"Adore" is the 4th studio album by the Smashing Pumpkins released in 1998. After the multi-platinum success of "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" and a subsequent world tour, "Adore" was considered "one of the most anticipated albums of 1998" by MTV. Recording the album proved to be a challenge as the band members struggled with lingering interpersonal problems, musical uncertainty in the wake of three increasingly successful rock albums, and the departure of drummer Jimmy Chamberlin. Frontman Billy Corgan would later characterize Adore as made by "a band falling apart". Corgan was also going through a divorce and the death of his mother while recording the album.
The result was a much more subdued and electronica-tinged sound that Greg Kot of Rolling Stone magazine called "a complete break with the past". The album divided the Smashing Pumpkins fan base and was not as commercially successful as their previous two albums. However, similar to the band's other releases across the decade, the album was critically acclaimed, becoming the third straight Pumpkins album to be nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance, and has retrospectively gained a cult following.
This deluxe reissue has been remastered from the original tapes and sounds better than ever with foil gatefold cover and insert taped to back of cover.
Black Vinyl Pressing
Tracklist
Side A:
1. To Sheila
2. Ava Adore
3. Perfect
4. Daphne Descends
Side B:
1. Once Upon A Time
2. Tear
3. Crestfallen
4. Appels + Oranjes
Side C:
1. Pug
2. The Tale Of Dusty And Pistol Pete
3. Annie Dog
4. Shame
Side D:
1. Behold! The Night Mare
2. For Martha
3. Blank Page
4. 17
