Uses in Popular Culture
Samples of the backing track are used in Rebel MC's hit single "Tribal Bass" which reached #20 in the United Kingdom in 1991.
The song is played during an episode of Cougar Town, and over the end credits of an episode of Peep Show.
In season 1, episode 6 of South Park ("Death"), Stan's grandpa locks him in a room and plays a parody of the song to illustrate what it feels like to be old.
The song features in the 2010 film Shrek Forever After, and during a climactic torture sequence in David Fincher's American adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
The chorus is sung by the fictional character Alan Partridge in the TV series I'm Alan Partridge.
In 1989, iris breeder Cy Bartlett named a cultivar "Orinoco Flow".
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“For the people in government, rather than the people who pester it, Washington is an early-rising, hard-working city. It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)
“If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common denominator—the commodity form. The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value, counts.”
—Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979)