Artists including R.E.M. and David Bowie are to record songs for the soundtrack of a film about the life of Kurt Cobain.
The film, About a Son, is to be released in September. Iggy Pop, Bad Brains and Ben Gibbard will also perform on the soundtrack, which will be released on September 11th. The film will use the actual voice of the late Cobain, recorded on audiotapes when Michael Azzerad was writing a book "Come As You Are," about Nirvana. The film will be released in four months, and a DVD will follow. Cobain's voice will be woven through the songs on the album. Here is a list of the songs that will be included on the soundtrack: Overture, Steve Fisk and Ben Gibbard Motorcycle Song, Arlo Guthrie Eye Flys, the Melvins Banned in D.C., Bad Brains Up Around the Bend, Creedence Clearwater Revival Put Some Sugar on It, Half Japanese Son of a Gun, the Vaselines Graveyard, Butthole Surfers Owner's Lament, Scratch Acid Touch Me I'M Sick, Mudhoney The Passenger, Iggy Pop The Borgeois Blues, Leadbelly New Orleans Instrumental No. 1, R.E.M. The Man Who Sold the World, David Bowie Museum, Mark Lanegan Indian Summer, Ben Gibbard
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