In Popular Culture
The song was performed live on Loveline in 1997. The popularity yielded Blink-182's first late night talk show performance, appearing as the musical guest for Late Night with Conan O'Brien on March 18, 1998. The song has been covered by Trivium, Say Anything, Good Charlotte, Hellogoodbye, Frank Turner, Math the Band, Syd, and Fake Problems. The bands Cute Is What We Aim For, All Time Low, Leftöver Crack, Boys Like Girls, and Hey Monday have performed the song live. At the Warped Tour 2009 15th Anniversary Movie, Brendon Urie and Spencer Smith from Panic! at the Disco and Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy with others performed the song for the movie. +44, Mark Hoppus's other band, performed the song regularly during the 2007 Honda Civic Tour.
"Dammit" can also be heard in the films Bubble Boy and Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, as well as Can't Hardly Wait. The song was used in television adverts for the film Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel. It is part of the soundtrack for the video game Big Air Snowboarding. The song was a playable track in the video game Guitar Hero World Tour, and is considered a difficult song on drums. A 2008 job advertisement for future Guitar Hero playtesters listed four songs potential applicants had to be capable of playing on the highest difficulty level: applicants choosing "Dammit" had to successfully play the song with the drum controller. Beating the song with the drum controller on any difficulty level will unlock Travis Barker as a playable character.
A rare live recording of "Dammit" in Los Angeles during the 1997 Warped Tour can be found on World Warped III Live (1999). Another rare live recording of "Dammit" can be found on The Solution to Benefit Heal the Bay (2000), a benefit album by the Heal the Bay Foundation, an environmental organization dedicating to cleaning up the San Diego Bay.
The song was upgraded and made available to download on March 1, 2011 for use in the Rock Band 3 music gaming platform in PRO mode which takes advantage of the utilization of a real guitar / bass guitar, along with standard MIDI-compatible electronic drum kits / keyboards in addition to up to three-part harmony vocals.
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