The Smashing Pumpkins - MACHINA/The Machines of God
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Artist: The Smashing PumpkinsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-02-29
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
- Everlasting Gaze
- Raindrops + Sunshowers
- Stand Inside Your Love
- I Of The Mourning
- The Sacred And Profane
- Try, Try, Try
- Heavy Metal Machine
- This Time
- The Imploding Voice
- Glass And The Ghost Children
- Wound
- The Crying Tree Of Mercury
- With Every Light
- Blue Skies Bring Tears
- Age Of Innocence
Free Music Notes for MACHINA/The Machines of God
Free Music Review: Their worst to date
Hit: 2 Stars
Parts of this album are too arty for its own good: this is a fine example of the ambition outweighing the capabilities. Songs like "Glass and the Ghost Children", "The Crying Tree of Mercury", "This Time" and "I of the Mourning" are pretentious, overwrought and noticeably lacking in soul or listenablity. Then there's some really dumb heavy rock that is again overwrought and noticeably lacking in soul or listenability ("Heavy Metal Machine"; "The Sacred and the Profane"; hit "The Everlasting Gaze"). Then there's the good stuff. Not much of it, really, but it's all great: my favorite is the hard-rockin' "Step Inside Your Love", a great headbanging song. Well, either that, or the atmospheric, mellow "Try, Try, Try" - nice song there too. I also love the "Tonight, Tonight"-esque "Age of Innocence". That's about it, though. Need I tell you that Corgan's songwriting is gone? He's simply forgotten how to write a powerful, resonant piece of music with plenty of pop hooks like "1979" or "Disarm". So looks like the Smashing Pumpkins are over the hill already. Damn.
MACHINA/The Machines of God Poster
With the doubters hovering round his band following the rock-is-dead pronouncement that preceded the flawed electronic dabblings of Adore, Machina finds Billy Corgan desperate to prove everyone, not least himself, wrong. On their fifth album, the Pumpkins attempt to reclaim the higher ground they dominated with the peerless Siamese Dream and the sprawling 28-track opus Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. As a result, they hit the ground running on Machina, exploding into life with "The Everlasting Gaze" and its firestorm of guitars and heavy metaphysical thunder. There are some quintessential Pumpkins moments here, notably "Stand Inside Your Love," which soars away on a spiraling guitar solo, and "Try, Try, Try," which taps into Corgan's ever-present melancholy. At 73 minutes long, Machina overstays its welcome, beginning to flag, ironically, at the self-aggrandizing "Heavy Metal Machine." No matter--the Pumpkins have made their point with brutal grace. --Mike PattendenAlternative Rock Music CDs
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