Editing Metal Machine Music (section)

==In popular culture==
The language of the ''[[Star Trek]]'' aliens known as the [[Breen (Star Trek)|Breen]] was inspired by ''Metal Machine Music'', which the post-production sound staff were instructed to listen to when creating the electronic cackle that served as the Breen's voices.<ref name="ErdmannBlock2000">{{cite book|author1=Terry J. Erdmann|author2=Paula M. Block|title=Deep Space Nine Companion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kDe3VS07YSMC|year=2000|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-0-671-50106-8|pages=702–703}}</ref>

On ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'', [[Joel Hodgson]]'s character likened watching ''[[Mighty Jack]]'' to "listening to two hours of Lou Reed's ''Metal Machine Music''." Later on the show, [[Michael J. Nelson]]'s character says "Monster immediately gets up and puts on his ''Metal Machine Music''" due to the background music during the mutation scene in ''[[The Horror of Party Beach]].''