- Audio CD (10 Nov 2008)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Format: Soundtrack
- Label: Warner Bros.
- ASIN: B001G0LBYM
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 80,332 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Once Between Hopelessness | |||
| 2. The Distance Between Mars And Earth Part 1 | |||
| 3. The Horrors Of Isolation | |||
| 4. In Excelcelsoir Vaginalistic | |||
| 5. Your Spaceship Comes From Within | |||
| 6. Suicide And Extraordinary Mistakes | |||
| 7. The distance Between Mars And Earth Part 2 | |||
| 8. The Secret Of Immortality | |||
| 9. The Gleaming Armament Of Marching Genitalia | |||
| 10. The Distress Signals Of Celetial Objects | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Christmas on Mars - Movie (DVD) | |||
Product Description
Album Description
In production since 2001, The Flaming Lips' eagerly anticipated Christmas on Mars: A Fantastical Film Freakout featuring The Flaming Lips will be released on DVD and CD/DVD formats on Warner Bros Records / Cinema Purgatorio.
Directed by front man Wayne Coyne alongside co-director George Salisbury (the band's audiovisual technician), many of the film's Mars sets were constructed in Coyne's back garden at his home in Oklahoma City. The film does indeed take place during Christmas time on Mars, as the colonization of the Red Planet is underway. But when an oxygen generator and a gravity control pod malfunction, Major Syrtis (The Lips' Steven Drozd) and his team (including the Lips' bassist Michael Ivins) fear for the worst. Syrtis hallucinates about the birth of a baby, and many other strange things. Meanwhile, a compassionate alien superbeing (Coyne) arrives, inspiring and helping the isolated astronauts. Also appearing in the film are the band's road drummer Kliph Scurlock, manager Scott Booker, and many other familiar figures from The Lips' community.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Firstly i need to hold my hands up and say that the Flaming Lips are just about my favorite band, so i think this review will be a little over generous to their latest project.
Essentially Wayne Coyne's pet project for the last decade, Christmas On Mars finally gets its release, and i for one am relieved because it will hopefully mean the band will shift focus and release a new album, and then tour it, which lets face it is all that fans like myself really want from the band.
What fans do get is a well conceived package of music and a slightly offbeat science fiction movie that is equally full of the bands trademark,oddness and optimism, whilst maintaining the independence of spirit that the Flaming Lips guard so lovingly.The Fearless Freaks or UFO's At The Zoo this ain't, but it is made with sincerity and is the culmination of many years work for Coyne and the band.
On some levels Christmas On Mars is a homage to b'movie sci fi that appeared to have a major significance in the Coyne household, and is an attempt to write a movie based on a mythical story from Waynes childhood.However, this is not a great movie, merely a chance to lay to rest a major artistic ghost from Wayne Coynes past.The influence of John Carpenters "Dark Star " should also be mentioned, as the same sense claustrophobic boredom is evident in Christmas On Mars.
The soundtrack is welcome if only for some new Flaming Lips music, and although mainly instrumental, its debt to the film scores of Vangelis is notable,and does its job in complimenting the visuals.
Christmas On Mars is not a concert movie, or a documentary, but it adequately perpetuates the Flaming Lips reputation as true musical mavericks.Nothing more, nothing less.
Essentially Wayne Coyne's pet project for the last decade, Christmas On Mars finally gets its release, and i for one am relieved because it will hopefully mean the band will shift focus and release a new album, and then tour it, which lets face it is all that fans like myself really want from the band.
What fans do get is a well conceived package of music and a slightly offbeat science fiction movie that is equally full of the bands trademark,oddness and optimism, whilst maintaining the independence of spirit that the Flaming Lips guard so lovingly.The Fearless Freaks or UFO's At The Zoo this ain't, but it is made with sincerity and is the culmination of many years work for Coyne and the band.
On some levels Christmas On Mars is a homage to b'movie sci fi that appeared to have a major significance in the Coyne household, and is an attempt to write a movie based on a mythical story from Waynes childhood.However, this is not a great movie, merely a chance to lay to rest a major artistic ghost from Wayne Coynes past.The influence of John Carpenters "Dark Star " should also be mentioned, as the same sense claustrophobic boredom is evident in Christmas On Mars.
The soundtrack is welcome if only for some new Flaming Lips music, and although mainly instrumental, its debt to the film scores of Vangelis is notable,and does its job in complimenting the visuals.
Christmas On Mars is not a concert movie, or a documentary, but it adequately perpetuates the Flaming Lips reputation as true musical mavericks.Nothing more, nothing less.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
My partner brought this home on recommendation to see what this sounded like. I had never heard anything by The Flaming Lips before but even on 1st play of the CD I liked it. The music is instrumental, strange and haunting and I found myself playing this a few times. At first I had no interest in seeing the film but curiosity got the better of me. It too certainly is quite strange but being no stranger to strange films, I quite enjoyed it, shoddily made or not. The photography is grainy black and white and the storyline whilst very adult in context, has a child-like quality running through. If David Lynch and Sci-Fi is your bag you will probably like this.
Sorry this is not an in-depth review, rather my first impressions of a work new to me, which I thought was good and which I would want to watch again. Overall, I actually felt that the film complemented the music rather than the music being a soundtrack to the film. A surreal tongue-in-cheek Christmas story for grown-ups.
Sorry this is not an in-depth review, rather my first impressions of a work new to me, which I thought was good and which I would want to watch again. Overall, I actually felt that the film complemented the music rather than the music being a soundtrack to the film. A surreal tongue-in-cheek Christmas story for grown-ups.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The Flaming lips have been a very exciting band for the past decades as we all know and I still have not heard a record quite like the soft bulletin, magic for me.
Have to say on the whole that I was disappointed on this film, after the eight years of eagerly waiting, I thought it could be amazing. In ways It is very clever but what lets it down is the unbelievably bad acting and the absence of an interesting story (nothing bloody happens at all really!). The theme is fab and they way it was shot and the music all comes together nicely, but for me personally I was disappointed and know that the Lips can produce better than this. Look forward to the next Lips release though as I always do.
Have to say on the whole that I was disappointed on this film, after the eight years of eagerly waiting, I thought it could be amazing. In ways It is very clever but what lets it down is the unbelievably bad acting and the absence of an interesting story (nothing bloody happens at all really!). The theme is fab and they way it was shot and the music all comes together nicely, but for me personally I was disappointed and know that the Lips can produce better than this. Look forward to the next Lips release though as I always do.
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maybe it's me....
....but i thought it's just plain rubbish. I like Flamin' Lips albums alot but everything about this dissapointed. The Score is nice in places mind you!
Published on 15 Dec 2008 by Ben Grimm76
An unusual experiment...
Oklahomas craziest export finally release the seven-years-in-the-making "Christmas On Mars". The long feted, made-in-the-back-garden, black and white, budget basement Sci-Fi 'epic'... Read more
Published on 9 Dec 2008 by Mr. M. A. Reed
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