Machina/The Machines of God

Just like the rest of the old SP albums this one is a work of art

The scathing review from iTunes is unfair. This is a good album. I just wish I kept the tape.

I’m surprised how ITunes isn’t giving “Adore” and this album more credit than is deserved. I’m usually a Metal-head, but I found both of these albums to be a great change of pace. Five stars, no questions asked

very underrated alternative/ hard rock album

When they released The Everlasting Gaze, it further solidified Corgans ability to weed through the BS & keep making the music he wanted. I wouldn’t skip a single track on this album.

Along with Machina II: The Friends and Enemies of Rock and Roll, this is the best work that Billy Corgan ever did. With Adore he grew up, and actually went a little deeper than he ever had before, not to mention composed some of the most beautiful music he had ever done. But with the Machina albums, he really wrote his masterpiece. The music is so clear in tone, so focused and pure, that he can almost stop time when you're listening closely enough. And for all you super diehard fans, wait until the reissue of Machina comes out....He's remastered all the albums before this one, and next is the full remastering and reworking of the Machina Saga. He is pulling out everything that was done in the making of this album, all his old notes, and bringing back the producer Flood to help him rework the album into what is was originally envisioned to be, before it was completely retracked and edited by Virgin Records in the hopes of making up some of those lost sales after Adore. Billy Corgan said that it is going to be more like a live set by Glass and the Machines of God, the fictional band that centers in the concept of the album, with a completely different tracklisting and everything, and audience sounds and other things will be put back in to make it one continuous thing, and he may even have to record new music or sounds to complete the project. It's going to be freakin epic y'all. I cannot wait.

I love this album, it proved to me that Billy still had it. This was their last good album before all the junk hit. One day I pray Billy writes something that catches me like everlasting gaze

I personally love ALL the Pumpkins' work, including this beauty :) It's great!

First heard this album almost 15 years ago and it still gives me goosebumps. Truly an epic listen. The music and songwriting is complex. There are no quick pop songs on here. Songs like I of the Mourning and Raindrops + Sunshowers are beautiful but can still rock at the same time. One of my favorite albums of all time easily.

This album and Adore surpasses Mellon Collie, Gish or Siamese Dream by a long shot cohesively, lyrically, and sonically and is the one Pumpkins record that I keep on returning to. The atmosphere is perfect and blends a bit of the old and what would come later. This is also the final album of the original line-up, but that's not why I like it this much. Contains some of the best songs they've ever and probably ever will write. The only thing that weighs down this album is the overlong ending of Heavy Metal Machine. Other than that, I wouldn't change a thing.