THE SMASHING PUMPKINS ‘ADORE’ 2LP

Adore was the much-anticipated follow-up to the Pumpkins smash double album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Produced after longtime drummer Jimmy Chamberlin left the project, the 1998 follow-up possesses a more electronics-geared twitch than the heavy alt-rocking beat of their earliest efforts. Yet Billy Corgan and James Ihas guitars still screamed when needed on electro-rock mashups like Ava Adore. At times reserved, at times roaring, Adore is a well-rounded, if heart-heavy reflection on death, divorce and tragedy. A vulnerable late-Nineties classic in the Pumpkins catalogue, remastered and ready to spin on 180-gram vinyl.

TRACKLIST

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