The Flaming Lips - Christmas On Mars (CD/DVD)
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Artist: The Flaming LipsBrand: Warner Brothers
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-11-11
Model: CX2512895
Music Label: Warner Bros.
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- 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
Music CD 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
- Christmas On Mars (Film)
Free Music Notes for Christmas On Mars (CD/DVD)
Free Music Review: VERY much worth the 7-year-wait...
Hit: 5 Stars
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 (Wayne's wife Michelle is VERY prominent in it, as are a Coyne brother and nephews and baby niece) and friends...the 7-years-in-the-making "Christmas On Mars" is a film extension of their unique psychedelic freakout/childrens birthday party on acid/warped pop music. How it came into being in the first place was courtesy of Wayne's mom Dolly...Wayne & his bros came home late one night, 2AM, saw their mom crying, as she saw some sad old movie and described it as people in space dying and as they coped with the idea of death, a strange being came down (an alien, God, etc) and comforted them...turns out this movie never existed in the first place...Mrs Coyne saw a combo of bits of old flicks, fell asleep inbetween and dreamt the rest. Well, Wayne was so taken by this "movie" that once he found out it never existed, he took it upon himself to actually make this movie...and actually did it!!! Using family and friends, a handful of them REAL actors, along with locations around OKC, including abandoned warehouses and Wayne's & Michelle's own backyard, scraps of found parts and metal, and sets Wayne built himself, and done in fits & starts, over the course of 7 years, inbetween albums and tours, "Christmas On Mars" is finally complete.
It's worth it...an INSTANT, weird, compelling cult classic...show it to your friends and family, buy multiple copies and give them as gifts for the holiday season!!! Spread the Lips luv!!! Perfect for anyone's warped mind and inner child!!! Equal parts "Wizard Of Oz" and "Eraserhead" and "2001: A Space Odyssey", with a nice dose of Lips warped uniqueness. Perfect!!!
I am looking forward to their next project, now that Wayne & co got this movie out of their system...an instant cult classic you have to experience for yourselves...it was very much worth the wait, oh yes.
Even further, buy the GREEN VINYL version, how cool is that??!!??!!
Christmas On Mars (CD/DVD) Poster
Christmas On Mars is a fantastical anddisturbing 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.
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