Tilting at windmills album features the song "Windmills." The first lyric reads, "I spend too much time raiding windmills We go side by side laughing until it's right...". The lyric may reflect how Don Quixote, true to his romantic tendencies, puts Dulcinea on a pedestal. As such, the reality of the character Dulcinea does not correspond to Don Quixote's fantasy of her. The US punk band ALL, on their 1988 album Allroy Sez, released a track titled "Don Quixote" written by singer/songwriter Dave Smalley featuring the line "tilting at windmills". Australian folk rock band Weddings Parties Anything released the album Roaring Days in
The Windmills of Your Mind Windmills" which became a hit in the Netherlands, reaching #11 on the Dutch chart in November 1969. and Nr. 4 in the Turkish hit parade in April 1970. The lyrics for the French-language rendering of "The Windmills of Your Mind" were written by Eddy Marnay and this version, entitled "Les Moulins de mon cœur", was first recorded in 1968 by Marcel Amont who was resultantly afforded a minor French chart hit (peak #49). "Les Moulins de mon coeur" has subsequently been recorded by: In 1970 Helena Vondráčková, prior to recording "The Windmills of Your Mind" with its original English lyrics