Izdavač: Ostalo
Žanr: Alternativni Rok, Hard Rok i Metal, Rok
Poreklo: Strani izvođač

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Studio album by The Smashing Pumpkins
Released June 2, 1998
Recorded June 1997 – March 1998
Studio Sunset Sound, The Village Recorder, Chicago Recording Company & various studios
Genre
Electronic rockgothic rockart rocksynth-popindustrial rock
Length 73:25
Label Virgin
Producer
Billy CorganFloodBrad Wood
The Smashing Pumpkins chronology
The Aeroplane Flies High
(1996) Adore
(1998) Machina/The Machines of God
(2000)

Adore is the fourth studio album by the American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins, released on June 2, 1998, by Virgin Records. 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.[1] 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.[2] Frontman Billy Corgan would later characterize Adore as made by `a band falling apart`.[3] Corgan was also going through a divorce and the death of his mother while recording the album.[4]

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`.[5] 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[6] and has retrospectively gained a cult following.[7] A remastered and expanded version of the album was released on CD and vinyl in September 2014 as a part of the band`s project to reissue their back catalogue from 1991 to 2000. This is their only album to be recorded as trio and their first album not to feature an official drummer.

Background
The Smashing Pumpkins had cemented their place as a cultural force with 1995`s multi-platinum Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.[8] Feeling the limitations of their guitar-driven hard rock sound, the band had started to branch out during the making of Mellon Collie, and, after the chart-topping success of the electronic-leaning `1979`,[9] the band zeroed in on electronica.[10] As the sprawling and massively successful Infinite Sadness tour wound down, Billy Corgan found himself facing many difficult issues, including musical burnout, the absence of his `best friend and musical soul mate in the band` Jimmy Chamberlin, the end of his marriage, and the death of his mother to cancer.[11]

During this period, the band released two new singles on movie soundtracks—`Eye` and `The End Is the Beginning Is the End`. Both songs incorporated electronic elements, yet retained the hard rock elements of the band`s previous material; one reviewer called the two singles `balls-out, full-energy chargers` and wrote off the Pumpkins` previous remarks that the upcoming album would `rock` less.[12] However, the new album material Corgan was writing consisted mainly of simple acoustic songs.[11] Corgan, James Iha, D`arcy Wretzky, and Matt Walker spent a few days in the studio in February 1997 laying down demos mostly as live takes, and the band hoped to quickly record an entire album in such a manner.[11] Corgan, hoping to maintain the band`s progressive rock-inspired experimentation, soon had second thoughts about this approach and began envisioning a hybrid of folk rock and electronica that was at once `ancient` and `futuristic`.[11]

Track listing
All tracks are written by Billy Corgan

Adore track listing
No. Title Length
1. `To Sheila` 4:45
2. `Ava Adore` 4:20
3. `Perfect` 3:22
4. `Daphne Descends` 4:38
5. `Once Upon a Time` 4:06
6. `Tear` 5:52
7. `Crestfallen` 4:09
8. `Appels + Oranjes` 3:34
9. `Pug` 4:46
10. `The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete` 4:33
11. `Annie-Dog` 3:36
12. `Shame` 6:37
13. `Behold! The Night Mare` 5:12
14. `For Martha` 8:17
15. `Blank Page` 4:51
16. `17` (not on vinyl pressings) 0:17
Total length: 73:25

Personnel
The Smashing Pumpkins
Billy Corgan – vocals, rhythm and lead guitar, piano, keyboards, production, mixing, art direction and design
James Iha – lead and rhythm guitar, vocals
D`arcy Wretzky – bass guitar, rhythm guitar (uncredited)
Additional musicians
Matt Walker – drums on `To Sheila`, `Ava Adore`, `Daphne Descends`, `Tear`, `The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete`, `Annie-Dog`, and `Behold! The Night Mare`
Matt Cameron – drums on `For Martha`
Joey Waronker – drums on `Perfect`, additional drums on `Once Upon a Time` and `Pug`
Dennis Flemion – additional vocals in `To Sheila` and `Behold! The Night Mare`
Jimmy Flemion – additional vocals in `To Sheila` and `Behold! The Night Mare`
Bon Harris – additional programming on tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, and 13; additional vocals in `For Martha`
Brad Wood – additional production and engineering on tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 13, and 15, additional vocals in `Behold! The Night Mare`, organ in `Blank Page`
Technical
Robbie Adams – engineering, mixing
Chris Brickley – recording assistant
Flood – additional production, mixing
Eric Greedy – mix assistant
Steve Johnson – recording assistant
Ron Lowe – recording assistant
Jay Nicholas – mix assistant
Frank Olinsky – art direction and design
Neil Perry – engineer, mixing
Matt Prock – recording assistant
Chris Shepard – engineer
Jamie Siegel – mix assistant
Bjorn Thorsrud – digital editing, engineering
Ed Tinley – recording assistant
Andy Van Dette – digital editing and compilation
Jeff Vereb – recording assistant
Howie Weinberg – mastering
Howard C. Willing – engineering, mix assistant
John Wydrycs – mix assistant
Yelena Yemchuk – photography, art direction and design