Life on Mars (soundtrack album)

Infobox Album
Name = Life on Mars
Type = soundtrack
Artist = Life on Mars


Released = start date|2007|2|19
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Label = Sony BMG
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Last album =
This album = "Life on Mars" (2007)
Next album = "Ashes to Ashes" (2008)

"Life on Mars" is the soundtrack album to the BBC Television drama series of the same name. It was released by Sony BMG on Monday February 19 2007, the week after the debut of the programme's second series on BBC One.

The album is only available in a physical CD format, including a free fold-out poster.

Track listing

# Introduction Dialogue — "King of the Jungle" ("The Crash")
# David Bowie — "Life on Mars?" ("The Crash", "The Good Father", "Undercover")
# Roxy Music — "Street Life" ("Helpless")
# Paul McCartney and Wings — "Live and Let Die" ("The New World")
# Electric Light Orchestra — "10538 Overture" ("The Kidnapping")
# John Kongos — "Tokoloshe Man" ("The Good Father")
# Atomic Rooster — "Devil's Answer" ("The Good Father")
# T.Rex — "Rock On" ("Suburban Swingers")
# Free — "Little Bit of Love" ("The Good Father")
# Lee "Scratch" Perry and The Upsetters — "Jungle Lion"
# Brief Interlude Dialogue — "Armed Bastards!" ("The Stabbing")
# Sweet — "Blockbuster!" ("A Conflict of Interests")
# Faces — "Cindy Incidentally" ("The Shooting")
# Ananda Shankar — "Snow Flower" ("A Deadly Drug")
# Slade — "Coz I Luv You" ("Suburban Swingers")
# Mott the Hoople — "One of the Boys" ("The Shooting", "Undercover")
# Lindisfarne — "Meet Me on the Corner"
# Frankie Miller — "I Can't Change It"
# Thin Lizzy — "Whiskey in the Jar" ("A Deadly Drug")
# Audience — "I Had a Dream" ("A Deadly Drug")
# Uriah Heep — "Traveller in Time" ("A Deadly Drug")
# Nina Simone — "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" ("The Footie")
# Epilogue Dialogue — "I Want to Go Home"/Edmund Butt — "Life on Mars Theme" (Hidden track)

Omissions

Notable tracks not on the album include:
* The Who — "Baba O' Riley" ("The Crash").
* Deep Purple — "Fireball" ("The Crash", played by the kidnapper at the end as they stormed the house).
* Cream — "White Room" ("The Crash", as DCI Hunt and Sam Tyler bring the kidnapper into the station).
* Pink Floyd — "One of These Days" ("The New World")
* Lindisfarne — "Bring Down the Government" ("The Bombing")
* Gilbert O'Sullivan — "Alone Again (Naturally)" ("Suburban Swingers").
* Strawbs — "Lay Down" ("Suburban Swingers").
* Elton John — "Rocket Man" ("A Deadly Drug").
* Israel Kamakawiwo'ole — "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" ("Undercover").

Also omitted are a number of other David Bowie tracks that are featured throughout the series.

External links

* [http://www.lifeonmarsalbum.com/ "Life On Mars — The Album"]
* [http://blog.durdle.com/archives/2007/02/18/the-almost-complete-life-on-mars-soundtrack-series-1/ Fan compiled list of music from both series] of Life on Mars.
* The BBC has lists of [http://www.bbc.co.uk/lifeonmars/series1/ first season episodes] and [http://www.bbc.co.uk/lifeonmars/series2/ second season episodes] with "Music Info" links to lists of each episode's songs.