10 Masterpiece Albums Everyone Ignored

3. Fantastic Planet - Failure

There tends to be a big question mark spread across the end of the '90s. Even though the decade started strong with Nirvana announcing the alternative boom, the death of Kurt Cobain in '94 left the rest of the rock scene with nowhere to go. While many people tried to spark new movements left and right, Failure is the one band that was meant to be huge when they released Fantastic Planet.

As opposed to the more shiny melodies of the pop punk movement, there was almost a futuristic quality to the way that these songs were constructed, with distorted piano lines that felt like they were being beamed in from space. Though the melodies were already solid, the real strength came when Ken Andrews opened his mouth, sounding like an eclectic mix between Cobain's gravelly tone and the introspective croon of someone like Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.

However, other than the song Stuck On You, no one really touched this record outside of a few people in the know, with A Perfect Circle later covering the song The Nurse Who Loved Me for their album Thirteenth Step. There are probably many rock fans who just gloss over Failure, but Fantastic Planet is one of the last great albums to come from rock's most disaffected decade.