Use in Media
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - featured on the fictional radio station Bounce FM in the video game
- Featured as background music for an Animal Planet commercial, "danced" to by various breeds of monkey
- Performed live, with indoor fireworks, during the 1984 Grammys telecast
- Featured in the 2000 film Next Friday
- Featured in the film Brooklyn Rules
- Featured in an episode of Everybody Hates Chris
- The song is referenced in Mr. Show episode "Operation: Hell on Earth"
- The song is played during Ben Greenwood's section in the Liquid Force's "The Truth" wakeboarding free-ride movie
- Song without lyrics is frequently used as bumper music on "The Rush Limbaugh Show"
- Jordan, Jesse, GO! host Jesse Thorn uses this track as his "power jam" when he needs to get hyped.
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Famous quotes containing the word media:
“The media no longer ask those who know something ... to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it.”
—Serge Daney (1944–1992)