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:
“They tell us that women can bring better things to pass by indirect influence. Try to persuade any man that he will have more weight, more influence, if he gives up his vote, allies himself with no party and relies on influence to achieve his ends! By all means let us use to the utmost whatever influence we have, but in all justice do not ask us to be content with this.”
—Mrs. William C. Gannett, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 5, ch. 8, by Ida Husted Harper (1922)
“Concord River is remarkable for the gentleness of its current, which is scarcely perceptible, and some have referred to its influence the proverbial moderation of the inhabitants of Concord, as exhibited in the Revolution, and on later occasions.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A husband who submits to his wife’s yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman’s influence ought to be entirely concealed.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)