What We Do Is Secret (Ost) CD

Song Listing

Disc 1

Song Title

1. Five Years - David Bowie ~ Original Soundtrack

2. Forming - Lukas Haas/Shane West/Michael LeBlanc/The Germs - (featuring Shane West/Michael Leblanc/Bijou Phillips) ~ Original Soundtrack

3. You Drive Me Nervous - Alice Cooper ~ Original Soundtrack

4. Lexicon Devil - The Germs/Bijou Phillips - (featuring Lukas Haas/Shane West/Pat Smear) ~ Original Soundtrack

5. We Are the One - Avengers ~ Original Soundtrack

6. Sexboy - The Screamers/Paul Roessler - (featuring The Mae Shi) ~ Original Soundtrack

7. Survive - The Bags ~ Original Soundtrack

8. Circle One - The Germs - (featuring Lukas Haas/Shane West/Pat Smear/Bijou Phillips) ~ Original Soundtrack

9. Life Of Crime - The Weirdos ~ Original Soundtrack

10. Manimal - Lorna Doom/Don Bolles/Shane West/Pat Smear/The Germs ~ Original Soundtrack

11. Nausea - X ~ Original Soundtrack

12. We Must Bleed - Lorna Doom/Don Bolles/Shane West/Pat Smear/The Germs - (featuring Lukas Haas/Shane West/Bijou Phillips) ~ Original Soundtrack

13. My Tunnel - Lorna Doom/Shane West/Pat Smear/The Germs (take, featuring Shane West/Don Bolles) ~ Original Soundtrack

14. Rock 'N' Roll Suicide - David Bowie ~ Original Soundtrack

Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
	Audio Mixer: Paul Roessler.
	The Germs are best remembered today for the cult of personality that grew around lead singer Darby Crash and his suicide via heroin overdose at the age of 22, but the band has long been a source of inspiration to budding punk rockers for their rather remarkable learning curve -- on their earliest recordings, the Germs were a laughably inept bunch of teenage losers, but by the time they cut their sole studio album a mere two years later, they'd grown into one of the most fiendishly powerful bands on the L.A. punk scene. Rodger Grossman's film What We Do Is Secret is a dramatization of the short but memorable life of both Crash and the Germs, and since it features new recordings of the group's songs performed by a mix of original members of the band (guitarist Pat Smear and drummer Don Bolles) and actors who appear in the movie (including Shane West as Crash and Bijou Phillips as bassist Lorna Doom), the film's soundtrack album walks a strange tightrope between historical accuracy and dramatic license. If there's a flaw in the new tracks on What We Do Is Secret, it's that they often sound better than the Germs really did -- the re-creation of "Forming," the A-side of the group's first single, is nearly as rudimentary as the original but reveals a telltale command of the instruments not clearly apparent on the originals, while the later "Germs" material boasts guitar work that's a few shades tougher and more elaborate than what Smear could conjure up in 1979. West is certainly game as Crash, and clearly did his homework, but he can't quite master Darby's drunken, consonant-swallowing bellow and unlike most of the tracks on (GI), you can actually understand what he's singing. The new material also sounds a bit tidy next to the classic L.A. punk tunes by the Weirdos, the Bags and X that have been added for the sake of local color, though Alice Cooper's "You Drive Me Nervous" tips the hat to an obvious influence and anyone who knows Crash's story will appreciate the two David Bowie tracks that open and close the album. Ultimately, the re-created Germs material on What We Do Is Secret falls into the same category as the soundtrack to The Buddy Holly Story -- in the context of the movie, it's a sincere and well-intentioned attempt to dramatize what was important about the Germs, but as a listening experience you're a lot better off with the old records (which are collected on the superb compilation (MIA): The Complete Anthology). ~ Mark Deming
Producer: Howard Paar; Pat Smear; Howard Parr; Skip Williamson; Brian McNelis
Engineer: Dale Lawton
Musical Guests
	Lukas Haas
	Shane West
	Michael Leblanc
	Bijou Phillips
	Pat Smear
	Paul Roessler
	The Mae Shi
	Lorna Doom
	Don Bolles

Associated Artists and Works

	California Dreams
	Original Soundtrack

Technical Info

	Release Date : 10/14/2008
	Original Release Date : 2008
	Catalog ID : 34033
	Label : Lakeshore Records
	Number of Discs : 1
	Studio/Live : Studio
	Mono/Stereo : Stereo
	SPAR Code : n/a
	UPC : 00780163403329

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What We Do Is Secret (Ost) (2008)

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