5/16/08: Infant Sorrow: “We’ve Got To Do Something” (2008)We’re not sure why we didn’t pay attention to the
Forgetting Sarah Marshall soundtrack. We mentioned the movie
here, which includes a link to our review of a previous soundtrack from the same filmmakers. We still have fond memories of the movie, too. Anyway, we dug out our copy because we wanted to hear the tracks culled from the Dracula puppet musical from within the film. Then we were pleasantly surprised to see the soundtrack included Frank Black’s cover of Herman Brood’s “You Can’t Break A Heart and Have It.”
We were pretty impressed that Black—he formerly of The Pixies—had found a Brood song that we’d never heard. We have two Brood box sets. This got us to wondering where Black found the tune, and it seems it was through
a Brood clip on YouTube. This got us wondering if the gang behind
Forgetting Sarah Marshall had been ambitious enough to post the complete video for the fictional band Infant Sorrow and their hit single
“We’ve Got To Do Something.” As the link above shows, they did. It’s brilliant. Infant Sorrow is the band fronted by the rock star who steals
Forgetting Sarah Marshall’s titular dame from our nebbish hero. The rock ’n roll frontman is played by UK comic Russell Brand, and he’s a perfectly annoying creation. So is the video for “We’ve Got To Do Something.” It’s like the B-side to Dramarama’s
“What Are We Gonna Do?” Keep in mind while watching that Brand’s creepy (but charming) character isn’t so open and giving that he fills Sarah in on things like his interesting social diseases.
Also, we just got a press release announcing the birth of Frank Black’s fifth child—with his wife, even. It’s nice to see that Black’s not worrying about his family’s environmental impact.
Make it your own: The
Forgetting Sarah Marshall soundtrack is easily found. The same can’t be said for those Herman Brood box sets, but you should check out his albums. He went from writing “Rock ‘N’ Roll Junkie” to being a rock ’n roll suicide.
As it turns out, there are two Infant Sorrow videos on YouTube. Here’s
the other one. Actually, they’re both annoyingly good songs, and both on the soundtrack album. And, as you might guess, you can visit Infant Sorrow’s
MySpace page.
