The Smashing Pumpkins Machina/The Machines of God
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Grungil
February 18th 2022


604 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

@neekafat



I know, i´ve listened to it. You really did a good job.

neekafat
Staff Reviewer
February 18th 2022


26233 Comments

Album Rating: 4.1

Oh thank you sir! Sorry if we’ve talked about it before and i forgot!

Grungil
February 18th 2022


604 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

We didnt, i´m sure about it. Anyway, keep it up.

neekafat
Staff Reviewer
February 18th 2022


26233 Comments

Album Rating: 4.1

Appreciate it (:

claygurnz
October 4th 2022


7588 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Album has grown on me pretty hard over the years

hel9000
October 4th 2022


1536 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

yeah this one took a while to click with me, but i love it now. very unique imo

hel9000
October 4th 2022


1536 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

also clay our avatars are weirdly similar lol

claygurnz
October 5th 2022


7588 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

^ True



Hyman Roth and Jerry Jones team up

neekafat
Staff Reviewer
October 6th 2022


26233 Comments

Album Rating: 4.1

this is one of the biggest growers ever for me yeah

banstylejbo
October 10th 2022


20 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Suffers from the same problem as a lot of mid/late 90s albums in that there is just way too much stuffed into it. Everyone felt like they had to fill 70+ minutes of music on a CD just because it could hold it. If they cut out The Imploding Voice, Heavy Metal Machine, Glass and the Ghost Children, The Crying Tree of Mercury, and Blue Skies Bring Tears, the album would be a tight 10 tracks with no filler. But the aforementioned songs just drag stuff out so much. They plod along and don’t really have any memorable aspects to them that make you want to go back and listen. Heck, if they threw in either version of Speed Kills instead of any of those it would have been an improvement (and the vinyl release of Machina did include it in a slightly shuffled final quarter of the album). I also think with less deadening production Heavy Metal Machine could have been salvaged as well. End of the day, Machina is better than the reviews at the time credit it. It has some of SP’s finest and most underrated songs, but Billy definitely torpedoed the album’s commercial chances by letting his ambition get the better of him.

DadKungFu
Staff Reviewer
November 17th 2022


4897 Comments


Hell yeah for the Vasily Kafanov artwork, album's mid

DType
June 23rd 2023


2658 Comments


What is it you want?

What is it you want to change?

mryrtmrnfoxxxy
July 3rd 2023


16654 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

rain falls on everyone

mryrtmrnfoxxxy
July 3rd 2023


16654 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

The Imploding Voice is basically perfect

neekafat
Staff Reviewer
July 3rd 2023


26233 Comments

Album Rating: 4.1

Worst song on here yeah

claygurnz
July 3rd 2023


7588 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Nah man it's a good one imo, Heavy Metal Machine is probably the worst here

MyMentality
July 3rd 2023


1477 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Half way through my first listen of this and I'm pleasantly surprised. Prefer this over Adore so far, it's good!

neekafat
Staff Reviewer
July 3rd 2023


26233 Comments

Album Rating: 4.1

These days I might too, inconsistent but opaquely brilliant

mryrtmrnfoxxxy
July 3rd 2023


16654 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

both are 73 minutes. im more attached to Adore

Log S.
July 3rd 2023


3394 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

i get why people single out Heavy Metal Machine but to me it's kind of a necessary moment on the album otherwise Everlasting Gaze would sort of be the only "heavy" track on the album

that being said there's definitely a better version of this album ready to be made consisting of, if nothing else, the "Arising" version of Blue Skies Bring Tears as well as SIYL b-side version of "Speed Kills," possibly even the relatively newly-unveiled acoustic-ish version of Glass & the Ghost Children somewhere in the proceedings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYYLuKv14Kk



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