2 on the Album Rock Tracks chart, blocked from the top spot by both "Driven Out" by The Fixx and "Working on It" by Chris Rea.

[4] The music video for "End of the Line" was directed by Willy Smax and filmed in Los Angeles in December 1988.

[6] The song was used over the end credits of the final episode of the British sitcom One Foot in the Grave and the American comedy Parks and Recreation.

A cover version sung by Dennis Waterman was used as the theme for two episodes of the BBC series New Tricks, then replaced by a close pastiche.

The song was used on the end credits of the 2016 Australian family comedy film Red Dog: True Blue and for an episode of HBO's Crashing in 2018.