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| Length = 73:23 | Label = Virgin | Producer = | Last album = ''Adore'' (1998) | This album = ''Machina/The Machines of God'' (2000) | Next album = ''Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music'' (2000) | Misc = }} ''Machina/The Machines of God'' is the fifth album by the American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released on February 29, 2000, by Virgin Records. A concept album,〔Interview with Billy Corgan, May 24, 2000, KROQ-FM〕 it marked the return of drummer Jimmy Chamberlin and was intended to be the band's final official LP release prior to their first break up in 2000. A sequel album — ''Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music'' — was later released independently via the Internet. As with its predecessor, ''Adore'', ''Machina'' represented a drastic image and sound change for the band that failed to reconnect the band with chart-topping success. However, after the relatively brief ''Adore'' tour, the new line-up with Chamberlin and the former Hole bass guitarist Melissa Auf der Maur mounted longer international tours that returned the live incarnation of the band to guitar-driven hard rock style. A remastered and expanded version of the album was announced as a part of the band's project to reissue their back catalogue from 1991 to 2000, though Corgan announced in July 2015 that the release was tied up in legal issues with their record label. == Background and concept == After the ''Adore'' tour ended in the second half of 1998, lead singer/guitarist Billy Corgan immediately began to work on new material, playing new songs as early as October of that year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=spfc.org : Tour History – Dates : 1998/10/31 )〕 In the same month, the four original band members convened, and decided that Jimmy Chamberlin would rejoin the band, and that a final album and tour would be mounted before the group disbanded permanently. "If you want to know what Jimmy brings back to the band," Corgan told ''Q'', "then listen to ''Adore'' and this new record back-to-back. It speaks for itself."〔''Q'', March 2000〕 Corgan envisioned a lengthy concept album in conjunction with a musical theater approach to a tour, based around the idea of the band playing exaggerated versions of themselves, as the press and public seemed to view them. He later explained, "the band had become such cartoon characters at that point in the way we were portrayed in the media, the idea was that we would sort of go out and pretend we were the cartoon characters."〔 From there, a story was conceived revolving around a rock star named Zero (based on the public persona of Corgan) hearing the voice of God, renaming himself Glass, and renaming his band The Machines of God. Fans of the band were referred to as the "Ghost Children". Corgan started recording demos in late 1998 and the band entered the studio in early 1999. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Machina/The Machines of God」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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