Composed By, Producer, Performer – David Storrs.
I have always been a fan of Storrs work for the film, having acquired the Enigma Records release several years back. I must confess however, that in some respects, I prefer that version and find the so-called 'complete' Storrs score to be somewhat overblown and missing a few key elements.
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The film was distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. Awakened during a thunderstorm, youngster David MacLean witnesses a brightly lit flying saucer disappear underground in the large sand pit behind his home.
Discography: Raoul Kraushaar. Invaders From Mars (Original Soundtrack) (1953).
David Storrs - Invaders From Mars (Original Motion Picture Score) MP3 version. 1824 downloads at 23 mb/s.
Much Ado About Nothing (Original Score). What You Don't Know (Theme from "Dollhouse"). Community (Music from the Original Television Series). Once More, With Feeling.
Title: Invaders from Mars (1953). One night, young David McLean sees a spaceship crash into a nearby sandpit. His father goes to investigate, but comes back changed. Where once he was cheerful and affectionate, he's now sullen and snarlingly rude. Others fall into the sandpit and begin acting like him: cold, ill-tempered and conspiratorial. David knows that aliens are taking over the bodies of humans, but he'll soon discover there have been far more of these terrible thefts than he could have imagined. The young doom-monger finds some serious help in a lady doctor and a brilliant astronomer.
Had Bowie kept the Spiders from Mars together, unique flashes like the version of "Let's Spend the Night Together" or the striking "All the Young Dudes would have continued, a tight little rock & roll band providing a balance that dissipated when the artist branched out on his own. The other unnerving thing about this double-LP soundtrack of a concert taped in 1973 and finally released in 1982 is that there are bootlegs which have more to offer sonically. Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture doesn't have the electric excitement of the Live in Santa Monica '72 boot, and that's the fault of the remix by Mike Moran, Bruce Tergeson, Tony Visconti, and Bowie.