I wonder how much the 9/11 affected the music climate. Did Billy mean for M1 to sound more like M2?

Machina, i liked it!✊️

I thought I was the only one that adored machina

Machina is my favourite record 🤷🏼‍♀️

Ava Adore Puff Daddy Remix. Billy IS the illuminati

HEAVY METAL. HEAVY METAL MACHINES. HEAVY METAL. HEAVY METAL MACHINES. Machina was awsome, over years and in layers

Thank you for posting this

Incredible

It’s a good cd I even got part 2

BRAKING NEWS: THE MACHINA RE-ISSUE IS COMING ALONG WITH THE METRO DVD

Machina is my favorite!

Best album of the band: a masterpiece

So weird bc in 1989 my senior year in HS I literally stopped listening to the mainstream radio and stuck with 102.7 from Chicago ( I was 90 miles away straight across lake MI (We got the sunsets) and it was more groovy type r&b on car radio ... the next year I koved to Frand Rapids, MI to go to GVSU and listened to 96.9 I believe which was classic rock lor this other station that played 60s music....then one night I went to a party at a fellow server's house from Calivin College and in the basement where the stereo was playing and the keg was ( couldn't give 2 shits bc hated beer still do) i was sitting on the dryer and a song started that my body, physiologically began to speak to me , like my blonde hair on forearms stood up, then from the top of my neck on my spine all the way out to my shoulders got a chill that made my head roll (literally) and I had tp get up...slid off the dryer and directly made my way to the guy playing music. ANd demanded ,WHO IS THIS?!!! NIRVANA... That day in that moment I was so thrilled because music was saved and nothing would be the same again. So I think from the store I know and regard to Butch big. It was kind of necessary for Nevada to break to you guys which are my favorite. The smashing pumpkins to be more than even accepted and they'll turn it off jahra but game changers ... In 1995 I moved to Chicago to law school and one morning. My alarm clock radio woke me up to 1979 and it was serenely and jella. I didn't move. It was the most peaceful loving wake up I've ever had. After I slid out of bed and waited to hear the name of the band but they went directly to commercial. You're sure I was on a hunt though I went to tower records and found out who that band was... Smashing pumpkins melancholy in the infinite sadness changed my life thank you so much love you guys r bands trying to play metal but glam rock just made me give up...

Great interview

This video comes to me from the algorithm gods so to speak. Recently diving into all that is Machina and the animation Glass and the machines of God. The animation is definitely one thing that feels unfinished, unless I haven't found it all. But this exchange between Billy and the fan is really brilliant. Thanks for posting this.

I think when an artist becomes political and tells others what they should think it taints the music.

Billy Corgan has spent 20 years upset that people liked his music in the 90s

THIS IS PATHETIC...PEOPLE, LET THE BAND DIE...IT DOESNT HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO OFFER !!!!! GET OVER IT !!!

That’s so funny because I have this one friend who is musical like me, and for the most part we kinda love all the same music and we love playing together and the genres/styles we gravitate towards in not only playing but listening to music are almost exactly the same except he can’t stand the Smashing Pumpkins (partly because he doesn’t like Billy or thinks he’s an asshole sometimes, but also partially because I’ve always like forced them onto him, saying like, you know, they’re the best, they’re my favorite, I don’t why you don’t like them, so that probably turns him off cause it’s annoying; that is to say, like, it’s not like he doesn’t think they’re good, there’s songs here and there that he likes somewhat but it just bothers him that I’m like so into them and think they’re amazing while to him they’re just like pretty good but nothing special), but one time he told me, there was a time he smoked a shit ton of pot and for some reason or another decided to listen to MACHINA or it came on in shuffle or something and he realized he really likes the layered style to it, but it took him getting so high to realize it lmao.

He got so much influence from The Frogs I love it

Thanks so much for recording and uploading this. I love the sabbath stuff. Just realized "sweet loaf" which is probably less 🍞 and more 💩 By the butthole surfers Is pretty much an uncredited copy/cover pre samples pre clearance practices by labels, I guess, of "sweet leaf" Check it out! Ps OZZY 4EVER

Dude is like, “thanks for listening to my life story, I actually have no question.”

What a dumpy looking dude

The biggest misconception about SP was that they could ever do it right without Jimmy.

I bought Machina on cassette in 2000 and on CD in 2001 - so it sold....

He cares a lot about selling records. There’s “no incentive”? Idk, it’s fun making albums.

Why does he look like a homeless slob?

Billy is the chef that cant be satisfied that someone like a fried egg over easy. Hes got to overcomplicate the fuck out of the recipe with strange ingredients and imported truffel oil and eggs only frm chickens tat live on easter mountain with hand churned butter and explain why its so much better than joes diner eggs...just cook me my plain frigging eggs and shut up about it. Its good that way because i like it that way ... . YOU'RE NOT WRITING MOZART. ITS ROCK AND ROLL.GENIUS!

Awesome of whoever asked about Stumbleine and thanks for posting this. I got to meet BC in 2009 and I asked him about Thru The Eyes Of Ruby and he told me its about an actual person named Ruby which was something I could had never guessed.

Yes, Billy you were being “ironic” the whole time. So was everyone in the 90s. We get it. 🙄

Machina is my favorite Pumpkins album

Don’t meet your hero , you’ll be disappointed.

It's true kids these days just get what's on their phone and enjoy the flavour of the month...doesn't beat vinyl or CD though imho.

Jim Derogatis had high praise for Machina. essentially that it combined the musicianship of early SP with the lyrical prowess of Adore. so probably WPC holds him in higher esteem post 1999

I like the SP but everything he’s saying sounds like someone trying to explain all their regrets or embarrassing memories and make it sound cool.

Did you film any of the other songs which you didn't end up uploading from the Ravinia show? I'm making a multi-cam edit and the quality of your recordings is far better than alot of the other sources! There are a number of songs where there doesn't appear to be any video source for (Chicago / My Poor Troubled Heart / Stand Inside Your Love) or are really low quality (Muzzle / Now (& Then) / The Crying Tree of Mercury / Ava Adore / World's Fair)

The best thing he said was "We want you to be our greatest hits band' but then we said "When were we ever that band?" So everyone had amnesia and we ended up looking like a bunch of assholes.

I'm currently debating purchasing an original LP. It's the only pumpkins vinyl I don't own, yet its my all time favorite album. I even bought Aeroplane. While the reissue is FINALLY coming out the original records artwork will always remain unmatched. Plus the sound quality is said to be just mind blowing on those 2000 Machina pressings.

It's weird, i fucking love that album.

So many funny moments in this video. I love Billy.

Hmmm, I've known the Smashing Pumpkins since Gish came out and my feeling about Billy Corgan through all these years was that he was a stuborn, selfish artist, in search of an identity, divided by who he was and what he thought the people wanted him to be. Instead of just making music that he stood for, he could endlessly wind himself up about what critics would write about him. He felt that he constantly had to explain himself, or his music for that matter. When Adore came out, he received a lot of critique for it not being "rock" enough, unlike the previous 3 albums. Instead of just not giving a fuck and continue what he was doing, he started lashing out and trying to deliberately prove himself he could still rock. Then releases Machina, with super loud guitars, as an answer. He even wrote an entire alter ego Ziggy Stardust like play around it, Glass, but people didn't get it. Don't tell me you put all that effort in that album if it was meant as a middlefinger joke to everybody because you knew the SP were ending. To me it was nothing but an identity crisis fueled by criticism. And that story that he proudly tells here, where Dave Grohl says "That's so wrong" because he played Bullet With Butterfly Wings deliberately wrong on stage, who the fuck does that to his fans? I despise artists who forget that the reason why they have a shitload of money and are able to perform their hobby as their job is because of their fans. I once read an ariticle where he wound himself up because he got critique for only playing unkown new songs, and zero (no pun intended) hits of his previous albums, on a gig. He said: "I'm the artist here, I decide what I play and what not on stage. Who are they to say that these new songs are not as good as my older songs?" Instead of just giving the fans something in return, he treated them like shit. "Coming off stage, laughing or whatever" and still having this grin on his face while telling his story. I think Siamese Dream is a master piece, but its creator has got issues.

I wonder if he still feels this way entirely...

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Machina is there best album

Sure Billy. You're so smart.

Dave was right about the BWBW rework. That shit was indeed wack as fuck.

"Juke box fuck up, hangin' round the drug store." Definitely about someone stumbling through life. I love it! Thanks for sharing.

His head in the thumbnail is orange like a 🎃🤣

MACHINA!!!

god i love Machina , underated album