The Smashing Pumpkins – Machina / The Machines Of God
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Hut Recordings – HUTDLP 59 |
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Europe |
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Rock |
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Alternative Rock |
Tracklist
| A1 | The Everlasting Gaze | |
| A2 | Raindrops + Sunshowers | |
| A3 | Stand Inside Your Love | |
| A4 | I Of The Mourning | |
| B1 | The Sacred And Profane | |
| B2 | Try, Try, Try | |
| B3 | Heavy Metal Machine | |
| B4 | This Time | |
| B5 | The Imploding Voice | |
| C1 | Glass And The Ghost Children | |
| C2 | Wound | |
| C3 | The Crying Tree Of Mercury | |
| D1 | Speed Kills | |
| D2 | Age Of Innocence | |
| D3 | With Every Light | |
| D4 | Blue Skies Bring Tears |
Companies, etc.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Virgin Records America, Inc.
- Copyright © – Virgin Records America, Inc.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – The Smashing Pumpkins
- Copyright © – The Smashing Pumpkins
- Copyright © – Faust's Haus Music
- Copyright © – Universal Music Publishing
- Copyright © – Billy Corgan
- Recorded At – Pumpkinland
- Recorded At – The Village Recorder
- Mixed At – Chicago Recording Company
- Mixed At – Pumpkinland
- Mixed At – Whitfield Street Studios
- Mastered At – Masterdisk
- Lacquer Cut At – Masterpiece
- Pressed By – EMI Records
Credits
- Art Direction – Yelena Yemchuk
- Compiled By, Edited By [Digital Editing], Programmed By [Additional Programming] – Bjorn Thorsrud
- Lacquer Cut By – Mike*
- Management [Assistance In Making This Album Possible] – Susie Forzano
- Mastered By – Howie Weinberg
- Mixed By – Howard Willing (tracks: B1, C1, D1, D2, D4)
- Mixed By [Mix Assisted By] – Mike Zainer
- Painting, Illustration [Etchings] – Vasily Kafanov
- Performer [The Smashing Pumpkins Are] – Jimmy Chamberlin
- Producer – Flood
- Recorded By – Howard Willing
- Songwriter [All Songs Written By] – Billy Corgan
- Technician [Technical Assistance] – Tommy Lipnick
Notes
Pressed on 2LP opaque blue vinyl
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode: 724384893613
- Barcode (Text): 7 24384 89361 3
- Label Code: LC 03098
- Price Code: PM 213
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout): HUTDLP 59 A-01-1-1 MIKE@MASTERPIECE
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout): HUTDLP 59 B-01-1-
- Matrix / Runout (Side C runout): HUTDLP 59 A-01-1-
- Matrix / Runout (Side D runout): HX UX HUTDLP 59 D-01-1-1
Other Versions (5 of 68)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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| Machina / The Machines Of God (CD, Album) | Hut Recordings | 7243 8 48936 2 0, CDHUT 59 | Europe | 2000 | |||
| Machina / The Machines Of God (CD, Album) | Virgin | 7243 8 48936 2 0 | US | 2000 | |||
| Machina / The Machines Of God (2×LP, Album, Stereo) | Hut Recordings | 7243 8 48936 1 3, HUTDLP 59 | Europe | 2000 | |||
| Machina / The Machines Of God (CD, Album) | Virgin Music Canada | 7243 8 48936 2 0 | Canada | 2000 | |||
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Machina / The Machines Of God (CDr, Album, Promo) | Hut Recordings | none | UK | 2000 |
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Fantastic sounding boot. Highly recommended. The jacket art sucks but I don't care really about that. I listen to it. -
People are only down on this because it’s a boot and are not being honest with themselves, especially about the sound quality, it’s literally sourced from the original vinyl pressing and sounds incredible. Sound wise, it’s comparable to the original pressing. I do agree that the sleeve is a bit shitty, but for $59.99 I’ll deal with a blurry cover if I get a Machina that sounds this good. So if people are crying on here it’s because…
they hate us cuz they ain’t us - Dave Skylark -
Why the hell is it blue? Got this for Christmas...doesn't have as much clarity as I'd love, and I hate the blurry cover art, but it's perfectly listenable and enjoyable. If you have issues with the mix, note also that this album was produced to intentionally be bad and annoying to listen to: it is sort of supposed to sound that crunchy and dense anyway.
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Horrendous sounding pressing. I bought it and I would have categorized it as the worst sounding record in my collection. Sounded like it was ripped off a low quality MP3. Save your money and keep streaming this one until a real pressing is made.
This blue pressing was so bad I had to return it for my money back.
Stay away from this one..can’t get worse.
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my 4/5 rating is based on this being a boot and not an official release. of course its not going to sound anywhere near an official release. for boot quality, i say this is pretty good. since the official re-release hasnt even been announced yet, this will scratch that itch if you arent down spending 450 on the original. I paid 50 bucks at my local shop, and I say thats fair but nothing more.
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Physical / presentation:
- the records are heavyweight (180g)
- the cover is definitely enlarged JPEG, it's very clearly blurry in person
- the back cover text is redone from scratch so it looks clear
- no booklet / insert
- the inside of the sleeve itself is printed with the textures from the back cover, which is an interesting touch
- glossy finish on the sleeve
- inner sleeves are nice quality
Sound quality:
- there is a soft 'whoosh' sound as the record spins that you can hear during silence between tracks, but not really when the songs kick in. likely a lack of QA on the plastic / vinyl material used for pressing, not surprising
- Sub bass frequencies seem to be boosted throughout all the tracks so far - almost in the way a hi-fi system might do
- Notable (egregious!) high shelf cut at 10kHz on Raindrops + Sunshowers (maybe by about 3-5 dB?) and similar (but maybe less extreme) on a few other tracks - so much that i thought they might be a lower quality mp3 source, but after ripping a clip of it to check the spectrograph, it is definitely losslessly sourced, so some weird EQ choices
all in all, definitely audibly a bootleg on any decent system, but if you don't have a big preference for audio quality or just want to be able to spin this album it might do you. For me, it's mainly just increased my want for an official version but I do see myself listening to this a little bit.
there is an unmastered version of this album out there that could have been used to make a new vinyl master, bit of a missed opportunity here imo but whoever is pressing these clearly just saw a demand for this record and threw something together. -
Listenable but almost every track appears to be ripped from a different source. ‘The Everlasting Gaze’ and ‘Stand Inside Your Love’ are great quality, but much of the other songs are poorer in quality and sound level -
Please, please, do not waste your money on this release. It is CD-sourced garbage (from the Japan release), extremely poorly eq'ed, has volume variances from track to track, and just sounds like absolute ass. I get that we as SP fans want this badly on vinyl, but this release is why you don't buy boots. Universal has the masters from Billy, and it will get an official release, eventually. Avoid this like a $5 hooker on the docks.
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Sound quality on this one is fantastic, I’d never say it was an unofficial pressing. It uses the Japanese release run order.
For the album itself, it was my first time listening to it since 2000, and it was quite a refreshing listen. It encomes pretty well all of what the Pumpkins had done up to that point, and turns in a solid rocker with quieter moments that should definitely please fans of the band.
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