New Beheaded on Idle Hands soundtrack

March 10, 1999: The new version of "Beheaded" will be on the Idle Hands soundtrack, the film productors changed their minds and decided to release a movie sondtrack. This song, along with the Ramones cover "I Wanna Be Sedated," was recorded at Ron Welty's home studio in mid-1998 under Jerry Finn production for the movie, but "I Wanna Be Sedated" will be avaiable by now just on some "Why don't You Get A Job?" import singles.

The film open nationwide on April 30th and the soundtrack will be in stores on April 13th, the compilation will be released by Time Bomb Records.

The movie shows the band performing these two songs on a high school Halloween party before the singer (Dexter Holland) gets killed by the murder hand. "In the movie this guy's hand is possessed and so he chops it off and it goes around killing people," Dexter said to Select magazine . "Eventually it sneaks into this high school Halloween dance and we're on stage playing The Ramones' song 'I Wanna Be Sedated'. The guy runs on stage and shouts, 'You guys gotta get out, there's a killer in here'. No one believes him and I say, 'Get out of here, kid, you're messing up the show'. Right at that moment, the hand drops through the ceiling, rips my scalp off and I get killed - my ideal role!"

The band spent 3 days filmimg their scene in Hollywood. Holland even received the full horror make-up treatment. "He had chicken parts on his head," said Noodles.

"They wanted us to do (Van Halen's) 'Running With The Devil' but we couldn't make it work as an Offspring song," said Noodles. "There was a lot of discussion. We wanted to do more obscure stuff and they wanted us to do something well known, so we compromised and ended up with 'I Wanna Be Sedated.' We suggested doing 'Beheaded'. I don't think they cared what the other song was. They just wanted one song that was recognizable."

"We did the movie just for fun," said Noodles to Michigan Daily. "It's kind of a shellac, horror, comedy film that doesn't take itself very seriously. It makes fun of that whole genre."