Wet from Birth

2004 studio album by The Faint

Wet from Birth

Studio album by

The Faint

Released

September 14, 2004

Recorded

Presto! Recording Studios, The Orifice

Length

34:24

Label

Saddle Creek

Producer

Mike Mogis, The Faint

The Faint chronology

Danse Macabre Remixes
(2003)

Wet from Birth
(2004)

Fasciinatiion
(2008)

Wet from Birth is the fourth studio album by the American band The Faint, released on September 14, 2004.

The U.S. release uses HDCD encoding, but the package is not labeled as HDCD.^[7]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Desperate Guys"	3:06
2.	"How Could I Forget?"	3:17
3.	"I Disappear"	4:07
4.	"Southern Belles in London Sing"	3:31
5.	"Erection"	2:45
6.	"Paranoiattack"	4:16
7.	"Dropkick the Punks"	2:28
8.	"Phone Call"	4:03
9.	"Symptom Finger"	3:27
10.	"Birth"	3:17

The instrumental bridge from "How Could I Forget?" is used during a chase scene in the pilot episode of the short-lived NBC drama, The Black Donnellys.
The song "I Disappear" is featured in the video games SSX On Tour and Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.
The song "Birth" is featured in the part of Steve Berra, in the skateboarding video Skate More, by DVS.
The violin solo at the beginning of "Desperate Guys" is the introduction to Niccolò Paganini's Caprice No. 5.
Desperate Guys was also featured in the 2012 Rock & Republic commercial.
The song "Dropkick the Punks" appears in EA's 2007 racing game Need for Speed: ProStreet.
The song "Symptom Finger" appears in Billabong's 'Still Filthy' film.

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^ "The Faint: Wet from Birth Album Review | Pitchfork". Pitchfork.
^ "PLAYLOUDER | review - Wet From Birth". Archived from the original on 2004-10-28.
^ "The Faint: Wet from Birth - PopMatters Music Review". Archived from the original on 2004-11-13.
^ "Stylus Magazine".
^ "List of HDCD-encoded Compact Discs". Hydrogenaudio. Retrieved 15 July 2016.