Adore is the fourth studio album by the American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins (vocalist Billy Corgan pictured), released on June 2, 1998, by Virgin Records. After the multi-platinum success of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and subsequent tour, the Pumpkins' follow-up album was highly anticipated, but drummer Jimmy Chamberlin had left the band, and the recording of Adore was challenging. The album featured a more subdued and electronica-tinged sound than the band's previous work; Greg Kot of Rolling Stone magazine called it "a complete break with the past". Sales for the album were far less than for the band's previous two albums, but it became the third straight Pumpkins album to be nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance. It was well received by critics, and has gained a cult following. A remastered and expanded version of the album was released on CD, vinyl and other formats in September 2014.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adore_%28The_Smashing_Pumpkins_album%29

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1886:

Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom (wedding depicted), becoming the only U.S. president to wed in the White House. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Cleveland

1967:

German university student Benno Ohnesorg was killed during a protest in West Berlin against the visit of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, sparking the formation of the militant 2 June Movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_June_Movement

1995:

Bosnian War: U.S. Air Force captain Scott O'Grady was shot down while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone over Bosnia, but ejected safely and was rescued six days later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_O%27Grady

2010:

A gunman carried out a shooting spree in Cumbria, England, killing 12 people and injuring 11 others before committing suicide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria_shootings

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

rubicon: 1. A limit that when exceeded, or an action that when taken, cannot be reversed. 2. (card games) Especially in bezique and piquet: a score which, if not achieved by a losing player, increases the player's penalty. 3. (transitive, card games) Especially in bezique and piquet: to defeat a player who has not achieved the rubicon. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rubicon

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak. That is, it creates a vision of the world that puts into the limelight the social misery that is usually hidden or concealed by the dominant viewpoints of a society. "Intellectual" in that sense simply means those who are willing to reflect critically upon themselves as well as upon the larger society and to ascertain whether there is some possibility of amelioration and betterment.   --Cornel West https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cornel_West