Love

"Love" is a song from The Smashing Pumpkins' third studio album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. With its guitar flange effect and anamorphic vocal effects, the title "Love" may be a conscious attack on love itself.

Billy Corgan writes in the 2012 reissue liner notes, "Love represented here is both oppressive and inescapable; an unrelenting God that won’t let go until you are spent and hollowed o-u-t."

In a 1998 interview with Switch Magazine, Corgan was asked about what sex and love meant to him, to which he replied, "[sex] doesn’t interest me, I can reject i it … I don’t reject love. Love is what you are, love is suicide."

On Billy's Gravity Demos I the song was known as Straight Ab.