Exclusive: Mutant Drops The Best of The Boys 3-Disc Vinyl Ahead of the Season 5 Finale

The Boys has always known how to weaponize music — the bangers, the ballads, the holy-crap-are-they-really-singing-this? satire — and now it is all getting rolled into a big, very collectible package. Mutant is putting out a three-disc vinyl set (plus a two-disc CD option) that pulls together five seasons of score and original songs from the series, in partnership with Sony Pictures Television and Prime Video. If you have ever wanted Jensen Ackles growling through a croon and Erin Moriarty breaking your heart living on your turntable, here we go.What this release actually isIt is called 'The Best of The Boys' and it is built to cover the full run. You get the original score by Emmy winner Christopher Lennertz and Matt Bowen plus 15 original songs performed by the cast. Think: Erin Moriarty on 'Never Truly Vanish,' Jessie T. Usher teaming with Aimee Proal for 'Faster,' and Jensen Ackles doing 'From a Logical Point of View,' among a bunch of others. Mutant tapped artist Matt Ryan Tobin for a striking cover, and the vinyl comes pressed on 3x 140gm color discs with liner notes from the cast and crew. Price-wise: $55 for the vinyl set; the 2x CD version is $20.When and where to get itPreorders open at MadeByMutant.com on Friday, May 15, at 10 AM PT. Set a reminder if you are the person who wants their coffee table to look like Vought hired a designer.Why the music of The Boys hits differentMutant co-founder Mo Shafeek basically said the fun of this show is that the world is recognizable enough that the music can play like it is real — whether it is characters singing in-universe or the score driving the chaos. Artist Matt Ryan Tobin (who did the cover) put it a bit more bluntly: this show whiplashes you from gross-out to gut-punch to laugh-out-loud, and the music is the pilot light for all of it. The composers say the collection tracks the show growing up — darker, stranger, bolder — and that Season 5 is where all those instincts paid off. The big swing on the originals this season? Lennertz says once Daveed Diggs was cast as 'Oh Father,' it was a no-brainer to have him actually sing. They co-wrote 'Raise Him Up' to kick off a finale- turning plot twist, aiming for something audacious enough to match Homelander at peak delusion. Mission very much accomplished. 'We have spent five seasons building a musical identity for this show, and the Best of The Boys vinyl is a love letter to that evolution... Season 5 is where all of that paid off. The score has never been this big, this emotional, or this relentless.' One fun behind-the-scenes tidbit: the team calls this the most complete and fearless score they have done for the series — the kind of thing they would not have even attempted earlier on. You can hear that in the track list below, which plays like a greatest-hits reel of collateral damage and bad decisions.The full lineup (vinyl and CD)Vinyl: Disc One — Side A: Never Truly Vanish (Erin Moriarty); Faster (Jessie T. Usher, Aimee Proal); Rock My Kiss (Miles Gaston Villanueva); Dream a Little Dream of Me (Karen Fukuhara); You have Got a License to Drive (Me Crazy) (Miles Gaston Villanueva); America’s Son (Laurie Holden); From a Logical Point of View (Jensen Ackles) Vinyl: Disc One — Side B: Rapture (Jensen Ackles); Chimps Don’t Cry (Laurie Holden); Let’s Put the Christ Back in Christmas ( Shoshana Bean, Andrew Rannells, James Monroe Iglehart, Christopher Lennertz); See Something Say Something (Christopher Lennertz, Alex Karukas, Baraka May); Faster (Gospel Version) (Bryson Camper, Baraka May, David Loucks, Cherise Thomas, Brittany Wallace, Princess Jones, Aja Marie Grant, Christopher Lennertz); Avenue V (Christopher Lennertz, Alex Karukas); Stay Back! (Antony Starr, Christopher Lennertz, Alex Karukas); Raise Him Up (Daveed Diggs, Christopher Lennertz, Baraka May, Caleb Curry, Kadeem Nichols, Carmen Carter, Alex Karukas) Vinyl: Disc Two — Side C (Original Score by Christopher Lennertz and Matt Bowen): Truck Robbery; Homelander and Stillwell*; Boys Arrive*; Hughie Trashes Room*; Hospital Shootout; Break Every Bone; Meeting Blindspot; Homelander in Hallway; Halloween Store; Fake News; Brother and Sister*; The Vial; Shootout Vinyl: Disc Two — Side D (Original Score): Not Ready; Dawn of the Seven; Termite Fight and Rescue*; Soldier Boy; Home for the Super Abled; Butcher Sold Me*; Soldier Boy vs. Homelander*; This Is About Loyalty; Maeve’s Ultimate Sacrifice*; The Only Way I Could Save You*; Homelander’s Dream Vinyl: Disc Three — Side E (Original Score): I Can Do Anything / Finale; Vought Through the Years; Bat Mitzvah Rock*; Mirror Mirror; Training A-Train; Final Audition; Virus; Ol’ Dealey Plaza; Family Is All You have Got; Fifteen Inches of Sheer Dynamite; The Democratic Church of America; Cast Those Demons Out; Soldier Boy Reborn; Meet Quinn; Cowboys and Jesus Vinyl: Disc Three — Side F (Original Score): Passing the Crown; Kessler; The Speech*; It Has Always Been You; Blood and Bone; The Wreckage; To the Tower; Canary in the Coal Mine; Goodbye CD: Disc One: Truck Robbery; Homelander and Stillwell; Boys Arrive; Hughie Trashes Room; Hospital Shootout; Never Truly Vanish (Erin Moriarty); Break Every Bone; Meeting Blindspot; Faster (Jessie T. Usher, Aimee Proal); Homelander in Hallway; Halloween Store; Fake News; Brother and Sister; Not Ready; Rock My Kiss (Miles Gaston Villanueva); Dawn of the Seven; Termite Fight and Rescue; Dream a Little Dream of Me (Karen Fukuhara); Soldier Boy; You have Got a License to Drive (Me Crazy) (Miles Gaston Villanueva); The Vial; America’s Son (Laurie Holden); Shootout; From a Logical Point of View (Jensen Ackles); Home for the Super Abled; Butcher Sold Me; Rapture (Jensen Ackles); Soldier Boy vs. Homelander; Chimps Don’t Cry (Laurie Holden); Maeve’s Ultimate Sacrifice; The Only Way I Could Save You; Homelander’s Dream CD: Disc Two: I Can Do Anything / Finale; I Can Do Anything / Finale; I Can Do Anything / Finale; Let’s Put the Christ Back in Christmas (Shoshana Bean, Andrew Rannells, James Monroe Iglehart, Christopher Lennertz); Mirror Mirror; Training A-Train; Final Audition; See Something Say Something (Christopher Lennertz, Alex Karukas, Baraka May); Virus; This Is About Loyalty; Ol’ Dealey Plaza; Family Is All You have Got; Avenue V (Christopher Lennertz, Alex Karukas); Fifteen Inches of Sheer Dynamite; Stay Back! (Antony Starr, Christopher Lennertz, Alex Karukas); The Democratic Church of America; Cast Those Demons Out; Faster (Gospel Version) (Bryson Camper, Baraka May, David Loucks, Cherise Thomas, Brittany Wallace, Princess Jones, Aja Marie Grant, Christopher Lennertz); Soldier Boy Reborn; Meet Quinn; Cowboys and Jesus; Raise Him Up (Daveed Diggs, Christopher Lennertz, Baraka May, Caleb Curry, Kadeem Nichols, Carmen Carter, Alex Karukas); Passing the Crown; Kessler; The Speech (Full Version); It Has Always Been You; Blood and Bone; The Wreckage; To the Tower; Canary in the Coal Mine; Goodbye Bottom line: if you have been with this show through five seasons of scorched-earth satire, this set is a flex — the music that steered the chaos, finally in one place, built to spin loud.

Exclusive: Mutant Drops The Best of The Boys 3-Disc Vinyl Ahead of the Season 5 Finale

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