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Title: Heavy Metal Mess...
Review: trying too hard to shift gears due to the underwhelming response to adore, corgan and co. turn up the amps andfeedback. but in this case, you can't go home again.the problem? the pumpkins were growing from record to record up to this point. while adore wasn't as consistent as gish OR mellon collie, at least it was something different. at its best, adore was astonishing. songs like "the tale of dusty and pistol pete" or "crestfallen" are right up there with corgan's best work.machina is going backwards to prove they're still a rock band. and what it really proved to be was the end of the pumpkins. a few good tracks ("try, try", "age of innocence") get lost in a bloated, 73-minute opus...SP were one of the best, and most important, bands of the nineties - right up there with nirvana, alice in chains,radiohead and soundgarden. but machina shows few, if any,signs of that...- cRAIG
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