Release Date: 1996
Price: R.R.P. $29.95
Distributor: Warner Brothers
Rating: Parental Advisory -Explicit Lyrics
Serial No.: 9362460792
Front Cover: The front cover is drawn by Sue Coe and features a dark alien figure with Mulder and Scully in the right hand corner, with their trademark flashlights. The cover folds out to four-times the size and is illustrated with a selection of X-Files characters including Tooms, The Flukeman, Skinner and Cancer Man.
Inside Cover: The inside cover includes production information for each song and gives away the hidden track with the notice that "Nick Cave and The Dirty Three would like you to know that "0" is also a number".
There is a sketch of Chris Carter who explains the genesis of the CD and comments from producer Don Was.
Back Cover: The back cover features a gray alien pressing up against a window that has an X taped to it.
CD: The CD is black with a red X and apart from the Warner Brothers serial number no desriptive writing.
Comment: There is a hidden track that can be accessed by rewinding before track 1. This can't be accessed on many stereo systems -- some won't allow you to rewind at all while others won't allow you to rewind to Zero.
Chris Carter decided to add the music business to his X-Files merchandising opportunities and asked a number of "alternative" artists to come up with a song inspired by The X-Files. The following collection is the result:
Artists/Titles:
- Nick Cave and the Dirty Three: "Untitled"
- Mark Snow: "The X-Files Theme (Main Title)"
- Soul Coughing: "Unmarked Helicopters"
- Sheryl Crow: "On the Outside"
- Foo Fighters: "Down in the Park"
- William S. Burroughs & R.E.M: "Star Me Kitten"
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: "Red Right Hand"
- Filter: "Thanks Bro"
- Frank Black: "Man of Steel"
- Meat Puppets: "Unexplained"
- Danzig: "Deep"
- Screamin' Jay Hawkins: "Frenzy"
- Elvis Costello with Brain Eno: "My Dark Life"
- Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper: "Hands of Death (Burn Baby Burn)"
- P.M. Dawn: "If You Never Say Goodbye"
- P.M. Dawn: "The X-Files Theme (P.M. Dawn Remix)"
