Welcome To The Machine (track)
by Pink Floyd
Year: 1975
From the album Wish You Were Here (track #2)
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Welcome To The Machine appears on the following album(s) by Pink Floyd:
- Wish You Were Here (track #2) (this album) (1975)
- Shine On (track #19) (compilation) (1992)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 35 hours ago |  II | 4,098 | 72/100 |
| ! | 12/06/2025 23:56 | Exist-en-ciel | 49,864 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/11/2025 11:40 | el_supremo87 | 9 | 83/100 |
| ! | 10/21/2025 23:01 | stanchoiaz | 709 | 84/100 |
| ! | 10/17/2025 12:08 | Jo3lt | 35 | 92/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 88.7/100, a mean average of 87.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 88.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.0.
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ExTeaSea 09/02/2025 19:34 | #310790
One of the coolest most unique songs ever, top tier Floyd song that truly helped me get into them and just most interesting music in general.
Squonk007 06/05/2022 20:16 | #286011
Stunning, one of the best pieces of music ever produced.
A truly amazing transition from SOYCD 1-5. This song is spacious sounding, with its dark theme, that really solidifies this as one of the best songs on this album. Truly underrated
Larcx13 06/18/2020 17:34 | #253840
My favorite Pink Floyd song. Still get goosebumps when the time is right.
Out of this world ... it s not for humans
Goliath 02/19/2018 10:48 | #208810
Always loved this track, I know I'm probably alone here, but this is my favourite track on the album.
When Shine on you crazy diamond ends I am always happy to know Welcome to the Machine is next. This is a major achievement. Most songs fall flat after Shine, this doesn't for me. At all.
Some crazy dark sounds on this! Brilliant track :)
tgarritsen 04/10/2016 18:08 | #163599
After almost 15 minutes of build up and hopefull messages it goes straight in this dark song. The background sounds really add to this "big" song
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