119. Smashing Pumpkins - adore

119.SPadore,
originally uploaded by jrd550.

Even if jimmy Chamberlain hadn't been fired for the whole heroin thing it seems like the band was headed towards an electronic drum machine sound anyhow (didn't Eye come out on Lost Highway around then too?). Anybody and everybody was going 'electronic' back then, and to a degree the Pumpkins pull it off. The album takes a different light if you just view it as an intermission until the band regrouped. With that said, it is interesting to hear quiet electronic melodies replace the orchestra sound from Mellon Collie.

"we must never be apart"

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