Music
September, 1998
RockThe Smashing Pumpkins' latest effort, Adore (Virgin), finds them competing with Radiohead to become alternative music's answer to Pink Floyd. Head Pumpkin Billy Corgan has always been adept at blending his punk and Seventies progressive-rock roots. He weaves dense textures with his fuzzed-up, blissed-out guitar leads. But it's his grandiose orchestrations and graceful melodies that help the Pumpkins fill stadiums. Adore's art-rock pretensions are based more on subtle electronica and drum loo...
