Smashing Pumpkins: Adore (Virgin)
Eric Weisbard, Village Voice, 27 May 1998
TRUE, BILLY Corgan has removed most of the guitars, the pounding, the rat-in-a-cage rage from Smashing Pumpkins' new album. But don't worry: he remains stupendously insufferable.
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