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Title: If you want to respect the SP, forget this album.
Review: Their first albums were powerful and they will be legendary. Adore was awesome, deep, dark, and it kind of announced the death of the band. "Machina" is some kind of over-produced, well-tamed, meaning-less effort to remind people they were a rock band, with a concept that interests nobody. Even the cover of the album looks stupid. And what's that song "Heavy-metal machine"? Billy once said it was a condemnation and a glorification of the genre. Come on, that's non-interesting and pathetic. They should have ended the Smashing Pumpkins after "Adore". Now, they just look like "Aerosmith", after Permanent vacation. I'm gratefull of Billy Corgan for breaking the band after that album!
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