| The X-Files: Original Motion Picture Score | |
| Type: | Soundtrack |
| Artist: | Mark Snow |
| Cover: | The X-Files Fight the Future Original Motion Picture Score - Cover.jpg |
| Released: | June 2, 1998 |
| Genre: | Soundtrack |
| Label: | Elektra |
| Chronology: | X-Files |
| Prev Year: | 1996 |
| Next Year: | 1998 |
The X-Files: Original Motion Picture Score is the score by Mark Snow released in conjunction with the 1998 movie, The X-Files.
A revised, limited-edition score was released by La-La Land Records on July 29, 2014. This special release featured improved sound and contained some previously unreleased pieces. Also, the incorrectly reversed stereo channels on the original soundtrack release were corrected. It was produced by Mark Snow and Nick Redman, and mastered by Mike Matessino. A total of 3000 units of this release were produced.[1]
The tracks on the release appear in the order they were heard in the film, excepting the last two, which are alternate version tracks. The tracks are as follows:[2]
While the 2014 re-release was being produced, some additional never-released tracks were discovered. However, they were not included as part of that release.[3] Those tracks are:
"Roadside Memorial" and "Man in the Shadows" were never used in the film. "Smoking Telegram," the cue used in the final scene of the film, is widely considered by fans as the best piece of music in the film. One poster on the Film Score Monthly forum comments, "My understanding is that this cue was done at the very last second (as I recall the scene in question was added to the film at the last minute, I could be wrong) and Mark just knocked it out at his studio and sent it over to the dub stage and that DAT or D-88 has vanished in the last 16 years. He didn't have a copy in his archive either. It happens."[4] Another poster writes, "Initially there was NO music in that scene. Last minute, Carter asked Snow to compose something so they can slap it in the film. He went to his piano and hammered something out and sent it in. That story comes directly from Mr. Snow himself during a conversation I had with him many months ago. Of all people who is bummed it can't be found it's him. Maybe one day it will turn up, but after spending nearly 2 years looking for it (even going through each of his personal DATS dated within a year of the film and tv scores) we had to end the search."[3]
"Smoking Telegram" was eventually released as a track on La-La Land Records' fourth volume of music from the X-Files television series.[5]