Music
Some of composer Mark Snow's music from the first three seasons of The X-Files was released on the album The Truth and the Light - Music from the X-Files, which also included dialogue from the show.
Snow's main X-Files theme was released with other songs used in and inspired by the show (by such artists as Soul Coughing, Nick Cave, Screamin' Jay Hawkins and PM Dawn among others) on 1996 soundtrack Songs in the Key of X. For the release of the theme as a single a music video was created with clips from the show (this video was not included as bonus features on any DVD/VHS sets). The theme song was remixed by The Dust Brothers on the movie soundtrack The X-Files: The Album, which also included songs by the Foo Fighters, X, Björk, Filter, Sting & Aswad, and others.
Snow also released the score of The X-Files movie.
In May 2011 the first of two volumes of Mark Snow's score for the series was release in a four-disc box set. The set came complete with detailed descriptions of each cue. Although it is only the first installment of two volumes, this release includes tracks all the way through to the very end final scene of the series.
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—Frank Zappa (1940–1994)
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Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
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—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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