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Machina II: The Final Album / Friends and Enemies of Modern Music
Rock · 2000 · 15 tracks · 2h 33m

Machina II: The Final Album / Friends and Enemies of Modern Music

The Smashing Pumpkins

A sprawling, lo-fi farewell captured on vinyl. Blown-out guitars and raw vocals turn stadium-sized melodies into intimate, distorted transmissions.

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It's the Pumpkins' secret masterpiece, sounding like a stadium show recorded through a basement wall.

A defiant and gritty farewell that finds beauty in distortion and creative chaos.

Machina II: The Final Album / Friends and Enemies of Modern Music · vs · The Smashing Pumpkins
Lo Fi+2.2σ

The production is built around lo fi than this artist usually allows.

Tracklist · 15 Tracks · 2h 33m
01
If There Is a God (piano/vox)
2:28
01
Glass Theme
1:50
02
Try, Try, Try (alt. music/lyrics)
4:11
03
Heavy Metal Machine (version I/alt. mix)
6:28
04
Real Love
4:01
06
Let Me Give the World to You
4:00
07
Innosence
2:28
09
Blue Skies Bring Tears
3:14
10
White Spider
3:33
12
If There Is a God (full band)
2:08
14
Lucky Lad
2:39
14
Here’s the Atom Bomb
3:42
18
Glass Theme (spacey version)
2:40
20
Cash Car Star (different lyrics)
3:36
22
Speed Kills
4:38
Moments Worth Waiting For
The transition from the fragile piano version of If There Is a God into the jagged, motoric energy of Glass Theme.
The overwhelming wall of distorted fuzz that swallows the melody on White Spider.
The way Real Love captures a shimmering, classic Pumpkins pop sensibility through a thick layer of tape hiss and grit.
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