Soul Coughing's "Unmarked Helicopters" appeared in the fourth season episode "Max",[5] while Nick Cave's "Red Right Hand" was heard during the second season episode "Ascension",[6] and Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "Frenzy" appeared in the second season episode "Humbug". [3] Zombie and Cooper were nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 1997 for the song, losing out to Rage Against the Machine's "Tire Me". This album purports to be an attempt at recursion by the creator of The X-Files, Chris Carter -- songs inspired by the show that he hopes will provide further inspiration for the show (just as Nick Cave's "Red Right Hand" did for the "Ascension" episode.) 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Usually dispatched within 3 to 4 days. Audio CD. [4], Several of the songs on the album were used in episodes of the series. X-Files: A 20th Anniversary Celebration John Beal. While not perfect, the album makes a nice alternative compilation, one that has that blue-light glow of twisted mystery X-ficianados have come to enjoy. Masuo felt that the collaborations between R.E.M. Product description. [12], A review for the album in The Independent noted that none of the songs "can really hold a candle to Cave's "Red Right Hand" in capturing the show's sense of fatalistic futility", adding that there seemed to be "a shared soul thing" between Cave and Carter. and William S. Burroughs, and Elvis Costello and Brian Eno, ultimately turned out to be "more interesting in theory than in practice"; although adding that "Down in the Park" was the best track present on the compilation, with the contributions of Rob Zombie, Alice Cooper and P.M. when are we going to get a vinyl release???? Only 1 left in stock. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1996 CD release of The X-Files - Songs In The Key Of X on Discogs. [19] Ted Cox, writing for the Daily Herald, described the album as "a who's who of modern rock". [1] R.E.M. [8][9], Songs in the Key of X was released on March 19, 1996. [14] Writing for the Los Angeles Daily News, Fred Shuster felt that compared to other television tie-ins that "aren't worth the aluminum they're recorded on", Songs in the Key of X "is a rare exception because of the unusual quality and rarity of the tracks". Songs in the Key of X: Music from and Inspired by The X-Files is a 1996 compilation album released in association with the American science fiction television series The X-Files. Although all three were admitted fans of the series, none were able to get involved in the project—Petty was unable to commit due to a tour, Springsteen was contractually tied to Sony Music Entertainment, while Seal was "snowboarding in South America or somewhere". [7] Three of the artists featured on the album would also go on to contribute songs to The X-Files: The Album, the soundtrack to the series' 1998 feature film adaptation—Foo Fighters' "Walking After You", Soul Coughing's "16 Horses" and Filter's "One". £13.79. [22] Not all CD or DVD players will allow the album to be "rewound" back to these tracks as this violates Red Book standards. [21] The use of these hidden tracks has been described as "just the sort of surprise one might have suspected from a show that deals in unexplainable mysteries". The album's title is a play on the title of Stevie Wonder's 1976 album Songs in the Key of Life. [1], Elvis Costello and Brian Eno's track, "My Dark Life", came about as a result of album producer David Was asking Costello to provide a song that would sound like "'you went into the studio with Brian Eno"—the two musicians had recently met at a film screening at Paul McCartney's home, and reconvened to record the song the following week. [2] Rob Zombie has described his collaboration with Alice Cooper on the song "Hands of Death (Burn Baby Burn)" as one of the "great moments where you really feel like you've made your dreams come true". The album contained a mixture of songs that were either featured in the series, or shared thematic elements with it. Violanti felt that "Star Me Kitten" was the album's best song, and that Danzig's "Deep" was its "weakest cut". UK release date 25.3.96, according to an advert in nme 30 march 1996, Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum / X-Files Theme, Fiddle [Bull Fiddle], Bass [Horrible Fuzzy Bass] –, Guitar [Guitars], Pedal Steel Guitar, Bass Guitar, Producer, Mixed By, Engineer –, Producer [Wsb Vocal Produced], Engineer [Wsb Vocal Engineered By] –, Producer [Produced By], Mixed By, Recorded By –, Producer [Produced], Engineer [Engineered By] –, Executive-Producer [Executive Album Producers], Liner Notes, Buy CD, Matrix / Runout (Variant 1): 1 46079-2 SRC##03 ARC *M2 S4, Matrix / Runout (Variant 2): 1 46079-2 SRC##03 ARC ✲M2 S2. An influential TV series of the '90s has generated a dark, eerie, and vaguely campy set of "inspired-by" songs from a … [13] Writing for The Buffalo News, Anthony Violanti rated the album four stars out of five, calling it "a strange, delightful trip". [10] Sandy Masuo, writing for the Los Angeles Times, rated the album three-and-a-half stars out of four, finding that the compilation's "unsettling ambience" suited the "deliciously creepy" atmosphere of the series. McDonald felt that the Foo Fighters cover of Gary Numan's "Down in the Park" and Elvis Costello's "My Dark Life", along with Mark Snow's theme for the series, were the highlights of the compilation. Music from and inspired by "The X Files". [15], Producers used the Compact Disc's pregap, so a listener would have to actually manually rewind the first track a full nine minutes to hear two additional hidden tracks, "Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum" and a cover of The X-Files theme song, both performed by Nick Cave and Dirty Three. [10] It would eventually reach a peak chart position of 47 in the Billboard 200 album chart on April 13 that same year, spending a total of ten weeks in the chart. Artists such as Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen and Seal were approached to possibly contribute material. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1996 CD release of Songs In The Key Of X on Discogs. The album has received positive reviews from critics, with one review describing it as "easily the most ambitious record ever assembled for a TV soundtrack". The album also features two songs hidden in the pregap before the start of the first track, both recorded by Nick Cave and The Dirty Three. X Files - Songs In the Key of X - CD Amazon.com. The album contained a mixture of songs that were either featured in the series, or shared thematic elements with it. Browne felt that the contributions to the album by Sheryl Crow and William S. Burroughs were amongst its highlights, though felt that the compilation was "dragged down by ponderous contributions" from Nick Cave and Elvis Costello.
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