The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania: Oceania

[@mildseven0506]

One of my favorite Pumpkin songs of all time😍 I can't believe how underrated this album though.

[@spiralmind9589]

lol omfg

[@jasonwiggins5906]

Just discovered this album top 3 for sure ❤

[@ninja_tony]

​@@spiralmind9589 care to explain?

[@nebulous8389]

​@@ninja_tony probably a siamese dream zombie 🧟‍♂️ 🧟‍♂️

[@Oniriqueband]

Same

[@seekah1]

A stunning title track...back to epic SP...this album is so underrated it's a crime.

[@amaxamon]

It's his proggiest album after Machina, people don't like prog, especially alt-rock fans. I think it's his second best after Machina, but I love prog!

[@canag0d]

As a SP fan since ‘92 (when I was 8 and first appreciated music for the first time) I argue this is borderline my fav SP album. So good... Yet different to original SP that’s for sure. billy desire for technical perfection is strong on this album.

[@dotcomgamingd5564]

​@@amaxamonhey I love both Prog and Alt Rock! Lol

[@safod1]

a true genious...this album won't fully be appreciated for years.

[@jonnydavis9011]

I appreciate it very much 🎸😎

[@satirosyninfas5523]

Yest lak Ava Adore brü !

[@hi_its_jerry]

fax

[@bindingjames]

The irony in your spelling of genius!

[@CaptainPronin]

One of my all time favorite albums. Deep lyrics , extremely moody, melancholic and sensual yet so powerful. I’m kind of glad that It didn’t make too mainstream - I don’t want to share this with too many people 😅

[@ultrajayme]

the movements in this piece are straightforward and brilliant. i love this album. reminds me a bit of machina but with a deeper sense of reflection and hope to rise above. amazing songs here. if people can just listen to it for what it is and not for what they want it to be; siamese dream, then they can stop short changing themselves and see this album is extremely relevant and can show the indie scensters how they too need not be afraid of turning the guitar amps above 4 and break a string or 2

[@fiercekitty13]

This song is like if The Cure did a jam session with Led Zeppelin. Billy Corgan is a genius. Just sheer brilliance❤️

[@eduardolucasalvesrodrigues2070]

Perfect description!

[@cpt191021]

haha your right it really is like that

[@investorjeremymetcalf]

Hi =)

[@robertradtke5887]

Lashing Zumpkins 🌝

[@eldazamora4646]

YES!!!!

[@ftroman]

As he's essentially the person that wrote, composed, and arranged just about everything you know as a "Smashing Pumpkins song", I think you may want to reconfigure your world view, friend. He's not going to be making the same music he did 25 years ago, and while that does injure my nostalgia node, he's making some solid contemporary/modern music, and it's great to have him still around and giving us music. Right?

[@C.M.M.23]

1:26 The wall of mellotron behind that soaked-through guitar was genius.

[@lucristianx]

I love the keyboards in this song. I wish Billy had more piano works because what he's done so far with the keys are so beautiful.

[@PerSotha]

this album is getting me through my mothers breast cancer, and spreading the word about to cause, not just the cure. stay motivated and truth seeking everyone

[@LuisMiranda-go7kx]

How did your mother turn out to be?

[@PerSotha]

@@LuisMiranda-go7kx she's great. Beat breast cancer then melanoma. Never give up

[@LuisMiranda-go7kx]

@@PerSotha Awesome! It's nice to know that! Thanks for sharing.

[@kidFLASH891]

To those wishing this was recorded with James, D'arcy, and Jimmy, please note that Billy did everything on Siamese Dream except for drums on a couple tracks. Mellon Collie was a different story, the band worked together on the entire thing. (though there are parts that Billy did on bass)

[@DavidGuardo]

sounds progressive! this is very cool. The drums are absolutely great.

[@YourLordthyGod]

No hyperbole, no idol-worship. Just a great song, and a great new album. Thank you.

[@cpt191021]

but i wana hear how big his rims are and how much bling he is currently wearing

[@mariellemaple]

i love how the song completely changes at 3:30 absolutely stunning

[@MrThunderCouch]

Feels like something off of The Wall at that point.❤

[@markdeboer3109]

I like when the song changes at 4:55

[@pinkbrisingr78]

Amazing music...Way to go Billy and new crew!!! Top echelon artist IMHO.

[@yasut2025]

I couldn't agree more.

[@lindaphillips2638]

This is the best song on this album. I absolutely love this song and the harmonies are excellent and so spot on. Everything about this song draws you in and keeps you there through the entire song!!! Billy Corgan is a musical genius!!! I've been listening to the Smashing Pumpkins for years.

[@MrTeelthethrill]

Billy is a fantastic songwriter and performer! I give him all the credit for the smashing pumpkins success

[@ryanmartin3248]

Love the ambiance on this album! It works so well.

[@jg1772]

Pink Floyd vibe here. Can’t believe I don’t see other comments saying the same

[@001-D]

such grace in this song and the fact that it is 9 minutes just keeps it special it one of those songs that has to played over and over next to the gish vinyl reissue im getting the vinyl of this keep up the good work Pumpkins!!!!

[@skyguy1988]

i always LOVED that thing where it faded out, you thought the song was over...then the drums started slowly coming in around 5 minutes. soooo fantastic!!

[@foxlight3]

This might be the first lyrically brilliant song I've heard in years and years.

[@juliocortes6305]

Listen to TOOL

[@CameronTBC]

This is a perfect song and for me, this is one of the best album covers I have seen in a long time. It captures the music perfectly.

[@MonicaPresaMDQ]

Belleza pura....

[@greyhallow25]

This song is my favorite song by this band to date.

[@zerourizen]

The Smashing Pumpkins never sound the same, they were awesome with their first line up, I love Gish, Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, but this is great as well, of course I miss D'Arcy, James and Jimmy ... but this album is just great!!!

[@Samyaza69]

D'Arcy was fantastic.. the real formula of Smashing Pumpkins.. now is too late..however Oceania I agree is a great album!

[@stiggyh]

Samyaza Shemyazaz she was so hot

[@GimmeDangerRecords]

stiggyh early days she was. then... ewww..

[@canag0d]

That is Billy, rarely ever had the same chorus in a song let alone the sound from album to album.

[@oxvaldus]

this album is just fantastic!!!!

[@Fathoms2004]

Oceania must be about the oceanic power of the unconscious mind, as channeled through what in Jungian psychology is called the Anima (archetype of the true self represented in feminine form). what was started in Porcelina, and continued in Mary Star of the Sea, is completed here.

[@benwherlock9869]

No. That's Oceanic. Oceania is from the novel 1984 by George Orwell.

[@Fathoms2004]

Ben Wherlock The title has a dual meaning, which is a product of good writing. I think it's meant to be suggestive of what it's like to live in a totalitarian society, but the imagery of the song itself is unmistakably Jungian in nature. I've read 1984 three times. There in nothing in it that references the Tao ("find the way. skirt the cliff of your illusions. find the faith on me"), and I have also extensively read Carl Jung, as I know Billy has. The principle of which is absolutely centered around integrating the insights of eastern mysticism into western psychology. He wrote about the importance of getting in touch with the intuitive, creative, feminine-unconscious, and saw the Anima archetype as the ultimate soul image of a man which is always in the likeness of a woman. This is what billy sees when he stops doubting himself "how could have I ever doubted you"... It's not as simple as I'm making it out to be of course. But this is principally what I take out of the song. 

[@yasut2025]

I'm actually studying Carl Jung lately. How synchronic! I like your take.

[@jamesajunge]

Fathoms2004 in my opinion, Billy is always singing to another version of "himself" which is the song coming to life through him. His words--his feelings for the music or its "spirit"--seem like dreamy, indirect graspings at connections between all sorts of intellectual and spiritual concepts (as you said) that have probably spoken to him and that he feels capture both his feelings about the song and what the song itself might represent. There's a tension there, though, as he seems to sense his very graspings, themselves, potentially getting in the way of the pure "feminine other" he is chasing after with everything he has. I take the line "My mistake as the last remaining soldier was to take the place of you" (and other similar lyrics from this album in particular) as a sort of realization of this dynamic and a commitment to let his art be about itself for its own sake, and to let that stay the priority even though he feels like he is the only one still doing so--not, y'know, self-indulgence or just Billy's direct thoughts on life or whatever. Billy is a true artist in every sense of the word. That's what I admire him most for.

[@foxlight3]

@@Fathoms2004 5 years ago you wrote this so I might not be finding an ear but this paragraph caught me at the right moments to bring me back into the fold. I stayed longer than so many through the mid 2000's and almost up into 2010 when I was discovering some of Machina and other music I had written off was actually worth listening to. (I was so far from home that to even FIND SP was sort of titanic effort) but I'm home and I feel the call but I wasnt sure until I read this so I hope this finds you.

[@Sters100]

Amazing song!!!

[@linkmacloud]

It does actually feel like an "album within an album". This song just made my day

[@scuzzbagz]

''I'm so alone, so alone but better than a wretched world, better than broken pearl'' honestly Gotta say this album finds meaning to the sense of solitude I think more and more individuals are feeling with everyday growing struggles, And giving us a sense of how to Cope with them, And this is helping for me.....alot.

[@dmitriiignatiev6002]

i'm so in love in this song that i'm almost cryng listening it. SP and it's songs heped me so many times to nreak through the hard times of my life. it's a hapiness too see i'm not alone and there so many people like you sharing the same feelings.

[@Shoegaze4Milhouse]

Wonderful, this is what a dream sounds like!

[@user-bf8ki9tc8j]

I've always love this album. I love this band. They are great. This album is very underrated.

[@roiybenkel682]

No one can love you 'Cause no one can free you Lovers can't touch you 'Cause lovers might reach you, yeah I'm so alone, so alone But better than a wretched world Better than a broken pearl I'm so alone, so alone Better tha I ever was Better than a just laid cause Night may keep you sworn May bring you storms From chest to stern The jouney's blessed The warnings circumspect With dreams I've had With dreams I've had And still she's gone And still she's gone Night will fill your rest Negate you best With dreams I've had With dreams I've had Oh would I follow you How could I have ever doubted you? Sweet baby, nuture me Sweet lady, if you please Try the way on me Try the way on me Try the way on me Try the way... Skirt the cliffs of your illusion Find the faith on me My mistake as the last remaining soldier Was to take the place of you Love the way love the way and learn Try the way Cast off your indecision Face to face we breathe Try the way Cast off your indecision Face to face we breathe

[@timmya4000]

i would love for them to go full prog rock for the next album. i wish they had recorded gossamer. i have absolutely no problem with long songs so long as they keep twisting and morphing and don't do the same thing for TOO long. like this little beauty!!

[@kynes333]

(P.S. I see the Cure-ish producing you're doing...love it.) What an homage while preserving the SPs.... artistry at its finest. ...(If only we could chat: I'm in WeHo youre in Malibu.)

[@argus_mg]

1:09 Sounds like Mike Jagger voice...and I miss you uuuuhhuu huhuu

[@BenjaminCoblentz]

love love love this song. really want to get my hands on the guitar tab. it really hurt my heart the first time i listened through - oh, would i follow you, how could i have ever doubted you. so aching and beautiful

[@brandonharris9160]

I heard a lot of the songs on this album were inspired by Isis the Band (named after the Egyptian goddess of magic and wisdom rather than the extremist group)

[@richcole3931]

The arrangements here are just gorgeous.

[@Northernmight]

Honestly, the soundscaping on this album is the best on any SP album. It's SO good. It's like a perfect mix of noisy, poppy, ambient. Just damn good. Only thing that holds it down abit is the vocals. I think they might be abit too loud throughout the album or some such. But the music and soundscaping is SO unique.

[@sheepdavis]

The drums!!!

[@farrellthib]

Hard to believe it's not Jimmy

[@slowheat4651]

This is my 3rd favorite album of theirs ranked: (Siamese Dream, Mellon Collie, Oceania, and Gish)

[@sebdaniel1825]

C'est du très bon SP. On retrouve dans ce morceau le génie de Billy Corgan, la même force émotionnelle que dans Mellon Collie, une pléthore d'instruments en harmonie, une alchimie parfaite entre le rock et l'émotion.

[@autenticocorporeo]

completamente conmovido por este genial disco!! thank for make music again smashing!!!

[@emtom1966]

There's a Cure vibe to this song.

[@virgilwarren5089]

I found it interesting how one of the Cure albums was very influenced by Adore.

[@handel1111]

emtom1966 early Smashing Pumpkins are post-punk/new wave

[@sheepdavis]

ABSOLUTELY!

[@SolidBased]

For sure!! Right off the get lol

[@fuckweedMegafayce]

Smashing Pumpkins roots are in The Cure and Depeche Mode. It shows

[@lobao3131]

Corgan it is the heart and soul .....without him nothing was happened...

[@nypbnyi]

Well said. I have been along for this journey as well. This song is beautiful. I love you Billy.

[@skylilly1]

I actually have allot of relatives there, but I havn't been there for a long time. Usually go for weddings and funerals....but it is a great, great city! My cousin used to race jet engine dragsters there and we'd go to the track occasionaly as well. My nephew travels there for anamai (whatever) conventions where they dress up. And my other cousin is a great bowler and travels to Chicago allot..home of the Pumpkins, right?? Its gotta be great!

[@christiaandirkmaat1093]

A wonderful musical journey, traveling 9 breathless minutes in an unknown world. Then, at the end, you open your eyes and say to yourself: again, I want to leave again..

[@bozcarson8215]

This album is alright! They're still on tour.

[@jameseloga]

Mélodieux ,énergique ,créatif et cette touche inimitable...très bon.

[@SodagornMedia]

Such a great album!

[@Hrimthur666]

Totally agree. I'm happy to have this album in my collection!

[@skylilly1]

This song makes me want to drive down to Florida and put my feet in the salty water and frolic in the waves...love the drumming...awesome song Pumpkins!!

[@adamleard4574]

Bass and drums superb, Flawless

[@LegalizeStimpack]

I think Billy was playing Final Fantasy VII lately! (The opening melody of this song has an unmistakable similarity to a leitmotif from that game's music) Great song!

[@yasut2025]

I'm listening to Final Fantasy VII now. I hear the similarity! Good one!

[@Leukoblast2396]

Stone Codfish Lol

[@MrJackyVong]

The beginning melody remind me a lot the Majora's Mask melody

[@DaSpoonyBard]

Ahead On Our Way is what it sounds like.

[@CourtTV.]

Never played FF but the last time I've heard ff music was on cinematach i will give ff a try on box game pass in a few weeks.

[@timothy1450]

What an awesome album.

[@AiSunCl]

stop comparing this to other bands... music is a form of art. this song is amazing so focus on that. =D i like the beginning of the song the most!

[@stevo18ck]

My Mind is blown by these guys. Billy is a genius!

[@deftoneschick87]

This song makes my life much more awesome!!!!!

[@FrToddUnctuous]

What ever you think about the contribution James and D'Arcy studio-wise, Fair enough. But Jimmy Chamberlain's drumming was a vital ingredient in the distinctive SP sound of the nineties. Even here it's imitated (But never equalled). I like Billy but I'd say he is the kind of person who would start an argument in an empty room, with some of the things he says and playing musical chairs with band members.

[@MultiFelipera]

how i love this song

[@MonkeyManPersonShow]

The middle acoustic part reminds me of the acoustic part at the end of thru the eyes of ruby

[@pditties]

Thru the eyes of Ruby is my all time fave Pumpkins song

[@Wolfmoss1]

love the toms!

[@mrstevo75]

Awesome track. Best Pumpkins have been since Siamese era.

[@patrickortiz5810]

Love this song especially around 4:50 mark!!!!!!!

[@werideatdusk1193]

i gotta say, this beats out anything on "Monuments"

[@mrpumpkinn]

By a country mile.

[@WildSkyMtn]

werideatdusk at least he put monuments with monuments and oceania with oceania, you know what im saying. different albums tha give very different experiences.

[@Northernmight]

+werideatdusk I find One and All and Dorian to be amazing tracks. Really like'em

[@CraigPhilipMyBeer]

Aside from “One and All”, Monuments is by far their worst album. Oceania is definitely their best work post-Machina.

[@stevenroumeliote5134]

Tiberius is an excellent song.

[@Logan912]

You should really check out their album Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness if you haven't already. There are some great epics on their. Though my favorite SP album is Siamese Dream.

[@FrToddUnctuous]

Its not just that original line up made great era defining records, but it's also that they had that charm of a group of complete misfits that went hand in hand with their sound. Billy is great and a good character but I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the others. P.S I like this track, a nice bit of fender blender at the end.

[@adammarquez5203]

The smashing pumpkins

[@jezispolni]

Great song, I´ve started listening Smashing gain!

[@stratyocasterson9237]

I’m so alone, so alone But better than a wretched world I’m so alone, so alone But better than I ever was, better than a just laid cause

[@vjmacc]

A beautiful prog rock track capable of competing with all the great ones!

[@WildSkyMtn]

I never think of them as my favorite band, but they make the short list of bands of which I own every album. Pink Floyd, Beatles, smashing pumpkins. So I guess they are one of my favorite bands.

[@eforester8891]

Masterpiece.

[@Deepcuttt]

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[@edwardsaw13]

that's right it sounds progressive and that's what I like about this one. Wonderful piece

[@Noble750]

I'm really enjoying the drums in this song, Mike did a hell of a job.

[@UseYourAppetite]

One of the best Pumpkins songs in years..

[@tccuhcu3078]

This is the Orion of the Smashing Pumpkins.

[@leperespeakass]

greatest song of this century.

[@s0ulhack33r]

It's funny how people don't remember the other Co-Founder of SP...James Iha!

[@TheCandyHole]

Just beautiful

[@sneezepal]

James, D'arcy & Jimmy who? This is the rockingest version of the Pumpkins ever! Corgan's voice sounds strong & crystal-clear.

[@angelizer999]

epic songs dude. i remember back in 99 flying so high with the mellon collie....

[@sharktongue]

sick drums

[@smoove002]

does anyone know where i can find a tab of the song? more specifically the solo that starts at 6:36 and the distortion playing that starts around 8:20. it's impossible to find! thank you!

[@Firebird356]

I agree with what you are saying. It is interesting that you draw a parallel between Billy experimenting and Radiohead. I used to be a die hard SP fan but a few years ago while TearGarden was trickling onto the web, free, Radiohead released King of limbs which blew me away. That said. I will take a listen to the rest of this album, but I am not holding my breath...

[@Zobavajaina]

This album is fucking amazing. Anyone who says different likes the smell of their own farts.

[@john091077]

Andrew Zobava What's wrong with liking the smell of my own farts?

[@Disconnected.Genius]

Scottish Accent - "Everyone loves their own brand"

[@josetrevino1049]

Best song in the album

[@TheNewYorkTony]

Great Great Album!

[@Ryder5172]

Going to see them Dec 2!!!

[@HeathFirelfyAi]

Billy, did you listen to the Final Fantasy VII theme song before you wrote this? Seriously. The intro... Aerith's theme... either way, great memories. Thank you so much. Really. *Bow*

[@Masterown35]

They still made good music. It's a shame to see old 90's bands like this, because most of them are broken up, or not making any more music. Sure, pumpkins have made new music, but it will never be the same as it was 20 years ago.

[@joaofferreira]

amazing album!

[@skyguy1988]

take care, jeff :"( not sure why you left. but your sound will be greatly missed!!

[@locatolaka]

Really good level musically for Billy and company here. This era pushed their musicianship further. I feel that going "back to basics" with Monuments and Shiny was a bit of a letdown in the face of these songs and what they were promising. I guess one can only take so much hate from so called "fans" before breaking in and doing what they want. I'm glad that with Iha and Chamberlin back in the band they've got back on the track of pushing their craft, even though this prog-alt rock era is gone.

[@AxelleGuitariste]

they were not really puppet ,they've done a lot in the band even so but I agree with you, the base of the band is Billy yes, and he showed that with his solo album and his new SP songs! ^_^

[@AetheriusLamia]

Hey, Mary Star of the Sea has some great tracks (e.g. "Honestly").