In Popular Culture
The song was featured in the films On the Edge and Clerks II. It was also featured on the 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV on the fictional rock radio station Liberty Rock Radio 97.8, and was a downloadable song for Guitar Hero: World Tour a part of a Smashing Pumpkins track pack which also featured songs The Everlasting Gaze and G.L.O.W.. The appeared on the Cold Case (TV series) episode "The Good Death", the song can also be heard on an ending to the video game Gran Turismo 5.
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