The Naked Brothers Band: Music from the Movie
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The Naked Brothers Band: Music from the Movie is a EP/soundtrack by The Naked Brothers Band
The Naked Brothers Band (band)
Nat & Alex Wolff are an American rock-music duo from New York, New York, consisting of brothers Nat and Alex Wolff. The siblings are known for their work on the Nickelodeon television series The Naked Brothers Band, which was created and produced by their mother, actress Polly Draper...

 for The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
The Naked Brothers Band is an American film written and directed by actress Polly Draper and stars her sons, Nat Wolff and Alex Wolff, who portray members of a fictional rock group. It tells of the boys' struggles with their fame and an internal dispute that causes the band to temporarily break up...

. It was released as an extra disc on the Naked Brothers Band Movie DVD. The disc was only available with the DVD for a short time only and now is only available to buy on Amazon. It was not an official release and has not yet been released separately, or on The iTunes Store
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....

. The first single "Crazy Car" charted on the billboard Hot 200 in 2005 at number 23.

Development

Nat begged his dad to record music in the recording studio at the early age of 6. His father, Michael Wolff
Michael Wolff
Michael Blieden Wolff is an American jazz pianist, composer, producer, actor, and jazz educator. He was the bandleader and musical director of The Arsenio Hall Show...

 allowed him to, so Nat recorded the song Crazy Car. Polly Draper
Polly Draper
Polly Carey Draper is an American actress, screenwriter, playwright, producer and director. She is renowned for her ensemble role in ABC's hit series Thirtysomething. In 1998, Draper starred in her screenwriting debut The Tic Code, featuring Gregory Hines which was inspired by her husband Michael...

 (Nat & Alex's mom), then wrote a film about her son's band The Naked Brothers Band. Along with the film she wanted her songs to record songs, as if it they were recording a soundtrack for the film.

Writing

Nat Wolff
Nat Wolff
Nathaniel Marvin "Nat" Wolff is an American child actor, and singer-songwriter, composer, and keyboardist. He is the frontman of Nat & Alex Wolff...

 began writing music for the film in late 2004, having already written and recorded "Crazy Car" he had to write very few songs. He wrote "Got No Mojo", "Motormouth", "Hardcore Wrestlers" and "If There Was a Place to Hide".

Recording

Recording began in early 2005, when Nat was just 9 years old. He recorded all of the music he wrote for the him, his brother Alex
Alex Wolff
Alexander Draper "Alex" Wolff is an American child actor and musician, currently playing in Nat and Alex Wolff. He is best known for his role as himself on the Nickelodeon series The Naked Brothers Band, also starring his older brother, Nat Wolff; the series was created by the boys' mother, Polly...

 was also able to write a song for the film, That's How It Is. The music was recorded by the June 2005, just before filming began on The Naked Brothers Band Movie
The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
The Naked Brothers Band is an American film written and directed by actress Polly Draper and stars her sons, Nat Wolff and Alex Wolff, who portray members of a fictional rock group. It tells of the boys' struggles with their fame and an internal dispute that causes the band to temporarily break up...

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Release

The songs were meant to be released on a soundtrack for the movie, called: The Naked Brothers Band: Music from the Movie in 2006, but due to the project being developed into a television series instead, the soundtrack was unreleased.

The music was instead released on an extra disc that came with the DVD of the movie, that was released on April 3, 2007. The album only included 5 songs from the film, and was only available for a short time.

Track listing

Song Time
"Crazy Car" 2:43
"Motormouth" 2:27
"Hardcore Wrestlers (with Inner Feelings)" 3:14
"Rosalina" 2:48
"That's How It Is" 2:53

Charting

Due to the album being released as an extra disc to the film's DVD, it was not eligible to chart. However, the first single from the album "Crazy Car" charted in 2004, it peaked at No. 23 on the Billboard Hot 200.

Limited Release

Due to it being an extra disc on The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
The Naked Brothers Band is an American film written and directed by actress Polly Draper and stars her sons, Nat Wolff and Alex Wolff, who portray members of a fictional rock group. It tells of the boys' struggles with their fame and an internal dispute that causes the band to temporarily break up...

 DVD, it was only available for a limited time only, as of 2010 the extra disc is no longer available in the United States
United States
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