The Laziest Men on Mars
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The Laziest Men on Mars is supposed to be a band, but is in fact the brainchild of Jeffery Ray Roberts. Mostly associated with Something Awful, a humor website, the "band" is known primarily for their musical tribute to (site creator) Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka's famous ICQ prank "Space Robot Bonanza!" and "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" (actually a remix of the Zero Wing video game music by Tatsuya Uemura), otherwise known as the background music to the popular "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" Flash animation floating around on the Internet. They are also known for "Superfly's Johnson (Suck It Down)", a song based around sampled quotes from the game Daikatana taken out of context and placed over 70's porn music. They have been mentioned in Time magazine.
The name "Laziest Men on Mars" is a reference to a line from the cult film Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (which was in turn made famous by being on the show Mystery Science Theater 3000, where the band got it from). In the film, the King of the Martians, Kimar, identifies the comic relief (as such) martian, Dropo, as "the laziest man on Mars".
Tracklisting
While the "band" released no official albums, a number of songs were available on MP3.com. In order, they were:
- Invasion of the Gabber Robots (3:58)
- The Terrible Secret of Space (5:39)
- Nothing Can Stop Torg! (3:32)
- The Laziest Man on Mars (3:28)
- The Children of Mars (6:16)
- Happy Softcore (Bleeding Ears Mix) (3:24)
- Superfly's Johnson (Suck It Down) (2:41)
- DJ Eat Attack vs. Fat Boys: The Showdown (1:18)
- Worst Birthday Ever (1:01)
- Secret of Space (Lightworks Tranceform) (9:14)
- All Your Dub Are Belong To Us (2:27)
- The Terrible Secret of Space (Bit Mix) (5:27)
- The Terrible Secret of Space (Spicy Mix) (4:40)
- Last Minute Hope (DJnrXic Mix) (3:48)
- All Your Treble Are Belong To Us (3:53)
- Nothing Can Stop Torg! (K-Systems Mix) (3:30)
- All Your Base (Peripheral Mix) (7:07)
The track "We Are Something Awful" is a Laziest Men On Mars song, but was not available on MP3.com at the time of Vivendi's sale of the site to CNET in 2003. It is still available as a free download on some music sites. In addition, they made the song "113 Dead Goons" for the Something Awful forums.