''Adore'' is the fourth studio album by the American
alternative rock
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band
the Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins (also referred to as simply Smashing Pumpkins) are an American alternative rock band from Chicago. Formed in 1988 by frontman and guitarist Billy Corgan, bassist D'arcy Wretzky, guitarist James Iha and drummer Jimmy Ch ...
, released on June 2, 1998, by
Virgin Records
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. After the multi-platinum success of ''
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'' is the third studio album by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released on October 24, 1995, in the United Kingdom and a day later in the United States on Virgin Records. Produced by ...
'' 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
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albums and the departure of drummer
Jimmy Chamberlin
James Joseph Chamberlin (born June 10, 1964) is an American drummer and record producer. He is best known as the drummer for the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. Following the 2000 breakup of the band, Chamberlin joined Pumpkins fro ...
. Frontman
Billy Corgan would later characterize ''Adore'' as made by "a band falling apart". Corgan was also going through a divorce and the death of his mother while recording the album.
The result was a much more subdued and
electronica-tinged sound that
Greg Kot
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of ''
Rolling Stone
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'' magazine called "a complete break with the past".
The album divided the Smashing Pumpkins fan base and sold only a fraction of their previous two albums. However, similar to the band's other releases across the decade, the album was critically acclaimed, becoming the third straight Pumpkins album to be nominated for the
Grammy Award
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for
Best Alternative Music Performance
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, and has retrospectively gained a cult following. 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 to 2000. This is their only album to be recorded as trio, and their first album not to feature an official drummer.
Background
The Smashing Pumpkins had cemented their place as a cultural force with 1995's multi-platinum ''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness''. Feeling the limitations 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 "
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the band zeroed in on electronica.
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.
During this period, the band released two new singles on movie soundtracks—"
Eye" and "
The End Is the Beginning Is the End
"The End Is the Beginning Is the End" is a Grammy Awards of 1998, Grammy Award-winning song by American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. Released as a single by the Smashing Pumpkins in the aftermath of their 1995 album ''Mellon Col ...
". 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
(born March 26, 1968) is an American rock musician. He is best known as a guitarist and co-founder of the alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. He was a member until the initial breakup in 2000. Among his musical projects of recent years ...
,
D'arcy Wretzky
D'arcy Elizabeth Wretzky-Brown (born May 1, 1968) is an American musician. She is the original bass player of the alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins and is credited on their first six studio albums. She left the band in 1999.
Biograp ...
, 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
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-inspired experimentation, soon had second thoughts about this approach and began envisioning a hybrid of
folk rock
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and electronica that was at once "ancient" and "futuristic".
Recording
The Smashing Pumpkins started demoing in February 1997 and recorded 30 songs for the album which, at one point, looked set to be a double album. The band subsequently cut the number of tracks on the album to 14.
After playing several festival dates in summer 1997, the band began working at a variety of Chicago studios with producer
Brad Wood
Brad Wood is an American record producer located in Los Angeles. He has produced many albums, including Liz Phair's '' Exile in Guyville'' and Placebo's debut.
Career
Wood is from Rockford, Illinois, United States.
In 1988, Wood, along wi ...
—with whom Corgan previously had worked in the early 1990s. While ''Mellon Collie'' had mostly been recorded with the full participation of all the band members, the band dynamics during the new sessions soon muddled as Corgan, uninspired by his bandmates, worked mostly alone.
Wood, too, was leaving Corgan unsatisfied, so, after six weeks in Chicago, the band—minus Wood and Matt Walker—relocated to Los Angeles and started work at
Sunset Sound
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, with Corgan now the de facto producer.
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The band rented a house, and hoped living communally would foster good relations and a happier recording environment.
[Corgan, Billy.]
Way Out in Outpost Canyon
". ''The Confessions of Billy Corgan''. April 13, 2005. According to Corgan, Iha refused to live in the house and rarely visited.
The recording sessions continued to be slow-moving and heavily technical.
[Corgan, Billy.]
". ''The Confessions of Billy Corgan''. April 14, 2005. In the absence of a drummer, the band used a
drum machine as it had in its earliest incarnation.
The band also enlisted
Joey Waronker
Jon Joseph Waronker (born May 20, 1969) is an American drummer and music producer. He is best known as a regular drummer of both Beck and R.E.M., and as member of the experimental rock bands Atoms for Peace and Ultraísta.
Background
Waronke ...
, of
Beck's band, and
Matt Cameron
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, of
Soundgarden
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and
Pearl Jam, for a few songs each.
Bon Harris
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of
Nitzer Ebb contributed electronic sequencing and sounds to eight album tracks, with the band giving him mostly free rein.
At the behest of the band's management,
Rick Rubin
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Rubin helped popula ...
was brought in to produce one song, "
Let Me Give the World to You", but the song was left off the album, later to be re-recorded for ''
Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music
''Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music'' is the sixth studio album by the American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. It was released for free on the Internet on September 5, 2000. Plans for a standard physical release, bundl ...
''.
With around thirty songs recorded, Corgan began to see an end, and enlisted ''Mellon Collie'' co-producer
Flood
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to help finish the recording, pull the album together, and mix the songs.
Art direction for the album is credited to Frank Olinsky, Billy Corgan, and Corgan's then-girlfriend and frequent collaborator
Yelena Yemchuk
Yelena Yemchuk ( Ukrainian: Єлена Ємчук, born April 22, 1970) is a Ukrainian photographer, painter and film director, best known for her work with The Smashing Pumpkins.
Early life
Born in Kyiv, Ukraine to an athlete and a teacher ...
. The artwork for the album and its singles consisted almost entirely of black-and-white photographs shot by Yemchuk, many of which featured model
Amy Wesson.
Music
Corgan was deliberately setting out to widen his band's sound and message, explaining that he was not "talking to teenagers anymore. I'm talking to everyone now. It's a wider dialogue. I'm talking to people who are older than me and younger than me, and our generation as well."
He said much of the record was "an attempt to go back to what's important at a musical core and build it outward". He would later reflect that he was "stuck on the idea that
eneeded to prove
ewas an artist, which is the
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of any artist".
[Alexander, Phil. ''Interview with Billy Corgan''. ''Mojo''. February 2012.]
The music on ''Adore'' has been categorized by reviewers as
electronic rock
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,
gothic rock,
art rock,
and
synth-pop.
Distorted guitars and live drums, the previous hallmarks of the Pumpkins sound, took a back seat in a sonic palette that included much more synthesizers,
drum programming
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,
acoustic guitar, and piano.
At least five songs on the album are driven chiefly by piano.
"Tear" was written for the ''
Lost Highway'' soundtrack, but was rejected by
David Lynch in favor of "Eye". "Pug" was originally recorded as a "
minor key
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Intervals
Some intervals ...
blues death
march
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" with drums by Matt Cameron, while the album version uses drum programming.
The only song on the album to feature Cameron, "For Martha", is a tribute to Corgan's mother that was primarily recorded as one live take.
Apart from being the first album without Jimmy Chamberlin, ''Adore'' was the first album to not include writing contributions from James Iha,
[(1998) Album notes for ''Adore'' by The Smashing Pumpkins, D booklet Beverly Hills: Virgin America.] who was concurrently working on his solo album ''
Let It Come Down''. However, he did contribute the track "Summer" to the "
Perfect" single.
Promotion and release
The lead-up to ''Adore'' was marked by conflicting statements as to the album's sound—Corgan initially said the band was heading in the direction of the heavy-metal-guitar-and-electronic music-driven "The End Is the Beginning Is the End" in summer 1997. while the band's management reported the album would be all acoustic. In early 1998, Corgan called the sound "arcane night music", elaborating, "The people that say it's acoustic will be wrong. The people that say it's electronic will be wrong. The people that say it's a Pumpkins record will be wrong. I will try to make something that is indescribable". Further complicating the situation was the record label's initial insistence to use the Rick Rubin-produced, upbeat, poppy song "Let Me Give the World to You" as the album's
lead single
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Release s ...
, something Corgan strongly objected to, fearing it would give listeners the wrong first impression of the album.
Corgan had to drop the song off the track list altogether to avoid using it as a single.
[Billy Corgan on 'Adore', His '90s Self and the Final Days of Alt-Rock « Radio.com](_blank)
''Adore'' was released on June 2, 1998, in most of the world, the same day the video for first single "
Ava Adore" premiered. The album booklet and music video showcased the band's new
gothic
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**Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...
look. The second single, "Perfect", was also accompanied by a music video, which debuted on August 16.
Touring
After the release of ''Adore'', the band embarked on a scaled-back 14-show world tour entitled ''An Evening with The Smashing Pumpkins'' to support ''Adore''.
Abroad, the Pumpkins played at what had been called an "eclectic mix of interesting venues", among them the rooftop of a FNAC record store in Paris, France, in the botanic gardens of
Brussels
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, Belgium, at the
Cannes Film Festival
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, and at an International Shipping Harbor in Sydney, Australia. In the United States, the Pumpkins donated 100% of their ticket profits to local charities (yet one stop on the tour, Minneapolis, was a free concert and underestimated the attendance of the show). In the end, the Pumpkins, with the help of their fans, raised over $2.8 million in this manner.
The lineup was the most expansive yet, including former
John Mellencamp
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and
Melissa Etheridge
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drummer
Kenny Aronoff
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Early life
Aronoff grew up in Stockbridge, Massachusetts He developed an interest in music at an early age and gravitated to the drums as "drumming was one hundred percent ener ...
, percussionists Dan Morris and
Stephen Hodges, and
David Bowie
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pianist
Mike Garson
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Early career
Garson went to Lafayette High School in Brookly ...
. Violinist
Lisa Germano
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was also set to appear, but did not ultimately appear in the touring line-up. The set was mainly ''Adore'' material, with only a handful of reworked ''Mellon Collie'' songs and no songs from prior to 1995, eliminating many of their radio hits and fan favorites,
with the exception of some shows performed in South American countries like Brazil and Chile, where they played for the first time, so they included old hits like "Today" and "Disarm".
In retrospect, Corgan regretted the decision to hire the two percussionists to play alongside Aronoff, instead of having the drummer play along with loops from the album. "That drove Kenny up the wall because Kenny has perfect time and one guy played on top and the other behind. I remember Kenny saying, 'I feel like I'm tripping on LSD' because he kept hearing things that were not in time, and it drove him crazy," said Corgan in the ''Adore'' reissue liner notes. Performing with Garson was also challenging because, according to Corgan, "he made a decision 40 years ago that he would live in the intuitive flow of what he was feeling, so he literally cannot play the same thing twice. So we'd have gigs where he'd have that same magic as on ''
Aladdin Sane'' and the next night he'd come and play the extreme opposite style—like
honkytonk. I really respect Mike, but to play with him was always challenging; precisely because he is such a supreme musician."
Reception
Critical reception to ''Adore'' was generally positive. Greg Kot of ''Rolling Stone'' magazine regarded ''Adore'' as "the most intimate album the Pumpkins have ever made and also the prettiest, a parade of swooning melodies and gentle, unfolding nocturnes".
Ryan Schreiber of ''
Pitchfork
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The term is also applied colloquially, but inaccurately, to ...
'' described the album as "the Pumpkins' best offering since ''Siamese Dream''".
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of
AllMusic
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described ''Adore'' as "a hushed, elegiac album that sounds curiously out of time".
''Adore'' was considered one of "an inspiring range of 25 classic alternative American albums" by ''
The Guardian
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''. The lyrics received particular praise from critics—
Jim DeRogatis
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of the ''
Chicago Sun-Times
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'', who in 1993 had criticized Corgan's lyrics as "too often sound
nglike sophomoric poetry", said Corgan "took a big leap forward as a lyricist" starting with ''Adore''. Schreiber, who criticized ''Mellon Collie'' as "lyrical rock-bottom", called ''Adore''s lyrics "poetic", particularly singling out "To Sheila".
Greg Kot emphasized the "oblique, private longings, and weighty, sometimes awkward conceits" in the lyrics,
while David Browne of ''
Entertainment Weekly
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'' called them "unsettled and unsettling".
The contributions of Wretzky and Iha also received praise, with Kot noting that "Iha's quirky guitar accents and Wretzky's unflashy resolve
..give ''Adore'' a warmth and camaraderie no other Pumpkins album can match."
[Kot, Greg. "Pumpkin Seeds", ''Guitar World''. January 2002.]
Despite this, public reception to ''Adore'' was lukewarm. ''Adore'' entered the ''Billboard'' album charts at number two with 174,000 units of the album sold, and was certified
platinum
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Pla ...
by the
RIAA five weeks later, but the album soon departed the charts, leaving ''Adore'' far short of the sales figures of its predecessors. Two additional promotional singles, "
Crestfallen" and "To Sheila", were released to radio stations but failed to gain traction and were never released as commercial singles.
As of May 2005, ''Adore'' has sold 1.1 million units in the US, and at least three times as many copies worldwide.
Corgan blamed himself for the record's reception with the public, saying he "made the mistake of telling people it was a techno record" and that if he "would have told everyone ''Adore'' was the Pumpkins' acoustic album we would have never had the problems that we had". Corgan wrote on the band's website that the album's title was "misunderstood" and "a joke that no one ever got", explaining that ''Adore'' was meant as a play on "A Door", meaning the album would offer a new entrance to the band's career. In 2005, Corgan would call the making of the album "one of the most painful experiences of my life".
Track listing
2014 CD/DVD reissue
As part of Virgin/Universal Music's reissue campaign, a special edition of the album was released on September 23, 2014.
The release consists of the original album remastered and 91 bonus tracks of previously unreleased material, demos and alternate versions of ''Adore''-era songs, and was released in five formats; the physical box set containing all 107 tracks, the
digital deluxe edition containing 74 of the bonus tracks, as well as single disc
CD and double-
LP versions containing only the stereo remaster of the album.
The digital version of the reissue was released on October 3, 2014.
The actual ''Adore'' album was remastered by
Bob Ludwig. The entire set includes session outtakes and a mono version of the album, with Corgan saying the new mixes contain "elements from the original sessions that were stored digitally, but never used; such as some of the work done by
Bon Harris
Bon Harris (born Vaughan David Harris; 12 August 1965 in Chelmsford, Essex, England) is an English composer, producer, singer and songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is a founding member of the British EBM group Nitzer Ebb, programming N ...
".
The package also includes a DVD consisting of footage of the band's show from August 4, 1998, at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, Georgia.
Personnel
The Smashing Pumpkins
*
Billy Corgan – vocals, rhythm and lead guitar, piano, keyboards, production,
mixing,
art direction and
design
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*
James Iha
(born March 26, 1968) is an American rock musician. He is best known as a guitarist and co-founder of the alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. He was a member until the initial breakup in 2000. Among his musical projects of recent years ...
– lead and rhythm guitar, vocals
*
D'arcy Wretzky
D'arcy Elizabeth Wretzky-Brown (born May 1, 1968) is an American musician. She is the original bass player of the alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins and is credited on their first six studio albums. She left the band in 1999.
Biograp ...
– bass guitar, rhythm guitar (uncredited)
Additional musicians
*
Matt Walker – drums on "To Sheila", "Ava Adore", "Daphne Descends", "Tear", "The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete", "Annie-Dog", and "Behold! The Night Mare"
*
Matt Cameron
Matthew David Cameron (born November 28, 1962) is an American musician who is the drummer for the rock band Pearl Jam. He first gained fame as the drummer for Seattle-based rock band Soundgarden, which he joined in 1986. He appeared on each of ...
– drums on "For Martha"
*
Joey Waronker
Jon Joseph Waronker (born May 20, 1969) is an American drummer and music producer. He is best known as a regular drummer of both Beck and R.E.M., and as member of the experimental rock bands Atoms for Peace and Ultraísta.
Background
Waronke ...
– drums on "
Perfect", additional drums on "Once Upon a Time" and "Pug"
*
Dennis Flemion
Dennis Flemion (June 6, 1955 – July 7, 2012) was a founding member, with his younger brother Jimmy, of the controversial independent rock band The Frogs. He was the primary percussionist for the band and was also a temporary member of The Sm ...
– additional vocals in "To Sheila" and "Behold! The Night Mare"
*
Jimmy Flemion
Jimmy Flemion is a founding member, with his older brother Dennis Flemion, of controversial independent rock band The Frogs. Jimmy is mostly the lead singer and guitarist for the group. He has been known to play solo shows with just an acoustic gu ...
– additional vocals in "To Sheila" and "Behold! The Night Mare"
*
Bon Harris
Bon Harris (born Vaughan David Harris; 12 August 1965 in Chelmsford, Essex, England) is an English composer, producer, singer and songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is a founding member of the British EBM group Nitzer Ebb, programming N ...
– additional
programming on tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, and 13; additional vocals in "For Martha"
*
Brad Wood
Brad Wood is an American record producer located in Los Angeles. He has produced many albums, including Liz Phair's '' Exile in Guyville'' and Placebo's debut.
Career
Wood is from Rockford, Illinois, United States.
In 1988, Wood, along wi ...
– additional production and engineering on tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 13, and 15, additional vocals in "Behold! The Night Mare",
organ in "Blank Page"
Technical
* Robbie Adams –
engineering
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, mixing
* Chris Brickley – recording assistant
*
Flood
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– additional production, mixing
* Eric Greedy – mix assistant
* Steve Johnson – recording assistant
* Ron Lowe – recording assistant
* Jay Nicholas – mix assistant
* Frank Olinsky – art direction and design
* Neil Perry – engineer, mixing
* Matt Prock – recording assistant
* Chris Shepard – engineer
* Jamie Siegel – mix assistant
*
Bjorn Thorsrud
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He also engineered, mixed, or contributed production or programmi ...
– digital editing, engineering
* Ed Tinley – recording assistant
* Andy Van Dette – digital editing and compilation
* Jeff Vereb – recording assistant
*
Howie Weinberg
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Career
Weinberg mastered Herbie Hancock's 1983 album '' Future Shock''. Other ...
–
mastering
* Howard C. Willing – engineering, mix assistant
* John Wydrycs – mix assistant
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Yelena Yemchuk
Yelena Yemchuk ( Ukrainian: Єлена Ємчук, born April 22, 1970) is a Ukrainian photographer, painter and film director, best known for her work with The Smashing Pumpkins.
Early life
Born in Kyiv, Ukraine to an athlete and a teacher ...
– photography, art direction and design
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1998 albums
Albums produced by Billy Corgan
Albums produced by Brad Wood
Albums produced by Flood (producer)
The Smashing Pumpkins albums
Virgin Records albums
Electronic rock albums by American artists
Gothic rock albums by American artists
Art rock albums by American artists
Synth-pop albums by American artists