Track Listing

1. To Sheila
2. Ava Adore
3. Daphne Descends
4. Once upon a Time
5. Tear
6. Crestfallen
7. Appels + Oranjes
8. Pug
9. The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete
10. Annie-Dog
11. Shame
12. Behold! The Night Mare
13. For Martha
14. Blank Page

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5707 in Music
• Released on: 1998-06-02
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Japanese edition of their 1998 album with 'Once In A While' added as a hidden bonus track. 17 cuts total, also featuringthe single 'Ava Adore'. A Virgin release.

Amazon.com
With Adore, Smashing Pumpkins return to the forefront of rock to do a dance with a new partner. Trading white-noise vocals and guitars for caramel crooning and dense synthesizers, frontman Billy Corgan drives bandmates James Iha and D'Arcy to a lush aural plateau. The darkness is still there--evidenced in the techno throb of the single "Ava Adore"--but the Pumpkins also tinker with Lennonesque lullabyes ("Behold! The Night Mare"), midtempo electronica ("Appels and Oranjes"), and tender calliope music ("Once Upon a Time"). Smartly, Corgan rarely upstages the watery sounds going on behind him; the trademark midsong blowouts are almost completely absent. Adore will strike your ears and heart in a way you didn't think the Smashing Pumpkins could. --Jason Josephes

Rolling Stone
Instead of stadium-size bombast, Adore dials down the volume to lullaby level. Instead of rat-in-a-cage rage, the new album overflows with heartsick valentines.

Customer Reviews

By far my favorite Smashing Pumpkins album.
I love their heavy riffs, which are completely absent here, but the beauty of the songs have soul of the highest level. This is easily in my top five albums from my collection of over 300. Every track is unlike anything the pumpkins have ever done, and a work of genius. The lyrics are on the highest level I've ever heard from Billy too. As long as the pumpkins next album is good, I'm happy, but if they went back to do something awesome in this style I'd be in the clouds.

"In you I feel so pretty..."
Adore by the Smashing Pumpkins is probably their most misunderstood album ever. I like this album, some of the tracks dabble in electronica especially on the first single, Ava Adore, I just love the lyrics in that song. Songs like Perfect, To Shelia, and Crestfallen display Billy Corgan's sensitive side. This is a stunning album, buy it today!

Adore is the best!
I dont care what other people think about this album because i know its awesome. Adore is darker and more beautiful than their previous albums and if you can apreciate good and beautiful music than you would appreciate Adore!