?
- 36:42No, I think or. Was that you, Peter?
- 36:47Peter back. OK.
- 36:49So Andrew, then you're up. Yeah, I'll OK, so I'll this one
- 36:59kind of connects to my first episode of the programmed I did
- 37:04was he got in The Cave in episode.
- 37:08Cave In was heavily, heavily influenced by Failure and they
- 37:15actually covered this song. The title track from the second
- 37:20album Magnified. No, I thought I had that.
- 37:23I don't. I did not have that one.
- 37:28Oh, unfortunately, into the bin. All right, so now we're back
- 37:34around to me, I think. Let me count 12123, 45678.
- 37:42OK, we got another couple rounds in US.
- 37:44I think I'll go back to the first record.
- 37:50How about Screen Man? I don't have that.
- 37:57That's a really good song now. I do have that.
- 38:01I'll take that too. Boom boom boom.
- 38:05I think we officially have a conversation to fill out the
- 38:07list. Yeah, we got 3 twos.
- 38:13Boom. Take that two, Peter.
- 38:19I'm going to try one of my picks from the B sides record.
- 38:24Perfect present. No.
- 38:28Don't have it I. Thought that was a swing.
- 38:34Yeah, yeah. It'd be nice to get one of those
- 38:38in. But if it feels like we're all
- 38:40kind of, we have different songs from that one, kind of found us.
- 38:47All right, Andrew. I'll go another one from
- 38:55Magnified Moth. No.
- 39:02I do not have it. Boom, all right back around to
- 39:11me. I feel like maybe we do two more
- 39:14because that'd bring me to like I think 6.
- 39:23I'll try a magnified. How about wet gravity?
- 39:31Yeah, I got it. I'll take that.
- 39:35I'll take it to there. All right, Peter.
- 39:44How about going to butcher the pronounce pronunciation of this
- 39:50song but macaque from comfort? I got it.
- 39:58Yeah, I got it. No one wins.
- 40:02They actually, when they, when they would play that live back
- 40:06when it came out, they were touring with Tool and Adam Jones
- 40:10from Tool would come on stage and play that with them.
- 40:13Oh, that's cool. Yeah, yeah, that that's crazy.
- 40:18That first album cycle, they did all their touring with Tool, so
- 40:21that was 92. You imagine like seeing failure
- 40:28pouring comfort and Tool pouring what would have been undertow,
- 40:34Yeah. I think so at that.
- 40:35Time 92 like God damn. Wow yeah holy shit, that would
- 40:43have been a heavy show firstly. Yeah.
- 40:48It is funny that that's the song you went with, Peter, because
- 40:50that was the song I was debating going with, but I didn't want to
- 40:52say it. I looked at the title and say I
- 40:56don't know how to say that. I just call it macaque.
- 41:00Macaque. Macaque.
- 41:05Guys, we're at 9 and there's still like a couple songs out
- 41:10here. So, Andrew, your turn.
- 41:17All right, let's go. Let's go back to Fantastic
- 41:22Planet. What's the closer daylight?
- 41:28No, yeah, unfortunately couldn't take him off.
- 41:30And but I will say that somebody's answer on on threads
- 41:37was he, he said basically everything after Segway 3 all
- 41:42the way to daylight. Like he said, it's just
- 41:46perfection. Yeah, that album, like Side B of
- 41:51Fantastic Planet is yeah, it's, it's just unreal.
- 41:55It's such a good ending too. Like Daylight ends on this like
- 41:58big huge, like building up note. And then when it drifts out,
- 42:03it's with that like weird, like clicking, like almost like slot
- 42:09machine clicking like that. That starts out Saturday
- 42:12Saviour. So you could almost put the
- 42:14album on on a loop and it would just play like it's playing over
- 42:20and over again. Man, I feel bad for letting you
- 42:25down on that all. Right.
- 42:28That's all right. We'll call this our last round.
- 42:33I might as well trot out I still have a couple left here from
- 42:36Fantastic Planet. How about pitiful?
- 42:41No, no, I don't have that. Bend.
- 42:45All right, Peter. How about Solaris?
- 43:00No. No, I don't have that one all.
- 43:09Right, Andrew? OK, I'll go.
- 43:15The last one that I've got from Fantastic Planet is Dirty Blue
- 43:20Balloons. No.
- 43:24No. Boom, that's is the way this is
- 43:30playing out is really Oh no, never mind we've got 4 from
- 43:34fantastic planet so never mind never mind that statement.
- 43:41All right. Well, I'll start at the top from
- 43:46comfort something. Nah.
- 43:52I got it. All right.
- 43:54Hey, that's something. Yeah, ain't it?
- 44:01Moving on to Magnified Empty friend.
- 44:06Yeah. Now that was a late pad.
- 44:10All right, take that two. We did pitiful already so and I
- 44:15already know this is a 1 Leo. No.
- 44:20No all. Right.
- 44:22And then last but not least from the B side's mange.
- 44:29Nope, no good song. Yeah, that it just had a
- 44:33heaviness to it that I just, I couldn't move away from.
- 44:36So just like, man, that really kind of sets the table for where
- 44:41they're going to go. All right, no more unanimous are
- 44:50available. So 9 is going to win, which
- 44:52means none of us is going to win, but you have a chance to
- 44:56kind of get some more stuff in the combo here, Peter.
- 45:00Right. From the top salt wound.
- 45:04No, don't have it all right. Haleo Tropic don't have it and
- 45:19last one I have is pillow head. No, no pillow head.
- 45:27All right. Boom and boom, all right, and
- 45:31just for funsies. Andrew my last two I had
- 45:37wonderful life from magnified and I had wake up from the B
- 45:46sides. All right.
- 45:53I'll shift these around and then we'll run over the nine that
- 45:56I've already gotten in. I love that we are all positive
- 46:00and we out positive, out positive, our positive like
- 46:05that's kind of great. We all thought that it was
- 46:08possible. Just here we go. 9 already in
- 46:13submission. Stuck on you.
- 46:14The nurse who loved me. Princess Frogs.
- 46:16Let it drip Saturday, Saviour. Another space song in Macaque.
- 46:23All right, let's see what's alive still.
- 46:27Oh God, we got a good handful of twos here.
- 46:30Undone. Smoking umbrellas.
- 46:31Screen man. Wet gravity something.
- 46:34An empty friend. Oh wow, this is a turn of
- 46:38events. All of all those twos have me on
- 46:41them. Interesting.
- 46:43As I run down those two, Peter, is there like one that you're
- 46:47kind of that's kind of screaming out as at you?
- 46:50That should be the last song in. Shit, I mean I'd be OK with any
- 47:00of these, but I'm looking at empty friend.
- 47:05OK. What do you think, Andrew?
- 47:11I'm leaning to definitely the album Magnified since we have
- 47:18Free From Comfort and four from Fantastic Planet.
- 47:29I would personally lean towards Undone.
- 47:33It was their first music video they ever did.
- 47:39I believe it was the first song they ever.
- 47:42Well, yeah, obviously. I guess it would would have been
- 47:44the first song they ever had on MTV and it's just a really good
- 47:49song. I have both of those.
- 47:51That's hard. That is a hard choice.
- 47:58I know you guys can't hear it, but I'm going to do the thing
- 48:00that, you know, just to try to help me help this conversation
- 48:04along here. I'm going to play it a little
- 48:08bit in my ears. I don't know.
- 48:14I don't know that we can make a bad choice here.
- 48:16I mean, both of these are from the same album, which is
- 48:21helpful. They have the same kind of
- 48:25energy, too. Oh no.
- 48:29They both have such a thing along chorus too.
- 48:32Yeah, I don't know. And, and here's a crazy thing.
- 48:41We're looking at the similarities of these two songs.
- 48:43Undone 4 minutes 27. Empty Friend 4 minutes 21.
- 48:48Like, there's so many similarity.
- 48:50Like, this feat really does feel like a coin flip between these
- 48:53two songs. Have you ever done that on
- 48:57Episode Justin? We've done it twice.
- 49:05I think 1 was Teenage Wrist and I can't remember the other one,
- 49:09but it was John F and Randy. I just can't remember the band.
- 49:16I don't have a coin, but it it does I, you know, I feel like
- 49:21these are equally great and I think you're right.
- 49:25I think it has to be one of the magnified songs and then the
- 49:30only other magnified song we have available is Wet Gravity.
- 49:33But I think I think it's Undone or Empty friend and listening to
- 49:39them, they they give off the same vibe.
- 49:46Like normally I would kind of vibe it out and go, well, what
- 49:49don't we have represented? Oh man.
- 49:58I'm fine either with either of those.
- 50:01Like it really would have to be a coin flip.
- 50:04Yeah. I know this will help a lot, but
- 50:07I am also fine with either of them.
- 50:10They're both really great. Does anybody actually have a
- 50:15coin? Like I haven't had coins in.
- 50:17Years. I don't have a coin on me, I
- 50:19have one in the car. That's downloaded coin app.
- 50:23You know, yeah, right. Maybe there's some kind of
- 50:28widget in Google where I can say like pick between these two
- 50:32things for me? I'm trying to like break it down
- 50:38to like some sort of, you know, like, well, what do we have
- 50:43available? Like what do we already have in
- 50:48like is is empty friend the deep cut versus the song that people
- 50:53might possibly know like is that is that an angle?
- 51:00So the the thing with those two songs though, honestly, I think
- 51:05Empty Friend sounds more like it would have been a radio song.
- 51:12And Undone is a little bit more little bit more jarring.
- 51:20Like it's still catchy, but it's got that kind of like that
- 51:23backwards, like driving drum beat and the chords are all kind
- 51:30of like really like ringy and and high throat some parts and I
- 51:35don't know, it feel it feels really off kilter.
- 51:38It's kind of weird to me that that was that was the single
- 51:43because there's, you know, there's definitely cat ear songs
- 51:46on on magnified. So I guess like when you think
- 51:50about this band, Peter, like, is it, do you, do you learn more
- 51:55towards something catchy like that?
- 51:56Or Because I know we're all kind of in the same place, we're good
- 51:59with either, but it feels like one of us has to kind of go,
- 52:04yeah, this is the one at this point.
- 52:11I agree that empty friend is the more obvious choice of what
- 52:18should have been the single. And I think for people, we're
- 52:22just checking these guys out for the first time, like maybe we
- 52:25don't want to go for like something that's more out there.
- 52:32I guess like something I'd want to go with something a little
- 52:35bit more accessible. All right, so to that to that
- 52:38point, let me run down this 9 again, because I feel like on on
- 52:42the whole, this band is there is something jarring to this band,
- 52:47right? Like how big it is like how how
- 52:50it sounds submission stuck on you, the nurse who loved me
- 52:54Princess frogs let it drip Saturday savior another space
- 52:58song macaque do do we have room for something that is closer to
- 53:08straight up catchy versus or I guess maybe do we already have
- 53:13covered like a jarring sound. Do you think Andrew?
- 53:18So I think the three that we have from comfort all have a
- 53:24little bit of that that feel to them like that, that uneasy
- 53:30feeling to them. And then obviously Magnified is
- 53:36kind of like that transition. And then Fantastic Planet is
- 53:39where like everything's catchy. Oh man, I don't know, like
- 53:46Undone is like the like the comfort side of Magnified and
- 53:53Empty Friend is like the fantastic planet side.
- 53:57Yeah, yeah, So I guess oh man, we do have to just flip a coin,
- 54:03don't we? Because I.
- 54:05Yeah, there's merits here. I think.
- 54:07I think maybe. I think maybe Empty friend
- 54:11because like Submission, Macaque, Princess, Let it drip
- 54:18and frogs are all kind of like lean more into that like earlier
- 54:25feeling. And then we have Saturday
- 54:28Savior, The Nurse who Loved Me, Another Space song stuck on you.
- 54:33I think Empty Friend would kind of like lean closer.
- 54:40Yeah, 'cause then you get 5 and 5.
- 54:43OK, I'm with it. I mean, we were all we're all
- 54:46kind of like in the same space of it really could be either.
- 54:50So let's do empty friend. And I hate when it's like a song
- 54:55that was already on my list, because then I, you know, like
- 54:59I, I feel like I can't really tip the tip it either way.
- 55:04All right, let's do empty friend as #10 and then I'll run down
- 55:11this list one last go, and then we'll crank up the heat again.
- 55:16Come on, computer, stick with me here.
- 55:22All right, here we go. Submission stuck on you.
- 55:29The nurse who loved me. Princess Frogs.
- 55:31Let it drip. Saturday, Saviour.
- 55:33Another space song. Macaque.
- 55:34An empty friend rounds out our 10 appear.
- 55:39Out of those 10, which one do you think is the one?
- 55:44It's not stuck on you thought it out.
- 55:47Oh, I like that. What do you think, Andrew?
- 55:58I would. I would be between stuck on you
- 56:05and the nurse who loved me. Yeah, I think that's where I'm
- 56:09at. I think I think Stuck on You
- 56:17does what we want to do better. But I think I like I think I
- 56:23like the Nurse Who loved me more as far as like, if I'm weighing
- 56:27out the songs because like, it gets all chaotic at the end and
- 56:31it's like, yeah, that that screams this band.
- 56:35But I think maybe Stuck On You does what we want to do better
- 56:42while still being the band. Yeah, yeah, I I agree.
- 56:49Like stuck on you, like drags you in immediately.
- 56:52Like it's immediately Kefi, it's immediately like an ear worm.
- 56:57I mean, and then, yeah. If we thought, like if we really
- 57:02wanted to throw people off the scent, but I really do think
- 57:07people should be way more into this band.
- 57:09So like, you know, when it comes to the end end of the year, like
- 57:15I want people to hear the thing that might actually get them
- 57:18into it. Not to say that nurse who loved
- 57:21me wouldn't, but I think that's a steeper entry then stuck on
- 57:27you, If that I I think I'm saying that right.
- 57:30I mean considering. Only a certain kind of listener
- 57:33is going to gravitate towards The Nurse Who Loved Me versus
- 57:43Stuck on You. I think like I think, I think
- 57:46Stuck on You is more of a universal like ear worm type
- 57:50song. And the Nurse Who Loved Me is
- 57:51like, you know, you kind of that's kind of like a song for
- 57:56someone that's just into like 90's rock and grunge and space
- 58:00rock and all that. Like it's kind of got that, that
- 58:04dreary, like cloudy feeling to it.
- 58:09And Stuck On You is a little bit more bright.
- 58:11Brian, see, we're talking to you.
- 58:13All right, so let's get let's go stuck on you since it was all on
- 58:20all three of our lips. So stuck on you it is.
- 58:26And let me run this down one last go and we'll wrap her all
- 58:29on up stuck on you submission the nurse who loved me Princess
- 58:33frogs let it drip Saturday savior another space song
- 58:36macaque an empty friend rounds out our 10.
- 58:40Let's let stuck on you get a moment in the sun bless.
- 58:55I love how like it like the the thing like the the riff on top
- 59:03is like kind of playful and underneath it like those chords
- 59:07are just so dooney. Oh my God.
- 59:10Yeah. It's so great guys.
- 59:15I I think I found like a a band that I'm, I'm truly in love with
- 59:19here and you know, it happens on this show.
- 59:21It's not like it never happens, but it's, it's been a while
- 59:26since like, something has kind of really hit me right in the
- 59:30veins that I want to make room for in my life.
- 59:35So. And I'm absolutely going to be
- 59:37looking out when next time I go to the record store for Failure
- 59:39Records because God, yeah. Like the way they fill out the
- 59:43sound, I can only imagine pumping it, pumping a vinyl of,
- 59:47of this, like just cranking. Anyway, we've done it.
- 59:52We've turned you on to failure and I'm speaking again directly
- 59:57to you, Brian Z, and anybody else who kind of lives in that
- 1:00:00that where 90s is their wheelhouse.
- 1:00:03This is probably a band you may have overlooked.
- 1:00:05Don't anymore. We've given you a reason to get
- 1:00:08in. We've got the list for you to
- 1:00:10listen. If you were the type that
- 1:00:13really, really wants to do some work as well.
- 1:00:17Grab every song that we brought up.
- 1:00:19We covered a good portion of. As a matter of fact, let's do
- 1:00:22the stats real quick before we get out of here.
- 1:00:24How much did we cover? Out of 48 songs?
- 1:00:30We covered 33. So there was a handful that
- 1:00:33didn't didn't get brought in here.
- 1:00:35And keep in mind the three, three out of the four off of
- 1:00:39Fantastic Planet that didn't come up or Segways, and they're
- 1:00:43literally called that Segway. The only song that didn't come
- 1:00:46up was Blank. We we covered everything else.
- 1:00:49Yeah, we covered everything else.
- 1:00:51That's. A good song too.
- 1:00:55Off a magnified we didn't Bernie and small crimes weren't brought
- 1:00:59up. And then on comfort, muffled
- 1:01:01snaps, kindred and pro catastrophe didn't come up.
- 1:01:05And I mean, you know, golden was a hit or miss anyway.
- 1:01:09So you know, good, good handful of those didn't didn't get
- 1:01:13brought up. Just saying that if you're like
- 1:01:17me and you love the 90s, this is a band that you may have and and
- 1:01:21or probably did miss. Go back, scoop it all up, start
- 1:01:26with our 10. But I guarantee if, if you like
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