Customer Reviews

Failure

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Sarcastic, funny, hilarious. SOunds like what you would get if you mixed Frank Zappa, John Valby, and Weird AL, with the lyrical ingenuity of Bad Religion and the comedy of Adam Sandler!!!!

His best album yet, John has finally found musicians that truly compliment his poetical mastery.

This album is simply amazing. Not only are the words as great as usual, but the music is pretty damn inovative thanks especially to Sasha Forte and Branford Reed. I am really glad that I bought this album.

I actually really enjoy this album. It's a little more musical than their other efforts but by no means bad. Surreal and actually a lot odder than anything else i've heard. Failure is a song of pure genious, the little sandwich is so random it's amusing and I really love despair.. I think it's the high pitched wailing background singing..

This album has some really funny songs and some songs that aren't meant to be funny but are really good. King Missile has always been underrated, and I was never sure that its most commercially successful song (Detachable * ) was as good as "Jesus Was Way Cool" or some of its other college hits. Anyway, this album has songs ("a good hard look," "monks," "failure") that rival those songs in coolness. There's also a really funny one called "gay/not gay," which might be taken as offensive but clearly isn't meant to be.

There are several songs on here that are good, but most are pretty bad. "Gay/Not Gay" could have been great, but by turning it into a child's swear fest, the band completely destroyed that idea. "Failure" and "Monks" are the best songs by far on this album. Almost everything else is so not-funny or not-clever that when the songs end, I'm asking myself, "That's it? It's over, just like that? What a waste." All the previous King Missile albums are keepers, but this one is pretty bad. So just try to listen to this album somehow before you buy it, especially if your expecting the same creativity, clever, funny, and insanely profound lyrics and music that are King Missile.

this album is pathetic! john s hall, plainly and simply, is
not funny anymore. musically and lyrically,this album is not
very...umm...GOOD! the musicians seem talented enough, but the songs are very weak.the title, unfortunately, is very fitting.
don't bother!

One star is for the clever packaging. The other is for the band. The rest of this cd is so bad it isn't funny! Vulgarity isn't shocking anymore so why continue on and on and on with it! Up my ass is a direct rip-off from Boogie up your Butt! from that black guy on Saturday Night Live! John Hall has a great voice but he desperately needs material! Don't be sucked in! Get Shockabilly instead!