This may have been in part an inspiration to Jerry Garcia to write the song "Eep Hour" and may also have been at least a partial inspiration for The Grateful Dead song "Cumberland Blues".
The album was voted by readers of Rolling Stone as the best album of 1970, in front of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's Déjà Vu and Van Morrison's Moondance.
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The making of Anthem of the Sun, Aoxomoxoa, Workingman's Dead, and American Beauty are described by former members and associates of the Grateful Dead in the 1997 Classic Albums documentary Anthem to Beauty.
The Artesia Water Tower was also featured in the motion picture, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare in 1991 and was known in the film as the Springwood Water Tower.
Ian Hart plays the narrator, an urban storyteller who relives his youth in 1970s and 80s Liverpool.
The track "Viva La Vogue" was used in the soundtrack of the comedy film Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead.
With actress Lezlie Deane of Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare as a member, Fem2Fem were the first and (so-far only) openly lesbian pop group to chart.
Filmworks XVI: Workingman's Death features a score by John Zorn for a documentary film by Michael Glawogger.
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The album was released on Zorn's own label, Tzadik Records, in 2005 and contains music that Zorn wrote and recorded for, Workingman's Death (2005), a documentary detailing hazardous employment undertaken in Ukraine, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and China.
The title refers to one of the band's early hits, "Just Like Honey", and is intended to demonstrate a complete departure from their earlier musical style.
Similar to their hit song, "Superman's Dead", the band has stated the song is about people who seem to lock themselves in their rooms and get their values from television or the computer, and that it's like a call from one isolated person to another.
Eber was mentioned in an episode of Psych and in a movie starring Jamie Kennedy entitled Malibu's Most Wanted.
Like fellow Austrian director Ulrich Seidl, with whom he collaborated several times, Glawogger is mainly known for his documentary films such as Megacities (1998), Workingman's Death (2005) and Whores' Glory (2011).
It also starred Zoë Wanamaker returning as Ariadne Oliver (who first appeared in Cards on the Table) and Richard Hope as Superintendent Spence (who first appeared in Taken at the Flood), respectively.
His film and television credits include the teen comedy Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Melrose Place, The Magnificent Seven, Doogie Howser, M.D., The Secret World of Alex Mack and MTV's Undressed.
Dennis also plays guitar, and starred in a music video for Our Lady Peace's "Superman's Dead".
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The first performance of "Superman's Dead" took place on January 13, 1997 at Harbour Station in Saint John, New Brunswick, the first date of the Clumsy tour.
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The original video was filmed over the first couple of days of January 1997 in an abandoned warehouse in Toronto.
This building has also been used in filming scenes for television and radio, which have included Restoration for the BBC (2004), Ghost Stories for ITV Wales, and the movies Very Annie Mary (2001) and Flick (2008).