Nov 1998 - Oct 1999 - Chicago Recording Company

  (Billy Corgan, Brad Wood, Flood )

• Blue Skies Bring Tears
• The Crying Tree of Mercury
• The Everlasting Gaze
• Glass and the Ghost Children
• Heavy Metal Machine
• I of the Mourning
• The Imploding Voice
• Raindrops + Sunshowers
• The Sacred and Profane
• Speed Kills
• Stand Inside Your Love
• This Time
• Try, Try, Try
• With Every Light
• Wound

• Cash Car Star
• Dross
• Glass' Theme
• Go
• Here's to the Atom Bomb
• Home
• Let Me Give the World to You
• Real Love
• Death Boogie
• In My Body
• [?] (Bringing the We*)
• If There Is a God
• [?] (Jam 13)
• Le Deux Machina
• Saturnine

Machina was haphazardly recorded at Pumpkinland over a span of ten months. Many alternate versions exist of the songs, as the band consistently toyed with their arrangement. The songs on the final album often consisted of combinations of a few different arrangements of each song. In other words, the Machina tracks continually evolved throughout the year, and the tape was rolling during their transformation. Radio was an early incarnation of I of the Mourning, just as Slow Song was of Crying Tree of Mercury and Disco King was of The Everlasting Gaze. The second movement of Glass and the Ghost Children is actually a bit of the six-minute Le Deux Machina (which multiple versions exist of). Go is apparently a James song that was left off the album.

A tape called "the Friends and Enemies of Modern Music" has surfaced, most likely compiled early on during the sessions. The tape included early mixes and recordings of several Machina tracks (most with live-band arrangements) as well as soundboard recordings of Money (That's What I Want) and XYU from the 10/31/98 show. The tape also included an alternate Heavy Metal Machine with both different lyrics and a different main riff, and an arrangement of Blue Skies Bring Tears much like The Arising! version.