History Music / Adore

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: The 2014 box set reissue of the album is the most expansive reissue of a Smashing Pumpkins album yet, featuring six [=CDs=], one DVD, 108 tracks, over nine hours of music, and quite a few {{Feelies}}.

'''''Adore''''' is the fourth official studio album by AlternativeRock band Music/TheSmashingPumpkins, released at the start of summer 1998. Intended as the band's "electronic" or "gothic" album, it was regarded as a commercial disappointment on its release, only selling a portion of the previous two albums' sales (despite peaking at #2 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and topping charts in several countries), not to mention how it [[BrokenBase divided the fanbase]]. However, it has come to be regarded as somewhat VindicatedByHistory, as its stature has risen substantially over the years. It is now not uncommon to hear people cite this album alongside ''Music/SiameseDream'' and

'''''Adore''''' is the fourth official studio album by AlternativeRock band Music/TheSmashingPumpkins, released at the start of summer 1998. Intended as the band's "electronic" or "gothic" album, it was regarded as a commercial disappointment on its release, only selling a portion of the previous two albums' sales (despite peaking at #2 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and topping charts in several countries), not to mention how it [[BrokenBase divided the fanbase]]. However, it has come to be regarded as somewhat VindicatedByHistory, as its stature has risen substantially over the years. It is now not uncommon to hear people cite this album alongside ''Music/SiameseDream'' and ''Music/MellonCollieAndTheInfiniteSadness'' as one of their favourites. (For what it's worth, the album received almost universally positive critical reviews when it was released, and band leader Billy Corgan himself predicted that the album would gain in stature after it had been out for awhile).

* EpicInstrumentalOpener: "For Martha"

-->Twilight fades

* ObligatoryBondageSong: "Pug" and "Annie-Dog". They take drastically different views of the subject.

* PunBasedTitle: The album's title is a pun on "a door". [[ViewersAreMorons Nearly nobody got this until Corgan explained it.]]

'''''Adore''''' is the fourth official studio album by AlternativeRock band Music/TheSmashingPumpkins, released at the start of summer 1998. Intended as the band's "electronic" or "acoustic" album, it was regarded as a commercial disappointment on its release, only selling a portion of the previous two albums' sales (despite peaking at #2 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and topping charts in several countries), not to mention how it [[BrokenBase divided the fanbase]]. However, it has come to be regarded as somewhat VindicatedByHistory, as its stature has risen substantially over the years. It is now not uncommon to hear people cite this album alongside ''Music/SiameseDream'' and ''Music/MellonCollieAndTheInfiniteSadness'' as one of their favourites. (For what it's worth, the album received almost universally positive critical reviews when it was released, and band leader Billy Corgan himself predicted that the album would gain in stature after it had been out for awhile).

* PunBasedTitle: The album's title is a pun on "a door". Nearly nobody got this until Corgan explained it.

'''''Adore''''' is the fourth official studio album by AlternativeRock band Music/TheSmashingPumpkins. Intended as the band's "electronic" or "acoustic" album, it was regarded as a commercial flop on its release and [[BrokenBase divided the fanbase]]. However, it has come to be regarded as somewhat VindicatedByHistory, as its stature has risen substantially over the years. It is now not uncommon to hear people cite this album alongside ''Music/SiameseDream'' and ''Music/MellonCollieAndTheInfiniteSadness'' as one of their favourites. (For what it's worth, the album received almost universally positive critical reviews when it was released, and band leader Billy Corgan himself predicted that the album would gain in stature after it had been out for awhile).

!!Tracklist:
# "To Sheila"
# "Ava Adore"
# "Perfect"
# "Daphne Descends"
# "Once Upon a Time"
# "Tear"
# "Crestfallen"
# "Appels + Oranjes"
# "Pug"
# "The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete"
# "Annie-Dog"
# "Shame"
# "Behold! The Night Mare"
# "For Martha"
# "Blank Page"
# "17"

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* MinisculeRocking: "17" is a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin seventeen-second]] piano instrumental (excerpted from "Blissed and Gone") with NoEnding.

* MinisculeRocking: "17" is a seventeen second piano instrumental with NoEnding.

* OneWomanSong: "To Sheila", "For Martha".

* EpicRocking: "For Martha" is over eight minutes long in the stereo mix (still over seven in the mono mix). "Shame" is almost seven minutes long, and "Tear" is almost six.

#To Sheila
#Ava Adore
#Perfect
#Daphne Descends
#Once Upon a Time
#Tear
#Crestfallen
#Appels + Oranjes
#Pug
#The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete
#Annie-Dog
#Shame
#Behold! The Night Mare
#For Martha
#Blank Page
#17

* LoudnessWar: Unfortunately, this affected the reissue pretty badly, especially the bonus material. Strangely, it's not much of a problem on the live DVD, which instead has the problem of having its audio track encoded as 192kbps [=AC3=], meaning that frequencies above 16 kHz are cut off.

* RearrangeTheSong: When performed live, the songs from this album tended to be a lot more guitar-based. In other words, they sounded a lot more like people expected Smashing Pumpkins songs to sound. One wonders if the album would have sold better if the live arrangements had been used on the album.

* LoudnessWar: Unfortunately, this affected the reissue pretty badly, especially the bonus material. Strangely, it's not much of a problem on the live DVD, which instead has the problem of having its audio track encoded as 192kbps AC3, meaning that frequencies above 16 kHz are cut off.

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: The 2014 box set reissue of the album is the most expansive reissue of a Smashing Pumpkins album yet, featuring six CDs, one DVD, 108 tracks, over nine hours of music, and quite a few {{Feelies}}.

* PunBasedTitle: The album's title is a pun on "a door". Nearly nobody got this until Corgan explained it.

The material on this album is substantially more subdued than the band's previous material, owing in large part to the fact that Corgan's mother had recently died of cancer, as well as to the fact that usual drummer Jimmy Chamberlin was not present on this album (having been temporarily kicked out of the band for drug abuse). It still has a wide stylistic range, though, but the territory covered is somewhat different from that of any other Smashing Pumpkins album, and it remains a unique entry in the band's discography.

'''''Adore''''' is the fourth official studio album by AlternativeRock band Music/TheSmashingPumpkins. Intended as the band's "electronic" or "acoustic" album, it was regarded as a commercial flop on its release and divided the fanbase. However, it has come to be regarded as somewhat VindicatedByHistory, as its stature has risen substantially over the years. It is now not uncommon to hear people cite this album alongside ''Music/SiameseDream'' and 'Music/MellonCollieAndTheInfiniteSadness'' as one of their favourites. (For what it's worth, the album received almost universally positive critical reviews when it was released, and band leader Billy Corgan himself predicted that the album would gain in stature after it had been out for awhile).

* ObligatoryBondageSong: "Pug" and "Annie-Dog". They take drastically different views of the subject.