Smashing Pumpkins: Adore: 2LP Vinyl

2LP 180g Vinyl On 4-sided Vinyl for the Very First Time / Previously Released on 3 SidesRemastering by Stan GetzWhen it was first released on June 1, 1998, the Smashing Pumpkins’ Adore, the follow-up to their mega-successful 1995 double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, fans were puzzled by its lack of rock guitars, its folk and electronic elements and relative intimacy. Even the album title was misunderstood. “The funny thing was [it] was a joke that no one ever got,” says Billy Corgan, explaining that Adore was meant as a play on “A Door.” In other words, Adore offered a new entrance to the band’s career, as Corgan experimented with and without the band–whose drummer (and Billy’s musical confidant), Jimmy Chamberlin’s absence played as large a role as his presence might have in the making of the record. The highly personal Corgan songs reflected on the then-recent loss of his mother (“For Martha,” “Once Upon a Time”), his divorce and female issues (“Ava Adore,” “Crestfal