Adore by The Smashing Pumpkins

Pros: Laid back mix of eerie and beautiful songs
Cons: Not much rock

How do you follow up a multi-platinum, hit-producing, critically acclaimed, double-disc, modern rock classic?  Not with this.  Three years after unleashing the huge success of an album known as Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, the ...

Pros: "Tear" and "For Martha"
Cons: A lot of downbeatness.

Suppose for a minute that Jimmy Chamberlain had never gone the route he did. What if he had stopped puffing the bullets with butterfly wings and stayed with the band into the recording of Adore? Considering the relative ease with which ...

Pros: A introspective, moody, gothic, poetic masterpiece
Cons: A bit long

We all have comfort albums from our youth, I think. Albums that maybe we never listen to but can't bear to part with. Maybe it's something you're a little embarrassed of owning, too, and every time you see it on the shelf you think "my, how far I've ...

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March 11th, 2004. 10 bombs go off on busy early-morning commuter trains across central and south eastern Madrid. The death toll nears 200, with bodies still to be removed from the wreckage. 1200 are injured by the latest estimates. I realise the ...

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Who remembers when Eye came out, a Smashing Pumpkins obscurity tricked out in electronic rhythms and oblique poetics for the David Lynch film Lost Highway? The song caused major dissent in the ranks of Pumpkins fandom. Those who enjoyed the introspective, ...

Pros: Seamless. Painstakingly crafted soundscape. Corgan's voice compliments the music.
Cons: That this album was released after I'd endured a Pumpkins concert; by the speakers.

This is the only Pumpkins album I own, and may ever own. Okay, I think I own two, the followup to this one I think. It was dirt'e cheap for some reason so I picked it up on a lark, but who knows where it went. But back to this one, or the band rather....

Pros: Beautiful music
Cons: It's long, and at times can sound monotonous

Hearing a Smashing Pumpkins album sometimes can be a difficult thing. Why? Because they refuse to do the same thing twice, and the reasons why you love a certain album can be the reasons why you hate another. Of course, that's not necessarily a bad...

Pros: Beautiful lyrics, equally beautiful instrumentals. Nice mix of different elements.
Cons: None. Well...no, there aren't any.

I think any fan of the Smashing Pumpkins can safely say that every SP album sounds different. Whether its the raw biting rock from Gish, the mesmerizing sprawl of Mellon Collie, or the complex poetic beauty of Adore. Adore isn't exactly a huge change ...

Pros: Ava Adore, For Martha, Perfect, Pug.
Cons: Almost everything.

Why is it, that when a band hits its ultimate peak, it all crumbles beneath their feet? Take, for instance, Coldplay, the socially aware, brit-rock phenomenon, led by the sensible, clean-living Chris Martin. Take one of the leading songs off their ...

Pros: It essentially hits one note the entire album, but it hits it really hard.
Cons: D'arcy's nipples in the booklet disappointed me. It had to be said.

There is no better album to fall asleep and drift away with than The Smashing Pumpkins' Adore. The sound of crickets chirping at the intro hints at this album's desire to be played at night. It is in essence, Mellon Collie disc three, after day ...

Pros: Very emotional, powerful album. Daring step forward for the group.
Cons: Hardly any big guitars. Sorry SD fans...

Adore by the Smashing Pumpkins was, as predicted, a drastic change of ideas compared to its predecessors. Adore throws aside the layered guitars and whining vocals characteristic of earlier albums Gish, Siamese Dream and Mellon Colie and the Infinite ...

Pros: Musically complex, well crafted. A new dose of originality.
Cons: Lacks the rudeness and anger of previous albums.

Travel back in time to 1994, a year after Siamese Dream’s release. The current single is “Rocket”. The song is less than flashy on the mainstream rock scene but the video is memorable. Still, the idea of Smashing Pumpkins is still ...

Pros: "To Sheila", "Crestfallen", "Ava Adore", "Pug", "The Ballad of Dusty and Pistol Pete"
Cons: The final third of the album is very lethargic and non-melodic

The two-disc epic “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” consisted of about half heavy songs and half lighter songs. I always enjoyed the “lighter” half the best. Heavy tunes like “Zero” and “Bullet With Butterfly ...

Pros: Beautiful and poetic. Good mood music.
Cons: Hmmm... well, it doesn't have anything for the hard rock fan except, maybe Ava Adore. It's close.

As a manic-depressive who must have music that flows with my mood I can't escape my love for this album. I love The Smashing Pumpkins of course, but unlike people who where absorbed by them from the beginning, my first taste of them was borrowing the...

Pros: Deep connection between lyrics and music; both lyrics and music radiate on a divine level
Cons: Not much diversity in tempo (similar sound throughout)

When I first bought this album, I placed my bets on a few familiar songs: Ava Adore, Apples and Oranges, and Blank Page, the ones that received radio play at two in the morning. Little did I know I had purchased a piece of the human soul...

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