Name: Christmas on Mars [PA]
Brand: Warner Bros.
SKU: 323047
Price: 10.36 USD
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Christmas on Mars [Parental Advisory]

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Album: Christmas on Mars
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Once Beyond Hopelessness
2)	Distance Between Mars and the Earth-Part One, The
3)	Horrors of Isolation: The Celestial Dissolve, Triumphant Hallucination, Light Being Absorbed, The
4)	In Excelsior Vaginalistic
5)	Your Spaceship Comes From Within
6)	Suicide and Extraordinary Mistakes
7)	Distance Between Mars and the Earth-Part Two, The
8)	Secret of Immortality: This Strange Feeling, This Impossible World, The
9)	Gleaming Armament of Marching Genitalia, The
10)	Distress Signals of Celestial Objects, The
11)	Space Bible With Volume Lumps
12)	Once Beyond Hopelessness
1)	Christmas On Mars (Film)

Album: Christmas on Mars
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Once Beyond Hopelessness
2)	Distance Between Mars and the Earth-Part One, The
3)	Horrors of Isolation: The Celestial Dissolve, Triumphant Hallucination, Light Being Absorbed, The
4)	In Excelsior Vaginalistic
5)	Your Spaceship Comes From Within
6)	Suicide and Extraordinary Mistakes
7)	Distance Between Mars and the Earth-Part Two, The
8)	Secret of Immortality: This Strange Feeling, This Impossible World, The
9)	Gleaming Armament of Marching Genitalia, The
10)	Distress Signals of Celestial Objects, The
11)	Space Bible With Volume Lumps
12)	Once Beyond Hopelessness
1)	Christmas On Mars (Film)

Performer Notes

The Flaming Lips: Kliph Scurlock, Michael Ivins, Steven Drozd, Wayne Coyne.
Personnel: Michael Ivins (vocals, guitars, bass instrument); Steven Drozd (vocals, guitars, drums); Wayne Coyne (vocals, guitars); Kliph Scurlock, Scott Booker.
The soundtrack to the Flaming Lips homemade cult film, CHRISTMAS ON MARS, is as alluring, odd, and understated as the film itself. Those looking for a new batch of Flaming Lips pop songs won't find them; the score is entirely instrumental. But where the movie thrives on strange images and B-movie kitsch value, the music is sophisticated and sparkling, even given the occasionally odd song title ("Gleaming Armament of the Marching Genitalia").
Naturally, the Lips draw on their own brand of bright, pulsing psychedelia with dashes of noise-rock, but one can also hear the influence of film score composers like Ennio Morricone and Bernard Hermann, not to mention the lilting ambience of Brain Eno. A refreshing return to the Lips' earlier experimentalism, without sacrificing any of their seasoned maturity, CHRISTMAS ON MARS is an aural treat.