38 X-Files Merchandise Shops: Music
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This article is from the uk.media.tv.sf.x-files FAQ, by Paul Tang paul@asfafa.demon.co.uk with numerous contributions by others.
38 X-Files Merchandise Shops: Music
Warner Bros. Records is releasing "Songs In The Key of X (Music from
and inspired by The X-Files)," on March 26th.
[http://www.wbr.com/x-files] Music in the key of XMusic from and
inspired by The X-Files Warner Bros. Records, USA
Seventeen artists encompassing the broad spectrum of the alternative
music world have come together for a common cause. Seventeen artists, as
varied in their style as they are pronounced in their craft, share a
common inspiration. Seventeen artists have created "Songs In The Key of
X (Music form and inspired by The X-Files)." Rumor and speculation are
at last quieted as the final lineup to the soundscape of the phenomenon
of the Nineties is announced.
In addition to featuring new songs from superstars like Sheryl Crow and
Foo Fighters "Songs In The Key of X" will house a number of rare
collaborations: R.E.M. with William S. Burroughs, Elvis Costello and
Brian Eno, Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper, and a song by PM Dawn with
lyrics by Chris Carter, the creator of The X-Files.
Each week 16 million enlightened viewers tune in to the groundbreaking
Fox Television series The X-Files. Agents Scully and Mulder uncover the
truth about such previously suppresses topics as alien/human hybrids,
ESP, vampires and cattle mutilation. The show is a worldwide
phenomenon, everywhere from outer space to cyberspace, more World Wide
Web pages are devoted to The X-Files than any other television series or
movie in history except Star Trek.
Almost all of the tracks appearing on "Songs In The Key of X" were
commissioned by the show's creator Chris Carter (with help from David
Was and Warner Bros. A&R exec Geoffrey Weiss), and have been or will be
featured in upcoming episodes of the show. Not since David Lynch and
Angelo Badalamenti joined forces on the musical meanderings of Twin
Peaks has a musical backdrop been so hauntingly apropos.
The final track listing is as follows:
1. Mark Snow - "The X-Files Theme"
2. Soul Coughing - "Unmarked Helicopters"
3. Sheryl Crow - "On The Outside"
4. Foo Fighters - "Down In The Park"
5. R.E.M. with William S. Burroughs - "Star Me Kitten"
6. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - "Red Right Hand"
7. Filter - "Thanks Bro"
8. Frank Black - "Man Of Steel"
9. Meat Puppets - "Unexplained"
10. Danzig - "Deep"
11. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - "Frenzy"
12. Elvis Costello and Brian Eno - "My Dark Life"
13. Rob Zombie, Alice Cooper - "The Hands Of Death (Burn, Baby, Burn)"
14. PM Dawn - "If You Never Say Goodbye" [lyrics by Chris Carter]
15. PM Dawn - "The X-Files Theme" (Remix)
Warner Bros. records released "Songs In The Key of X (Music from and
inspired by The X-Files)" on Tuesday, March 26th 1996.
The theme of TXF has been released in the UK by Mark Snow as a single
and reached No.2 in the singles charts. Various remixes are probably
available.
The Mark Snow soundtrack album, "The truth and The Light", is finally
released as of 30 September 1996. It will contain themes from the series,
along with snippets of Mulder and Scully dialogue:
1. Introitus: Praeceps Transisto Spatium
translation: The Beginning - Quickly Across the Void
2. Materia Primoris: The X-Files Theme
translation: First File - The X-Files Theme
3. Raptus
translation: Abduction
4. Adflatus
translation: Sea Breeze (One Breath?)
5. Deverbero
translation: Thrashing
6. Cantus Excio
translation: Rousing Song
7. Mercutura
translation: Merchandise
8. Lamenta
translation: Lamentation
9. Insequi
translation: Pursuit
10. Otium
translation: Peace
11. Dubitatio
translation: Uncertainty
12. Iter
translation: The Walk
13. Progigno De Axis
translation: Bursting Forth From the Heavens
14. Carmen Amatorium Ex Arcanum
translation: Secret Song of Admirers
15. Facetus Malum
translation: Elegant Evil
16. Memoria
translation: Remembering
17. Mitis Lumen
translation: Soft Light
18. Fides Fragilis
translation: Fragile Faith
19. Exoptare Ex Veritas
translation: Desire for the Truth
20. Kyrie
translation: Authority/The Truth (??)
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