Smashing Pumpkins September 5th, 2000 Machina II: The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music original vinyl > Q101 professional transfer > CDR > flac > thir13en remaster > flac > CDR Disc One: 01. Slow Dawn 02. Vanity 03. Saturn9 04. Glass' Theme 05. Soul Power 06. Cash Car Star 07. Lucky 13 08. Speed Kills 09. If There Is a God 10. Try, Try, Try 11. Heavy Metal Machine 12. Glass' Theme 13. Cash Car Star 14. Dross 15. Real Love 16. Go 17. Let Me Give the World to You Disc Two: 01. Innosense 02. Home 03. Blue Skies Bring Tears 04. White Spyder 05. In My Body 06. If There Is a God 07. Le Deux Machina 08. Here's to the Atom Bomb --------------------------- 1989 Moon Demo Tape Original Demo Tape > CDR > EAC > FLAC > thir13en remaster > flac > CDR 09. Honeyspider (alt) 10. Spoken Word (pt. 1) 11. With You 12. Egg 13. Spoken Word (pt. 2) 14. Rhinoceraus 15. Bye June 16. Stars Fall In 17. Daughter 18. Spoken Word (pt. 3) 19. Daydream 20. Spoken Word (pt. 4) 21. Psychodelic Here is additional info courtesy of spfc.org and the liner notes: Self-released tape sold at early shows for $5. J-card has lyrics for "Daydream" and a photocopied picture of the band. The picture is hand-colored with pink magic marker. All spellings of song titles are from the sleeve. The title "Stars Fallin" is a misprint; the correct title is "Stars Fall In". Additional info from inside the sleeve: billy corgan - guitars, lead vocal james - guitars darcy - bass jimmy chamberlin - drums PRODUCED by Billy Corgan ENGINEERED by Mark Ignoffo At Reel Time Studios Mark also plays organ DOLBYSOUND All songs by Corgan except Stars fallin by Corgan/Iha and daughter by Corgan/Wretzky (c) 1989 the smashing pumpkins eternal thanks to: chris, bob, cuz, vince, tory, nick, ian, and the cabaret metro. extra eternal thanks to the patient mark ignoffo. Machine II **Remastered** by thir13en Info: These are from the lossless Q101 vinyl transfers. I've done some very acute analysis of each lossless source available, and the Q101 sources were by far the best pure transfer. The Virgin transfer was OK, but had some additional surface noise and a lower digital imprint. The SPIFC transfers are really bad with tons of surface noise, ground-hum and an odd high-frequency tone running through them. This is one I wish I never had to do. As a dedicated fan I feel we got stiffed a bit with this one, though I understand the reasoning behind the way this was released. But vinyl? Ugh! Vinyl sucks! Crackling and fuzzies, incorrect frequency responses. The digital world has done away with that. Sure there are other things missing in the digital realm, but most of that is not even audible by over 97% of humans. This sounds so much better than before, a nice clarity and detail to the songs. Things will jump out that you hadn't noticed before. Of course there's a certain gritty brutality to a lot of it as well, thanks to the vinyl. I did my best to balance a regain of high-end while retaining a lisentable quality. Wasn't easy, but I think it came out decently. And in my opinion, you'll see that some of the better material was left off of M1. Some of this just rocks you to your bones. And you'll never hear James Browns' "Soul Power" like this anywhere else. "...we all know I'm full of shit..."