Writing in 2013, ethnomusicologist Jeﬀrey Cupchik said that Harrison's Indian-influenced songs, particularly "Within You Without You", "marked the inception of a new 'hybridic' East–West style of music composition – a style that is immensely widespread today". Musicologist Walter Everett lists Spirit's "Mechanical World" and the Incredible String Band's "Maya", both released in 1968, and much of the Moody Blues' 1969 album "To Our Children's Children's Children" as works that were directly influenced by the song. Dead Can Dance's 1996 album "Spiritchaser" includes the track "Indus", the melody of which was found to be very similar to that of "Within You Without You". In their 1978 television film satirising the Beatles' history, "All You Need Is Cash", the Rutles parodied "Within You Without You" on the track "Nevertheless", performed by Rikki Fataar in the role of Stig O' Hara. Harrison himself included musical quotations from "Within You Without You" in his 1987 song "When We Was Fab" and in the instrumental "Marwa Blues", released in 2002 on his final studio album, "Brainwashed".