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{{Infobox album | {{Infobox album | ||
| name | | name = Machina/The Machines of God | ||
| type | | type = studio | ||
| artist | | artist = [[The Smashing Pumpkins]] | ||
| cover | | cover = The smashing pumpkins machina cover.jpg | ||
| alt | | alt = | ||
| released | | released = February 29, 2000 | ||
| discogs | | discogs = 48755 | ||
| musicbrainz= 98cbc7a6-7229-3b64-b974-fc4cb2ff0505 | | musicbrainz = 98cbc7a6-7229-3b64-b974-fc4cb2ff0505 | ||
| recorded | | recorded = [[November 1998-September 1999 – Pumpkinland|November 1998 – October 1999]] | ||
| studio | | studio = Sadlands, Pumpkinland, Chicago Recording Company | ||
| genre | | genre = *Alternative rock<ref>{{cite web | url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,996280,00.html | title=Music: Machina/The Machines of God - The Smashing Pumpkins | work=[[w:Time (magazine)|Time]] | date=March 6, 2000 | accessdate=July 26, 2015 | author=Farley, CHristopher John}}</ref> | ||
*Alternative rock<ref>{{cite web | url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,996280,00.html | title=Music: Machina/The Machines of God - The Smashing Pumpkins | work=[[w:Time (magazine)|Time]] | date=March 6, 2000 | accessdate=July 26, 2015 | author=Farley, CHristopher John}}</ref> | |||
*alternative metal<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/sendme.tin?page=/mtv/music/reviews/archive/blather/smashing_pumpkins_00.html |title=The Smashing Pumpkins - Machina/The Machines of God |publisher=[[w:MTV|MTV Online]] |accessdate=July 26, 2015 |author=Ferguson, Jason |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20010725043901/http://www.mtv.com/sendme.tin?page=%2Fmtv%2Fmusic%2Freviews%2Farchive%2Fblather%2Fsmashing_pumpkins_00.html |archivedate=July 25, 2001 }}</ref> | *alternative metal<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/sendme.tin?page=/mtv/music/reviews/archive/blather/smashing_pumpkins_00.html |title=The Smashing Pumpkins - Machina/The Machines of God |publisher=[[w:MTV|MTV Online]] |accessdate=July 26, 2015 |author=Ferguson, Jason |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20010725043901/http://www.mtv.com/sendme.tin?page=%2Fmtv%2Fmusic%2Freviews%2Farchive%2Fblather%2Fsmashing_pumpkins_00.html |archivedate=July 25, 2001 }}</ref> | ||
*gothic rock | *gothic rock | ||
*dream pop | *dream pop | ||
| length | | length = 73:23 | ||
| label | | label = [[:Category:Virgin Records albums|Virgin]] | ||
| producer | | producer = Billy Corgan, Flood | ||
| misc | | misc = {{Singles | ||
| name = Machina/The Machines of God | | name = Machina/The Machines of God | ||
| type = studio | | type = studio | ||
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== Recording == | == Recording == | ||
Much like previous albums, the songs were first tracked acoustically at Corgan's house in late 1998<ref name="late 1998">{{cite web |url=http://www.spfc.org/band/studio.html?session_id=46 |title=spfc.org : Studio Sessions : Late 1998 – Sadlands (Billy's House) |work=spfc.org |accessdate=October 9, 2012}}</ref> before the band set to work on them at their practice space and the [[Chicago Recording Company]]. The recording was conducted with the team responsible for finishing ''Adore'' – co-producer [[Flood]] and engineers Howard Willing and [[W:Bjorn Thorsrud|Bjorn Thorsrud]]. | {{Main|November 1998-September 1999 – Pumpkinland}} | ||
Much like previous albums, the songs were first [[Late 1998 – Sadlands, Chicago|tracked acoustically at Corgan's house]] in late 1998<ref name="late 1998">{{cite web |url=http://www.spfc.org/band/studio.html?session_id=46 |title=spfc.org : Studio Sessions : Late 1998 – Sadlands (Billy's House) |work=spfc.org |accessdate=October 9, 2012}}</ref> before the band set to work on them at their practice space and the [[Chicago Recording Company]]. The recording was conducted with the team responsible for finishing ''Adore'' – co-producer [[Flood]] and engineers Howard Willing and [[W:Bjorn Thorsrud|Bjorn Thorsrud]]. | |||
The band took a break from recording in April 1999 to embark on | The band took a break from recording in April 1999 to embark on [[The Arising! tour|''The Arising!'' tour]], which took the band to nine small clubs. After the tour's conclusion, the bass guitarist, [[D'arcy Wretzky]], left the band, leaving the rest of them in a difficult position. Corgan later said, "This put a stress obviously on the full integrity of the project, because it was connected to the band not only bringing the music to fruition fully, but also the public component of being in character. I ended up in a broken band with a half-ass enthusiasm towards finishing a project already started."<ref>[http://hipstersunited.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/ch6the-story-of-machina-so-what-could-i-do-but-try-to-finish/] Archive of [http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/news_9270]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. September 12, 2008.</ref> | ||
Flood later remembered, "We decided that we were going to have to make a very different kind of record [...] we pretty much went back to the drawing board. Certain songs on the record are survivors from that first period, but it meant a shift in the ways songs had to be formed."<ref>{{cite journal |last=Thomas |first=Richard |title=Signal to Noise: The Sonic Diary of the Smashing Pumpkins |journal=EQ |date=October 2008}}</ref> | Flood later remembered, "We decided that we were going to have to make a very different kind of record [...] we pretty much went back to the drawing board. Certain songs on the record are survivors from that first period, but it meant a shift in the ways songs had to be formed."<ref>{{cite journal |last=Thomas |first=Richard |title=Signal to Noise: The Sonic Diary of the Smashing Pumpkins |journal=EQ |date=October 2008}}</ref> | ||