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Massive Music Compilation : More Music From The X Files

During the promotion of I Want To Believe and its excellent sountrack, Mark Snow and Frank Spotnitz announced that this long-awaited dream of fans, another release with Snow's music for XF, was in the works, and that it might be released as soon as the end of 2008! The wait has been long since the release of The Truth and the Light in 1997.

That's right, no more bootleg audio VHS/DVD-rips; without the dialogue, without the sound effects, and with a good CD quality! This absolutely awesome news also suggests that Mark Snow and his (original?) team will have to sit through some 202 hours of television to choose material from! Can we hope for more than one CD for this "Massive Music Compilation"?...

Before this incredible task, I have compiled a series of passages, melodies, leitmotifs and in general memorable scenes from XF that crave for a commercial release. This list is in no way complete; it contains the most noticeable pieces of music and would have to be completed with more atmospheric 'background' music that makes XF's musical trademark in order to make a full release. It is also more complete for the Vancouver era than the following. I hope this might be useful to Mr. Snow, if he is ever watching. If he's not and things from this list are left out, then we will know what to ask for for a third XF release!

If you want to help building this list, do not hesitate to contact me! (or Mark Snow for that matter...)
A great "thank you" goes to all the contributors who have helped expand this list!

Edit Mar-15-2009: La La Land Records, who recently brought us some MillenniuM music, is indeed working on this! A 4 CD set, with music from around 40-60 episodes, to be released around September, 2009.

Edit Mar-16-2010 (exactly one year later!): List completed and extended after more research, after visitors feedback, and also thanks to the members of the FilmScoreMonthly boards. Now there's way more material than for 4 CDs here. The set is to be released around Summer, 2010.


	Season 1 1X79: Pilot - Piano motif (Mulder sprays 'X'; arrival at Bellefleur) - In motel, Scully examines implant - In motel, Scully panics with marks on her body - Ending: omnious piano when Billy Miles is interrogated 1X01: Deep Throat - Teaser: break-in - Piano "travelling" theme: Mulder walking from the fence towards Ellens AFB (31') - "Deep Throat's theme": end scene (used again in Mulder/DT scene in Ghost in the Machine) 1X02: Squeeze - Mulder & Scully scanning old newspapers (26') 1X04: The Jersey Devil - Motif... 1X06: Ghost in the Machine - "Technology cue" (marimba sound loop): System designer tries to hack into the system, goes to the building (19'-23') - Piano loop, "Deep Throat's theme", harp (42'-end) 1X07: Ice - Motif... 1X09: Fallen Angel - Act I: The Army hunts for the alien at night and get radiation flashes - Act I: Mulder investigates alone - Piano theme (reprise at Deep Throat's scene at the end) 1X15: Young at Heart - "Omen"-esque motif/choir (notably, Scully realizes she's not alone in her apartment) 1X16: E.B.E. - Piano chase motif: Mulder & Scully leave Washington and travel throughout the country to track the truck 1X18: Shapes - Teaser cue (similar to Memoria on The Truth and The Light: the "Nature motif", used/recycled elsewhere) 1X19: Darkness Falls - "Bugs" motif... 1X20: Tooms - Teaser: Tooms theme (violin, mounts to violent violin plucking) - Theme reprise when Scully finds bitemarks in her sandwich (28') 1X21: Born Again - Mulder & Scully discover evidence; music escalates (36') 1X23: The Erlenmeyer Flask - Long cue as Mulder goes to Zeus Storage, sees tanks, chase ensues - Scully in Fort Marlene, discovers fetus - Deep Throat's execution Season 2 2X01: Little Green Men - Act I: Piano (Scully tries to reach Mulder in FBI halls, then Watergate Apartments garage) - Mulder arrives and searches the Arecibo facility - Scully in Mulder's apartment (with Mulder's password) 2X04: Sleepless - Mulder's first meeting with Mr.X (cue begins when Mulder & Krycek find Cole's cell empty in the institute; Mulder gets a phonecall; then meeting with X; 17'-21') 2X05: Duane Barry Several atmospheric pieces: - Teaser - Mulder arrives at scene - Hostage exchange - Duane Barry wakes up at the hospital 2X06: Ascension Several atmospheric pieces: - Mulder at Scully's, flashes to her abduction - Scully in Barry's trunk - Barry reaches the top, Mulder escapes from the tram - Mulder interrogates Barry - Mulder goes to Matheson's and finds cigarettes - End scene cue (melancholic music) 2X08: One Breath - Teaser (oboe & piano) - "Dreamy cues" (transitions from reality to Scully's dreams; versions different from those in The Truth and the Light) - Mulder chases the henchman in the hospital's basement - Mulder prints his resignation - Mulder waits at his apartment - "Good news" and end scene 2X09: Firewalker (Reuses motifs from "Ice" and "Darkness Falls") - Cue from helicopter flight throughout building search (05'-11') 2X11: Excelsius Dei - Leo's painting (27'-28') - Episode climax (35') 2X13: Irresistible - Scully's report and Pfaster picking up his next victim (11'-13') 2X14: Die Hand die Verletzt - Teaser ("Omen"-esque choir) - Pig dissection and satanic ritual-induced suicide (23'-24') - Snake eats man - Episode climax: school search, satanic worshipping, shootout at the end (38') 2X16: Colony - Teaser cue (behind Mulder's monologue) - Moody music ("Ambrose Chapel" tells his spiel on the clones; one 'Gregor' clone meets up with 'Samantha' clone), then action piece (clone jumps from his window, street chase) (17'-23') - Dark pulsing motif (eg, Scully finds facility, 35') 2X17: End Game - "Previously on the XF" and Teaser: pulsing motif - Act I: Scully confronts the shapeshifter/Mulder (03') - Mulder enters facility with Samantha clones (19') - Teaser motif reprise as Mulder arrives at the submarine (31') 2X18: Fearful Symmetry - Another nature motif... 2X19: Dod Kalm - Teaser cue (dark motif as ship finds lifeboat) - End scenes: Scully's last journal entry; Scully falls asleep; rescue (41'-43') 2X22: F. Emasculata - Act I: first scene at prison - End scene at Skinner's office 2X25: Anasazi - "Navajo theme" throughout (teaser; Mulder waits for Krycek; Mulder reaches the boxcar at end) - Act I: first scenes (The Thinker; Lone Gunmen at Mulder's; Mulder meets the Thinker) - Scully at Mulder's apartment, gets shot at - Main theme variation (Mulder wakes up at Scully's) - Scully at Mulder's apartment, picks up bullet and water filter - End scene: Mulder & Scully phonecall and helicopter arrival Season 3 3X01: The Blessing Way - Scully gets arrested by military helicopter - Scully finds the tape is missing in Mulder's office - Ending scenes (Scully gets staged phonecall, gets invited by Skinner, they go to Mulder's apartment) 3X02: Paper Clip - Mulder & Scully arrive at Klemper's greenhouse - Mulder & Scully arrive at Strughold Mine - UFO passing over Strughold Mine - Mulder & Scully & Skinner discuss at diner - End scene at hospital 3X06: 2Shy - Act I: first scene (policeman finds body) - 2Shy theme (autopsy report; the next victim discusses her date with a friend; 2Shy awaiting her, then looks up hookers; later, reprise at hooker's death scene; 14'-19') 3X09: Nisei - Teaser - Act I: Mulder & Scully investigate house, Mulder chases Japanese diplomat - Piano motif at end scenes: train station and Mulder jumps (longer cue than what was released in The Truth and the Light) 3X10: 731 - Second train theme after opening titles (Mulder boards the train, investigates the wagon; other than The Truth and the Light) version - Scully discovers lepers in hiding; tragic cue as she is shown the mass graves - End scene (two-note motif) 3X13: Syzygy - Angry mob stops Scully (variation on "Nature motif" from 1X18: Shapes) 3X14: Grotesque - Teaser: dark gothic theme - Patterson gives Scully advice and Scully finds evidence under the car 3X15: Piper Maru - Piano motif ending in plucking strings (Gauthier at his house; the French assault on Kallenchuck offices; Hong Kong; end scene) - Mulder investigates Gauthier's house - Scully remembers her childhood in the naval base - Johansen's black & white flashbacks 3X16: Apocrypha - Car chase scene with Mulder & Krycek (07'-10') - Krycek at the CSM's apartment, and CSM before the Syndicate (19'-21') - Lone Gunmen on ice - Mulder & Well-Manicured Man meet, continues into Scully at the hospital (29') - Piano cue at the endm in the cemetary 3X17: Pusher - Pusher's hypnotism theme (03') - Lead up to the arrest and Pusher forcing officer to lit himself on fire (11'-14') - Pusher in the FBI and Molly assaults Skinner (20'-24') - Mulder with camera in the hospital, sees Pusher has a tumor (34') 3X20: Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space' - End scene (piano and main theme variation - in The Snow Files) 3X23: Wetwired - Motif (in teaser)... 3X24: Talitha Cumi - Mrs Mulder writes "palm" - Mulder searches the stiletto in his family cottage - Scully on computer finds Jeremiah clones - Choral background during scenes between Jeremiah and CSM Season 4 4X01: Herrenvolk - Teaser - Act I: Action cue (chase with the Alien Bounty Hunter) - Scully tapes an 'X' at Mulder's apartment - Mr.X followed in Mulder's apartment building, and shot - Mr.X writes SRSG - End scene (the Alien Bounty Hunter heals Tena Mulder) 4X05: The Field Where I Died - Motif... 4X08: Paper Hearts - Teaser (piano cue) - End scene (different piano cue) 4X09: Tunguska - Piano motif (used when Krycek first talks to Mulder & Scully, after FBI bust) - Mulder & Scully chase man in airport 4X10: Terma - End scene (Krycek & tea) 4X12: Kaddish - Teaser (builds up on "Nature motif" from 1X18: Shapes) 4X13: Never Again - Background soft oboe (?) during tattoo talking scenes - Similar instrumentation when Scully getting tattooed 4X15: Memento Mori - End of Act I (Grey-haired Man executes Kurt) - Scully's diary scenes - Mulder infiltrates facility 4X17: Tempus Fugit - Mulder checks body bags 4X19: Synchrony - Theme: used in final scene; extended version when old Jason folllows Lisa (20'-22') 4X20: Small Potatoes - Motif... 4X24: Gethsemane - "Heroic trekking" theme during the Yukon scenes - Scully's reaction when Kritschgau's fingerprints indetify him on FBI computer (28'-29') - Scully follows Kritschgau, and action cue when she arrests him in basement garage (31'-33') Season 5 5X02: Redux - Undercover, Mulder feels guards approaching; then sees greys bodies - With Scully's voice-over to Blevins, Mulder has trouble with access card 5X03: Redux II - Mulder at Scully's bedside - "Godfather" debacle - End scene (Mulder crying) 5X04: Detour - Wooden instruments chase theme 5X05: Christmas Carol (Promo CD suites!) - Teaser: cue as Scully arrives at the Sims' house - Scully's disturbing dreams - Piano at Scully's memories with Melissa 5X06: Post-Modern Prometheus (Promo CD suites!) - "Circus" music 5X07: Emily - Theme (teaser, and final scene at church) 5X08: Kitsunegari - Teaser: prison break cue 5X13: Patient X - End scenes (Marita's phonecall to Mulder; Mulder at phone booth; Scully on the bridge) 5X14: The Red and the Black - Piano theme at teaser and end scene - Dramatic theme (first scene at the bridge in Act I and when Scully first wakes in hostpital) - Discomforting music during Scully's hypnosis - Motif: The Alien Bounty Hunter steps in the truck 5X16: Mind's Eye - End scene 5X18: The Pine-Bluff Variant - "Undercover" theme (teaser; climax scenes) 5X20: The End - Teaser - Office burning and end scene Season 6 6X02: Drive - Haunting motif: Scully investigates the Crump residence - End: Mulder reaches the ocean 6X03: Triangle - "Travelling" cues (following Mulder throughout the boat) - Swing music (fight in the ball room; 1939 Scully & 1998 Scully simultaneously onscreen - not Mark Snow's?) - End scene: "I love you" 6X06: Terms of Endearment - The two digging up scenes (reuses motif from 4X05: The Field Where I Died) 6X07: The Rain King - Sheila tells Mulder & Scully it's all her fault (20'-22') - Mulder confronts Holman (28'-30') 6X18: Milagro - Teaser (heartbeat motif) - End: piano after "Agent Scully is already in love" 6X22: Biogenesis - Scully chases Barnes; end scene ("Dies Irae") Season 7 7X07: Orison - Dark theme (Scully kills Pfaster; reprise at end scene) 7X15: En Ami - CSM & Scully at dinner (33'-36') 7X22: Requiem - Mulder's abduction scene Season 8 8X01: Within - "Scully's theme" (also used in Without, Per Manum) 8X05: Invocation - Piano in teaser ("All the pretty little horses" rendition) 8X07: Via Negativa - Dark music during Doggett's vision 8X10: Salvage - Ending (41'-44') 8X14: This Is Not Happening - Theme: calm version in Scully/Skinner discussion (under starlight); action version in the last scene (UFO abduction) 8X15: DeadAlive - End scene piano (Mulder is alive) 8X20: Essence - End scene: action cue (FBI garage chase) 8X21: Existence - Motif... Season 9 9X05: 4D - Motif... 9X13: Audrey Pauley - Reyes released (39'-41') - End scene: Reyes & Doggett (43'-44') 9X16: Release - Piano theme (used in teaser) - End scene theme (Doggetts spread Luke's ashes) 9X19/20: The Truth - Teaser: chase music (Krycek's apparition) - Kersh & co. rescue Mulder from prison - Helicopters kill CSM - End scene at motel (with main theme variation)