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Adore by The Smashing Pumpkins

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    Track     Duration Listeners
1 To Sheila 4:45 141,909
2 Ava Adore 4:21 338,648
3 Perfect 3:26 299,131
4 Daphne Descends 4:38 125,985
5 Once Upon a Time 4:05 118,853
6 Tear 5:52 114,726
7 Crestfallen 4:08 116,710
8 Appels + Oranjes 3:34 93,226
9 Pug 4:46 111,711
10 The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete 4:34 83,898
11 Annie-Dog 3:37 102,565
12 Shame 6:38 99,208
13 Behold! The Night Mare 5:12 83,728
14 For Martha 8:15 100,594
15 Blank Page 4:57 99,824
16 17 0:19 5,991
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About this album

Virgin Records America (2005) Released: 5 Apr 2005 16 tracks (73:07)
Adore is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. Virgin Records released the album on June 2, 1998 in the United States. Adore is the Pumpkins’ only album not to feature original drummer Jimmy Chamberlin. Adore marked a change in sound for The Smashing Pumpkins; Greg Kot of Rolling Stone magazine noted that the album “isn’t just a transitional record; it’s a complete break with the past.” Their previously layered, guitar-oriented sound was largely replaced by a quieter and more electronic influenced sound, and incorporated drum machines and synthesizers. For the release, the band shed their alternative hipster image for a more subdued Gothic look. Billy admitted in his blog to taking “copius quantites of ecstasy” when beginning writing demoes for the album at his home after the Mellon Collie tour.

Despite being called “one of the most anticipated albums of 1998” by MTV, Adore sold only 1.1 million copies in the U.S., far below the Pumpkins’ previous albums Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. However, the album was well received by critics, and became the third straight Pumpkins album to be nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance. Billy Corgan would later characterize the album as “a band falling apart.”
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  • zoobird

    I used to bitch about Corgan and his band but this album is truly amazing.

    17 days ago

  • ataraxi4

    I adore you Adore

    last month

  • KiingNothing

    BEST ALBUM, every song is a masterpiece!

    last month

  • hooray_bianca

    adore is perfect in so many ways

    March 2012

  • senotfed

    TSP aeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee !

    March 2012

  • ataraxi4

    Crestfallen

    February 2012

  • activewaste

    At first I never thought this could live up to the amazing Mellon Collie album, but I was wrong. Every single song on Adore is great!!

    January 2012

  • GabsMeets

    Meu album favorito deles <3

    January 2012

  • Tanru

    This album is a total masterpiece. I pulled out my CD copy of this and notice that the disc is pretty scratched. A testament to the amount of times I played this album over the years (before last.fm) :)

    January 2012

  • ataraxi4

    I Adore this cd

    January 2012

  • CaptainGraphite

    Their greatest album! =)

    January 2012

  • NoiseSonic

    very cool album. Love it!

    January 2012

  • Peggy_Flew

    favourite so far. I'm thrilled with For Martha and Blank Page deeply.

    December 2011

  • pollitor

    Behold! The Nightmare is probably their best song if you ask me... what a great album! Long time without listening and wow, it aged so much better than the other ones. Billy should be more focus in doing something like this and not trying to imitate gish and siamese dream as he's trying to do lately so desperately.

    December 2011

  • pollitor

    @trailways Perfect is the worst SP song ever? WTF? Lyrics are soooo beautiful! And the background guitar with the e-bow are master!

    December 2011

  • saykkk

    Their best. [2]

    November 2011

  • goldengriffin90

    Severely underrated. [2] This is probably my favorite Pumpkins album.

    November 2011

  • sylleryum

    their best, this album is amazinggggggggggggg for martha, such a beatiful song

    November 2011

  • ravenpryde

    i remember when this album came how a friend of mine who liked the pumpkins equally as me was giving them shit for TEITBITE saying they were sounding like the prodigy, yet liked 'eye'...and hated this album. i can only wonder if he finally came around to see the album was actually very good.

    September 2011

  • andyhonig

    Severely underrated.

    August 2011
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