Reception
Martin Popoff included the song at number nineteen in his book The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time; it was ranked the second "greatest metal song " by VH1; it appeared at #467 on Rolling Stone' "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list, it appeared as number seven hundred and sixty-four on Q's "1001 Best Songs Ever" chart; and the song was named the "greatest song about Los Angeles" in a poll in Blender. In 2009, it was named the greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1. The song is a frequently used during sporting events and in 2009 the readers of Rolling Stone magazine rated it the greatest sports anthem.
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)