The Smashing Pumpkins - Machina/the machines of god (2000)
This was the first Pumpkins album I actually bought and I love it to death. I love Adore, but Machina kicks off with with what Adore was sorely lacking in, that heavy ass opening riff. A perfect way to start the album, and a great song. But, by no means the benchmark for the album's sound. It's a very production heavy album, which is one of it's major critiques. All the naysayers say it's just a Corgan/Flood album, but they forget about the songs found therein. Luckily I like the whole tone of the album and am able to overlook this to see the perfect rock songs we had come to expect from Corgan and Co. Songs like Stand Inside Your Love, Try, Try, Try and Heavy Metal Machine affect emotions you didn't even know you had. There's the fantastic, quintissential epic track, Glass And The Ghost Children, and the beautiful closer Age Of innocence. Anyway, close behind MC&TIS for my favourite Pumpkins album.
I didn't do an album yesterday, because all I listened to was The Fiery Furnaces...
