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I’ve been on a similar rabbit hole looking for a proper release of this song https://youtu.be/Oom_s1mu-Ks from the movie The Funeral I found out that it was written by Abel Ferrara (the director of the movie) but no proper recording that I could find

That's an incredible scene. I think it's based on St James Infirmary.

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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 ...

I wonder who's the author, and if they did a Rodenberry on the theme (Rodenberry, in addition to everything else, was the author of lyrics for the Star Trek theme. Despite them never being used, he made a tidy sum in royalties.)

the star trek theme has lyrics? beyond the voiceover by the captain?

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I wonder who's the author, and if they did a Rodenberry on the theme (Rodenberry, in addition to everything else, was the author of lyrics for the Star Trek theme. Despite them never being used, he made a tidy sum in royalties.)

the star trek theme has lyrics? beyond the voiceover by the captain?

It was written with lyrics that were never used[0].

[0]https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/28895/star-trek-theme-so...

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There was a remix of a Backstreet Boys song at a club that completely changed my opinion of the band (along with a mix of various other factors...) I recorded it and have scoured YouTube constantly, but no luck so far.

Link the recording? Try https://partiboi69.bandcamp.com/track/everybodys-back

https://photos.app.goo.gl/BACNK6rbJioVWT1DA

Hard to hear for about 10-20 seconds but it's I Want It That Way. There's remixes that are kiiiiind of similar but nothing that's exactly the same, I've found.

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There goes my weekend lol. Thanks! Are they the remastered versions? I was quite impressed by how good they looked on the whole.

It’s quite impressive how good xfiles looks today when you compare it to other shows around the same period. Space above and beyond in comparison looks pretty terrible from what I have seen. It’s not even wide screen. I think X files was shot on film perhaps? I’m not sure if what we have now on say Disney plus for example is a remastered version but certainly it holds up very well.

Yeah I read up on this a bit as I was very impressed by the quality. It was shot on widescreen film so they could just rescan (if that’s the term?) the film at widescreen HD resolution. I think they had to retouch or adjust the crop in some scenes because there was stuff off to the side which you weren’t meant to see, which was out of the 4:3 area but inside the 16:9 area.

Some of the special FX shots look bad because they were digital and so they’ve just had to upscale them, but overall I was really impressed too. It’s nice because it lets you enjoy it all over again without being distracted by how “bad” it looks on modern TVs

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Link the recording? Try https://partiboi69.bandcamp.com/track/everybodys-back

https://photos.app.goo.gl/BACNK6rbJioVWT1DA Hard to hear for about 10-20 seconds but it's I Want It That Way. There's remixes that are kiiiiind of similar but nothing that's exactly the same, I've found.

I like it! Checked about 50 different mixes/edits but the closest I could get is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht8mUTclVBg

Any chance you could ask the venue who was DJing?

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