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Influence

  • The song has been covered by metal band Shadows Fall on their album The Art of Balance.
  • The song has been covered by Progressive metal band Queensrÿche on their album Take Cover.
  • The song has been covered by the progressive rock band The Rocket Scientists on their first album Earthbound in 1993.
  • The song has been covered by the progressive rock band RPWL on their live album Start the Fire (2005)
  • The song has been covered by the progressive rock/metal artist Arjen Anthony Lucassen on his second solo album, Lost in the New Real (2012)
  • The Pink Floyd tribute band The Machine are named after this song and they often use it as their opening number.
  • Tim Footman used the title for his book, Welcome to the Machine: OK Computer and the Death of the Classic Album (2007, ISBN 1-84240-388-5). The Radiohead album from 1997 shares many musical and thematic elements with Pink Floyd's mid-70s oeuvre, although members of Radiohead have resisted the comparison.
  • The penultimate level of the video game Ecco the Dolphin is a reference to this song.

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Famous quotes containing the word influence:

    “Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.”
    —Korean proverb, quoted in Alan L. Mackay, The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977)

    “Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents- to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be.”
    —Ellen Galinsky (20th century)