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* "Wonderful! Wonderful!" by Johnny Mathis really ramps up the creepiness of "Home," though on its own it's an upbeat love song. (It was actually sung in the episode by Kenny James, as Mathis felt the episode was too graphic.)

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* "Wonderful! Wonderful!" by Johnny Mathis Music/JohnnyMathis really ramps up the creepiness of "Home," though on its own it's an upbeat love song. (It was actually sung in the episode by Kenny James, as Mathis felt the episode was too graphic.)
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* Music/SoulCoughing's "Unmarked Helicopters", which shows up in "Max", is SourceMusic emanating from the title character's stereo as Mulder searches his empty trailer. Aside from being a cool-sounding song, it suits Max's jittery, ProperlyParanoid state of mind before his disappearance.

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* Music/SoulCoughing's "Unmarked Helicopters", which shows up in "Max", is SourceMusic emanating from the title character's stereo as Mulder searches his empty trailer. Aside from being a cool-sounding song, it suits Max's jittery, ProperlyParanoid state of mind before his disappearance. A cool touch is that the eerie high-pitched chirping sounds in the intro and a few other sections of the song are actually [[{{sampling}} samples]] of Mark Snow's theme for the show, just sped up and run through enough reverb and echo to be nearly unrecognizable.

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* The music that was playing during ghostly children scenes in "Closure" by Moby - it was "My Weakness", off his album ''Play''. At the time of filming, ''Play'' was on its way to becoming a hit, mainly because Moby gave lots of shows carte blanche in using the tracks for anything (trailers for episodes of ''Party of Five'', incidental music for ''Buffy'', car ads, etc.).
* The first ''X-Files'' episode to use Moby's work was the Gillian Anderson-directed "All Things," which used "The Sky Is Breaking".
* Nick Cave's "Red Right Hand" for the Mulder/Barry chase up the ski lift in "Ascension".
* Music/SoulCoughing's "Unmarked Helicopters", which shows up in "Max". It's Main/SourceMusic emanating from the title character's stereo as Mulder searches his empty trailer: Aside from being a cool-sounding song, it suits Max's jittery, ProperlyParanoid state of mind before his disappearance.
* Mark Snow's score for "Post-Modern Prometheus" is truly magnificent.

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* The music that was playing plays during ghostly children scenes in "Closure" by Moby - it was is Moby's "My Weakness", off his album ''Play''. At the time of filming, ''Play'' was on its way to becoming a hit, mainly because Moby gave lots of shows carte blanche in using the tracks for anything (trailers for episodes of ''Party of Five'', incidental music for ''Buffy'', car ads, etc.).
* %%* The first ''X-Files'' episode to use Moby's work was the Gillian Anderson-directed "All Things," which used "The Sky Is Breaking".
* %%* Nick Cave's "Red Right Hand" for the Mulder/Barry chase up the ski lift in "Ascension".
* Music/SoulCoughing's "Unmarked Helicopters", which shows up in "Max". It's Main/SourceMusic "Max", is SourceMusic emanating from the title character's stereo as Mulder searches his empty trailer: trailer. Aside from being a cool-sounding song, it suits Max's jittery, ProperlyParanoid state of mind before his disappearance.
* %%* Mark Snow's score for "Post-Modern Prometheus" is truly magnificent.



* Say what you will about widely disliked episode "Teso Dos Bichos" (often ranking high among the worst episodes of the series), but its score was insanely magnificent.

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* %%* Say what you will about widely disliked episode "Teso Dos Bichos" (often ranking high among the worst episodes of the series), but its score was insanely magnificent.



* 'Scully's Theme', the backing music used in season 8 during scenes where Scully is thinking about Mulder's abduction. It's hauntingly beautiful.
* The first movie has absolutely epic score. Mark Snow's expanding on the theme and the varying main titles sound divine.
* Not actually ''in'' the first movie, but the use of "Walking After You" by the Foo Fighters in the ending credits was brilliant.
* The re-mix of the theme done for the 2008 movie was awesome.

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* 'Scully's Theme', the backing music used in season 8 during scenes where Scully is thinking about Mulder's abduction. It's abduction, is hauntingly beautiful.
* The first movie has an absolutely epic score. Mark Snow's expanding on the theme and the varying main titles sound divine.
* %%* Not actually ''in'' the first movie, but the use of "Walking After You" by the Foo Fighters in the ending credits was brilliant.
* %%* The re-mix of the theme done for the 2008 movie was awesome.



* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-3qSL19Yzs True Navigation]], one of the ending themes [[AlternativeForeignThemeSong in the Japanese version of the series.]]

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* %%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-3qSL19Yzs True Navigation]], one of the ending themes [[AlternativeForeignThemeSong in the Japanese version of the series.]]



* Erik Satie's "Gymnopédie No.1" plays over the opening funeral scene in "Irresistible".

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* %%* Erik Satie's "Gymnopédie Gymnopédie No.1" 1 plays over the opening funeral scene in "Irresistible".
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* Soul Coughing's "Unmarked Helicopters", which shows up in "Max". It's Main/SourceMusic emanating from the title character's stereo as Mulder searches his empty trailer: Aside from being a cool-sounding song, it suits Max's jittery, ProperlyParanoid state of mind before his disappearance.

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* Soul Coughing's Music/SoulCoughing's "Unmarked Helicopters", which shows up in "Max". It's Main/SourceMusic emanating from the title character's stereo as Mulder searches his empty trailer: Aside from being a cool-sounding song, it suits Max's jittery, ProperlyParanoid state of mind before his disappearance.
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* "Sein Und Zeit" has a quick piano tune accompanying the final chase scene, which highlights the urgency in getting a step closer to Samantha's fate.

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