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Re: A lost X-Files song

#71
Somewhere I saw a clip of David Duchovny revealing the never-before-heard lyrics of the X-Files theme song:

  The X-Files is a show
      With music by Mark Snow
  The X-Files is a show
      With music by Mark Snow
  ...

Re: A lost X-Files song

#72
post #20

This reminds me of how much I miss watching X-Files back in the days. Such a good show.

I loved as a teenager but its looks silly now, like a lot of teenager movies. With the exception of the "X-cops" episode which is a little gem.

Re: A lost X-Files song

#73
post #50

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Still a good one. I watched it once few years. I'll probably watch it again this year during Christmas. When my son grows up I'll introduce it to him too. I'm not sure what is the appropriate age but I guess 12 is OK? Some of the scenes are definitely 18+ though, I think.

Just don't let him watch the episode called "Home", some other episodes could also be to early at 12, but most should be ok.

Oh yeah, now that you reminded me, there are a few episodes that has sort of viewer discretion warning at the beginning.

I'll tell $wifie that I'll have to re-watch the whole X-Files this month to figure out which episodes my son should avoid when he is 12 (that is around 9 years from now). This definitely counts as parenting work.

Re: A lost X-Files song

#74
post #72
post #20

This reminds me of how much I miss watching X-Files back in the days. Such a good show.

I loved as a teenager but its looks silly now, like a lot of teenager movies. With the exception of the "X-cops" episode which is a little gem.

It has aged better than most other shows from the era. IMO of course.

"Harsh Realm" (another Chris Carter show) may yet become relevant again though.

"The Lone Gunmen" as the sillier cousin of X-Files is as charming as ever.

Re: A lost X-Files song

#75

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The ones where we actually did land on the moon?

Yes, the original video recording of the moon landing has been lost. It was broadcast live, but all we have is the grainy, shitty, washed out recording of the national news you see shown everywhere. The actual signal from the moon, which people at Mission Control would have seen, had a FAR better resolution and contrast. It was recorded with basically the best camera they could send, and digitized and returned to ear…

How did they lose that? Sigh...

Re: A lost X-Files song

#76

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Apparently Dan and Glenn had 4 hours to write and submit the song! Imagine throwing together a song in 4 hours and then finding out that people loved the song so much that they tracked you online 25 year later.

Imagine being so skilled that you can whip up a whole amazing song in four hours! I'm not sure if I could create anything beautiful in four hours.

Charles Mingus was onstage with his band when he was told that Lester Young had died. He called a short minute break and while his band went and got themselves a drink, wrote and arranged (for an 8-piece band) "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat"[1] in tribute. They came back on stage and played it immediately.

Keith Jarrett wrote all the music for a tour of Japan on the plane there. That became the album "Personal Mountains"[2]. Apparently he literally had all the meal trays around him open with scores on them and was scribbling away the whole way.

[1] One of the all-time classic jazz ballads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWO_VcdnHY

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8rokRx3lnY

Re: A lost X-Files song

#77
post #20

This reminds me of how much I miss watching X-Files back in the days. Such a good show.

If you're in the UK, all X-File episodes are available to stream for free on 4OD. I'm re-watching it too, but I'm so busy I can only do 1 episode every few days.

The same on SBS OnDemand, for anyone in Australia.

Re: A lost X-Files song

#78
post #20

This reminds me of how much I miss watching X-Files back in the days. Such a good show.

If you're in the UK, all X-File episodes are available to stream for free on 4OD. I'm re-watching it too, but I'm so busy I can only do 1 episode every few days.

If you've got an Internet connection, all the X-files episodes are available for download through torrents.

Re: A lost X-Files song

#79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The ones where we actually did land on the moon?

Yes, the original video recording of the moon landing has been lost. It was broadcast live, but all we have is the grainy, shitty, washed out recording of the national news you see shown everywhere. The actual signal from the moon, which people at Mission Control would have seen, had a FAR better resolution and contrast. It was recorded with basically the best camera they could send, and digitized and returned to ear…

While obviously the true original would be better, I wonder how closely modern upscaling/de-noising/etc (possibly with AI assistance?) would approximate the lost footage.

Re: A lost X-Files song

#80
post #14

I find stories about lost media intriguing and I am happy that this one got resolved. There is an online subcommunity both on YouTube and Reddit trying to discover a lost song based on a 17 second audio clip found online a couple of years ago. So far, no luck. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyone_Knows_That_(Ulterior_... Honorable mention to The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet as well: https://en.wikipedia.org…

If anyone is into musical mysteries, there's a bunch of Zappa fragments that might be quotes from his or others' works, something that he did all the time:

https://www.zappateers.com/fzshows/mystery.html

Every time I hear #4, I think a bit of La donna è mobile, ...

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