Absolutely love this album, I never expected to see it on here! Their song Another Space Song is my go to driving song.

Failure: your favorite band's favorite band

Failure and Hum..two of my favorite 90s band. Thanks for doing this one!

The last third of this album is perfect. Full stop. Never surpassed.

Failure go back with Tool as good friends and quite often toured with them. It's less that they're musically related, but more intellectually atuned. Failure are generally highly regarded for witty, ascerbic lyrics covering quite dense subjects, and for their production and engineering skills. The distorted bass guitar sounds of Failure songs are usually a high point, as well as the incredibly unusual sounds they use, and how they attain them. I personally would recommend Headstand next, which is one of the singles off their most recent album, if you want to get a picture of where they are now. Ken Andrews from the band has a KZfaq channel where he has started talking a little in depth about how some of these songs were recorded, and about the process of transferring old ADAT masters to digital for the sake of remastering their first two releases.

A Perfect Circle covered their song "The Nurse Who Loved Me" on the Thirteenth Step Album.

This is a top 10 song of my life. One thing that's great is it's about an earworm, a crush and/or drugs.

criminally unknown band, even their record from last year is amazing.

Ken Andrews (the lead singer/guitarist/song writer) is also a really good producer/engineer which is probably why the song/album sounds so good. Check out some of the other stuff he has produced. He even managed to make Tommy Lee's Methods of Mayhem sound good!

The entire album kicks so much ass, and the live version is even better imo. One more vote for "Another space song" next.

Another Space Song. My favorite Failure song ever. So atmospheric and amazing. I highly recommend it.

YESSSSS YOU FOUND THEM!!!! ENJOY geebz omg youre gonna love them. I first heard this when will smith accepted a mtv movie awards and then years later heard the song and was like that hook!!! It was in my head for years! Seen them live in san diego when they did their comeback tour in 2014? They sounded sooppp good live a 3 piece band pulling off all the sounds. Just like the record

Fun fact - the key sound is a keyboard played through Ken andrews guitar rig with pretty much all of his pedals turned on

If you like this style of Fuzz Rock, you'll dig space rock bands like Hum. Hum's "You'd Prefer An Astronaut" and "Downward Is Heavenward" albums are some of my all time favs.

Another good space rock band from the same era is HUM. Stars, The Pod, I hate it too, are all good tracks.

Love Failure, give Smoking Umbrellas a listen. Definitely one my favourites.

As many said, they kind of remind me of Hum. Please, give Hum a listen, they are great!

Geebz, one of the things I love about your channel isn't just your insight into music production, and giving me insights into why I enjoy some of the music I do, but you throw new music my way that I absolutely fall in love with. I can't wait to check out some of this bands other music!

originally heard this song when paramore covered it. always stuck with me as a great tune.

I think I heard of Failure over the years, but never heard anything from them, that I know of. This song is sooooo good! That hook is catchy as hell, I'm gonna have it in my head the rest of the week! I also love the simplicity of it, especially in the back-end, with the drums and bass work. With how the track was set up, they could have easily had a simple one minute or longer solo section after that 2nd chorus (or even 3rd,) but they chose to keep it simple and change up the melody, keep it clean, and really hammer in just how radio friendly this track is. Going to have to check out more of them! Thanks for the vid, Geebz, and thanks to all who requested this band!

Yet another reason I subscribed and am a proud patron! I absolutely love this album and band!! This whole album is an absolute journey and I’m so happy they returned and started putting out music again because this band is absolutely amazing!

Wow! Hidden gem. Great choice geebs. You should check out "Saturday Saviour" "pitiful" and "the Nurse Who Loved Me" off this same album.

Whoa very cool seeing Failure get a reaction. This album is one of the best from the 90s for sure. I have APC to thank for finding them! The verses on this song remind me of legendary Pavement (way different sound to Pavement once the chorus hits of course).

Love that you got introduced to Failure! My favorite band and they are putting out some incredible records after breaking up in the late 90's and coming back in 2015.

IM DYING WATCHING THIS RIGHT NOW MY HEART AABAH!! Listen to their new album "Wild Type Droid"!!!

Very Cool you did Failure, one of my favorite bands ever, and Fantastic Planet is in the top 3 albums of the ‘90’s! And if memory serves me, the high end sound you’re mentioning, is a keyboard thru a guitar rig(distortion and all). I strongly recommend “Dirty Blue Balloons”, a dark treasure(and a fascinating guitar solo and break). Thanks for this one Geebz

Not sure if anyone else did, but I requested this on Patreon. It was between this and Another Space Song. But any song from Fantastic Planet would be great for a Geebz breakdown. How about A Nurse Who Loved Me split single breakdown of Failure's and A Perfect Circle's?

GD I listened to this record so many times in the early 2000's. Listening right now...You can really hear the "space rock" (heroin) dripping from this band. I'd love to hear your thoughts on Autolux, the bass player Greg's other band.

DO MORE FAILURE! Anything off Magnified would be incredible.

The intro/recurring part is a distorted/effected piano. It's explained in various videos, by others and Ken Andrews himself. You can also see it in live videos. It's cool how you like the production/engineering, this was the first record Ken Andrews completely engineered/mixed/produced and he nailed it first try. Some engineers/producers take a few tries to find their voice but his was there from the beginning. I'm also here to echo the entire comment section with "another space song" and "heliotropic" and really the whole record, it's incredible as a complete piece.

Oh my God Yes!!! You found Failure!!! I hope you'll keep on discovering more from this band. Another Space Song is a MUST. I am really happy, keep it up! Thank You.

Failure is the best band you’ve never heard of. They are so good and so consistent. I would definitely love to see you react to more!

Gotta do “The Pineal Electorate” by Failure at some point, it would knock ur socks 🧦 off!

Didn't come across this band till the pandemic started. I assumed it was going to be standard alternative rock but it is way more than that. Super interesting progressions and structures. I feel like HUM is the next logical step from here. Post-metal/shoegaze stuff from the 90s that I didn't get to know sooner.

Smoking Umbrellas, the Nurse who loved me (a Perfect Circle covered it beautifully wink wink nudge nudge), Pennies, Hot Traveller and A. M Amnesia are great choices. So happy to see this band get some love

You gotta do HUM now Geebz! Isle of the Cheetah!

One of my favorite albums of the 90's. It still amazes me they weren't more succesful. Heliotropic, Daylight and Smoking umbrellas are also some great listens. But why not do a back to back of the wonderful "The nurse who loved me" and A perfect circle's cover of it?

The instrumental melody line is an electric piano played through a Marshall stack

Love Failure, all of their albums are great, especially their first three and Fantastic Planet above all others. It's one of the stone cold classic 90s albums.

Hey Geebz! Great video, love the band Failure! Hopefully you check out their song "Frogs" off their Magnified album. Back in the early 90's Failure and Tool would do shows together, and I think Failure has opened for Tool back in the day. AWWRIGHT!

I love this band! Bernie is my favorite song

Dude. I'm only young, 22, turning 23 next year (holy shit.) but I discovered this band when I was around 13 or 14. The dynamics and the choice of melody that Ken Andrews & Greg Edwards employ in their songwriting, was an itch that desperately needed scratching as a coming of age adolescent who wanted to expand their music taste. As someone who grew up in a family with siblings that, almost ridiculously, are passionate about music and what goes on in the studio, I need to make it abundantly clear that discovering this band really and truly did save me. For real. Criminally underrated band, Completely unexpected that I would see anybody react to this band, but it's so unbelievably cool to see. I vaguely remember seeing a documentary on KZfaq about Failure. I remember the songwriters talking about 'Stuck on You,' specifically the lead melody that starts off the song. It was a keyboard plugged into a guitar amp with the gain/distortion turned all the way up. it's a weird sound that I've yet to hear duplicated, but it serves the song so damn well. It goes to show you that just when you think you know all the rules when it comes to composition, there is ALWAYS somebody willing to break the rules; boundaries that musicians really shouldn't be scared to cross. Love the content, defintely earned my subscription. Keep 'em coming!

Love it. Hope we see some Hum tracks analysis!

LOL - On my thumbnail, I do look kind baked though😶‍🌫

They actually did use a keyboard in the studio for the arpeggiated tones at the beginning of the song (and throughout). However, in the 90s they didn't bring a keyboard with them on tour so they played that part with a guitar. It sounded nothing like the album cut of the song but it was neat to hear it anyway! Greg Edwards plays that part with a proper keyboard in all of their shows these days.

Hearing this made me wanna listen to that new Hum album again.

Oh man, Yesterday was the first time in years I listened to this song, when I decided to put it on, so that I and my students can play along to it on drums, and to see you release a reaction to this song is slightly trippy XD Anyway, cant wait to watch the reaction itself.

Geebz you gotta kick back, smoke a doob and listen to their album "fantastic planet". It's one of the most amazing albums ever written and the production is amazing

Yes!! So stoked I'm not the only who was hoping (and requesting) Geebz's take on a Failure song. One of my favorite bands of all time. Here's hoping he gets into more of their amazing songs

best album of the era - daylight is outstanding - another space song - heliotropic - leo - smoking umbrellas - truly a flawless album - best listened to the track order reversed

The song that follows this is called Heliotropic, killer bass, favourite failure track

Thanks for this reaction! I found Failure because of the APC cover of "The nurse who loved me". Anyway, I think they are a great (underrated) band.. especially with their new album.. there are some really good songs there like Headstand and Long Division 👍👍

Hi Geebz. Not sure if someone already mentioned, but at 3:46 that was a guitar. The effect was the Digitech Whammy, used by bands in the 90's to go 1 to 3 octaves up or down. Super cool effect, especially when used tastefully as done in this song. However, this effect could also be considered extremely cheesy by guitarists when over-used. Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, and KoRN were amongst some of the artists known to also use this device. Cheers!

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this in the comments so far, but the arpeggiated melody of the song is a keyboard (I forgot what type though) that they ran through some guitar amp, which gave it the grit.

Another lovely finding just in time to some road trips 🤔👌🏻

I'm going to put this out there, I also enjoyed the Replicants album from the mid nineties. It was a covers album featuring Andrews and Edwards from Failure and former bassist from Tool, Paul D'Amour. Pretty cool tribute to some great songs. Check it out.

My favorite band. I'm wearing one of my Failure shirts as I watch! Wonderful!

I discovered this song through Alicia Widar's cover. Absolutely fantastic

this album has some of favorite production of the 90s, very spacey but grungy. one of the most under-appreciated bands and albums of that era. also fun fact, tool used to open up for them and i think they’ve all been good friends for decades. and a perfect circle does a cover of their song “the nurse who loved me” which is fantastic. i think ive suggested it before but “ another space song” is a great track from them.

Thank you for covering this album. One of the great “lost and missed” bands of the 90s and early 2000’s. Bands that people kinda glossed over and didn’t get the attention they deserved because of oversaturated garbage radio rock. Bands like failure, dredg, cave-in, or even Silverchair’s diorama record. It wasn’t “radio” enough but man, bands like this really saved that whole era of music for me. Ps. I’ve bought you a cup of coffee before and requested dredg. I’m sure you got tons of backed up requests but I just would love to just see what you think of Dredg’s song “the canyon behind her” Based on what you said in this video, I think you’d love Dredg’s album el cielo as a whole. Cool story behind the record too.

Failure used to open for Tool all the time! I must have seen them at least 5 times and still play this album quite a bit.

Welcome to space rock. I endorse the band Hum for a future reaction!

I’m kicking myself for not checking this out sooner. This sounds so great. Added it to my playlist.

So glad you hit this one! Please please plleeeeaaase give Another Space Song a listen. Such an interesting composition, genuinely nothing out there that sounds remotely like it

Ken Andrews is a master song writer and producer. Greg Edwards also went on to form Autolux.

Yes! I haven’t even watched this yet and I’m already pumped.

You’re going to get so many nerds who are going nuts right now.

I love this band. Ken Andrews( guitarist) is a great mixer and producer.

All time great underrated album. Also it's a piano played through a guitar amp

That sound is actually an acoustic piano!

3:47 - KROQ had these guys on one of their shows when this song was in heavy rotation I believe, and they explained that they got that sound/tone by running a keyboard through pedals.

The only Failure song I know is The Nurse Who Loved Me, and that's only because A Perfect Circle covered it. I think I prefer the original. It has an interesting chord progression.

Failure are one of the few bands who can perfectly integrate odd stuff like triads and backed minor notes, and still make them sound beautiful. This song is an oddball not just for Failure, but for alternative music itself. Almost has a shoegaze rush to it.

Oh wow, I can't believe I missed this video. All time favorite band and one of my influences on guitar. Hum would be an awesome band to check out, especially anything off of Downward Is Heavenward. Oh, and the band Cave In would be fun too.

Thank u Geebz

Wow can’t believe you actually did this album love it

their we go Geebz!!

Geebz, thank you! There's so much love for Failure it's a shame more reactions don't already exist for them. Stuck On You is an amazing track, give the whole Fantastic Planet a shot. It is, without a doubt, one of the best albums of the 90's. You and your listeners are in for a treat. I am so excited!

Wow this is one of my favorites songs from the 90s.

Failure? Nunca pensé que fueras a reaccionar a esta banda, es muy buenaaa. Te recomiendo mucho Smoking Umbrellas, tiene algo bien interesante e ingenioso.... Te envío un abrazo, Geebz, gracias por el vídeo.

Good pick, great song.

This whole album is addicting, I didn't realize how much I loved it the first time I heard it

surprised you haven’t done a Failure song yet, definitely recommend some more! Try Undone, The Nurse Who Loved Me or Heliotropic if you decide to do more on this band.

Failure is A great band along with autolux. Some of the musicians have worked with tool/ a perfect circle, and Jeff Buckley etc.

I really enjoy this song. I'm glad you did this video. Could you do Unsung by Helmet?

Oh and btw, Ken Andrews mixed the brilliant self-titled Paramore record!

Yeeesss! These guys don’t get nearly enough respect.

Thanks for posting Failure, I loved the video! I really enjoy Daylight, Pillowhead, and Smoking Umbrellas. Maybe worth checking those tracks out.

The nurse who loved me by failure. PLEASE!

I recommend "sergeant politeness" and "blank" from this album for sure

Eye of Melian - Vita Nova (single edit - Official Video) - YOU WON'T REGRET THIS IN 2022

Please do some Hum. From Downward is Heavenward. You've never heard anything like it. Failure is the closest I suppose. The mixes are so dense I still hear new things after almost 25 years.

Yes !! More Failure ! If it's your kind of thing I highly suggest you to give a listen to Hum, Quicksand, Jawbox, Helmet, and Shiner. On another note Pavement orTujiko Noriko would be cool too. Love you vids

Amazing reaction to an amazing song! You can’t go wrong with Failure, I’d recommend The Nurse Who Loved me or Smoking Umbrellas. Another band you should check out is Hum! One of Failure’s contemporaries and a big influences on Deftones. You can’t go wrong with any of their songs, I’d suggest Stars, Isle of the Cheetah, or If You Are To Bloom.

4:51 Geebz nailed the hook 100 like Pro.... wait ! .... he is a pro.

The lead Melody at the beginning is a piano run through a distorted guitar rig

Great song! The intro riff is a keyboard played through an amp with distortion!

First time I heard/saw them they opened for Tool in 1992. I've seen them a bunch of times since and they never disappoint. Saturday Savior is a great track as is The Nurse Who Loved Me (also covered really well by A Perfect Circle). Please check out some more I think you'd really enjoy. And keep an eye out for a documentary on the band coming out sometime this year. Cheers for the great reaction.

Check out Rick Beato’s video on here as he dissects this song perfectly

my favorite track on that album is Daylight.. the song is just HUGE