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Fantastic Planet by Failure
Fantastic Planet is an album by Failure, released in 1996. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “Stuck On You”, on 1 list with a best position of #328.
Fantastic Planet, Failure's third album, came out on August 13, 1996, through Slash and Warner Bros., and it turned out to be the last Slash release before London Recordings bought the label that year. The band produced it themselves and took their time, recording and finishing each song soon after it was written, and the patience shows: this is space rock with its feet in the grunge era, huge, cold and gorgeous, all glacial guitar layers and hooks that drift in from orbit.
Underneath the sci-fi imagery, the lyrics keep circling back to drugs, addiction and prostitution. The record also loops back on itself, the chime that closes "Daylight" opening "Saturday Saviour", and it started the numbered segues the band kept using later. Critics loved it, the Billboard 200 ignored it, and "Stuck on You" got to 23 on Billboard's alternative chart. It was Failure's last studio album for nineteen years, until The Heart Is a Monster in 2015.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Fantastic Planet on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stuck On You | 1 | #328 | – | 1999 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.