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| Length = | Label = Virgin | Producer = | Last album = ''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'' (1995) | This album = ''Adore'' (1998) | Next album = ''Machina/The Machines of God'' (2000) | Misc = }} ''Adore'' is the fourth album by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released in June 1998 by Virgin Records. After the multi-platinum success of ''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'' and a subsequent yearlong world tour, follow-up ''Adore'' was considered "one of the most anticipated albums of 1998" by MTV. Recording the album proved to be a challenge as the band members struggled with lingering interpersonal problems and musical uncertainty in the wake of three increasingly successful rock albums and the departure of drummer Jimmy Chamberlin.〔The primary source on the recording climate is a three-part blog written by Billy Corgan in 2005, all three of which are referenced extensively in the body of this article.〕 Frontman Billy Corgan would later characterize ''Adore'' as "a band falling apart".〔Interview: Billy Corgan. ''INsite Magazine''. May 14, 2000.〕 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". The album divided the fan base and sold only a fraction of the previous two albums. However, the album was well received by critics, and became the third straight Pumpkins album to be nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance. 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 1991–2000. == Background == The Smashing Pumpkins had cemented their place as a cultural force with the multi-platinum ''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Recording Industry Association of America )〕 Already sensing the limits 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", the band zeroed in on electronica.〔Graff, Gary. "Smashing Pumpkins—Rave of the Future," ''Guitar World''. December 1996.〕 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.〔Corgan, Billy. "(Starcrossed, and subsequently, a door is opened (1997) )." ''The Confessions of Billy Corgan.'' April 12, 2005.〕 In 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.〔 However, the new album material Corgan was writing consisted mainly of simple acoustic songs.〔 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.〔 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".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adore (The Smashing Pumpkins album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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