by Ryan Keaveney

In anticipation of their 100th release, La-La Land Records announced they will continue their expansion/complete releases series (which started with Shirley Walker’s excellent Batman: Mask of the Phantasm) with Danny Elfman’s dizzying sci-fi satire score for Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks!

The film, which featured the last great all-star cast, didn’t connect with 1997 audiences, but has since developed a cult following. The expanded release is expected to present the music in a more complete fashion (minus a few cues, plus a few bonus tracks), a first for Elfman, who to date has not had any of his scores benefit from limited edition treatment. Pre-orders for Mars Attacks! begin May 12, the same day La-La’s Airplane! goes on sale. Read on for La-La’s verbage and tracklist:

To coincide with our release next week of Airplane!, La La Land Records will begin taking orders on another comedy gem that contains an exclamation mark in it’s title — Danny Elfman’s magnificent score to Mars Attacks! Expanded Archival Edition. ($19.98 / Limited Edition of 3000 units).

Produced by MV Gerhard
Mastered by James Nelson
Liner Notes by Dan Goldwasser, containing great insight into the film, this new release, and of course, it’s music. An exclusive interview with composer Danny Elfman is also contained herein.

* – denotes tracks that were previously unreleased

1 INTRODUCTION 1:40
2 MAIN TITLES 2:24
3 1ST SIGHTING 1:27
4 BARB SHARES*/ODE BG* 2:21
5 LANDING 6:02
6 FIRST FIRE FIGHT* 3:02
7 RETURN MESSAGE 2:18
8 UNGODLY EXPERIMENTS 0:53
9 STATE ADDRESS 3:03
10 LOVING HEADS 1:21
11 MARTIAN MADAME 3:02
12 MARTIAN LOUNGE 2:53
13 INVASION* 1:41
14 BOY SCOUT JAMBOREE*/WHITE HOUSE MAYHEM* 2:29
15 ART’S DEMISE*/CHASE*/PUNCH OUT*/VIVA LAS VEGAS* 2:16
16 THE BIG LAUNCH* 2:42
17 DESTRUCTO X 1:18
18 PURSUIT 2:56
19 WAR ROOM 1:31
20 AIRFIELD DLILEMMA 2:06
21 FINAL ADDRESS* 2:55
22 BATTLE TRANSITION* 0:44
23 NEW WORLD 1:45
24 RITCHIE’S SPEECH 3:10
25 END CREDITS 3:58
26 INDIAN LOVE CALL 3:10
27 ITS NOT UNUSUAL 2:02
28 TRAILER* 2:40
29 MAIN TITLE (ORCH DEMO)* 2:32
30 UNGODLY EXPERIMENTS (ALT)* 0:57
31 MARTIAN LOUNGE (ALT)* 3:00
32 THE END?* 0:06

TOTAL TIME 74:48:00

More info and to order: lalalandrecords.com