Appearances in Other Media
A character in Can't Hardly Wait performs the song.
In Beavis and Butt-head, Beavis sings the riff of this song while watching "F Sharp" by Nudeswirl, and the song had appeared in an earlier episode. In the earlier seasons, Beavis and Butt-head would often sing the riff whenever good fortune descended upon them (such as not having to go to school).
The song is the theme tune for the racing game Burnout Paradise which is set in a fictional locale called "Paradise City". The song was slightly edited for the game to remove references of the gas chamber and smoking.
The Degrassi:The Next Generation four-part episode is titled "Paradise City".
Rolling Stone ranked the song 453rd on their list "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
The song has been used in a recent Anchor butter advert in the UK.
The song was recently used in a promo for the 2010 action film The Expendables.
The song was ranked twenty-first in Vh1's 40 Greatest Metal Songs.
Tom Cruise performs the song in the 2012 film Rock of Ages
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