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# LIFE SOUNDTRACK: The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
- URL: https://www.glamglare.com/music/20141218life-soundtrack-the-smashing-pumpkins-adore/
- Published: 2014-12-19T04:15:04.000Z
- Updated: 2014-12-19T04:15:04.000Z
- Author: Oliver Bouchard
- Tags: Music, #oliver-2, #wordpress, #Import 2024-07-26 07:44

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The Smashing Pumpkins are one of the most successful rock bands of the 90s, so it is odd that I discovered them only by the end of the decade. To be precise: Elke discovered them via the Depeche Mode tribute album *For The Masses* and then then went out to buy *Adore*, their then current ’98 record. 

I remember my first listen well: a bleak Sunday afternoon and I was about to leave town for a few days to attend a startup fair. I listened to this music while I was preparing myself for the trip, but song after song the record demanded attention. 

It starts with *To Sheila*, one of the few acoustic guitar and vocals songs I love. A bold move by the Pumpkins to choose that song as the opener, because what follows after is everything but quiet. In particular *Ava Adore*, which was for some time my go to song when I needed an extra jolt of energy. For example, on New Year’s Eve with the volume cranked up, because nobody would complain anyway. And there are more great songs on it: *Tear* with its relentlessly repeated dramatic synth line or *Pug* that ends with a vicious noise that makes you have a look behind you.

*Adore* was undoubtely the peak of The Smashing Pumpkins. The follow-up *Machina/The Machines of Gods* was forgettable and so was the only show of them I saw. Main guy Billy Corgan then disbanded and resurrected the band under a new and then again the old name – to be honest I lost track over the years.