The A-Files: Alien Songs
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The A-Files: Alien Songs is a 1998 music album
Music Album
Music album is the name of:* Music Album , a 1970s Canadian television series* Album, a collection of music tracks...

 by Alvin and the Chipmunks
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Alvin and the Chipmunks is an American animated music group created by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. in 1958. The group consists of three singing animated anthropomorphic chipmunks: Alvin, the mischievous troublemaker, who quickly became the star of the group; Simon, the tall, bespectacled intellectual;...

, released by Sony Wonder
Sony Wonder
Sony Wonder is a children and family's music and home video arm of Sony Music Entertainment, founded in 1991. The division once distributed material from Sesame Workshop and Classic Media...

. The album's concept parodied the 1993–2002 FOX series The X-Files
The X-Files
The X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s...

.

Track listing

  1. "Purple People Eater
    Purple People Eater
    "Purple People Eater" is a novelty song, written and performed by Sheb Wooley, that reached #1 in the Billboard pop charts in 1958.-Composition:...

    " – 3:35
  2. "Men in Black
    Men in Black (song)
    "Men in Black" is a song by Will Smith from the movie Men in Black, in which he also starred. The song plays during the movie's closing credits...

     Movie Theme" – 3:46
  3. "X-Files Theme" – 3:06
  4. "Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time)" – 3:35
  5. "Venus" – 3:33
  6. "The Time Warp" – 3:41
  7. "People Are Strange
    People Are Strange
    "People Are Strange" is a single released by The Doors in September 1967 from their second album Strange Days which was also released in September 1967. The single peaked at the #12 position of the U.S. Hot 100 chart and made it to the top ten in the Cash Box charts...

    " – 3:23
  8. "Star Wars: Cantina Band
    Mos Eisley Cantina
    The Chalmun's Cantina is a fictional bar of the Star Wars universe located in the "pirate city" of Mos Eisley on the planet Tatooine...

    " – 2:44
  9. "Mr. Spaceman
    Mr. Spaceman
    "Mr. Spaceman" is a song by the American rock band The Byrds and was the third track on their 1966 album Fifth Dimension. The song was initially written by band member Jim McGuinn as a "melodramatic screenplay" but it soon evolved into a whimsical meditation on the existence of extraterrestrial...

    " – 2:56
  10. "Destination Unknown
    Destination Unknown (song)
    Destination Unknown is a single by the new wave band Missing Persons. It was released in 1982 on their album Spring Session M. In the US it was a minor hit spending 13 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at #42....

    " – 3:32


Sources: Amazon AllMusic

Trivia

  • Alvin and Brittany portray the respective roles of Mulder
    Fox Mulder
    FBI Special Agent Fox William Mulder is a fictional character and protagonist in the American Fox television shows The X-Files and The Lone Gunmen, two science fiction shows about a government conspiracy to hide or deny the truth of Alien existence. Mulder's peers consider his theories on...

     and Scully
    Dana Scully
    FBI Special Agent Dana Katherine Scully, M.D. is a fictional character and protagonist on the Fox television series The X-Files , played by Gillian Anderson. She also appeared in two theatrical films based on the series...

     in the "X-Files Theme".
  • It was the last Chipmunks album to have Jai Winding as a band member. Winding was subsequently credited for having co-written the song "Dumped For Someone New" on Little Alvin and the Mini-Munks
    Little Alvin and the Mini-Munks
    Little Alvin and the Mini-Munks is a 2004 direct-to-video film based on the Chipmunks' 1983-1990 television series, Alvin and the Chipmunks. It was written and created by Janice Karman, produced by Ross Bagdasarian, Jr., and directed by Jerry Rees. It was produced by Bagdasarian Productions, and...

    , but that was in name only.
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