Failure performing "The Nurse Who Loved Me" from their album Fantastic Planet. Live @ The Urban Art Bar in Houston TX. 6/1/97. **NOTE** - THIS IS NOT A COVER, THIS IS THE ORIGINAL SONG BY FAILURE.
These guys are amazing. How I managed to miss Failure while I was literally living, breathing and dreaming Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Mudhoney etc is beyond me. Oh well, new music is new music, even if it's old music (does that make sense?). :)
I'd like to throw out there that Failure was not just Ken Andrews. In fact Greg Edwards the bass player wrote this song. Greg was pretty brilliant so I'm giving credit where credit is due on this one!
Pulls on my heart, I'm almost unable to stand the intensity and emotion I feel during my listens. A calm, violating type of feel. Beautifully disturbing. Mastery in quieting intensity. I learn from this very much. 💔😪🙏
Just had to leave a comment from 12 years in the future - I just saw your comment and went and watched the film and it was awesome! Thank you for introducing me to it. Also I noticed the part five minutes in where they put the collar on the Om and the machine makes the sound from the beginning of Another Space Song. That was awesome. Thanks again if you see this :)
I want to thank joemc83 for uploading this concert.Failure, unfortunately, is an underestimated and forgotten band (at least in spain). This is an incredible song from an incredible album from an incredible band...For all the people who thought that this was a cover, congratulations, you have a good band to discover.
i found out about them by accident on my never ending search for 90's music. has turned into my favorite 90's band of all time by far. listen to them daily and never get tired of it, cant explain it. you are so lucky to have been able to see them perform live. i discovered them way to late
I am eternally fortunate that I was able to experience this song, live, in 2007, by Ken, First Wave Hello, and Charlotte Martin, as an encore. A magical end to a magical night.
listen guys, IMHO, I think BOTH bands did the song justice. Kudos for Failure for actually writing it and kudos for APC for giving it their own "spin" while still staying true to the spirit of the song. Can't we all just get along?
good to see failure's music spreading through generations most of my friends thought they were strange or just didn't get them when I listened to them i bought fantastic planet 3 months after it's release and have seen them live 4 times i have been following ken and greg's careers ever since one of the most underrated bands
Both versions are amazing, the first time I heard this song I was sitting on the fire escape on the 11th floor of a Chicago hotel an midnight, there is no other thing like that feeling.
Guys, it's music, not a competition. People are going to have different opinions, it isn't a fact as far as which one is better. So just sit back, stop arguing, and enjoy the music.
You know some people at this bar are just eating pulled pork sandwiches and not realizing how epic of a show is going on in front of them. Nice video @joemc83!
a cover is an homage, a tip of the hat from one artist to another. It's a great song...that's why maynard and a perect circle chose to cover it. It's about respect
Members of Tool and Failure were friends early on and helped each other out. Members of both bands did a side project called Replicants. Ken Andrews directed Tool's first video for Hush from Opiate. I was lucky enough to discover Failure early on and even saw them in concert on the Fantastic Planet tour. A good deal of Failure's lyrics center around addiction and Planet is about either Andrews or Edwards' fight with heroin (can't remember which one think it's Edwards). Very talented band!
Awesome vid. Seems to be a lot of APC talk in the comments. APC did a good version of this song. I like this one better. I recomend the Failure DVD. Has some really good footage of them recording with Steve Albini.
This is one of the best songs ever written. Thank you to Failure for writing it! I heard Maynard sing it first, but this original version is amazing. What the hell is wrong with that crowd, though, how can they not move? They are entirely too subdued.
Unfortunately(or fortunately) that's how I heard about these guys(from APC), but after I bought Fantastic Planet, I couldn't believe how these guys had been overlooked! Thanks joemc83!
If you liked APC's cover of this song, you'd probably like alot of failure stuff. Check out the songs 'Screen Man', 'Dirty Blue Balloons', similar kinda music. They also have some poppier sounding ones like "Leo" and "Smoking Umbrellas", which are all fucking good songs. This band is way unknown for all their talent... extremely technical understanding of music.
I saw Failure open for Tool in 1994. What a show. I caught and still have a demo cassette that Failure threw into the crowd. It has four songs "from the upcoming album Magnified". I think it's great that people are discovering Failure through APC. I tend to prefer covers done by my "A" list bands but this is one case where I prefer the orginal.
Kudos to Maynerd for covering this song. But then again Maynerd and the boys were big fans of failure. Fantastic was one of the landmark albums from back in the day, up there with OK computer in its own way. For those of you who keep saying that APC's version is better, Maynerd would bitchsmack you. Its a complete reinterpretation of the song, has a different tempo and everything. Personally i prefer Failure's version (and I'm a tool/apc fan) but I won't say either one is better.
Thanks for posting these. Failure was a good band. This was a fantastic album :) As with all this APC talk, it was a good cover - if you've seen APC live, then you'd know they stick closer to the original version.
When FP came out I was beating it to death, along with an album called "Siesta" by a band called Peach that was contemporary to Failure at the time. Both are very similar in tone, song structure, etc. Both also obscure and overlooked, but freakin' great. If you liked one album you should dig the other, so for those lamenting the lack of Failure material since FP, maybe you can try hunting that one down, it's pretty similar and IMO very good.
i got to see APC w/ year of the rabbit opening and when APC did this song they started it like their version and then Ken came out did the song with Maynard and kicked it into this version. it was fricken awesome.
fucking excellent, this is the version that should be on the apc album, the album version is just strange, i guess that's what they were going for, but this is 10 times as good, literally. and when apc does it live they do this version, and its excellent
this is actually the first time i can recall hearin the original,apc turned me on,an i knew from the rip it was a cover. even saw the singer with apc. they are both pretty different.i couldn't make a fair call as to what i like better, i rewrote it as a solo acoustic piece that i dig. i'm fixin to load it,
"like that interpretation, that the nurse is a metaphor for heroin" We have a winner!!! This is one of the most important recordings of the 90"s... every bit as big as nirvana, imho
Awesome. Of course I didn't get Fantastic Planet until after I'd heard the cover on Thirteenth Step. =P I definitely agree with all the 'most underrated band of the 90's' comments. Only heard about these guys browsing through an old version of Rhapsody. Stumbled across their 'Enjoy the Silence' cover. Instantly hooked.
considering that the APC version is a vast departure in style you can't compare the two fairly at all. It's an awesome song no matter how it is performed, and which version you like better is just going to depend on whether you prefer alt rock type stuff or mellow orchestral-ish type stuff.
