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Subject: Failure
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 05:57:18 -0400
From: Morgoth <morgoth@MIT.EDU>


I haven't been following the conversation on this list
too much lately, but I just finished listening to Magnified
for old time's sake, and it inspired me to write the list.

First of all, what in the world could have happened between these
guys to make them give up on Failure?  It's true that barely
any of my other cd's (including Comfort and Fantastic Planet)
can even hold a candle to Magnified (in my opinion), so I 
guess maybe they just look on Magnified as some sort of "alignment
of the stars" that can't ever happen again.  Still, it sucks
that I don't have any other cd that has "that sound" of Magnified;
I do appreciate their giving it a try with Fantastic Planet 
though, even though it obviously (in my opinion) didn't work 
out nearly so well.

The sound in Magnified, that dissonant/unsettling sound that
I have only heard Failure achieve, is just so damn incredible.
If I had to describe it in terms of a mood, all I could come up 
with is the word "failure".  Appropriately.  How in the hell 
did these guys manage to come up with songs like Small Crimes, 
Wonderful Life, Empty Friend, Bernie, etc.??

Well, I could go on and on about how much it sucks that they
broke up, and how much it sucks that I never saw them live,
but what's the point?

Kevin
morgoth@mit.edu
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