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List Price: Our Price: $13.99 You save: $3.98 (22%) The soundtrack from the X-Files movie feautring artists such as Sarah McLachlan, Sting, the Foo Fighters, and many more. more info
List Price: Our Price: $13.99 You save: $3.98 (22%) The original score from Fight the Future by X-Files composer Mark Snow includes "Threnody in X" and others. more info
List Price: Our Price: $13.99 You save: $3.98 (22%) Review: This collection of crisp electronic music mixed with bits of character dialogue will well please X-Files fans; those unfamiliar with the long-running sci-fi show have a chance to discover just how well an intensely eerie television score can stand on its own. Soundtrack master Mark Snow has done other scores for TV, but the X-Files is his most outstanding work. Right off the bat this CD transports you into the world of agents Mulder and Scully and the supernatural or extraterrestrial mysteries they uncover. The haunting, melodious whistle theme; the slow-moving walls of melancholy electronica; the ominous, urgent rhythms written for action scenes all recall the dark, spooky atmosphere that the X-Files program has so expertly created and maintained. There's also an ocean of dialogue to explore here, which for some may be distracting, but for others will bring back the suspenseful and sometimes horrific images from particular episodes. Overall, the dialogue is presented in a subdued enough way that it doesn't stand out oddly and oftentimes just reinforces the creepy intrigue that is the show's most wonderful quality. --Karen Karleski more info
List Price: Our Price: $13.99 You save: $3.98 (22%) This album of music inspired by The X-Files includes various artists such as Sheryl Crow, the Foo Fighters, and R.E.M. Two hidden bonus tracks are also included on this CD... more info
List Price: Our Price: $13.99 You save: $3.98 (22%) Review: Until the burgeoning cult success of The X-Files, composer Mark Snow had spent the better part of 20 years as a journeyman at his craft, providing the solid musical underpinnings for a host of TV shows, television movies, and feature films. Admirers of Snow's X-Formula (moody, electronically shaded soundscapes) will find much to admire here: there's a half-hour suite from the show, newly arranged and recorded by John Beal in a manner that manages to be both faithful and revealing; a club mix of Snow's title music for the syndicated series La Femme Nikita puts a little kick in the ambiance while the main theme for David Nutter's Disturbing Behavior eerily evokes the terrifying side of the composer's atmospheric formula. But Snow's talents are multifaceted, as a number of other tracks on this anthology gratifyingly attest to. The pastoral strings and winds of The Substitute Wife and The Last Living Confederate Widow contrast nicely against the gothic, orchestral flourishes of 20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea and the collection's stylistically adventurous trio of bonus cuts (the rhythmically driven main title to Dark Justice, Max Headroom's "lost"synth-pop theme and a delightfully wacked, if too brief, cue from Pee Wee's Playhouse). Snow's tale is an all too familiar one in film scoring--an overnight success story 20 years in the making. --Jerry McCulley more info
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