Release and Acclaim
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Melody Maker | "Single of the Week" |
The song was met with mixed to positive reviews from critics; many reviewers lauded the band's musical composition, but maligned the track for its heavy reliance on pop culture references. The Sunday Mirror wrote positively of the song and called it "hard rockin' ". Ben Myers from the now-defunct music magazine Melody Maker named the song the "Single of the Week" and called it "fantastic". He noted that "they've damn near written a perfect pop song. The first best single of the year." Jerry Rubino, host of the popular radio show "Left of Center", named the song one of his favorite "Brit Things". A review from PopMatters noted that the song was built around "somewhat silly X-Files references", but that it possessed "hooks to die for". Stephen Thomas Erlewine, from AllMusic gave the song a relatively positive review and singled it out as an "AllMusic Pick". He also praised the song's "terrific " but was slightly critical of the "self-conscious pop culture references". Despite this, he noted the band was successfully able to "bring memorable melodies to the ". A subsequent review by AllMusic awarded the single, by itself, two-and-a-half stars out of five. NME called the song "little more than fodder for nostalgia TV", written by a "lazy television researcher's imagination".
The song was later included on various Britpop compilations, including the Common People: The Britpop Story album, and the 100 Hits of the 90s album, released by the BBC. Cerys Matthews and the band were extremely pleased with the final product, calling it a "better song" than "All Around the World" by Oasis, the single's main competitor at the time. Matthews later said that the lyrics for "Mulder and Scully" were "good, top to bottom." Catatonia later released the song as part of their 2002 greatest hits album.
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