Notable Song Appearances
The song has been used in the following media:
- 1985: American Flyers, film
- 1993: "Radar Love" is included near the beginning of the film Wayne's World 2.
- 1994: Featured in the Ken Burns documentary "Baseball" during the 1970s Cincinnati Reds "Big Red Machine" story.
- 1995-1998: Portions of the song were used in Téa Leoni's sitcom The Naked Truth as the theme song.
- In two episodes of The Simpsons:
- 1996: "Bart on the Road", where it is on the radio during the road trip.
- 2002: "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge", where Fat Tony requests the song on the radio, and Homer begins singing along (although he more or less makes up his own lyrics)
- 1999: In the film Detroit Rock City when Trip throws a slice of pizza out the passenger side window of a moving Volvo and onto the windshield of a car full of "Stellas" and "Guidos," causing a confrontation, "Radar Love" plays.
- Also briefly featured in the 1999 film Pushing Tin.
- 2000: In the Strangers with Candy episode "Hit and Run".
- 2002: Jeremy Clarkson Meets the Neighbours Series 1 Episode 2 - "Belgium & Holland"
- 2007: The song was featured heavily in the Reaper episode "Love, Bullets & Blacktop".
- 2010: In the Newfoundland TV series, Republic of Doyle
- 2011: The song appeared on the soundtrack for the film, Cedar Rapids (film).
- 2012 in the "House" episode "Post Mortem", allegedly by a band called Georgia Steamroller.
The song has also been used in at least one video game. It is featured as one of the background music tracks in the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis version of the video game Rock N' Roll Racing. However, the song was omitted from the Super Nintendo and GameBoy Advance ports of the game.
Other appearances:
- In 2004, as the name of an episode in the popular web series Red vs. Blue
- The song is a regular part of the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band's playlist. Unlike most college bands, the LSJUMB concentrates on rock and roll, especially from the '70s.
- In a video of a training exercise with the Oregon Air National Guard
- As a part of the ambient soundtrack around Rita - Queen of Speed at Alton Towers
- As of July 2008, appears as the soundtrack to an on-line Jaguar promotion
- The White Lion version was included in the setlist in the PlayStation 2 exclusive Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80's
- As part of the setlist of Rock Band 3
- In a Volcom United montage filmed exclusively at The Berrics skatepark.
- Radar Love was voted as the 2nd greatest driving song on the 6th series of Top Gear, behind Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now".
- The Ministry version is featured in the 2011 video game Test Drive Unlimited 2 Before of this, this cover appeared on their album Cover Up.
- The lyrics of the Devin Townsend song "Radial Highway" cite a passage of the first verse of "Radar Love".
- As featured on the in-game radio in Grand Theft Auto V.
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