I Wanna Rock - Media Appearances

Media Appearances

"I Wanna Rock" is subject to numerous media appearances, including:

Video games

• It was used as the title song for the 2003 game Will Rock.
• It was used as a soundtrack for 2008's Burnout Paradise, as well as 2002's Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
• Twisted Sister re-recorded the entire Stay Hungry album as Still Hungry, released in 2004. The re-recorded version of I Wanna Rock appears as a playable track in Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s, whereas the original 1984 version appeared as a playable track on Guitar Hero Smash Hits.
• The song also appears in the soundtrack of the game Freestyle MetalX.

Other media

• The song is New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira's entry music.
• Its music video appears in an episode of Beavis and Butt-head.
• The characters sang-along to the song, playing on the radio of the bus, in the 2000 movie Road Trip.
• Mackdawg productions used the song as the intro of their 2001 snowboard movie called The Resistance, featuring the forum team.
• It was also heard in the 2008 movie The Rocker.
• The song was featured on the Broadway musical Rock of Ages, and its subsequent movie adaptation.

Cover versions

• Twisted Sister guitarist Jay Jay French made a political song supporting Barack Obama titled "I Want Barack", to the tune of the song.
• New Jersey singer-songwriter Christian Beach recorded a bluegrass version of "I Wanna Rock" for the 2008 album Hair Apparent – The Main Man Records Tribute to Hair Bands.
• This song is covered by alternative rock band Lit in Twisted Forever, a tribute album to Twisted Sister. This version was later included as a soundtrack for the baseball game Triple Play 2002.
• American record producer Tom Rothrock, with actor Jim Wise, recorded a version of the song titled "Goofy Goober Rock" for the climax of the 2004 film The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.