Firestarter (song)
Encyclopedia
"Firestarter" is a song by the English
band
The Prodigy
, released on 18 March 1996. It was the first single from their third album The Fat of the Land
, and their tenth single. It was also the group's first number-one single on the UK Singles Chart
, staying on top for three weeks. It was The Prodigy's first big national and international hit, also reaching number one in Finland and Norway. It featured Flint's punky vocals which showcased him as the group's frontman. The title and lyrics were subject of controversy in the UK
because of their violent nature. The music video
further boosted these controversies.
The songwriting credits—among Liam Howlett
and Keith Flint
—include Kim Deal
of alt-rock group The Breeders
. The looped wah-wah guitar
riff in "Firestarter" was sampled from The Breeders
' track "S.O.S." from the album Last Splash
. Because of the use of a sample from a 1984 single "Close (to the Edit)
" songwriting credits also list Art of Noise's then-members: Anne Dudley
, Trevor Horn
, J.J. Jeczalik
, Gary Langan
and Paul Morley
. The "Empirion Mix," which does not include these samples, is credited solely to Howlett and Flint. Howlett has also revealed that a version with additional "oomph" will feature in their set at the Warriors' Dance festival organised by The Prodigy.
In October 2011, NME
placed it at number 52 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".
Single firestarter sold in UK over 510 000 copies in 1996
and was filmed in an abandoned London Underground
tunnel at Aldwych
. Keith Flint's appearance and the video's stark black and white also instigated controversies about being too scary for children watching it. Some television channels even refused to show the video until after the watershed
.
. It also made the top 5 in New Zealand and Sweden, the top 10 in Austria and the top 20 in several countries, such as Belgium
(Flanders
and Wallonia), The Netherlands and Switzerland. In addition, it reached #22 in Australia
, and #30 in the United States
.
game 'WipEout XL/WipEout 2097
in 1996. The song appeared in the film Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
, as a reference to Drew Barrymore
's role as Charlie McGee in the film Firestarter
. It also appeared in the film The Condemned
in 2007 and featured as the opening song in the episode "Scorched" of the TV series
Numb3rs
. The basketball
team Phoenix Suns
use "Firestarter" while being introduced at the US Airways Center
. The National Hockey League
's New Jersey Devils
play the song when they take the ice for the third period at Prudential Center. Also, the song was featured in a short clip shown before and after the advertisement breaks of the Greek TV comedy show A.M.A.N.
Ta Katharmata.
A reference to the track appeared in an episode of British sitcom Peep Show
, when Sophie's father burns down his neighbour's barn dragging the reluctant Mark and Jeremy along as accomplices. As the barn sets alight, Mark's internal monologue says "My god, I'm a firestarter! A twisted firestarter!"
Several bands and artists have covered the song, including Jimmy Eat World
on their Last Christmas EP
and later Firestarter in 2001 and 2004 respectively, Gene Simmons
of Kiss
recorded it for his second solo album Asshole
in 2004 and Sneaker Pimps
did a lounge
version for their "Six Underground" single re-release, though few copies were produced. The British OAP band The Zimmers has also covered the song in their debut album Lust For Life
in 2008 and shot a video clip for their cover.
"Weird Al" Yankovic
parodied the song and video on The Weird Al Show
in a song about a haircut entitled "Lousy Haircut". It featured Yankovic dancing in an abandoned tunnel with a suit and haircut similar to Keith Flint's outfit in the original.
The video release of the show NileCity 105,6
omitted Firestarter by The Prodigy as the group refused to give them permission to include it. It was replaced by a short commentary featuring Henrik Schyffert
and Robert Gustafsson
who explain the situation to the viewers. They also quote parts of what they claim is a letter from the Prodigy, saying "we refuse to have our music on your shit programme". Schyffert then jokes that they probably meant to say "hit programme".
There was a small parody of the song and video in the The Venture Bros.
episode "What Goes Down Must Come Up", where Doctor Venture is trapped in a tunnel with an underground inhabitant dressed like Keith Flint, while the opening riff of the song plays. When asked by Brock Samson who he is, Doctor Venture states, "I don't know, he just keeps saying he's the Firestarter."
In the Kenny vs. Spenny
TV show, one of the episodes consisted of one the people of the show, Kenny, to be in the Woods. While Kenny started the fire he sung the famous line of the Song "I'm the Firestarter".
Fellow British band The Zimmers
, known for being entirely composed of aged pensioners, covered the song for their debut album, Lust For Life. The music video for the song parodied Flint's hairstyle and Captain America
costume used in the original clip.
An instrumental version of this song also appears in the video game MK 2: Armageddon. It's the background song in a certain part of the first level playing as Kurt.
The song is mentioned in the book "Firestarter" by Catherine Forde by the teenage character Reese, who is also an arsonist.
It was also used as background music for the official video highlights of the 2009 Brazilian Grand Prix
.
A cover version was recorded by brazilian
metal
band Sepultura
and released as a bonus track on their 2011 album Kairos
.
The instrumental version is heard in the trailer for the 1996 film Maximum Risk
.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
band
Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...
The Prodigy
The Prodigy
The Prodigy are an English electronic dance music group formed by Liam Howlett in 1990 in Braintree, Essex. Along with Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, and other acts, The Prodigy have been credited as pioneers of the big beat genre, which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s and 2000s...
, released on 18 March 1996. It was the first single from their third album The Fat of the Land
The Fat of the Land
The Fat of the Land is the third studio album by The Prodigy. The album was released by XL Recordings on 30 June 1997 and on 1 July 1997 in the United States by Maverick Records...
, and their tenth single. It was also the group's first number-one single on the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
, staying on top for three weeks. It was The Prodigy's first big national and international hit, also reaching number one in Finland and Norway. It featured Flint's punky vocals which showcased him as the group's frontman. The title and lyrics were subject of controversy in the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
because of their violent nature. The music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
further boosted these controversies.
The songwriting credits—among Liam Howlett
Liam Howlett
Liam Paris Howlett known as Liam Howlett , is a member of the English band The Prodigy, occasional DJ, and a music producer.-Life and career:...
and Keith Flint
Keith Flint
Keith Charles Flint is a dancer and vocalist of the British Electronica band The Prodigy.- Early life :Flint was born in Redbridge, London, England, to Clive & Yvonne Flint and initially raised in East London; in the mid-1970s his parents moved out to Springfield, Essex, but due to his parents'...
—include Kim Deal
Kim Deal
Kimberley Ann Deal is an American singer, songwriter and musician, best known as the bassist of the alternative rock band the Pixies and the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for The Breeders. Deal first joined the Pixies in January 1986 as the band's bassist, adopting the stage name Mrs...
of alt-rock group The Breeders
The Breeders
The Breeders are an American alternative rock band formed in 1988 by Kim Deal of the Pixies and Tanya Donelly of Throwing Muses. The band has experienced a number of line-up changes; the current line-up consists of Kim Deal , her twin sister Kelley Deal , Jose Medeles , Mando Lopez Todd the Fox...
. The looped wah-wah guitar
Wah-wah pedal
A wah-wah pedal is a type of guitar effects pedal that alters the tone of the signal to create a distinctive effect, mimicking the human voice...
riff in "Firestarter" was sampled from The Breeders
The Breeders
The Breeders are an American alternative rock band formed in 1988 by Kim Deal of the Pixies and Tanya Donelly of Throwing Muses. The band has experienced a number of line-up changes; the current line-up consists of Kim Deal , her twin sister Kelley Deal , Jose Medeles , Mando Lopez Todd the Fox...
' track "S.O.S." from the album Last Splash
Last Splash
Last Splash is the second album by indie rock band The Breeders, released August 1993. Originally formed as a side project for Pixies bassist Kim Deal, The Breeders quickly became her primary recording outlet....
. Because of the use of a sample from a 1984 single "Close (to the Edit)
Close (to the Edit)
"Close " was a single by Art of Noise, released on various formats in May 1984. It was closely related to their earlier single "Beat Box", though the two tracks were developed as separate pieces from an early stage....
" songwriting credits also list Art of Noise's then-members: Anne Dudley
Anne Dudley
Anne Dudley is an English composer and pop musician, and was the first BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Association in 2001. She has worked in both the classical and pop genres. She is perhaps best known, however, as one of the core members of the synthpop band Art of Noise and also as a film...
, Trevor Horn
Trevor Horn
Trevor Charles Horn CBE is an English pop music record producer, songwriter, musician and singer. He was born in Houghton-le-Spring in north-east England....
, J.J. Jeczalik
J.J. Jeczalik
Jonathan Edward Stephen Jeczalik [pronounced 'Yencharlik'], better known as J. J. Jeczalik, is a retired electronic musician, and co-founder of the former electronic music group, Art of Noise. Jeczalik also worked as a record producer and musician on a number of the Pet Shop Boys early recordings...
, Gary Langan
Gary Langan
Gary Langan is an audio engineer and record producer.-Biography:In 1983, Langan co-founded the ZTT Records label with Trevor Horn, Paul Morley and Jill Sinclair...
and Paul Morley
Paul Morley
Paul Morley is an English journalist, who wrote for the New Musical Express from 1977 to 1983, during one of its most successful periods, and has since written for a wide range of publications...
. The "Empirion Mix," which does not include these samples, is credited solely to Howlett and Flint. Howlett has also revealed that a version with additional "oomph" will feature in their set at the Warriors' Dance festival organised by The Prodigy.
In October 2011, NME
NME
The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...
placed it at number 52 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".
12" vinyl record
- "Firestarter" (4:40)
- "Firestarter" (Instrumental) (4:39)
- "Firestarter" (EmpirionEmpirionEmpirion are a British industrial techno band, from Essex, England. They were formed in 1993, and the original line up consisted of Austin Morsely, Bob Glennie and Jamie Smart.-Beginnings:...
Mix) (7:49) - "Molotov Bitch" (4:51)
CD single
- "Firestarter" (Edit) (3:45)
- "Firestarter" (EmpirionEmpirionEmpirion are a British industrial techno band, from Essex, England. They were formed in 1993, and the original line up consisted of Austin Morsely, Bob Glennie and Jamie Smart.-Beginnings:...
Mix) (7:49) - "Firestarter" (Instrumental) (4:39)
- "Molotov Bitch" (4:51)
Maverick records 12" vinyl record
- "Firestarter" (4:40)
- "Firestarter" (Instrumental) (4:39)
- "Firestarter" (EmpirionEmpirionEmpirion are a British industrial techno band, from Essex, England. They were formed in 1993, and the original line up consisted of Austin Morsely, Bob Glennie and Jamie Smart.-Beginnings:...
Mix) (7:49) - "Molotov Bitch" (4:51)
Mute records CD single
- "Firestarter" (Edit) (3:45)
- "Firestarter" (EmpirionEmpirionEmpirion are a British industrial techno band, from Essex, England. They were formed in 1993, and the original line up consisted of Austin Morsely, Bob Glennie and Jamie Smart.-Beginnings:...
Mix) (7:49) - "Firestarter" (Instrumental) (4:39)
- "Molotov Bitch" (4:51)
Single firestarter sold in UK over 510 000 copies in 1996
Music video
The music video was directed by Walter SternWalter Stern (director)
-Music videos:Stern began his career directing music videos at Control, a small production company based in London.In 1993, he moved to Stigma where he first directed a promo for the band The Prodigy...
and was filmed in an abandoned London Underground
London Underground
The London Underground is a rapid transit system serving a large part of Greater London and some parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex in England...
tunnel at Aldwych
Aldwych tube station
Aldwych is a closed London Underground station in the City of Westminster, originally opened as Strand in 1907. It was the terminus and only station on the short Piccadilly line branch from Holborn that was a relic of the merger of two railway schemes. The disused station building is close to the...
. Keith Flint's appearance and the video's stark black and white also instigated controversies about being too scary for children watching it. Some television channels even refused to show the video until after the watershed
Watershed (television)
In television, the term watershed denotes the time period in a television schedule during which programs with adult content can air....
.
Chart performances
The song was a #1 hit in Finland, Norway and the United KingdomUK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
. It also made the top 5 in New Zealand and Sweden, the top 10 in Austria and the top 20 in several countries, such as Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
(Flanders
Flanders
Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...
and Wallonia), The Netherlands and Switzerland. In addition, it reached #22 in Australia
ARIA Charts
The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...
, and #30 in the United States
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
.
Appearances, covers and parodies
An instrumental version of the song appeared on the PlayStationPlayStation
The is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console first released by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan on December 3, .The PlayStation was the first of the PlayStation series of consoles and handheld game devices. The PlayStation 2 was the console's successor in 2000...
game 'WipEout XL/WipEout 2097
Wipeout 2097
Track listing Saturn/Windows versions * CoLD SToRAGE: "Canada"* CoLD SToRAGE: "Body in Motion"* CoLD SToRAGE: "Kinkong"* CoLD SToRAGE: "Plasticity"* CoLD SToRAGE: "Messij Xtnd"* CoLD SToRAGE: "Tenation"* CoLD SToRAGE: "Surgeon"...
in 1996. The song appeared in the film Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle is a 2003 American action comedy film. It is the sequel to 2000's Charlie's Angels. It opened in the United States on June 27, 2003, and was number one at the box office for that weekend and made a worldwide total of $259.2 million.The cast again includes Cameron...
, as a reference to Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore
Drew Blyth Barrymore is an American actress, film director, screenwriter, producer and model. She is a member of the Barrymore family of American actors and granddaughter of John Barrymore. She first appeared in an advertisement when she was 11 months old. Barrymore made her film debut in Altered...
's role as Charlie McGee in the film Firestarter
Firestarter (film)
Firestarter is a 1984 science fiction thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. The plot concerns a young girl who develops pyrokinesis and the secret government agency which seeks to control her. The film was directed by Mark L. Lester, and stars Drew Barrymore and David...
. It also appeared in the film The Condemned
The Condemned
The Condemned is a 2007 action film, co-written and directed by Scott Wiper, and starring "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Vinnie Jones, Robert Mammone, Madeleine West and Rick Hoffman....
in 2007 and featured as the opening song in the episode "Scorched" of the TV series
Television program
A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...
Numb3rs
NUMB3RS
Numb3rs is an American television drama which premiered on CBS on January 23, 2005, and concluded on March 12, 2010. The series was created by Nicolas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, and follows FBI Special Agent Don Eppes and his mathematical genius brother, Charlie Eppes , who helps Don solve crimes...
. The basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
team Phoenix Suns
Phoenix Suns
The Phoenix Suns are a professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association and the only team in their division not to be based in California. Their home arena since 1992 has been the US...
use "Firestarter" while being introduced at the US Airways Center
US Airways Center
US Airways Center is a sports and entertainment arena located in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. It opened in 1992, and is the home of the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association, the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association, and the Arizona Rattlers of the Arena...
. The National Hockey League
National Hockey League
The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
's New Jersey Devils
New Jersey Devils
The New Jersey Devils are a professional ice hockey team based in Newark, New Jersey, United States. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
play the song when they take the ice for the third period at Prudential Center. Also, the song was featured in a short clip shown before and after the advertisement breaks of the Greek TV comedy show A.M.A.N.
A.M.A.N.
A.M.A.N., was a Greek television parody show and the natural continuation of another TV show called Comfusio that was aired by ERT3 in the early 1990s. A.M.A.N began after the death of their friend and broadcaster Antonis Pararas and the capital letters translates the word "Αντώνη Μας Άφησες Νωρίς"...
Ta Katharmata.
A reference to the track appeared in an episode of British sitcom Peep Show
Peep Show (TV series)
Peep Show is a British sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. The television programme is written by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, with additional material by Mitchell and Webb themselves, amongst others. It has been broadcast on Channel 4 since 2003. The show's seventh series makes it...
, when Sophie's father burns down his neighbour's barn dragging the reluctant Mark and Jeremy along as accomplices. As the barn sets alight, Mark's internal monologue says "My god, I'm a firestarter! A twisted firestarter!"
Several bands and artists have covered the song, including Jimmy Eat World
Jimmy Eat World
Jimmy Eat World is an American alternative rock band from Mesa, Arizona, that formed in 1993. The band is composed of lead vocalist and guitarist Jim Adkins, guitarist and backing vocalist Tom Linton, bassist Rick Burch and drummer Zach Lind....
on their Last Christmas EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
and later Firestarter in 2001 and 2004 respectively, Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons is an Israeli-American entrepreneur, singer-songwriter, actor, and rock bassist. Known as "The Demon", he is the bassist/vocalist of Kiss, a hard rock band he co-founded in the early 1970s.-Early life:...
of Kiss
KISS (band)
Kiss is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973. Well-known for its members' face paint and flamboyant stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid to late 1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting,...
recorded it for his second solo album Asshole
Asshole (album)
Asshole is the second solo album release by Kiss member, Gene Simmons. It was released in 2004 on Sanctuary Records. Due to its controversial allusion to a portion of human anatomy, the album's title does not appear on the front cover of the album...
in 2004 and Sneaker Pimps
Sneaker Pimps
Sneaker Pimps were a British trip-hop band formed in Hartlepool, England in 1994. They are best known for their first album Becoming X and particularly the singles "6 Underground", "Spin Spin Sugar", and "Tesko Suicide" from the same album...
did a lounge
Lounge music
Lounge music is a retrospective description of music popular in the 1950s and 1960s. It is a type of mood music meant to evoke in the listeners the feeling of being in a place — a jungle, an island paradise, outer space, et cetera — other than where they are listening to it...
version for their "Six Underground" single re-release, though few copies were produced. The British OAP band The Zimmers has also covered the song in their debut album Lust For Life
Lust for Life
Lust for Life may refer to:* Lust for Life , a 1934 biographical novel about Vincent Van Gogh, written by Irving Stone* Lust for Life , a 1956 film based on the novel, starring Kirk Douglas...
in 2008 and shot a video clip for their cover.
"Weird Al" Yankovic
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic is an American singer-songwriter, music producer, accordionist, actor, comedian, writer, satirist, and parodist. Yankovic is known for his humorous songs that make light of popular culture and that often parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts...
parodied the song and video on The Weird Al Show
The Weird Al Show
The Weird Al Show is a television show hosted by "Weird Al" Yankovic. Produced in association with Dick Clark Productions, it aired Saturday mornings on the CBS TV network from September to December 1997. The show was released on DVD on August 15, 2006...
in a song about a haircut entitled "Lousy Haircut". It featured Yankovic dancing in an abandoned tunnel with a suit and haircut similar to Keith Flint's outfit in the original.
The video release of the show NileCity 105,6
NileCity 105,6
NileCity 105,6 was a Swedish 6-part television show broadcast by SVT in 1995. It was the first major success of Swedish comedy group Killinggänget....
omitted Firestarter by The Prodigy as the group refused to give them permission to include it. It was replaced by a short commentary featuring Henrik Schyffert
Henrik Schyffert
Per Henrik Schyffert is a Swedish comedian, actor, musician and radio and TV personality.Schyffert was a VJ for MTV Europe in the late 80's. In 1992 he hosted the comedy TV show I Manegen Med Glenn Killing, also starring Robert Gustafsson and Johan Rheborg...
and Robert Gustafsson
Robert Gustafsson
Carl Robert Olof Gustafsson is a Swedish comedian, actor, and member of Killinggänget. He has sometimes been called "the funniest man in Sweden".-Style of comedy:...
who explain the situation to the viewers. They also quote parts of what they claim is a letter from the Prodigy, saying "we refuse to have our music on your shit programme". Schyffert then jokes that they probably meant to say "hit programme".
There was a small parody of the song and video in the The Venture Bros.
The Venture Bros.
The Venture Bros. is an American animated television series that premiered on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim on February 16, 2003. The series mixes action and comedy together while it chronicles the adventures of the Venture family: well-meaning but incompetent teenagers Hank and Dean Venture; their...
episode "What Goes Down Must Come Up", where Doctor Venture is trapped in a tunnel with an underground inhabitant dressed like Keith Flint, while the opening riff of the song plays. When asked by Brock Samson who he is, Doctor Venture states, "I don't know, he just keeps saying he's the Firestarter."
In the Kenny vs. Spenny
Kenny vs. Spenny
Kenny vs. Spenny is a Canadian comedy reality television series about Kenny Hotz and Spencer Rice, who face each other in various competitions. The loser of the episode must perform an act of humiliation, usually selected by the winner. Hotz and Rice helped create the series, and it was typically...
TV show, one of the episodes consisted of one the people of the show, Kenny, to be in the Woods. While Kenny started the fire he sung the famous line of the Song "I'm the Firestarter".
Fellow British band The Zimmers
The Zimmers
The Zimmers are a British band, thought to have the oldest members of any band in the world. The oldest member claims to have been born in 1906, although some sources indicate he was born in 1913. The former lead singer Alf Carretta died on 29 June 2010, aged 93...
, known for being entirely composed of aged pensioners, covered the song for their debut album, Lust For Life. The music video for the song parodied Flint's hairstyle and Captain America
Captain America
Captain America is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Captain America Comics #1 , from Marvel Comics' 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, and was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby...
costume used in the original clip.
An instrumental version of this song also appears in the video game MK 2: Armageddon. It's the background song in a certain part of the first level playing as Kurt.
The song is mentioned in the book "Firestarter" by Catherine Forde by the teenage character Reese, who is also an arsonist.
It was also used as background music for the official video highlights of the 2009 Brazilian Grand Prix
2009 Brazilian Grand Prix
The 2009 Brazilian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race which was held on October 18, 2009 at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo, Brazil. It was the sixteenth race of the 2009 Formula One season...
.
A cover version was recorded by brazilian
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
band Sepultura
Sepultura
Sepultura is a Brazilian heavy metal band from Belo Horizonte, formed in 1984. The band was a major force in the death metal, thrash metal and ultimately groove metal realms during the late 1980s and early 1990s, with their later experiments melding nu metal, hardcore punk and industrial.Sepultura...
and released as a bonus track on their 2011 album Kairos
Kairos (Sepultura album)
Kairos is the 12th studio album by Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura. It was released on June 24, 2011 by independent German record label Nuclear Blast Records...
.
The instrumental version is heard in the trailer for the 1996 film Maximum Risk
Maximum Risk
Maximum Risk is a 1996 American action film directed by Ringo Lam. The film starred Jean-Claude Van Damme and Natasha Henstridge.-Plot:Alain Moreau is a cop in Nice, France. Alain is at a funeral that is being held for a fellow cop, when Alain’s partner Sebastien shows up...
.