Smashing Pumpkins - MACHINA - The Machines Of God (2000)

Virgin

0724384893620

3979935

The Smashing Pumpkins, Smashing Pumpkins

1990s

CD

2000

English

Post-Grunge

Studio Recording

Machina/The Machines of God

Album

4157 Sec

Pop, Alternative, Rock

3.5 stars out of 5 - "...The songs go back to the basics of would-be hit singles: riffs, hooks, bridges, choruses....Guitars rule...and Jimmy Chamberlain's drums stand shoulder to shoulder with the guitars....the music surges forward once again...", 3 out of 5 - "...the audio-verite diary of the past few years....a much more fully realized version of ADORE....There's plenty of noise-soak to go around during the wilder moments, and enough soft lyrical sentiment for high-school couples...", 7 out of 10 - "...right away on MACHINA, the group is rocking again...hurtling forward within that patented dreamy gauze....it's quite a tripartite structure: Commerce, Craft, and Coloring. A road that forks 3 ways...", 4 stars out of 5 - "...Billy Corgan is miserable as sin and functioning perfectly well....a wonderful rock album....a near perfect synthesis of MELLON COLLIE's rock power and ADORE's finesse...", 4 stars out of 5 - "...Now that the Pumpkins have sieved out all the repellent grunge effluent from their songs, it suits the music perfectly....They are at their best undercutting their rock with beautiful poignancy....Let it consume you.", "...a beacon in a dark night for music fans disheartened by the inevitable re-dumbing-down of pop music....a lethal missive from a band that continues to remain true to itself...", "...packed with Corgan's familiar ruminations, and further cements the band's position as post-grunge 'ubermeisters'....MACHINA settles onto an essentially nu-metal tack, while making some entertaining detours along the way...", 6 out of 10 - "...a bloody, self-flagellating atonement for Corgan's prior assertion that rock was dead....grand, ambitious and immense..."

Studio

Emi Operations/Ceva Logistics

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Stereo

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