''What We Do Is Secret'' is a 12" EP compiling material recorded by the Germs. It was released posthumously by

Slash Records Slash Records was an American record label originally specializing in local punk rock bands, active from 1978 to 2000. It was notable as one of the first and most successful independent record labels in alternative music, before its eventual acq ...

in the United States in 1981 as SREP-108. It was later also released in 1982 in Italy on the Expanded Music label as EX-20-Y. ''What We Do Is Secret'' includes the three songs from the band's second release, the '' Lexicon Devil'' EP, as well as one cover, one outtake, some crowd conversation from the band's last show, and two live tracks. The title was taken from the first track of their 1979 ''

(GI) ''GI'', stylized in parentheses as ''(GI)'', is the only studio album by American punk rock band the Germs. Often considered the first full-length hardcore punk album, it was released in the United States in October 1979 on Slash Records with ...

'' LP, which was not included on this release. A 2008

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of vocalist Darby Crash and the Germs was also titled '' What We Do Is Secret''.

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* {{Authority control 1982 EPs Germs (band) EPs Slash Records EPs 1982 compilation albums Germs (band) compilation albums Slash Records compilation albums EPs published posthumously