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Scenes from the Second Storey
Scenes from the Second Storey is the debut album by The God Machine released in 1993 by Fiction Records / Polydor. It peaked at #55 in the UK Album Chart.
The album opens with a sample from the movie adaptation of The Sheltering Sky (the same sample also opens Neurosis' Enemy Of The Sun, an album released in the same year as "Scenes from the Second Storey"), while the single "Home" contains an intro consisting of the beginning of the track
with The Cure's "Wish"; the album's lead single "Friday I'm In Love" also topped "Billboard"'s Modern Rock chart. Additionally, Fiction was home to other artists who signed to the publishing company as well as the record label and released a number of acclaimed albums including Eat's "Sell Me a God" (Fiction/Polydor) in 1989, The God Machine's "Scenes from the Second Storey" (Fiction/Polydor) in 1993 and Die Warzau's "Engine" (