“Bad Monkey” = Good Music!
A new Apple TV+ show set in Florida features covers of Petty's music exclusively
A new Apple TV+ series called Bad Monkey and starring Vince Vaughn, Rob Delaney, and Michelle Monaghan is set to debut next Wednesday, August 14th.
The show is based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Carl Hiaasen, a famous Floridian whose novels are almost uniformly set in the state.
So, of course, the soundtrack album’s entire collection of songs consists of music from another famous Floridian, Thomas Earl Petty.
The song list for the soundtrack consists of artists known to cover Petty and new voices giving it a shot:
You Wreck Me – The War On Drugs
Room at the Top – Eddie Vedder
I Won’t Back Down – Sharon Van Etten
Even The Losers – Fitz & the Tantrums
Don’t Do Me Like That – Flipturn
Runnin’ Down a Dream – Larkin Poe
Mary Jane’s Last Dance – Jamie Jackson
You’re Gonna Get It – Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit
Sins of My Youth – Kurt Vile
Yer So Bad – Meridian Brothers
Wildflowers – Charlotte Lawrence
Into the Great Wide Open – Lissie
Don’t Fade on Me – Chiiild
Supernatural Radio – GoldFord
You Don’t Know How It Feels – Stephen Marley
Here Comes My Girl – Weezer
Don’t Come Around Here No More – Nathaniel Rateliff
Stop Draggin My Heart Around – Briston Maroney
The Waiting – Marcus King
Breakdown – Waz
The album is scheduled for full release on October 4th.
You can get a taste of one track here:
Eddie Vedder’s track has also been released early.
It continues to be quite a year for Petty’s music, with this major release of covers coming on the heels of Petty Country.
WooHoo!!
They should have asked PLB to do a tune! American Girl would have been a good choice!