Smashing Pumpkins - Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music (2000) [Full Album + 3 EPs]

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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.

Tracklist:
LP:
1. 0:00 - Glass (sometimes listed as "Glass' Theme")
2. 1:52 - Cash Car Star
3. 5:12 - Dross
4. 8:47 - Real Love
5. 13:02 - Go (Vocals by James Iha)
6. 16:49 - Let Me Give the World to You
7. 21:00 - Innosense
8. 23:35 - Home
9. 28:07 - Blue Skies Bring Tears (sometimes subtitled "Version Electrique" or "Heavy")
10. 31:25 - White Spyder
11. 35:06 - In My Body
12. 41:58 - If There Is a God (sometimes subtitled "Full Band")
13. 44:07 - Le Deux Machina (sometimes subtitled "Synth")
14. 46:02 - Atom Bomb (sometimes listed as "Here's to the Atom Bomb" and subtitled "Alternate Take" or "New Wave Version")

EPs

EP 1:
1. 49:51 - Slow Dawn
2. 53:02 - Vanity
3. 57:09 - Saturnine
4. 1:01:06 - Glass’ Theme (Spacey Version)

EP 2:
1. 1:03:57 - Soul Power (James Brown Cover)
2. 1:06:56 - Cash Car Star (Version 1)
3. 1:10:38 - Lucky 13
4. 1:13:49 - Speed Kills (sometimes listed as "Speed Kills But Beauty Lives Forever" or "Speed Kills (But Beauty Lives Forever)")

EP 3:
1. 1:18:38 - If There Is a God (Piano/Vox)
2. 1:21:13 - Try, Try, Try (Alt. Music/Lyrics)
3. 1:25:43 - Heavy Metal Machine (Version 1 Alternate Mix)

Personnel
Billy Corgan – vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, piano
James Iha – guitars, bass, vocals on "Go"
D'Arcy Wretzky – bass guitar
Jimmy Chamberlin – drums, percussion

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