Baba O' Reilley? Not Bill? Oh ****, I just went political. Personally, I find it offensive to hear great Led Zep / Who / Allman Bros moozik used to promote financial investments, CadElacks etc.. or worse yet, 'buy the entire collection' for $29.95!"
Congrats on finding the song Jim..
Soundtrack
Trailers for American Beauty.
Trailers for A Bug's Life.
Appears in trailers and at the end of The Girl Next Door
Is featured in the 1997 film Fever Pitch.
An orchestral version is featured at the start of the movie Slackers, performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Appears in Zero Skateboard's 1998 video Misled Youth in Jamie Thomas' part.
Trailer for the film Invincible.
At the start of Luciano Ligabue's 2001 movie Da zero a dieci.
The introduction of the song is featured at the beginning of the movie Almost Famous
Plays in the Spike Lee movie Summer of Sam with Adrien Brody's character performing the song in his garage with glimpses of the Son of Sam killer murdering each of his victims.
Appears in the movie Prefontaine starring Jared Leto
TV series and commercials
Pre-credit sequence in the Miami Vice episode "Out Where the Buses Don't Run".
Promo commercial for TNT's new series Saved (June 2006).
An edited version appears as the theme song in CSI: New York.
In the 2005 episode "Control" of House, House plays air piano and air drums to the song. The song also appears on the official soundtrack for the show. Pilot episode of What About Brian (April 2006).
Used as the soundtrack for HP ad "Constant Change" directed by David Fincher.
Appears in a Nissan commercial promoting the 2000 Pathfinder.
In the episode "Kiss" of Dawson's Creek, Jen Lindley (Michelle Williams) is dancing to it.
Featured in King Of The Hill's episode "Tankin' It To The Streets". In the same episode Bill says how he used to have "hair like Roger Daltrey".
Appears prominently in the first episode of Life on Mars.
Sung on Rock Star: INXS by Jordis Unga (during week 1 and also appears on the CD), as well as on Rockstar: Supernova by Dana Andrews (during week 5) and Ryan Star (during week 9).
Networking company Cisco Systems uses it for one of their Fall 2006 commercials.
Appears in the Hyperlite wakeskate video for Shawn Murray wakeboard montage.
Edited version with instrumentals is used in the fourth of four episodes of the miniseries "the Drug Years" on VH1
Featured as the promotional song for the 2006 film Invincible.
It was mentioned in the short-lived series Freaks and Geeks, wherein Lindsay is corrected by Ken for calling the song "Teenage Wasteland."
That 70's Show was originally to be entitled "Teenage Wasteland", after the song.
Featured at the end of the One Tree Hill episode "Pictures of You".
Featured at the opening of American Idol season 6.
Is the theme of the 2007 IRL Indycar series.