Track Listing

1. To Sheila
2. Ava Adore
3. Perfect
4. Daphne Descends
5. Once Upon A Time
6. Tear
7. Crestfallen
8. Appels + Oranjes
9. Pug
10. The Tale Of Dusty And Pistol Pete
11. Annie-Dog
12. Shame
13. Behold! The Night Mare
14. For Martha
15. Blank Page
16. 17

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5833 in Music
• Released on: 1998-06-02
• Number of discs: 1

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.

Spin
Adore is a late-night album, a headphones album, one designed to be listened to alone rather than in the mosh pit. It demands close attention to the bloom and scent of its mix, so that it doesn't turn into floral wallpaper.

The problem is that the album's melodies aren't up to that standard, and without the oomph of a real band behind them, they need to be. The omnipresent, obsessively nuanced production details (strings, subtle vocal harmonies, delectable guitar tone) candy everything up, but most of the time there's not much inside these arrangements except air. And the lyrics are generally on the wrong side of the line between deeply personal and deeply meaningless....

Customer Reviews

"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!

Penetrating
If you listen to this album and are not at some point moved by its beauty then I feel for you because you have no soul and are completely lost forever.