How IT Ends - Popular Culture

Popular Culture

The album's eponymous song has seen increased recognition from employment over the years:

• in theatrical trailers for the films Everything Is Illuminated (2005), Little Miss Sunshine (2006) and Bottle Shock (2008)
• in the soundtrack for Peter Mortimer's 2006 climbing film First Ascent,
• as a fixture of the commercial trailer for the video game Gears of War 2,
• in the season 4 promotional advertisement for Living TV's Ghost Whisperer (2009),
• in a montage of Vanessa Redgrave's films when she was awarded a fellowship award at the 2010 BAFTAs,
• in the season 4, episode 9 "Getting to Know You" of Everwood in the 2005
• in the show stopping performance by Season 7's So You Think You Can Dance contestant Kent Boyd with partner Neil Haskell, choreographed by Travis Wall (August 4, 2010).
• in a German Nutella advertisement.
• in series 4, episode 4 of Misfits, 2012.

The central instrumental melody in "Twenty-Six Temptations" references a theme from the Godfather films; one that first appears in "Michael Comes Home" from the Godfather II soundtrack.

Additionally, "Dearly Departed" appears in the 2010 film "Jack Goes Boating"