U-MV148 - Machines of Loving Grace - Butterfly Wings

[TheChai0628]

Sorry smashing pumpkins, but I like these butterfly wings better. I like any song that goes against human nature. This song is the truest but saddest to hear. I first heard this from90s reality bites radio. This is my 30th favorite song

[TerrarumRaven]

20 years later this song is still sick

[numb3r5ev3n]

My brother had their CD back in 1994, and we pretty much had it on endless repeat for a few months. I wish this band had gotten the recognition they so richly deserved. Nearly twenty years later, this is still awesome.

[primaorangina1]

get rid of the leather jacket...the meat industry (the CIA...corporate industrial agriculture) is subsidized by the leather industry...don't place faith in human beings...they'll treat animals like shit for profit

[VegitoVai90]

The video seems very Alice in Chainsy

[scotttland31]

I heard this song on the radio in Tucson, Arizona back when, and it gave me chills up ma backbone, and then Smashing Pumpkins came out with "Bullet and..." and this song and this band just disappeared. WHAT THE FUCK????. I just found it again after so many, and It still gives me chills. Like music that is played so ear splittin loud that it skips the auditory sensors and goes straight to the brain, like the Pink Floyd Wall concert of long ago. Peace ~G

[returnoftheramble]

you know I went up in flames and nobody told me what was going on. I didn't even know. This culture is some bullshit. I was a poet for years because of this. Years wasted. 

[iEatBoneDust]

God their videos sucked.

[bsonor]

saw them at 'the abyss' in hou.tx 1993...very good live

[TheRealXynot]

I heard this song on the college radio in Kent Washington 2 years before it made it to pop radio. Pisses me off they never made it as big as they could have been. This band was AWESOME! Golgotha Tenement blues from the sound track of the Crow was awesome too.

[ff45t1z]

There is something so perfectly cynical about the lyrics, and his performance of them. Malicious... as if he's only laughing, mocking the predicament, the implications of this cynical message for the audience. Amazing track.

[chrisconwaypeters]

gross



[trollcrusher242]

Thanks for uploading this video.

Met these guys while working at Tower Records in Atlanta, Georgia back in late 1993 / early 1994 as they were touring in support of the "Concentration" album.

Very laid back guys. Was struck by the band's affable nature.

They were cool enough to give me a limited promo CD of "Butterfly Wings" and chose to sign it as well.

Sadly, I no longer own it ... I think that I may have traded / given it to one of my co-workers at Tower. [insert face palm here]

O_o

[Sylvya1401]

This song's so powerful... I love it! <3

[RichardCyberPunk]

What year was this song published ? I never heard about this group, i got it from my cyberpunkreview group. Anyhow, it sounds a bit 80s or early 90s. Sounds nice, but not hot nowadays.

[xAquinasx]

@RichardCyberPunk This album is from 1993.

[MsMcmoe]

I Feel priviliged to have seen this band in concert> the philosophy can ring so true.

[ZenethAlexDax]

mis this one its been a mantra often

[J8T369]

There used to be a great video for "The Richest Junkie Still Alive". That is gone now. 

[lwrong]

MOLG rules! I sound like a high school kid but this shit still rocks 16 years later

[lwrong]

MOLD rules! I sound like a high school kid but this shit still rocks 16 years later

[2snorth]

still incredible after all these years - relevant and inspiring. Thanxmuch for the post!

[RenLB]

Damn i miss the 90s. Wait, can i say that again? DAMN! I R-E-A-L-L-Y MISS THE 90s!

[Mr67ks]

The beautiful person on the guitar is Stuart Kupers-he was a genius before he got sick with Parkinsons and dementia-Pray for him!! He still lives in Tucson.

[jparniawski]

I saw these guys play once for like 50 people in Connecticut (Toads Place in New Haven) and it was one of the most incredible sets I ever saw a band play. I saw them again and got to go on the bus and meet them in Florida in Orlando when they played with Korn and Marilyn Manson...pretty sure that was the lineup...was incredible either way...these guys never got enough credit.

[vatx81]

These guys are legendary and the sad part is most folks have never heard of them. i still have a copy of Gilt on cd.

[TheHydraWomanRules]

I just want to jump out of my skin and dance around the room!

[Milkmadness]

Who's the hipocrite here, human things aren't reliable things? =/

[detoxscission]

@Milkmadness *human beings

[staceysmiz]

if I'm not mistaken these guys went to Uof A with me in the 90's! Oops if I'm wrong! Media arts majors!!!! AZ Wildcats!

[lexaj23]

Wow, I felt like I was 18 again in the underground club in my Docs & micro mini dancing my ass off ! Makes me miss the hot, sweaty, smokey clubs & the intensity of being young & having fun.

[Oliverzackley]

MOLG need to be making this type of music NOW!!! We need more of music like this kick ass tune! Concentration is an amazing album! If you don't have it- get it! If you don't want it- get it anyway!

[ajarnfrankie]

Unfortunately, this song is the only song I remember from the CD when I bought it back in the 90s. The song and the accompanying video are great though...

[irishbearcat2006]

I remember these guys. I got the album with this song on it after I heard their song on The Crow soundtrack.

For some reason, I remember this song being "harder" on the album I had. Is this an earlier/later version?

[Farvadude]

yeah the youtube quality is just bad or else it'd sound better

[Farvadude]

@irishbearcat2006

better quality, youtubes isnt very good

[2redaces]

This was a very underrated band. Wish they'd lasted.

[playskooler]

No I dont think the person that hears Billy Corgan should be shot. There are parts where the singer does sound a bit like him.

[reygiereyes]

I love the concentration album.

[megadeaf]

Great 90s flashback. Huge on radio charts then disappear apparently.

[rglovesu2]

I know, that was the way of the radio world... You've got to admire a rock band that uses Chaos Theory in their lyrics!

[Farvadude]

holy shit you're right, the shape of the graph looks like butterfly wings... my mind has been blown to pieces...

[CatherdralTerror]

great song, love the lyrics. 4 stars.

[shoeman2008]

any 1 know if these guys r still around

[hikingrobin]

They r not unfortunately! They were making another album on 2007, but broke up before it was released! Front man Scott Benzel was last with an electronic band called "Soulo". And Key boardest Mike Fisher was with a band called "Amish Rake Fight". Too bad realy! The first time I heard Machines was on the crow sound track 1994 "Golgotha Tenement Blues" and I was hooked! They only ever made three albums. Should get 'em if u don't have 'em!

[DottyLomax]

I believe you mean 1997, not 2007. Although that would be pretty awesome. The world needs another Machines.

[hikingrobin]

yeah 1997, sorry for the typo!

[Robilar]

The absolute worst fake made-by-a-label industrial band ever...

LYRICS, however are worth the bullshit imagery

[E23R0]

IMO, that dubious honor goes to Stabbing Westward

[WesSeid]

Supposedly, the Concentration album is the one before the label or a different producer sunk their claws in. The shift to heavier industrial is obvious.

I have yet to hear another album from any band that sounds like the Concentration album.

[DottyLomax]

Firstly, I happen to like Stabbing Westward as well as Machines :)

Now that that's out of the way, I don't think either band was trying to be "industrial" so much but rather to play good, heavy rock with touches of electronics interspersed throughout. The term "industrial" is thrown around so much anyway that who knows what it really means anymore. But regardless, both bands were incredibly unique and I wish mainstream bands today would pull more from this than the bullshit that's out now.

[zombidad4life]

hell yea!!!

[mikelicata808]

That's my boy Scott Benzel on vocals

[BananaDeathcoil]

awesome song!

[kidfractus]

I remember in the early 90`s, excellent song!

[GORIZARD2]

i love it

[cousiwa09]

this track is so fucken good, thanks for the upload, i've never seen the vid! cheers!

[diablakitty]

oh and if 1 more person compares this singer to billy corgan, i will kill everyone in a 3 mile range. he ISNT NEARLY NASAL-ish enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DottyLomax]

Billy Corgan? What?!! Whoever made that comparison should be shot.

[diablakitty]

fucking badass song and true, human beings will most likely fail you. especially if you have a vagina and are cursed enough to be cute. get ready bitches, the curse is coming down

[GORIZARD]

great song

[ironwolfosiris]

This band is AMAZING!

[condemned75]

Excellent - hadn't heard of them until The Crow - off to buy some albums :)

[Celandine2]

Also song used on a very clever ep of Due South--in a club scene.

[mbball32]

All of them weren't originally from Tucson-Brad Kemp (drummer) went to North Texas University. However, they did reside in Tucson and Tucson was their home base during their peak of popularity. I hope this helps.

[johnnyk427]

"Dont place faith in human beings", "machines of loving grace".. I think these guys are looking forward to the robot apocalypse

[karmafix68]

tucson's best!

[2redaces]

MOLG was a very underrated band.  All 3 of their albums are awesome.

[modemastermike192]

This is one of my all-time fave industrial rock anthems, even to this day. A classic! Great visuals also.

[ronnghosh]

Its from Punisher War Zone OST. very nice.

[toker4two0]

I wish I could find "Golgotah Tenemnet Blues" by them

[Aymee73]

you can find it on The Crow soundtrack....

[bob389jav]

Don't place faith in Human beings, Human beings are un-reliable things, Don't place faith in Human beings,

Humnan beings or Butterfly Wings.

unreliable things.

[Dloogii]

This song is in The Punisher War zone soundtrack. Great song

[spinglasshydra]

Hey All,

This was, "and stil is a great song," plus you shouldn't place things, or, on blutter-fly wings. It's still a great song.

Best,

M

[WeMustBeStopped]

Man, when this song came on at the club when I was 18, it was ON. I hope to god there isn't any footage in the world of me "dancing" to this.

[picgirl89]

hahaha! that's great. :P

[bcdrummer]

ive loved this song since i was like 6

[lovellpat]

This song was featured in Due South 'Chicago Holiday' episode (part one), when Paul Gross enters a Fetish Club in Toronto

[Olegunja]

That's my favorite band #1!!! And my ringtone as well!!! Wish they were doing music still...

[vaspers]

congratulations. today this video was selected by the NYC Punk Rock Evolution Foundation.

[Rcracer1]

What a cool song from way back! Its cool that the guys that wrote this went to Arizona State! Go Devils!

[4321woowoo]

I thought they were out of U of A? My now wife and I were practically stalking these guys back in the day. Pretty sure it was, we made a lot of trips to Tucson.

[Rcracer1]

You are correct. They were from Tucson.

[forgotmypassword3]

This was my theme song during high school.

[J8T369]

I love this song. The mid 90's had a lot of really good stuff. It is a lost era....

[molonlave2010]

Do you have a remix version of this song?

[mickeyjohannes]

Yeah, Stabbing Westward... good stuff. This album and Gilt stand well over time. No one quite stepped up to replace them. Hey, here we are talking about this band today and this album came out in 1993.

[Robilar]

Wow, tap this with Stabbing Westward... NOYCE

[oldetownecoffee1]

I REMEMBER THIS SONG!!! It was on an X-Files episode! Thank you for putting this up!

So what are the Machines doing now these days?

[Serenitude]

Damn - IF only I could find "The Limiter", my online MOLG collection would be complete ;-)

[LinnaeaF]

Love it!

[3Dxxxx]

i remember this!!! damn im getting old, lmao!

is it true that machines of loving grace were from arizona????? this song rocks!!! love the lyrics!

[scarybaldguy]

Correct, they met at ASU Tempe.

[J8T369]

Really Hot, Slick and Sexy. I will be checking these guys out.

[galanwheel]

GREG WHEELER KICK ASS!

[Averyfane]

fucking gold

brilliance