And I'll pull your crooked teeth You'll be perfect just like me You'll be a lover in my bed And a gun to my head We must never be apart | Kerrang!

ON THIS DAY, June 2nd, 1998, THE SMASHING PUMPKINS released their fourth album, Adore, through Virgin Records. According to common perceptions, Adore is the Smashing Pumpkins album in which Billy Corgan and his band alienated large swathes of the fanbase, embraced drum programming, incorporated more synthesisers, dialled back the riffs, and adopted a goth aesthetic. While this is mostly true, the band still created an album as sprawling, confounding, and intriguing as Mellon Collie and the Infin