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'''''Machina/The Machines of God''''' is the fifth studio album by [[The Smashing Pumpkins]], released on February 29, 2000, by [[:Category:Virgin Records singles|Virgin Records]]. A [[:Category:Concept albums|concept album]],<ref name="kroq">Interview with Billy Corgan, May 24, 2000, [[w:KROQ-FM|KROQ-FM]]</ref> it marked the return of drummer [[Jimmy Chamberlin]] and was intended to be the band's final official LP release prior to their first break up in 2000. A sequel album—''[[Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music]]''—was later released independently via the Internet, and limited quantities for the physical version. | '''''Machina/The Machines of God''''' is the fifth studio album by [[The Smashing Pumpkins]], released on February 29, 2000, by [[:Category:Virgin Records singles|Virgin Records]]. A [[:Category:Concept albums|concept album]],<ref name="kroq">Interview with Billy Corgan, May 24, 2000, [[w:KROQ-FM|KROQ-FM]]</ref> it marked the return of drummer [[Jimmy Chamberlin]] and was intended to be the band's final official LP release prior to their first break up in 2000. A sequel album—''[[Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music]]''—was later released independently via the Internet, and limited quantities for the physical version. | ||
As with its predecessor, ''[[ | As with its predecessor, ''[[Adore]]'', ''Machina'' represented a drastic image and sound change for the band. After the relatively brief [[Adore tour|''Adore'' tour]], the new line-up with Chamberlin and the former [[W:Hole (band)|Hole]] bass guitarist [[Melissa Auf der Maur]] mounted longer international tours that returned the live incarnation of the band to a guitar-driven hard rock style.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.livedaily.com/archive/2000/2k02/wk1/ReviewSmashingPumpkinsPla.html |title=Review: Smashing Pumpkins Play Visceral Show in Northern California (02/7/2000) |last=Reiley |first=Laura |date=February 7, 2000 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20000229191724/http://www.livedaily.com/archive/2000/2k02/wk1/ReviewSmashingPumpkinsPla.html |archivedate=February 29, 2000 |accessdate=October 9, 2012}}</ref> | ||
== Background and concept == | == Background and concept == | ||
After the ''Adore'' tour ended in the second half of 1998, lead singer/guitarist [[Billy Corgan]] immediately began to work on new material, playing new songs as early as October of that year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.spfc.org/tours/date.html?tour_id=633 |title=spfc.org : Tour History – Dates : 1998/10/31 |work=spfc.org |accessdate=October 9, 2012}}</ref> In the same month, the four original band members convened, and decided that Jimmy Chamberlin would rejoin the band, and that a final album and tour would be mounted before the group disbanded permanently.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Kot |first=Greg |title=Pumpkin Seeds |journal=Guitar World |date=January 2002}}</ref> "If you want to know what Jimmy brings back to the band," Corgan told ''Q'', "then listen to ''Adore'' and this new record back-to-back. It speaks for itself."<ref>''[[w:Q (magazine)|Q]]'', March 2000</ref> According to an August 19, 2014 interview with Ryan Leas, Corgan explained, "I was thinking like, you know, what the Beatles did with Sgt. Pepper’s. Why can’t we make a really different type of record? So that was my thinking going into it."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stereogum.com/1698954/inside-baseball-with-billy-corgan-the-smashing-pumpkins-leader-on-adore-machina-and-the-end-of-teargarden-by-kaleidyscope/franchises/interview/ |title=Inside Baseball With Billy Corgan: The Smashing Pumpkins Head On Adore, MACHINA, And The End Of Teargarden | date=August 19, 1994 |website=Stereogum|accessdate=December 9, 2019}}</ref> | After the ''Adore'' tour ended in the second half of 1998, lead singer/guitarist [[Billy Corgan]] immediately began to work on new material, playing new songs as early as October of that year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.spfc.org/tours/date.html?tour_id=633 |title=spfc.org : Tour History – Dates : 1998/10/31 |work=spfc.org |accessdate=October 9, 2012}}</ref> In the same month, the four original band members convened, and decided that Jimmy Chamberlin would rejoin the band, and that a final album and tour would be mounted before the group disbanded permanently.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Kot |first=Greg |title=Pumpkin Seeds |journal=Guitar World |date=January 2002}}</ref> "If you want to know what Jimmy brings back to the band," Corgan told ''Q'', "then listen to ''Adore'' and this new record back-to-back. It speaks for itself."<ref>''[[w:Q (magazine)|Q]]'', March 2000</ref> According to an August 19, 2014 interview with Ryan Leas, Corgan explained, "I was thinking like, you know, what the Beatles did with Sgt. Pepper’s. Why can’t we make a really different type of record? So that was my thinking going into it."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stereogum.com/1698954/inside-baseball-with-billy-corgan-the-smashing-pumpkins-leader-on-adore-machina-and-the-end-of-teargarden-by-kaleidyscope/franchises/interview/ |title=Inside Baseball With Billy Corgan: The Smashing Pumpkins Head On Adore, MACHINA, And The End Of Teargarden | date=August 19, 1994 |website=Stereogum|accessdate=December 9, 2019}}</ref> | ||
Corgan envisioned a lengthy concept album in conjunction with a musical theater approach to a tour, based around the idea of the band playing exaggerated versions of themselves, as the press and public seemed to view them.<ref name="borges">{{cite web |url=http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/countygrind/2010/07/qa_billy_corgan_regret_smashing_pumpkins.php |title=Q&A: Billy Corgan Reveals Biggest Regret, Weighs Indie Versus Corporate Rock Ahead of Tonight's Show at Revolution |last=Borges |first=Christine |date=July 20, 2010 |work=[[w:New Times Broward-Palm Beach|browardpalmbeach.com]] |accessdate=October 9, 2012}}</ref><ref>Episode 59 of ''[[w:VH1 Storytellers|VH1 Storytellers]]'', August 24, 2000</ref> He later explained, "the band had become such cartoon characters at that point in the way we were portrayed in the media, the idea was that we would sort of go out and pretend we were the cartoon characters."<ref name="borges"/> From there, a story was conceived revolving around a rock star named Zero (based on the public persona | Corgan envisioned a lengthy concept album in conjunction with a musical theater approach to a tour, based around the idea of the band playing exaggerated versions of themselves, as the press and public seemed to view them.<ref name="borges">{{cite web |url=http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/countygrind/2010/07/qa_billy_corgan_regret_smashing_pumpkins.php |title=Q&A: Billy Corgan Reveals Biggest Regret, Weighs Indie Versus Corporate Rock Ahead of Tonight's Show at Revolution |last=Borges |first=Christine |date=July 20, 2010 |work=[[w:New Times Broward-Palm Beach|browardpalmbeach.com]] |accessdate=October 9, 2012}}</ref><ref>Episode 59 of ''[[w:VH1 Storytellers|VH1 Storytellers]]'', August 24, 2000</ref> He later explained, "the band had become such cartoon characters at that point in the way we were portrayed in the media, the idea was that we would sort of go out and pretend we were the cartoon characters."<ref name="borges"/> From there, a story was conceived revolving around a rock star named Zero (based on the ''[[Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness|Mellon Collie]]'' character and Corgan's public persona) hearing the voice of God, renaming himself Glass, and renaming his band The Machines of God. Fans of the band were referred to as the "Ghost Children".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/cherubs-zeros-glass-children-swans-symbolism-in-lyrics-of-the-smashing-pumpkins/ |title=cherubs, zeros, glass children & swans – symbolism in lyrics of the smashing pumpkins | date=April 24, 2018 |website=3:AM Magazine|accessdate=December 9, 2019}}</ref> | ||
[[File:Machina chart.jpg|thumb|left|Billy Corgan's chart showing the loose story of ''Machina'' and ''Machina II''|link=Special:FilePath/Machina_chart.jpg]] | [[File:Machina chart.jpg|thumb|left|Billy Corgan's chart showing the loose story of ''Machina'' and ''Machina II''|link=Special:FilePath/Machina_chart.jpg]] | ||