<P> The song also influenced Britpop artists . Oasis covered the song on their 2000 world tour, including it on their live album and DVD Familiar to Millions . Not coincidentally, the band acknowledged Cobain's attachment to the song by dedicating it to him when they played it in Seattle on the sixth anniversary of his death . Scottish band Big Country recorded a version, which can be heard on their Under Covers album, and the remastered edition of their live album Without the Aid of a Safety Net . It is also used as live - intro to System of a Down's "Kill Rock' n Roll" in some live performances . </P> <P> The song still appears frequently on FM radio today, most often on "classic rock" stations . Young's penchant for "bookending" an album with the same song in different renditions, first seen on Tonight's the Night, returned on his second "comeback" album, Freedom, in 1989, with "Rockin' in the Free World". </P> <P> Young performs the song at nearly every concert in one form or another . It is included on his Greatest Hits . </P> <P> Many other bands and singers have played or recorded covers of this song: System of a Down (Festival of Hurricane in 2005), Dave Matthews Band, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Battleme (closing track of the Sons of Anarchy Season 3 finale), Rick Derringer, Nomeansno (FUBAR soundtrack), Mexican rock & roll band El Tri, Finnish glam rock band Negative, Argentine rock band La Renga, Chromatics, Jake Bugg (played live at the 2013 Glastonbury Festival), Axel Rudi Pell on his 2014 album Into the Storm . Romanian act Fjord covered the song for their 2016 album Textures . Brazilian doom metal band HellLight recorded a version for an album of covers (The Light That Brought Darkness in 2012). Blixa Bargeld and Teho Teardo covered the song on their 2017 album Fall . </P>

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