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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075993999631
Label: Warner Bros.
Manufacturer: Warner Bros.
MPN: 512895
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Warner Bros.
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Studio: Warner Bros.
Disc 1:- Once Beyond Hopelessness
- The Distance Between Mars And The Earth-Part One
- The Horrors Of Isolation: The Celestial Dissolve, Triumphant Hallucination, Light Being Absorbed
- In Excelsior Vaginalistic
- Your Spaceship Comes From Within
- Suicide And Extraordinary Mistakes
- The Distance Between Mars And The Earth-Part Two
- The Secret Of Immortality: This Strange Feeling, This Impossible World
- The Gleaming Armament Of Marching Genitalia
- The Distress Signals Of Celestial Objects
- Space Bible With Volume Lumps
- Once Beyond Hopelessness
Disc 2:- Christmas On Mars (Film)
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Christmas On Mars is a fantastical and
disturbing film freakout. You expected
something less from The Flaming Lips?
Seven years in the making, Christmas On
Mars was directed and written by The
Flaming Lips visionary frontman Wayne
Coyne and features the band members
and many of their associates as actors in a
story set during the colonization of Mars.
The 86-minute film and its original score
are presented in a stand-alone DVD, and as
a CD+DVD package which includes an
audio CD of the score. With Christmas On
Mars, psychedelia finally has its epic film.
Album Description:
Explicit Version 12 song CD includes Bonus DVD of the 86 minute film. Christmas on Mars is a fantastical and disturbing film freakout. Seven years in the making, the film was directed and written by The Flaming Lips' visionary frontman Wayne Coyne and features the band members and many of their associates as actors in a story set during the colonization of Mars.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
I know a lot of people think this album is great because of the musical experimentation and the concept of the whole thing. I like instrumental music, I have just about every ambient album produced by Brian Eno and his cohorts. I bought this not knowing much about it, I assumed it would be another great album from the Lips featuring their unique sound and thought-provoking lyrics. What I got was a disjointed and thoroughly pretentious hour of humming and buzzing with nary a lyric to be found. This may be a delight for many of their fans, but it isn't for me at all. Save yourself the trouble and don't bother wasting your time with this album.
Rating: -
Christmas On Mars is finally here. Seven years in the making, Wayne Coyne and The Flaming Lips have released their freaky no budget film about the first Christmas on the red planet. Filmed mostly in Wayne's backyard and with the band and their friends and family as the actors, they've created a great flick. The sets are spectacular, especially considering they built them using stuff they bought from Home Depot. The acting is really bad (and sometimes really good), and the visuals and special effects are out of this world.
Wayne cites 2001: A Space Oddesey, Eraserhead and The Wizard Of Oz as influences. I also see a 50's sci-fi influence throughout (especially the over the top acting and low budget production). The story moves kind of slow, but it doesn't matter, the trippy visuals and epic soundtrack move it along.
Basically a group of people have been living in a space station on Mars for a year, it's Christmas Eve and something's wrong with the oxygen machine. ... Read More
Rating:  -
The "Christmas On Mars" score The Flaming Lips have come up with is simply genius! This is not your typical Lips sound, clearly. Yet they deserve credit for having reinvented themselves again, not unlike Radiohead, coming up with an album that resembles more a surreal, dreamy ambient piece than their alternative rock sound that has made them legendary.
Note: I have not had the opportunity to watch the DVD accompanying the music CD.
Rating:  -
Love the Lips. Got everything. The soundtrack is interesting, but not listenable. Do not buy it without checking it out first. I was very disappointed with how lame the music was, compared to what they could have created. I expect the DVD to be as silly as it's been made out to be, so no review needed there. Of course I pre-ordered this, but I think reading a review like this one would have saved me 20 bucks. It'll be budget bin in a year.
Too bad - I always look forward to the latest Lips to hear what melodies they've stolen this time (insert smiley face HERE) - but no melodies on THIS puppy. (P.S. - Soft Bulletin is one of the finest albums ever made).
Rating: -
This 2-disc CD/DVD of their bigger-budget "home movie" and accompanying score is finally out and, if you know the Flaming Lips music and creators, "Christmas On Mars" makes perfect sense.
First, the score CD: the Flaming Lips have done instrumental music before...the occasional track or song-excursion, like that "Balloon" song on "Yoshimi", which was actually written for "Christmas On Mars", but was deemed too poppy for it but perfect for "Yoshimi". If you like these types of tracks that Wayne & co do, you will dig the score...however if you are a Lips fan strictly for Wayne's SINGING, you probably won't. Me, I dig the crazy creative minds of Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd and Michael Ivins, so I dig the score (it IS on the short side, 32 minutes and change).
As for the movie itself...it's black & white (with flashes of colour), 86 minutes long (not TOO long), flat-out WEIRD and fun and trippy and you see not only all 4 Lips (yes Klyph Scurlock too), but their family ... Read More
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