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Organ Failure

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Educational rock songs about internal disorders and other important matters.Organ Failure is planning an East coast tour in November and a West coast tour in December. If you are in one of those regions (or on the way from Texas), and want Organ Failure to perform in your town, and/or can help get us a show, let us know!Here is a blurb about our band: Organ Failure is a weirdo comedy rock/performance art organization from Houston Texas. We perform quirky and catchy educational rock songs about internal disorders and other important matters. In 2005 Organ Failure received the Free Press Cynic's Choice Award for best live performance in Houston. You can hear Organ Failure in action at http://www.organfailure.orgWe are in the process of making clay animation music videos for our songs! This is our first finished video:.. width="425" height="350" ..Organ Failure CDs are now available for purchase! Just click the link below!: Organ Failure CDs and shirts!Add our MySpace banner to your webpage!
Review from The Nashville Scene - Our Critics Picks - November 2006 If you’ve ever wondered what “Folsom Prison Blues” would sound like sung by Cookie Monster, wonder no more. Like Weird Al Yankovic on a nitrous spree, Houston’s Organ Failure give voice to just these sorts of delirious scenarios, while indulging every waggish whim that orbits in their demented minds. But the band’s covers are far more outré than Weird Al’s literal rip-offs—take their avant-folk approach on “Rock the Casbah.” And they play mostly originals, such as the damaged hip-hop come-on “What We Really Want to Do,” which sounds like an Odelay session hijacked by 13-year-old delinquents. What makes it work is Olivia “Poopy Lungstuffing” Dvorak, whose high-pitched banter at times sounds like one of Bart Simpson’s misfit friends. Organ Failure are the house band at Super Happy Fun Land, a Houston venue for experimental art and music. —JACK SILVERMAN

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Member Since: 12/06/2005
Band Website: http://www.organfailure.org
Band Members: Flakey Bee, Dr. Compostulous, Leif Erikson
Influences: Captain Beefheart, Weird Al Yankovic, Bongwater, Ween, They Might Be Giants, Frank Zappa, Butthole Surfers, Beans Barton and the Bi-Peds, Adam Sandler, The Cherry Blossoms, The Velvet Underground, Flaming Lips, King Missile, David Bowie, Devo, Primus, Peter Gabriel, The Duckhills, The Soft Boys, Robyn Hitchcock, The Bartlebees, Negativland, DeSchmog, Trout Fishing In America, Beck, Tenacious D, The B52's, DVDA, Cerberus Shoal, The Talking Heads, Tiny Tim, Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, Steve Martin, The Kids in the Hall, SCTV, Jim Henson, Saturday Night Live, Spinal Tap, Laugh In, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Gilbert and Sullivan, Gershwin, Burl Ives, Carl Orff, Cheech and Chong
Sounds Like: Electric Mayhem, Shel Silverstein, Crispen Glover, Syd Barrett, Bloodhound Gang, Dr Demento, Fish Karma, The Monkees, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Wesley Willis, The Shaggs, Dead Milkmen, Roky Erikson, Captain Beefheart
Record Label: Super Happy Fun Land Records

My Blog

Cookie Prison Blues . 15 on The Dementia Top 20

Dementia Top 20 Reminder Time (Feb 23-25, 2007) DFSXRadio.com where Dementia Streams Free the way Mother Nature intended it to be: http://www.dfsxradio.com/ Listen to this week's "Dementia Top 20" r...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:04:00 GMT

Stanford University Radio (KZFU) Review of All Over

From KZFU 90.1 FM Album Review Reviewer: Your Imaginary FriendReviewed 2007-02-07 Buncha freaks from that bastion of freaks, Texas, playing parody, silly, spoofs of songs and themes with a mix of musi...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:35:00 GMT

Organ Failure - All Over CD Review from Houston Music Review

Organ Failure - All OverThere is something to be said for the freedom that comes with doing music for yourself. There is a luxury a band out working for a label will never have, the ability to create ...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 16:21:00 GMT

Claymation Video!

Howdy folks, Victor and I are working on a Claymation video for "Devil Why Must You Persue Me". After much technical difficulty we are finally shooting. I will be putting our daily rushes and studio b...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 18:55:00 GMT

Organ Failure West Fest Review at Handstamp!

http://blogs.chron.com/handstamp/archives/2006/05/great_for_ octob.html Comments Not everything in front of Mango's was bad. Organ Failure was great. They're oddly creative in that old-school Frank-Za...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 10:21:00 GMT

Organ Failure Tour Report

Hey folks, we have been having a blast here in Chicago. Last night at the show I couldn't stop laughing for like 4 hours straight, it was so fun and weird! Apparently everyone in this city has the big...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 08:20:00 GMT

Only Organ Failure would book New Orleans...

during a hurricane. Hope everyone is keeping their guts and the rest of themselves safe. Guess we are going to have to cancel the Checkpoint Charlie's show since it will probably be underwater. We mig...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Aug 2005 05:51:00 GMT

8 Wacko Freak bands Tonight at Super Happy Fun Land!

Visit the websites of some of these weirdos to find out why you should be there: Fri July 22nd: Cryptorchid Chipmunk (West Virginia) www.myspace.com/cryptorchidchipmunk Treasure Mammal (Arizona) www.m...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Jul 2005 07:13:00 GMT