Selected Song Legacy
"No More Heroes" was covered by Violent Femmes, used for the film Mystery Men and was also featured on the first episode of the BBC series Ashes to Ashes. The song title itself was used as the title for the Japanese video game No More Heroes created by noted Punk music fan Goichi Suda, also known as Suda51. "Peaches" appeared in Sexy Beast by director Jonathan Glazer. "Golden Brown" featured in Guy Ritchie's film Snatch and was used extensively in the Australian film He Died With A Felafel In His Hand. Tori Amos covered "Strange Little Girl" on her 2001 Strange Little Girls album.
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Famous quotes containing the words selected, song and/or legacy:
“The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.”
—Bible: Hebrew The Song of Solomon 2:5.
“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)