The Smashing Pumpkins - Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music (Full Album)

Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music is the sixth studio album by the American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. It was released for free on the Internet on September 5, 2000. Plans for a standard physical release, bundled with the first part Machina/The Machines of God, were revealed to happen sometime in 2013, but was postponed due to legal setbacks. In an Instagram Q&A in 2018, the band's frontman, Billy Corgan, revealed that all legal issues had been resolved. The two albums are planned to be remastered and released as a deluxe reissue; however, no release date has been announced.

The album itself, a double LP, was packaged with three EPs full of B-sides and alternate versions. The album's artwork was created by Carlos Segura. Both Machina albums are loose concept albums telling the story of "a rock star gone mad". Machina II was the last Smashing Pumpkins studio album until the band reformed in 2006, their final studio album to feature guitarist James Iha until his return in 2018, as well as the final album to feature their original line-up, as bassist D'arcy Wretzky departed during the recording of both Machina albums and didn't return when the band reformed.

From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machina...)

TIMESTAMPS
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[CR-04]
0:00 Glass (Glass’ Theme)
1:55 Crash Car Star
5:40 Dross
9:14 Real Love
13:33 Go
17:23 Let Me Give the World to You
21:20 Innosense
24:14 Home
28:47 Blue Skies Bring Tears (Version Electrique/Heavy)
32:09 White Spyder
35:50 In My Body
42:47 If There Is a God (Full Band)
44:58 Le Deux Machina (Synth)
46:53 Atom Bomb (Here’s to the Atom Bomb) (Alternate Take/New Wave Version)
[CR-01]
50:45 Slow Dawn
53:56 Vanity
58:06 Saturnine (Satur9)
1:02:07 Glass’ Theme (Alternate Version/Spacey Version)
[CR-02]
1:05:00 Soul Power
1:08:00 Crash Car Star (Version I/Alternate Take)
1:11:45 Lucky 13
1:15:00 Speed Kills (But Beauty Lives Forever)
[CR-03]
1:19:49 If There Is a God (Piano and Voice)
1:22:27 Try, Try, Try (Version I/Alternate Take)
1:27:00 Heavy Metal Machine (Version I Alternate Mix/Alternate Take)

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