Cultural Impact
The song has been used as the theme song for Air America Radio's The Majority Report.
The song is played at the end of the film The Football Factory (2004).
American rock band Buffalo Tom covered the song for the 2000 tribute album Fire and Skill: The Songs of the Jam. Issued as a double A-sided single, with Liam Gallagher and Steve Cradock's cover version of "Carnation", it reached #6 in the UK Singles Chart in October 1999.
for a Jam tribute album in 2000; their more measured interpretation was a minor UK hit single.
Welsh rock band Lostprophets have covered the song both in studio and live. the studio cover appears as a b-side to 4:AM Forever and the Punk The Clock Volume 3 compilation.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band released a cover version as the opening track of their 1986 album Criminal Tango.
It is featured in the video game Rock Band as of September 1st, 2009.
It was featured in the episode "Funhouse" (3x09) of the television program Lie to Me.
I Am the World Trade Center released a cover version on their 2004 album The Cover Up.
The song provided the inspiration for the Nemesis the Warlock character in the weekly comic book 2000 AD.
The song was parodied in 2004 by the Amateur Transplants as "London Underground", a humorous song full of abuse at the London Underground Strike.
The song was turned into "Go England" by Virgin Radio for the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
The song was featured in the playlist for the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony.
It is the namesake for a Japanese Rock Band of the same name (Going Under Ground).
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