Skid Row - Popular References

Popular References

• 'Skidrow' is the title of a playable multiplayer map in the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Its design takes a very similar appearance to a typical skid row.
• The term was memorialized in the song "Skid Row" from the musical Little Shop of Horrors. In the 1960 original motion picture The Little Shop of Horrors are featured cinematic shots of Fifth Street with many interior scenes filmed on soundstages.
• "Skid Row" is the name of a country song performed by Merle Haggard.
• "Skid Row" is the name of an American heavy metal band formed in New Jersey.
• "Skid Row" is also the name of a Dublin, Ireland-based blues-rock band from the late 1960s and early 1970s that included such musicians as singer Phil Lynott and guitarist Gary Moore, both who later were part of Thin Lizzy.
• Kurt Cobain, playing in a band that at the time had no name, came up with the name "Skid Row" to put on the marquee at a gig on the spur of the moment. That band's name would change frequently after that. He would later go on to form Nirvana.
• SKiDROW is one of the prominent warez groups in software. Whether this is based on the band is unknown.
• In the 1976 film Rocky, the title character grows angry when finding out that his gym locker has been given to another boxer. He asks the attendant, "You put my stuff on Skid Row?"
• In Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble, there's a level called "Skidda's Row", which derives its name from Skid Row.