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Music Composed by Mark Snow
Music Produced by Mark Snow and John Beal
Executive Producer Brad Pressman
Compilation Assembled and Produced by Ford A. Thaxton
Associate Producer James Nelson
Release Date: 1999
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Anyone who is familiar with the sci-fi series The
X-Files, has undoubtedly heard of Mark Snow. He is a big name in TV scores, and this
compilation contains music from some of his most notable efforts. While most compilation
CDs very in style between track, this album manages to keep things more or less coherent
until the bonus tracks, of which the Pee-Wee’s Playhouse track is zany and a
total departure from everything else. The X-Files suite is nice, as it doesn’t
contain any dialogue, but it’s really long with a thirty-minute runtime and
should’ve been split up among multiple tracks. I found the X-Files music to be
mostly ambiance oriented, with only a few interesting sections. The best track by far on
the whole CD is Arctic Night Walk from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It is a
beautiful piece of music that is a little more conventional than the others.
If you are a fan of Snow’s work and you like the selections that
are on this CD, then you can’t go wrong with this one. In my opinion, it looked like
a nice representation of Snow’s work, but I’m just not all that thrilled with
it. Maybe one day something will come along from him that will really catch my ear.
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Track Listing
1 - La Femme Nikita - Main Theme (4:30)
Darkness and Desire
2 - Conundrum - Love Theme (3:17)
3 - Seduced and Betrayed - The Dark Waltz (2:30)
4 - A Woman Scorned - The Betty Broderick Story: The Murder
(4:03)
5 - Caroline at Midnight - Main Title (3:18)
Love and Hope
6 - The Substitute Wife - Main Title (2:48)
7 - Oldest Living Confederate Widow - Having a Baby/All
About Ned (3:13)
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8 - Smoke Jumpers - The Rescue (4:46)
9 - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Arctic Night Walk (3:16)
The Music is Out There
10 - Distrubing Behavior - Main Title (3:25)
11 - Suite from the X-Files (31:28)
Bonus Tracks
12 - Dark Justice - Main Theme (1:54)
13 - Max Headroom - The Lost Theme (1:00)
14 - Pee-Wee's Playhouse - Bye, Bye! (0:33)
Total Running Time:
70:43
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