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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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    “Important as fathers are, their influence on children shouldn’t be exaggerated just because they were ignored so long. There is no evidence that there is something especially good about fathers as caretakers. There are no areas where it can be said that fathers must do certain things in order to achieve certain outcomes in children. The same goes for mothers.”
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    “It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.”
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