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:
“... so long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect ...”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)
“Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)