The track once served as the entrance music for former World bantamweight and featherweight boxing champion Prince Naseem Hamed, and is featured on the soundtrack for the 2010 film The Switch.
(These Sounds Fall into My Mind)" entered the top 20 in Austria (16), Finland (14), Germany (19), Italy (13), the Netherlands (11) and Spain (12), as well as on the Eurochart Hot 100, where the song hit number 12 in July 1995.
"[8] Chuck Campbell from Knoxville News Sentinel wrote, "The hi-NRG Eurodance number is romping good fun and a prime promotional tool for the album All in the Mind.
"[9] In his weekly UK chart commentary, James Masterton described it as a "annoyingly catchy 70s-styled dance record that comes complete with tongue-in-cheek video featuring neon lights, platform heels and mile-wide afro haircuts.
"[10] Simon Price from Melody Maker praised it as "102 seconds of native New York night fever, indisputably the best "dance" single made in the last calendar year.
Kenny Dope has taken a razor blade to Chicago's "Streetplayer", added some rough and ready beats, some latino congas, and presented a disco gem to a new generation of dancers.
"[13] The magazine's James Hamilton viewed it as "so consistent a seller since late September ['94] that it must surely be the biggest import in ages", describing it as "a marathon bassily burbling percussive 0.125.9bpm underground rhythm groove".
[16] Gareth Grundy from Select noted its "Donna Summer's turbo-charged funk", complimenting Dope for "single-handedly [having] made disco hip again with a record played in cool clubs, provincial nitespots and behind the result on Match of the Day.
"[18] In her review of the album, Spin editor Leigh Anne Fitzpatrick concluded that "the single alone will leave you chanting the catchy line These sounds fall into my mind.
They all later leave the record store, walk more through the market area, then the man with an afro departures from the two blondes via a kiss on their cheeks, later entering a nightclub called Carwash.
[23] Mixmag ranked the song number 60 in its "100 Greatest Dance Singles of All Time" list in 1996, adding, "A quarter of an hour's worth of mirrorball mayhem, Kenny 'Dope' Gonzales' The Bomb is the ultimate disco cutup track.
Shatteringly simple, the genius of The Bomb lies in the way it builds up your anticipation with a protracted burst of hard jacking drums and atonal honking before the perfect disco sample soars away into the distance.
[30] John Hamilton commented, "Who would have predicted that The Karate Kid, Part II balladeer and former lead singer of Chicago, Peter Cetera, would experience a mid-’90s career renaissance as a house music diva?
But that’s exactly what happened when noted remixer/producer Kenny "Dope" Gonzales lifted a vintage slice of Chicago’s "Street Player", dressed it with a funky kick, edited the hell out of the horn section and Cetera’s vocals and turned it all out as "The Bomb!
Sampling the band Chicago's 1979 track 'Street Player', Kenny Dope created a slick piece of house that forces hands in the air everywhere.