Listen to Eddie Vedder team up with members of AC/DC and Red Hot Chili Peppers for new version of Tom Petty’s Room At The Top, one of 21 Petty covers on the soundtrack to Bad Monkey

Covers of Tom Petty songs by Eddie Vedder, Weezer, The War On Drugs, Kurt Vile, Larkin Poe and more will appear on the soundtrack album for new Apple TV+ series Bad Monkey, set for release via HighTower Music on October 4. 

Vedder’s cover of Room At The Top was recorded by an all-star band including Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench, AC/DC bassist Chris Chaney, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, producer Andrew Watt (The Rolling Stones, Ozzy Osbourne, Pearl Jam), singer-songwriter Glen Hansard and Pearl Jam’s touring guitarist Josh Klinghoffer (ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers).

Vedder had previously performed a cover of the song at the 2018 Oscars ceremony, staged at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The singer has also covered Petty’s I Won’t Back Down and Wildflowers in concert over the years. 

Listen to the cover of Room At The Top below:

In a new interview with Vulture, the show’s music supervisor Tony Von Pervieux reveals that he got approval from Tom Petty’s daughter Adria for the project, and that he sent her every cover on the soundtrack, which also features eight selections from the score.

“We would get comments like, ‘We really like this one, great job,’” he says. “Being able to have conversations with Adria and her letting me know she’s a fan of the soundtrack was significant. She said the bands were correctly chosen, they nailed each cover independently, and it felt like it all came together cohesively.”

The album tracklisting is as follows:

1. You Wreck Me – The War On Drugs
2. Room at the Top – Eddie Vedder
3. I Won’t Back Down – Sharon Van Etten
4. Even the Losers – Fitz and The Tantrums
5. Don’t Do Me Like That – flipturn
6. Runnin’ Down A Dream – Larkin Poe
7. Mary Jane’s Last Dance – Jamie Jackson
8. You’re Gonna Get It – Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
9. Sins of My Youth – Kurt Vile
10. Yer So Bad – Meridian Brothers
11. Wildflowers – Charlotte Lawrence
12. Into the Great Wide Open – Lissie
13. Don’t Fade on Me – Chiiild
14. Supernatural Radio – GoldFord
15. You Don’t Know How It Feels – Stephen Marley
16. Here Comes My Girl – Weezer
17. Don’t Come Around Here No More – Nathaniel Raitliff
18. Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around – Briston Maroney
19. The Waiting – Marcus King
20. Breakdown – WAZ
21. Free Fallin’ (feat. Kina Grannis) – Imaginary Future
22. Main Title Theme (from “Bad Monkey”) – Jamie Jackson & WAZ
23. Yancy and Neville – WAZ & Jamie Jackson
24. Dragon Queen – WAZ & Jamie Jackson
25. Eyes over Keys – WAZ & Jamie Jackson
26. Egg Chases Neville – WAZ & Jamie Jackson
27. One That Got Away – WAZ & Jamie Jackson
28. Bee Drop – WAZ & Jamie Jackson
29. The Storm Is Coming – WAZ & Jamie Jackson

A music writer since 1993, formerly Editor of Kerrang! and Planet Rock magazine (RIP), Paul Brannigan is a Contributing Editor to Louder. Having previously written books on Lemmy, Dave Grohl (the Sunday Times best-seller This Is A Call) and Metallica (Birth School Metallica Death, co-authored with Ian Winwood), his Eddie Van Halen biography (Eruption in the UK, Unchained in the US) emerged in 2021. He has written for Rolling Stone, Mojo and Q, hung out with Fugazi at Dischord House, flown on Ozzy Osbourne’s private jet, played Angus Young’s Gibson SG, and interviewed everyone from Aerosmith and Beastie Boys to Young Gods and ZZ Top. Born in the North of Ireland, Brannigan lives in North London and supports The Arsenal.