Why is it that we insist on going on and on and on about dead famous people? Isn’t it bad enough that individuals like Cobain felt like they lived miserable existences and that they didn’t want to live anymore? While news of a new autobiographical Kurt Cobain film called About A Son isn’t quite as disheartening as, say, the treasure-seeking Nirvana "best of" or Journals, the privacy-raping, posthumous collection of diary entries, it still leaves much to be desired.

In any case, the soundtrack for said film is mostly a compilation of previously released material from such Cobain favorites as Bad Brains, Iggy Pop, R.E.M. and Leadbelly, but will also feature some new music from Steve Fisk and Ben Gibbard (who Cobain was heard talking about from within his grave. Apparently, Transatlanticism is his favorite Death Cab record). The soundtrack to the film, aptly named after the movie itself, About A Son, is set to be released by Barsuk on another day of death that we all keep talking about: September 11.

Wait a minute; did Cobain knock down the towers?

In more tasteful commentary, Gibbard’s contribution to the film is a cover of another Cobain (and Gliddon) favorite: Calvin Johnson’s Beat Happening. The song choices are also very tasteful, so much so that you almost wonder if a Tiny Mix Tape Robot compiled it. What’s on it, you ask? Well, I thought you’d never ask!

1. "Overture," Steve Fisk and Ben Gibbard 2. Audio: Never Intended 3. "Motorcycle Song," Arlo Guthrie 4. "Eye Flys," the Melvins 5. Audio: Punk Rock 6. "Banned in D.C.," Bad Brains 7. "Up Around the Bend," Creedence Clearwater Revival 8. "Put Some Sugar on It," Half Japanese 9. "Son of a Gun," the Vaselines 10. "Graveyard," Butthole Surfers 11. Audio: Hardcore Was Dead 12. "Owner’s Lament," Scratch Acid 13. "Touch Me I’m Sick," Mudhoney 14. Audio: Car Radio 15. "The Passenger," Iggy Pop 16. "The Borgeois Blues," Leadbelly 17. "New Orleans Instrumental No. 1," R.E.M. 18. Audio: The Limelight 19. "The Man Who Sold the World," David Bowie 20. "Museum," Mark Lanegan 21. "Indian Summer," Ben Gibbard