Green Room O.s.t.
Soundtrack, Brooke Blair, Will Blair- Weapons Ready
- THE AIN'T RIGHTS - What Have I Become
- CORPUS ROTTUS - Corpus Rottus
- Oregon Coast
- Belefire
- MIDNIGHT - Prowling Leather
- THE AIN'T RIGHTS - Nazi Punks, Fuck Off
- Red Laces
- Pour A Floor
- Blades And Fangs
- THE AIN't RIGHTS - Coronary
- HOCHSTEDDER - Inevitable Failure
- Moshpit
- Mopping Up
- Let's Pretend
- BATTLETORN - Savage Pressure
- PATSY'S RATS - Takin' Out The Trash
- PATSY'S RATS - Melted
- Odin Himself
- Fresh Air
- The Residence
- We Need The Police
- CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL - Sinister Purpose
- THE AIN'T RIGHTS - Toxic Evolution
From acclaimed director Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin) comes Green Room, a crime thriller like no other. Starring Anton Yelchin (Star Trek) and Patrick Stewart (X-Men), Green Room chronicles a night of mayhem and slaughter at a rural Oregon music venue when outsider band the Ain’t Rights accidentally witnesses a murder by the inhospitable Neo Nazi venue management. Intent on leaving no loose ends, the white supremacists barricade the venue and the band is forced into an ultra-violent fight for
survival.
The grinding, furious sound of punk rock is alive and kicking in every corner of Green Room. Tracks by Corpus Rottus and Battletorn bring old school sensibilities while the infilm group The Ain’t Rights not only cover the Dead Kennedeys, but bring some new hits to the table. Following a successful collaboration on Blue Ruin, Jeremy Saulnier again turned to composing duo Brooke & Will Blair to create a fitting score. The result is every bit as intense and intimate as the bloodied walls of
the eponymous venue. The album also features tracks by Midnight, Hochstedder, Patsy’s Rats and Creedence Clearwater Revival.
NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR:
“The Dead Kennedys’ ‘Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables’ was my very first taste of hardcore / punk music. I was on a cross-country road trip with my family in 1985 and an older (and much cooler) kid I knew only for a day played me the LP. I needed to take it home with me, but the only compact cassette I had available was my cherished Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack (“Axel F”!). I bit the bullet, Scotch taped over the ‘write-protect’ tabs and dubbed the album. Exactly 30 years later, the
fictional band The Ain’t Rights paid tribute to that pivotal moment in my life by performing a live cover of The Dead Kennedys’ “Nazi Punks Fuck Off” on the set of GREEN ROOM.
So the soundtrack for the film started to take shape decades prior to its production. In fact, the other on-camera performances by The Ain’t Rights’ are of songs written by my high school friends and former band mates. We spent our teenage years playing in punk bands and making zombie films. Admittedly, I never cut the mustard as a musician. I just yelled into a microphone while my more talented friends played their instruments. But for a time I was as deeply connected to the sound, the
aesthetic, and the physicality of punk as I was to filmmaking. GREEN ROOM was an opportunity to finally merge these two worlds.
The soundtrack needed to serve the authenticity of our story, and also charge it with the energy and aggression that attracts people to metal, hardcore, and punk in the first place. Music was curated through friends of the filmmakers that remained active in the music scene. A couple of songs were even contributed by members of our local film crew (Patsy’s Rats from Portland, Oregon!).
With all that menacing noise blaring from speakers and a story that hinges on steadily increasing tension and chaos, the real challenge was composing a score that could further ratchet up the emotional intensity of the experience but wouldn’t overload the soundscape and become a distraction.
The Blair Brothers did just that. Their original score has an electronic transparency that allows it to compliment the abrasive source music throughout, yet traces of metallic feedback and reverberating percussive elements make it still seem ‘native’ to the environment. Their compositions invisibly seep into the film but eventually envelope it entirely with a surging, low-end blast of sonic mayhem.
The GREEN ROOM soundtrack is deeply personal, offering both a nostalgic nod to my youth and an expression of my worst fears. And like any proper live performance, it rings in your ears long after the show is over!