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"Two decades ago, X-Files&amp;#xA0;composer Mark Snow produced a compilation dubbed Songs in the Key of X: Music From and Inspired by the X-Files that&amp;#xA0;included tunes by Nick Cave, Elvis Costello, P.M. Dawn and William S. Burroughs with R.E.M., among others. It also contained a cover of Gary Numan&amp;apos;s echoey, new-wavey &amp;quot;Down in the Park&amp;quot; by some alt-rock upstarts calling themselves Foo Fighters, whose frontman was an X-Files megafan. That same year, he got the chance to appear on the show.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;Dave Grohl was a big fan of the show,&amp;quot; Gillian Anderson tells Rolling Stone with a laugh. &amp;quot;He came to the set for one episode as an extra. He did a cameo; a drive-by. If you blink, you miss him. He ended up just being the guy in a hallway.&amp;quot;\r\nThe episode, &amp;quot;Pusher,&amp;quot; aired 20 years ago this week on February 23rd, 1996, and focused on Scully and Mulder hunting down a man who could subliminally command people to do his bidding. Grohl&amp;apos;s scene appears in the FBI building, as the man with mind-control powers sneaks in; the Foo Fighter is seen with his then-wife Jennifer Youngblood. Two years later, Grohl and his Foo Fighters bandmates re-recorded the Colour and the Shape track &amp;quot;Walking After You&amp;quot; for The X-Files: The Album, which came out in 1998 as the soundtrack to the X-Files movie.\r\n&amp;quot;I was obsessed with The X-Files,&amp;quot; Grohl told Anderson in 2014 on the BBC program The One Show. &amp;quot;I don&amp;apos;t want to scare you, but I was an obsessive fan.&amp;quot; He later expounded on his infatuation with the show in an interview with BBC Radio 1, via music-news.com. &amp;quot;[Gillian] was the one person who I was like, &amp;apos;We&amp;apos;re gonna get married. One of these days, she and I will finally meet and this will finally happen,&amp;apos;&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;So last night, I was just sitting next to her like, [whispers] &amp;apos;It&amp;apos;s Gillian Anderson, Oh, my God.&amp;apos; I don&amp;apos;t even know what I said or how I answered the questions; I was just looking at her like, &amp;apos;She&amp;apos;s so beautiful.&amp;apos;&amp;quot;\r\nIn her Rolling Stone interview, which will run in full tomorrow to follow tonight&amp;apos;s season finale, Anderson also revealed other musicians who were X-Files diehards. &amp;quot;The Smashing Pumpkins were big fans, too,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;Their lead singer, Billy Corgan, used to come and hang out on set. And Chris Martin is a fan. Whenever they were in town, his manager dragged him to our set. So yeah, we&amp;apos;ve got a good relationship with some rockers.&amp;quot;\r\nAs for the Songs in the Key of X comp, Anderson would like to hear what musicians offered now. &amp;quot;I think we should do that again if we ever do more episodes,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;You could still ask Nick [Cave] to do it, and I think there&amp;apos;s a new version of that Catatonia song, &amp;apos;Mulder and Scully.&amp;apos; And there&amp;apos;s a new video for [Bree Sharp&amp;apos;s] &amp;apos;Why Won&amp;apos;t You Love Me, David Duchovny?&amp;apos;&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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