Popular Culture
"MidLife Crisis" has been used in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and Tony Hawk's Underground 2. "From Out of Nowhere" was featured in EA Sports Madden NFL 2005 and NHL 2005. "Ricochet" was used in the PlayStation game Foxhunt. "Epic" is featured in a trailer for Street Fighter IV, on the Burnout Paradise soundtrack and in the soundtrack for Saints Row: The Third, and can be downloaded for Guitar Hero 5. Four songs have been featured in the Rock Band video game series, two as downloadable content: "Epic" appeared on the first Rock Band (game) and "We Care a Lot" was offered as a download. Years later, Rock Band 3 included "MidLife Crisis" and "From out of Nowhere" was offered as a download.
"Easy" was subsequently used in a commercial for Levi's in 2006 and in the German edition of SingStar Summer Party. A portion of the chorus from "We Care a Lot" has been used as the theme song for the Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs. "Falling to Pieces" was featured in Ridley Scott's 2001 war movie Black Hawk Down, as background music while soldiers prepare for their mission. According to the Mark Bowden book upon which the film is based, when the soldiers were preparing for the actual 1993 mission, Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle" was playing on the loudspeakers; however, Axl Rose refused to let the song be used in the film, so "Falling to Pieces" was used as a substitute. "We Care a Lot" was also included on the sound track to the 1997 John Cusack film Grosse Pointe Blank during a scene at the Grosse Pointe High School 10 year reunion of the class of 1986.
"Surprise, You're Dead" plays in the background in a scene from Gremlins 2: The New Batch and was also featured in the trailer for Violent Shit III: Infantry of Doom. "The Perfect Crime" was used in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, which also featured a cameo for Jim Martin, who was brought from the past to a future day classroom in order to educate the students. Also within Bill and Ted's room, there is a Faith No More poster. "Epic" has been used as the theme for UK national commercial radio station talkSPORT's live Premier League coverage for the 2011–12 season. "Evidence" appears in the Australian version of SingStar Amped. "Evidence" was used in an episode of Homicide TV show season 5.
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