The Boys Season 4 perfectly complements some of its best moments with catchy songs, making it hard not to be curious about the names of the tracks and the artists behind them.
1. The Boys Season 4 Episode 1: “Department of Dirty Tricks”
“Goԁ Save The Queen” by Sex Pistols: The Boys season 4 episode 1 opens with Sex Pistols’ “God Save The Queen” as Victoria Neuman steps up to a stage to give a speech.
“Walkin’ On The Sun” by Smash Mouth: This track can be heard in The Boys season 4’s opening episode when Kimiko and Frenchie sneak into Victoria Neuman’s room to replace her drops.
To their dismay, their visit is cut short when Neuman’s daughter, Zoe, a supe after taking Compound in season 3, enters the room and attacks them.
2. The Boys Season 4 Episode 2: “Life Among the Species”
“Hypnotize” by The Notorious B.I.G.: In The Boys Season 4, Episode 2’s opening moments, Adam Bourke films a movie that stars A-Train and seems hilariously similar to the 2009 sports drama The Blind Side.
The show quickly passes a few of the movie’s scenes, walking the city where it is being filmed and overplaying this popular melody in the background of the movie.
“Burning Down the House” by Talking Heads: The song plays when Billy Butcher and The Boys appear at the Truthcon, where people all over the country who believe in the wildest conspiracies meet.
“Love America” by Fortress II: Fortress II’s “Love America” plays in The Boys season 4’s episode 2, when Splinter’s multiple variants set up the stage at Truthcon right before Firecracker shows up to discuss some bizarre conspiracies.
“Hava Nagila” by The Barry Sisters: A showdown between Splinter’s variants and the Boys takes place in the episode’s final moments.
To escape Splinter’s many variants, Frenchie and MM break into a room where they find people celebrating a bat mitzvah. This is when The Barry Sisters’ “Hava Nagila” plays in the background.
3. The Boys Season 4 Episode 3: “We’ll Keep the Red Flag Flying Here”
“America the Beautiful” by Katharine Lee Bates, Samuel A. Ward: Homelander is going through a crowd of supporters and thinking that the people might be on Starlight’s side in his rally. However, the choir sings this song before he speaks and presents the new members of the Seven to the world.
“I Wanna Rock” by Twisted Sister: As Deep, A-Train, and Black Noir arrive on the stage to join Homelander, this track is played through the speakers at full volume. The Homelander’s fans, who join him in the breakdown, are cheered, while Starlight’s followers, who join her, are booed.
“Takin’ Care of Business” by Bachman-Turner Overdrive: A few moments later, the song of Bachman-Turner Overdrive plays in the background while Homelander calls Firecracker and Sister Sage on the stage and introduces them as the new members of the Seven.
“Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows” by Lesley Gore: After convincing Ryan to visit him, Butcher brings home some supplies and prepares him a batch of cookies Rebecca used to make. The Lesley Gore song can be heard in the background as Butcher bakes the cookies.
“Let’s Put Christ Back in Christmas” by Shoshana Bean, Andrew Rannells, James Monroe Iglhart, & Christopher Lennertz: The Boys season 4 puts in a mocking tone on this terrible song during the sequences where a bunch of supe body doubles practice an ice-skating musical.
4. The Boys Season 4 Episode 4: “Wisdom of the Ages”
“Crying Time” by Ray Charles: Colin plays this track at his home before he recalls what happened to his family and how they were murdered.
“Stomp My Flag, I’ll Stomp Your Ass” by Creed Fisher: This Creed Fisher track can briefly be heard in episode 4 in the opening moments of Firecracker’s show, Truthbomb.
“Up Where We Belong” by Joe Cocker & Jennifer: Firecracker and The Deep sing this one live on Vought News Network’s Truthbomb show in The Boys season 4, episode 4. This track plays again in the Amazon show during its end credits.
“Face Down Ass Up” by 2 Live Crew: In a shocking scene, Sister Sage asks The Deep to perform a lobotomy on her before they get intimate. After The Deep performs the lobotomy, 2 Live Crew’s “Face Down Ass Up” starts playing.
5. The Boys Season 4 Episode 5: “Beware of the Jabberwock, My Son”
Sarah McLachlan’s “I Will Remember You”: In episode 5 of The Boys season 4, following Billy Butcher’s brutal murder of Ezekiel in episode 4, The Deep and Ezekiel’s supporters honor him. This Sarah McLachlan song plays in the background while his fans grieve his passing throughout the service.
Joseph William Morgan’s “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”: This song plays when A-Train speaks to the crowd on the night of his movie premiere.
“Old MacDonald Had a Farm” by Unknown Artist: The end credits of The Boys episode feature this unidentified rendition of the well-known nursery rhyme.
6. The Boys Season 4 Episode 6: “Dirty Business”
Creed Fisher’s song “Stomp My Flag, I’ll Stomp Your Ass”: Approximately four minutes and fifty seconds in, this song opens Firecracker’s Vought New Network show. Firecracker then makes an official announcement about Cameron Coleman’s sabbatical.
Tone Loc’s “Wild Thing” is played in The Boys season 4, episode 6, during Mother’s Milk’s visitation to Webweaver, hoping he may assist them.
“Baker Street” by Gerry Rafferty: In The Boys season 4, episode 6, Tek-Knight invites Hughie to sit on a German chocolate cake “for the texture against the bare cheeks” as he enters his Bat Dungeon. At this point, “Bake Street” by Gerry Raffety begins to play softly in the background.
America’s “You Can Do Magic” plays when Ashley Barrett goes all out and gets all giddy with the tickling. As Hughie endures suffering on the bench, Ashley and Tek-Knight embrace and share a kiss. The same song plays in the background, and Tek-Knight quickly discovers that Hughie is hiding behind Webweaver’s disguise and outfit.
“The Things We Do For Love” by 10cc: After learning that Hughie has been posing as a webweaver, Tek-Knight takes out some surgical tools to make holes in his body. This is when 10cc’s “The Things We Do for Love” plays in The Boys season 4’s episode 6.
“Rosanna” by Toto: Before Tek-Knight can surgically make holes in Hughie’s body, Kimiko and Starlight rescue him. They then tie up Tek-Knight and try to torture him, but, to their dismay, he enjoys it, revealing his masochistic tendencies. This is when Toto’s “Rosanna” plays in The Boys season 4’s episode 6.
7. The Boys Season 4 Episode 7: “The Insider”
Chris Lennertz’s “See Something, Say Something”: Ryan says he doesn’t like the words to this song, while A-Train’s puppet moves his lips to it during the V Kids channel’s Christmas commercial.
The song is played once more when Homelander and The Deep’s puppets are used to reshoot the commercial later in the show. However, Ryan expresses his worries over the song’s lyrics again. In the closing credits of The Boys, season 4, episode 7, it appears three times.
Crazy Town’s “Butterfly” is played by Frenchie in his basement laboratory to persuade Sameer to assist him in developing the super virus using whatever tools they have.
Steal My Sunshine” by Len: This track faintly plays in the background as Sameer attempts to create the virus while luring Frenchie closer to him. As soon as Kimiko comes close, he injects her with the virus before rushing out of the lab in The Boys season 4’s episode 7.
8. About The Boys
The Boys is an American satirical superhero streaming television series developed by Eric Kripke for Prime Video. Based on the comic book of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, which was originally published by DC Comics under their Wildstorm imprint before moving to Dynamite Entertainment, it follows the eponymous team of vigilantes as they combat superpowered individuals who abuse their abilities.
The show is a satirical take on the superhero genre and showcases a world where superheroes are corporatized and controlled by companies. What happens when these superheroes step out of line and rub some boys the wrong way, is the story.
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