This is among the most beautiful musical expressions I've ever heard. The guitar solo makes me cry every time; so perfectly sublime is the tone and every note.
I finally gave this album a try and I am blown out of the water. Like many of my friends (with whom we listened to early SP albums constantly and knew them inside-out) I just did not touch this one. What a mistake. Great band, great tunes, incredible sound, billy's voice better than ever. I'll race to the record store to get it right away. So thanks Billy. Now, allow me to elaborate a little on Billy's questioning about what is going on, why "the music industry" and "the audience" perceive SP as old, passé stuff, and they see Foo Fighters as new or fresh. Well Billy, listen, it's simple: Grohl&co. work very hard on their image, on looking "young" and cliche rockers and that stuff... every hair is in the right place if you look at Foo Fighters. They even adjust their music to be apealing to young girls and boys. They do it because they like fame and publicity. You don't need to do that, I know, but than you must understand why SP are not getting that much attention. Take another example, Josh Home of QOTSA, he looks and moves like a "young" rock star, and that IS important, for sure. Very very important. And their band is great and all, no question, but miles behind of you guys. So there is no great mystery in all that - you have to look like a million dollar to be on the covers, basically.
I originally listened to this when it came out in 2012 and I wasn't impressed, but I've went back and listened to it again, just now actually, and I've really enjoyed the album. Also listened to Monuments to an Elegy and enjoyed a few songs on that too. Obviously my favourite is a tossup between Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie (I drift from one to another which one I prefer), but their new stuff isn't to be snubbed as previously thought.
This album takes several listens to begin to understand its power in my opinion. But that's what Billy set out to do with Oceania. He wanted to create an "album" experience. Probably the last time he will ever do it. Its a masterpiece and will one day be recognized as such.
Yeah dude you honestly talk to much, and Tony hawk just recovered. So if somebody gottta slap the dogshiz outta you back to 97’…. They’ll do it bro!!!!!
So beautiful. This album truly couldn't have come out at a better time in my life. It has a very romantic, layered, dreamy style and makes me smile and sigh consistently throughout. I sigh from the raw power of it all.
One of my favourite Rock bands of my life ever since I first heard them when I was a young Teenager I instantly fell in Love with their Outstanding Music, Lyrics and the Band Members themselves Videos etc. The whole Shabang. Billy Corgan is a Genius at his Musical Craft, the rest of the band Rock too. This Album is fucking Awesome I have it on CD I bought it when it was released even though it's all online these days I have lots of CD's kept up from back in the day. Peace and Love from me to all The Smashing Pumpkins Fans out there✌❤🌍
Brilliant, haunting, mesmerising. One of my favourite tracks from SP/s Oceania record. A true artistic highlight of Billy’s songwriting and musical prowess ✨☺️👍🏼👌💜💜💜✨
Wasted along the way I'm wasted along the way I'm wasted along the way to reach you Wasted along the way I'm wasted along the way I'm wasted along the way to reach you Infernal ideas I trim the wick so fine To carry forth your light Comfort me What will leave will leave Comfort me to stem the tide Wasted along the way I'm wasted along the way I'm wasted along the way to reach you Wildflower in the wilderness outside take your chance with love and laughter And every word I write, yeah From that body will never learn When it's far too gone I'd move on Wasted along the way Wasted along the way I'm wasted along the way to reach you Wasted along the way Wasted along the way I'm wasted along the way to reach you Ooh wildflower, wildfower Ooh wildflower, wildfower Ooh wildflower, wildfower Ooh wildflower, wildfower Wildflower
you were all a bigtime part of my young adult and now I am 36 and this new record simply rocks...thank you so much for your music and eye opening reality in the real life
We don't expect him to still be writing songs about the angst of youth, but hell we like to feel the buzz, the uplift, the emotion and the zest that smashing pumpkins is best known for and that were plentiful in the early days. That's what those of us 'non-true-fans' look for in music and now look for elsewhere. so forgive him for mourning it's departure. I don't often complain, but when i see this comments it annoys me a bit to see close minded responses gain weight through popularity.
i used to get so drunk with bacardi 151 with this song on repeat with a loaded shotgun near, wanting to end my life. that was years ago, now i appreciate this song even more, i still drink, but fuck suicide. i just keep going, hoping i will be reunited with my dead family and friends after death. i feel the easy way out won't get me there. or maybe it's all black after death, nothingness? there is still 1% hope in my heart that there is an afterlife..
Ended up listening to this album today after a long time. Miss my dad and some songs here actually talk about loss😢. It's not easy but we need to keep going man.
Magnificent album. No, it won’t be “the old stuff” ever. I think the new stuff is more mature and yet has deep roots in darker rock and electronic. Everyone has to grow up and mature at some point. A few bands have approached maturity and missed the last hurdle and hoped to recoup their older styles again. That to me is faux. You might lose fans but you’ll keep the real ones. People who can recognise a good honest artist
It's awesome to see Billy moving on from the unhealthy relationship that was the old Pumpkins. After listening to Oceania, it was absolutely the right decision. Byrne was undeniably the final piece to the puzzle which makes up this new incarnation of the Pumpkins. Listening to this FANTASTIC record, it's evident that this isn't just a parody of what the Pumpkins used to be, but more of a next chapter with Billy leading them into the unforeseen future of Rock! Go Pumpkins!
Smashing Pumpkins is Smashing Pumpkins. No matter they rocking or not, i still lovely to hear their album. This song somehow have strong soul on it's lyrics
This is gorgeous. I wonder if Corgan has read Euell Gibbons, and seen the beauty of his isolated discoveries? He wrote, "along the abandoned highways and byways" "a weed is just a plant whose uses have not yet been discovered" - One weed has a strange purpose - to destroy the empires of thought control. To burn the weed, the weed burns back, seeding the countereconomy. Just some thoughts, listening to this.
You know why this is great? Because it doesn't sound like 90's music, because that's not what music is anymore. This sounds like a song you'd hear on today's alternative station. Kudos to Corgan
seems rather bizarre that this band would only get 13,000 views in 3 weeks. They were one of the biggest bands on the planet in the early to mid 1990's. I'm not saying they deserve more, or deserve less. Cause I haven't heard this album yet. But it just seems strange the way things change. New generations always take over..
what you said is absolutely right but these days music doesnt reach ppl unless there is a video for the song!!! wait until they come out with a video....im sure they will get million views....peace.
You expect Billy Corgan, now in his mid-40s, to still be writing heavy metal songs with lyrics like "love is suicide" and "living makes me sick/so sick I wish I'd die"? I mean, I love the old stuff, but at some point he had to get over it. He's growing and changing. If he wasn't, the band would be much worse off, because they'd be a bunch of sad losers trying to recapture something long gone.
With this album, Billy has certainly gone in the right direction. I doubt any SP album will ever touch Mellon Collie, there is almost no doubt about that, but this is impressive, especially after all of the shit the band has gone through. They may have changed, but what could you expect? Its been almost 20 years since Mellon Collie, the band would be dead if Billy remained the depressed person he was. No matter how well Oceania does financially, it is a success.
Honestly, he left all of that behind with Mellon Collie. There was an interview where he said the idea of that album for him was to turn 14-24 year old Billy into songs, place it all in a box, and throw it underneath the bed.
It's because radio is dead (for good music) and nobody finds you on the internet unless they are looking for you. I lost a lot for pumpkins back when i saw them at Radio city music hall back in the day, they sucked on stage big time compared to the 5 other times i had seen them. They went down the tubes when adore came out. I'm grateful billy is getting it right this time. Zeitgeist was better then people give it credit for but after this new album i'm gonna go see them again.
Well, a lot of people in this generation love the Pumpkins, too. It's just that Zeitgeist was such a massive failure, so less people are turning out to listen to this album, even though it's much better. I'm sure there'll be more than 13 000 in 3 weeks when the next album comes out.
nothing they or he will make can ever come close to touching siamese dream or mellon collie. those albums were one of a kind. can't say i don't miss that SP/Billy Corgan cause I DO. his genius is still wrapped in albums since. you just have to pay more attention. very few have mastered their instrument like billy corgan.
Actually, it would be more like if John, Paul and George made an album without Ringo and called it the Beatles. It would piss of the fanboys, but if they didn't know who was involved they wouldn't be able to tell.
I'm the same, used to be a huge fan of the Pumpkins, was fortunate to see them live on the Mellon Collie and Adore tours, but for me Machina was the end point of the Pumpkins. I lost interest after that and it's never come back. Zeitgeist was just blah and Oceania, I just have no interest to listen to it. Billy shouldn't have brought back the Pumpkins name, just stuck to his solo stuff and this under that title would be fine.
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This is among the most beautiful musical expressions I've ever heard. The guitar solo makes me cry every time; so perfectly sublime is the tone and every note.
For me, one of the greatest pumpkins tunes ever. EVER.
aaron ballard me too, it gives me chills
all the pumpkins songs are good
This may be one of the best songs ever written and produced. Haunting.
This is so beautiful. Best song of this album.
It is beautiful, I think pinwheels is my favorite, so beautiful , when he starts strumming “ mother moon” that part just gets me
I finally gave this album a try and I am blown out of the water. Like many of my friends (with whom we listened to early SP albums constantly and knew them inside-out) I just did not touch this one. What a mistake. Great band, great tunes, incredible sound, billy's voice better than ever. I'll race to the record store to get it right away. So thanks Billy. Now, allow me to elaborate a little on Billy's questioning about what is going on, why "the music industry" and "the audience" perceive SP as old, passé stuff, and they see Foo Fighters as new or fresh. Well Billy, listen, it's simple: Grohl&co. work very hard on their image, on looking "young" and cliche rockers and that stuff... every hair is in the right place if you look at Foo Fighters. They even adjust their music to be apealing to young girls and boys. They do it because they like fame and publicity. You don't need to do that, I know, but than you must understand why SP are not getting that much attention. Take another example, Josh Home of QOTSA, he looks and moves like a "young" rock star, and that IS important, for sure. Very very important. And their band is great and all, no question, but miles behind of you guys. So there is no great mystery in all that - you have to look like a million dollar to be on the covers, basically.
I originally listened to this when it came out in 2012 and I wasn't impressed, but I've went back and listened to it again, just now actually, and I've really enjoyed the album. Also listened to Monuments to an Elegy and enjoyed a few songs on that too. Obviously my favourite is a tossup between Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie (I drift from one to another which one I prefer), but their new stuff isn't to be snubbed as previously thought.
This album takes several listens to begin to understand its power in my opinion. But that's what Billy set out to do with Oceania. He wanted to create an "album" experience. Probably the last time he will ever do it. Its a masterpiece and will one day be recognized as such.
Looking California feelin Minnesota
When your cousin wouldn’t talk about how this was Adore all over again, and simply inquired if you heard the news😎
Yeah dude you honestly talk to much, and Tony hawk just recovered. So if somebody gottta slap the dogshiz outta you back to 97’…. They’ll do it bro!!!!!
I will always love this song
whenever i tense or have a headache i listen to this song, its so calming and relaxing, its an amazing remedy :)
Makes me cry every time.
So beautiful. This album truly couldn't have come out at a better time in my life. It has a very romantic, layered, dreamy style and makes me smile and sigh consistently throughout. I sigh from the raw power of it all.
Inhabits the sway of the movement of an Ocean's tide. I willingly immerse myself in its current.
Beautiful.
Wow this album gives me chills. The best album so far. I absolutely love it, it's so deep and personal. Billy knows what he's doing!!!!!!
So true
He’s really incredible
That solo man, that solo
no the pumpkins wont ever be the same but billy is still one of the best singers and songwriters of all time and that wont change
One of my favourite Rock bands of my life ever since I first heard them when I was a young Teenager I instantly fell in Love with their Outstanding Music, Lyrics and the Band Members themselves Videos etc. The whole Shabang. Billy Corgan is a Genius at his Musical Craft, the rest of the band Rock too. This Album is fucking Awesome I have it on CD I bought it when it was released even though it's all online these days I have lots of CD's kept up from back in the day. Peace and Love from me to all The Smashing Pumpkins Fans out there✌❤🌍
I always loved the Pumpkins cover images and art work. It makes for a great reflection.
Que c'est beau, magnifique, merveilleux
Brilliant, haunting, mesmerising. One of my favourite tracks from SP/s Oceania record. A true artistic highlight of Billy’s songwriting and musical prowess ✨☺️👍🏼👌💜💜💜✨
Wasted along the way
I'm wasted along the way
I'm wasted along the way to reach you
Wasted along the way
I'm wasted along the way
I'm wasted along the way to reach you
Infernal ideas
I trim the wick so fine
To carry forth your light
Comfort me
What will leave will leave
Comfort me to stem the tide
Wasted along the way
I'm wasted along the way
I'm wasted along the way to reach you
Wildflower in the wilderness outside
take your chance with love and laughter
And every word I write, yeah
From that body will never learn
When it's far too gone I'd move on
Wasted along the way
Wasted along the way
I'm wasted along the way to reach you
Wasted along the way
Wasted along the way
I'm wasted along the way to reach you
Ooh wildflower, wildfower
Ooh wildflower, wildfower
Ooh wildflower, wildfower
Ooh wildflower, wildfower
Wildflower
There's something about this song...gives me a feeling I can't quite put my finger on.
you were all a bigtime part of my young adult and now I am 36 and this new record simply rocks...thank you so much for your music and eye opening reality in the real life
We don't expect him to still be writing songs about the angst of youth, but hell we like to feel the buzz, the uplift, the emotion and the zest that smashing pumpkins is best known for and that were plentiful in the early days. That's what those of us 'non-true-fans' look for in music and now look for elsewhere. so forgive him for mourning it's departure. I don't often complain, but when i see this comments it annoys me a bit to see close minded responses gain weight through popularity.
makes me cry every time
What a way to close a masterpiece of an album.
I'm in love.
Wow. Very solid track.
Love you Pumpkins.
Es un excelente album de principio a fin, The Smashing Pumpkins de los mejores grupos de rock de la historia.
i used to get so drunk with bacardi 151 with this song on repeat with a loaded shotgun near, wanting to end my life. that was years ago, now i appreciate this song even more, i still drink, but fuck suicide. i just keep going, hoping i will be reunited with my dead family and friends after death. i feel the easy way out won't get me there. or maybe it's all black after death, nothingness? there is still 1% hope in my heart that there is an afterlife..
trevor philips Glad to have you still here, dude. I hope you have a good life, always listening to some TSP right?
thank you brother, fucking love Pumpkins! Grew up with them. I hope you have a good life as well. I just take every day light, have fun, don't stress.
Ended up listening to this album today after a long time. Miss my dad and some songs here actually talk about loss😢. It's not easy but we need to keep going man.
Perfect!
Magnificent album. No, it won’t be “the old stuff” ever. I think the new stuff is more mature and yet has deep roots in darker rock and electronic. Everyone has to grow up and mature at some point. A few bands have approached maturity and missed the last hurdle and hoped to recoup their older styles again. That to me is faux. You might lose fans but you’ll keep the real ones. People who can recognise a good honest artist
It's awesome to see Billy moving on from the unhealthy relationship that was the old Pumpkins. After listening to Oceania, it was absolutely the right decision. Byrne was undeniably the final piece to the puzzle which makes up this new incarnation of the Pumpkins. Listening to this FANTASTIC record, it's evident that this isn't just a parody of what the Pumpkins used to be, but more of a next chapter with Billy leading them into the unforeseen future of Rock! Go Pumpkins!
Yes!
This is my favorite song!
Great song! I like how the various instruments enhance the great detail of this song.
Smashing Pumpkins is Smashing Pumpkins. No matter they rocking or not, i still lovely to hear their album. This song somehow have strong soul on it's lyrics
Hauntingly beautiful...perfect
if anyone's interested in what's on the cover of the album, it's North Shore Sanitary District Tower, Cary Ave. Highland Park, Illinois
Amazing Album. band has great chemistry.
This is gorgeous. I wonder if Corgan has read Euell Gibbons, and seen the beauty of his isolated discoveries? He wrote, "along the abandoned highways and byways" "a weed is just a plant whose uses have not yet been discovered" - One weed has a strange purpose - to destroy the empires of thought control. To burn the weed, the weed burns back, seeding the countereconomy. Just some thoughts, listening to this.
I LOVE THIS SONG AND THE SMASHING PUMPKINS. HOLY FUCK.
This Song is hard to listen to, Sad beautifully captivating AHHHHHHH
You know why this is great? Because it doesn't sound like 90's music, because that's not what music is anymore. This sounds like a song you'd hear on today's alternative station. Kudos to Corgan
TheOSUfan46 I actually disagree, I think all of Smashing Pumpkins’s stuff not in the 90s still sounds like it’s a part of that decade.
que brutalidad de canción... grandes los Smashing!!!
The most beautiful song in the world.
thank you pumpkinsmediamilitia for the uploads!
Une merveille, une mélodie exceptionnelle
wow this is such a beautiful song.. amazing new sound
Beautiful!!!
Wow love this track
beautiful song
Auxh nach acht Jahren immer noch anhören
ofcourse they grow. like all off us!
Thank you for this new album guys.
Great song
Bellissima.
Obrigado, Pumpkins, por sempre me acompanharem na jornada da vida.
I second beauty..
Oh yeah, real good song. I enjoyed it very much.
fuckin awesome!!!!! SP are bakkkk!! yeahhhh
Que linda canción
Exactly.
i wanna cry now!!!
seems rather bizarre that this band would only get 13,000 views in 3 weeks. They were one of the biggest bands on the planet in the early to mid 1990's. I'm not saying they deserve more, or deserve less. Cause I haven't heard this album yet. But it just seems strange the way things change. New generations always take over..
what you said is absolutely right but these days music doesnt reach ppl unless there is a video for the song!!! wait until they come out with a video....im sure they will get million views....peace.
my wildflower
Zajebioza !!!!
3:14 I think of my girl at that part.
..........te quiero amigo.........Just because.........
sick
You expect Billy Corgan, now in his mid-40s, to still be writing heavy metal songs with lyrics like "love is suicide" and "living makes me sick/so sick I wish I'd die"? I mean, I love the old stuff, but at some point he had to get over it. He's growing and changing. If he wasn't, the band would be much worse off, because they'd be a bunch of sad losers trying to recapture something long gone.
Even my least favorite Smashing Pumpkins album is still a masterpiece ;)
Awsome song!!! :)
With this album, Billy has certainly gone in the right direction. I doubt any SP album will ever touch Mellon Collie, there is almost no doubt about that, but this is impressive, especially after all of the shit the band has gone through. They may have changed, but what could you expect? Its been almost 20 years since Mellon Collie, the band would be dead if Billy remained the depressed person he was. No matter how well Oceania does financially, it is a success.
I'm not sure of your overall point, but I love King Crimson and Smashing Pumpkins; you are entitled to your opinion.
Honestly, he left all of that behind with Mellon Collie. There was an interview where he said the idea of that album for him was to turn 14-24 year old Billy into songs, place it all in a box, and throw it underneath the bed.
PLEASE come to Australia!
♪ ♫♪ ♫♪ ♫♪ ♫♪ ♫♪ ♫♪ ♫
sounds good to me
It's because radio is dead (for good music) and nobody finds you on the internet unless they are looking for you. I lost a lot for pumpkins back when i saw them at Radio city music hall back in the day, they sucked on stage big time compared to the 5 other times i had seen them. They went down the tubes when adore came out. I'm grateful billy is getting it right this time. Zeitgeist was better then people give it credit for but after this new album i'm gonna go see them again.
Well, a lot of people in this generation love the Pumpkins, too. It's just that Zeitgeist was such a massive failure, so less people are turning out to listen to this album, even though it's much better. I'm sure there'll be more than 13 000 in 3 weeks when the next album comes out.
Thanks for uploading, so the cd is out?? Can't wait to get mine.........:)
Because of Smallville S11 comics #Clois
meanwhile the younger generation is scavenging for the scraps of wonderful music. Music that can sing the rebellion within us.
I especially like the part where he decides to hell with the lyrics and just replaces every word by Wildflower 4:00
waaaa waaaa
sort of like adore, it was really depressing cause of Billy but after that they came out with a kick ass album
nothing they or he will make can ever come close to touching siamese dream or mellon collie. those albums were one of a kind. can't say i don't miss that SP/Billy Corgan cause I DO. his genius is still wrapped in albums since. you just have to pay more attention. very few have mastered their instrument like billy corgan.
kicking myself for not poppin outa my moms womb before y2k
Anyone else think Billy Corgan sounds like Elmer Fudd at the end of this?
have you heard the rest of the album?
the reminiscence state of trainspotting.
Actually, it would be more like if John, Paul and George made an album without Ringo and called it the Beatles. It would piss of the fanboys, but if they didn't know who was involved they wouldn't be able to tell.
Great band. Big influence on my band. Check out our video:
LOCK 12 - Wickem Park ( the official video)
TOMORROW BARCLAYS CENTER FUCK YES.
to reach you
I think you just described Korn.
*with
and yeah hahaha awesome way to just end the song
I'm the same, used to be a huge fan of the Pumpkins, was fortunate to see them live on the Mellon Collie and Adore tours, but for me Machina was the end point of the Pumpkins. I lost interest after that and it's never come back. Zeitgeist was just blah and Oceania, I just have no interest to listen to it. Billy shouldn't have brought back the Pumpkins name, just stuck to his solo stuff and this under that title would be fine.
Hahaha maybe, haven't heard much off their new album.
I’m wasted along the way
well, you. You just answered