Is Life on Mars boring?

There's a new Mars lander vehicle called Phoenix which is transmitting pictures from Mars. In common with all other pictures from Mars the Martian landscape is shown as a black and white featureless plain less interesting than the Gobi Desert. The only pictures even remotely interesting are the ones showing some part of the lander like a foot or antenna. Does man really think he'll be able to make a viable environment from this dried up mess of gravel and rocks?

Of course the UFO freaks think they can see spacecraft and human faces in the featureless vistas but they are probably caused by grit on the lens or transmission artifacts. Or is NASA holding back on us? It reminds me of a cartoon where the lander is looking out over the usual boring vista and behind the lander unseen is a whole Martian civilization looking like a 1930s Flash Gordon cover.

Anyhow I thought why not do a Mars inspired compilation but taking inspiration from the traditional view of the red planet. It turned out pretty good if I say so myself. Some reasons to download this are music by Tritonus, Tangerine Dream (really!) , Artie Kane's version of Mars Attacks and lots of others.

Track listing

01. Unknown - [Life on Mars #01] Mars Craters
02. Ferde Grofe (1950) - [Life on Mars #02] Approaching Mars
03. Peter Thomas - [Life on Mars #03] Mars Close Up
04. Vincent Lopez - [Life on Mars #04] Mars goes latin
05. The Special Agents - [Life on Mars #05] Our Man on Mars
06. Sam Paglia - [Life on Mars #06] Good news from Mars
07. Hoodoo Gurus - [Life on Mars #07] Mars Needs Guitars!
08. The Hawaiian Astro Boys - [Life on Mars #08] Sunset on mars boulevard
09. Yann Tiersen - [Life on Mars #09] Life on Mars
10. Jean Jacques Perrey - [Life on Mars #10] Mars Reflector
11. Frankie Camaro - [Life on Mars #11] Mars Patrol
12. Buck Trail - [Life on Mars #12] Knocked Out Joint On Mars
13. Synergy - [Life on Mars #13] phobos and diemos go to mars
14. Mercury Four - [Life on Mars #14] No Response From Mars
15. Tangerine Dream - [Life on Mars #15] Mars Mission Counter
16. Vampires - [Life on Mars #16] Mars Attacks
17. London Symphony Orchestra - [Life on Mars #17] Live On Mars
18. King Crimson - [Life on Mars #18] Mars
19. Big Ray & The Futuras - [Life on Mars #19] Life on Mars
20. Artie Kane - [Life on Mars #20] Mars Attacks
21. Peter Thomas - [Life on Mars #21] Mars Menuet
22. messer fur frau muller - [Life on Mars #22] Acorns from Mars for Pigs from Earth
23. The Raymen - [Life on Mars #23] Man From Mars
24. Sci Fi's Greatest Hits - [Life on Mars #24] Mars Attacks
25. Planet Creep - [Life on Mars #25] Mars Mothership
26. Tritonus - [Life on Mars #26] Mars Detection
27. Ferrante and Teicher - [Life on Mars #27] Man from Mars
28. Church, The - [Life on Mars #28] Field Of Mars
29. Jerry Goldsmith - [Life on Mars #29] A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Mars
30. Unknown - [Life on Mars #30] Mars Attack
31. Astronauts Germany - [Life on Mars #31] Rocket to Mars
32. Perrey-Kingsley - [Life on Mars #32] The Little Man from Mars
33. New Composers & Pete Namlook - [Life on Mars #33] Life on Mars
34. Des De Moor & Russell Churney - [Life on Mars #34] Life on Mars

Download both files to get the whole album:


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