I think it should be a musical crime that this album wasn't a massive success..This albums song writing and emotional potency is the best billys made since the 90s
It seems many people are discovering this album now, long after it came out. I am glad to see it getting some love. I was able to see this entire album played on their Oceania tour in 2012. Good times.
I feel like this song came into my life at just the right time... Thank you Billy Corgan for always believing in yourself. "There's a sun that shines in you!"
This song is amazing! The seamless transitions, song structure, melody and lyrics really make this song. Plus it has a tinge of Mellon Collie\Siamese Dream feel to it.
Rise! Love is here Oh don't make me wonder Life's never clear where choice is a gift To use and abuse To build on proof Oh don't make me suffer Birds find the wind and wing Rest in the shells I've desinged Run through the fields I've denied And stroll upon the years I'm alive There's a sun that shines in There's a world that stares out at me And all I refuse to please Breathe! Love is air Oh don't make me suffer To dash debonair where chaste is the wish To bust with pain A heart goes blank Oh don't make me wonder To ask on behalf of you Of you, where are you? Where are you in you? There's a sun that shines in There's a world that stares out at me And all I refuse to please There's a sun that shines in There's a world that stares out at me And all I refuse And all I'd ever use in me There's a sun that shines in me There's a sun that shines There's a sun that shines in me
This is, without a doubt, their best album in YEARS. Great lyrics (as per usual), each song has its own beautiful quality, and there's always a kind of magical, oneiric quality in Billy's voice (for the most part, especially on this album, etc.). A lot of people do not have poetry running through their veins, so they cannot even remotely grasp the insight of such an Imaginative gloriousness. This album is perfect after reading Gaston Bachelard's "The Poetics of Space." Bravo and then some!
This album took me waay longer to discover than it should've. Don't get me wrong, I loved the og line-up but the fact that this is still a banging sound just reiterates how amazing Billy Corgan is. Not that it's a surprise to anyone but the Pumpkins would be nothing without him.
So apparently the guitar he used on this recording was also used to record Mayonaise and he also wrote 1979 on it, but didn’t use it to record the album version. It’s a Teisco Kimberly Apollo II guitar, similar to James Iha’s Teisco ET-230 guitar on the Rocket video and the Pisces Iscariot band photo.
This song is just so beautiful...the modal progression just sounds so hopeful...BIlly's voice just sounds perfect, the guitars soar, the drums stomp like no tomorrow...i'm sure this would just fill a stadium...
When I was first listening to Oceania in it's entirety, I didn't really know what to expect. But when I got to about 3:25 on this song, the music gave me an incredible feeling and a smile on my face that wouldn't go away. I'm going to listen to this album for many years to come. Thank you, Billy.
Darcy did shit for SP, when I see people complain that SP is "gone" since all the members left, remember who recorded all the tracks and wrote all the songs in the first place! Billy is love, Billy is life.
Erigorn - Erik Iha recorded almost all his parts on Siamese Dream. It took him hundreds of takes but he did it. Also on Machina. Iha is an amazing guitarist. All those little riffy fills are Iha. Corgan molded him indeed but he totally owns his shit. Iha is an amazing guitarist!
Sorry, but on MCIS, for the most part, all members, including D'arcy, recorded their own parts. Watch the 666 tape, specifically Jimmy and her rehearsing Zero, then listen to the album version. It's almost identical.
Why do people dislike this album? It's got everything I love. Billy Corgan, a progressive element (the drummer adds that) some soft stuff, even those exotic keyboards. Maybe it's cuz Billy is the only original member? That doesn't bother me...I always believed HE was SP to begin with. As much as James, Darcy and Matt contributed, he has always kept it afloat. And this album makes me happy he is keeping the name and music alive and well!!!!!
I'll tell you why. Many fans don't feel good with theirselves if thet don't hate the last album of their favourite band. In a few years, Oceania will be remembered as one of the greatest Smashing albums right next to Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie, I'm sure.
Alvaro Perez Santolaria I gotta disagree. I just didn't get Oceania. It wasn't terrible by any means but a far cry from, say, Adore or Machina. Zeitgeist was simply bad (just my opinion). That's not to say these albums don't have great individual moments. The lack of original members never bothered me, Billy was always the Smashing Pumpkins. I am looking forward to Monuments.
Oceania was amazing, I think the songwriting is excellent. It's one of Billys best albums I think certain people may not understand it because the songs aren't filled with grungy distortion, I'd bet if he had at least 5 heavy rockers more people would of loved it, plus I'm think certain pumpkin fans just don't like synths...oh well their loss for being closed minded.
Billy sounds like he a great night's sleep on this album. God I love the SP. I fucking love them. All records, all members. Thank you, Bill. You're music is a breath of fresh air in this dome of shit music we live in.
without a doubt one of the best and most cohesive albums i have heard for years. It feels like a journey as any great album should, each listen get better and more meaningful....they may be in a different guise but without a doubt the Pumpkins are back...and Amen to that ;)
I don't know what to say about this album...I heard it just a few weeks ago, just the day before I went back to school, and this music has supported me for so many years...I'm just at a loss for words...such a wonderful and melodic set of tunes by Billy and the gang.
Yeah and he continues to reinvent himself. "Oceania" is sooo chuck full of brilliantly complex arrangements and fresh approaches to every aspec of songwriting and composition. I particularly love these intros and other parts in the songs where instead of giving your the full arrangement right away he lets each instrument come in one at a time. At first you go hmmm what is this? and then you go Ohhhh I seee :) Genius! :) Billy rules so does Smashing PUmpkins. Can't wait to see them this tour!
The greatest thing they have ever produced ... thus far. Maybe the fan base isn't there anymore. Who knows. But still the best thing they've ever done.
had this song been on Mellon Collie it would be a classic still performed. Yet it got lost during a time SP fans were distracted. Kind of nice to have this hidden gem too.
i cn them 26/6/12 this song rocked i also cn them on zeitgeist tour at a v fest and this last gig felt like the old pumpkins i luv this album billy is back at his best
I think the critiquing of this album, and of Billy's life is exactly what this song is about. It's people judging him for not pleasing everyone and doing what he wants, and that he is good person, full of love. My favorite song on the album.
I just listened to this album for the first time, somehow missing it in Pumpkins line-up of albums. Really digging the album. It's Pumpkins but you can tell Billy is trying to add new elements while keeping that Pumpkins sound, and I think he did a great job. The new drummer playing very much in style to Jimmy. Yeah, two thumbs up, its a good album, though a couple songs get a little weird, I just expect that anymore with a Pumpkins album.
Straight up man! Guess which album was great. "Machina of the gods". Where are the fans that listen to every album in order these days? No one else has the musical context of the band. Oh and Gish is always gonna have a special place in my heart!
This is by far their most underrated album. Every song is fantastic.
everytime you have a teen boy drummer accepted by a known band like Smashing, composed of 40-45yo adults (at the time) yeah, it is kinda fantastic :-)
That would be Zeitgeist (although only the first six tracks are good)
I think it should be a musical crime that this album wasn't a massive success..This albums song writing and emotional potency is the best billys made since the 90s
This is the the best Pumpkins album, hands down.
NosferatuNite
I loved Machina though...
It is a success it's just times change
Amen
It has all the albums in one record!!
It seems many people are discovering this album now, long after it came out. I am glad to see it getting some love. I was able to see this entire album played on their Oceania tour in 2012. Good times.
Same! Such an amazing show and record 🙏
Such a fun song. Drummer is going nuts, bass is dinging all around, and guitars are just singing. Love it.
This is easily in the Top 40 all-time Pumpkins songs
This song is heroic. So is Billy Corgan.
How could this have not been a huge hit? To me one of their best!
Revisiting Oceania now I have to say Panopticon, Pinwheels, and Oceania are the classic songs to emerge from this record. great songs!
Quasar is quite good too.
Pale Horse gets me every time.
Celestials and Wildflower too
The Chimera too. That song rips.
I feel like this song came into my life at just the right time... Thank you Billy Corgan for always believing in yourself. "There's a sun that shines in you!"
When Biily is on form he's still one of the best of all time!
This song is amazing! The seamless transitions, song structure, melody and lyrics really make this song. Plus it has a tinge of Mellon Collie\Siamese Dream feel to it.
Rise! Love is here
Oh don't make me wonder
Life's never clear where choice is a gift
To use and abuse
To build on proof
Oh don't make me suffer
Birds find the wind and wing
Rest in the shells I've desinged
Run through the fields I've denied
And stroll upon the years I'm alive
There's a sun that shines in
There's a world that stares out at me
And all I refuse to please
Breathe! Love is air
Oh don't make me suffer
To dash debonair where chaste is the wish
To bust with pain
A heart goes blank
Oh don't make me wonder
To ask on behalf of you
Of you, where are you?
Where are you in you?
There's a sun that shines in
There's a world that stares out at me
And all I refuse to please
There's a sun that shines in
There's a world that stares out at me
And all I refuse
And all I'd ever use in me
There's a sun that shines in me
There's a sun that shines
There's a sun that shines in me
You could produce a video to this song (the creation of Adam) if you know anything about ROME...or don't you?
Thanks for the lyrics... Really appreciated.
Damn, man. This song is epic and huge. The Pumpkins and great music are back.
This gets better and better
'Don't make me supper!'
- The Smashing Pumpkins
This is, without a doubt, their best album in YEARS. Great lyrics (as per usual), each song has its own beautiful quality, and there's always a kind of magical, oneiric quality in Billy's voice (for the most part, especially on this album, etc.). A lot of people do not have poetry running through their veins, so they cannot even remotely grasp the insight of such an Imaginative gloriousness. This album is perfect after reading Gaston Bachelard's "The Poetics of Space." Bravo and then some!
This is amazing so many feelings in one song.
This album took me waay longer to discover than it should've. Don't get me wrong, I loved the og line-up but the fact that this is still a banging sound just reiterates how amazing Billy Corgan is. Not that it's a surprise to anyone but the Pumpkins would be nothing without him.
So apparently the guitar he used on this recording was also used to record Mayonaise and he also wrote 1979 on it, but didn’t use it to record the album version. It’s a Teisco Kimberly Apollo II guitar, similar to James Iha’s Teisco ET-230 guitar on the Rocket video and the Pisces Iscariot band photo.
This song is just so beautiful...the modal progression just sounds so hopeful...BIlly's voice just sounds perfect, the guitars soar, the drums stomp like no tomorrow...i'm sure this would just fill a stadium...
Wow - just found this.. fantastic!!
Billy just keeps coming up with all these amazing riffs and melodies. Glad to see that 20 years later the band still rocks!
melody maker
This song is EXACTLY what I needed right now.
First time I've ever heard this song. It might be new, but it's in the vein of all the most classic Smashing Pumpkins. Love this.
i'm so glad they're bringing this one back. oceania is an excellent record, makes you think just how much better it would've been with JC and James
I think this album quickly became my all-time fav Smashing album. It's just brutal. Beautiful!
When I was first listening to Oceania in it's entirety, I didn't really know what to expect. But when I got to about 3:25 on this song, the music gave me an incredible feeling and a smile on my face that wouldn't go away. I'm going to listen to this album for many years to come. Thank you, Billy.
This is my current fave from the album!
this album is fantastic,I never was interested in it until i saw the concert from NY in 3-D and now love it...
I went to the tour, they opened in México City, it was fantastic, a dream!
I saw them live in Toronto two weeks ago ❤🎉
This song is a master piece!!!
My favorite of the album
Best sp song of the new era.
2:14-3:40 Supreme happiness :)
Billy has to stay depressed 99% of the time to reach that level of happiness once in a while and record it
my all time favorite
I love this song so much, I wish it was played more! Would love to hear an acoustic version.
Darcy did shit for SP, when I see people complain that SP is "gone" since all the members left, remember who recorded all the tracks and wrote all the songs in the first place! Billy is love, Billy is life.
Jimmy was an amazing drummer.
Erigorn - Erik Iha recorded almost all his parts on Siamese Dream. It took him hundreds of takes but he did it. Also on Machina. Iha is an amazing guitarist. All those little riffy fills are Iha. Corgan molded him indeed but he totally owns his shit. Iha is an amazing guitarist!
Untrue Jaymie. Billy alone played on SD.
Jayme Theis It was all billy on the first two albums for the guitar and bass work
Sorry, but on MCIS, for the most part, all members, including D'arcy, recorded their own parts. Watch the 666 tape, specifically Jimmy and her rehearsing Zero, then listen to the album version. It's almost identical.
Absolutely my fav song in this album..But this album is Marvelous!!!
Fuckin' amazing music!
Why do people dislike this album? It's got everything I love. Billy Corgan, a progressive element (the drummer adds that) some soft stuff, even those exotic keyboards. Maybe it's cuz Billy is the only original member? That doesn't bother me...I always believed HE was SP to begin with. As much as James, Darcy and Matt contributed, he has always kept it afloat. And this album makes me happy he is keeping the name and music alive and well!!!!!
It sounds bitchin' on this vinyl copy too.
If old school pumpkins fans some how don't like this then it's because they are not right in the cranium kind of sad
I'll tell you why.
Many fans don't feel good with theirselves if thet don't hate the last album of their favourite band. In a few years, Oceania will be remembered as one of the greatest Smashing albums right next to Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie, I'm sure.
Alvaro Perez Santolaria I gotta disagree. I just didn't get Oceania. It wasn't terrible by any means but a far cry from, say, Adore or Machina. Zeitgeist was simply bad (just my opinion). That's not to say these albums don't have great individual moments. The lack of original members never bothered me, Billy was always the Smashing Pumpkins. I am looking forward to Monuments.
Oceania was amazing, I think the songwriting is excellent. It's one of Billys best albums I think certain people may not understand it because the songs aren't filled with grungy distortion, I'd bet if he had at least 5 heavy rockers more people would of loved it, plus I'm think certain pumpkin fans just don't like synths...oh well their loss for being closed minded.
LOVE THIS TRACK!!
Best SP song
Love this song!
Billy sounds like he a great night's sleep on this album. God I love the SP. I fucking love them. All records, all members. Thank you, Bill. You're music is a breath of fresh air in this dome of shit music we live in.
Making album after album after album before it's time since 1998
This song drags me back to the 90's so easily..
Just an incredible album!
Love this song, very underrated album that reminds me of high school. Hell all of Smashing Pumpkins reminds me of high school 😁
Amazing drumming
It's such a hopeful track. where was this when I was a depressed teenager? lol
I love this song :) just like the rest of the album!
i love the guitar harmanys
I would love to hear this live.
So happy to be alive right now.
Does this sentiment still hold a year later?
This is excellent thanks for the listen!
without a doubt one of the best and most cohesive albums i have heard for years. It feels like a journey as any great album should, each listen get better and more meaningful....they may be in a different guise but without a doubt the Pumpkins are back...and Amen to that ;)
they are back! this's what i wanna hear for along time ago! great oceania...
one of their best , and a great new-ish sound . exciting to think of what's ahead.
All of this album is excellent and I love it.
I don't know what to say about this album...I heard it just a few weeks ago, just the day before I went back to school, and this music has supported me for so many years...I'm just at a loss for words...such a wonderful and melodic set of tunes by Billy and the gang.
Yeah and he continues to reinvent himself. "Oceania" is sooo chuck full of brilliantly complex arrangements and fresh approaches to every aspec of songwriting and composition. I particularly love these intros and other parts in the songs where instead of giving your the full arrangement right away he lets each instrument come in one at a time. At first you go hmmm what is this? and then you go Ohhhh I seee :) Genius! :) Billy rules so does Smashing PUmpkins. Can't wait to see them this tour!
This needs to be performed live again with JC
agree, I'd lose it
The greatest thing they have ever produced ... thus far. Maybe the fan base isn't there anymore. Who knows. But still the best thing they've ever done.
had this song been on Mellon Collie it would be a classic still performed. Yet it got lost during a time SP fans were distracted. Kind of nice to have this hidden gem too.
I was just listening to "Just Another Day" by Oingo Boingo and I can hear the DNA of that song in this one. :)
one of my favorites.
i cn them 26/6/12 this song rocked i also cn them on zeitgeist tour at a v fest and this last gig felt like the old pumpkins i luv this album billy is back at his best
I'm really impressed with your babble. You have inspired me to be a better person.
I think the critiquing of this album, and of Billy's life is exactly what this song is about. It's people judging him for not pleasing everyone and doing what he wants, and that he is good person, full of love. My favorite song on the album.
This song is a fucking banger.
GREAT SONG...GREAT RETURN...
awesome
Thank you for posting the studio version! Much love
Just awesome
mike byrne. wow. saw them live on this tour. he blew everyone away.
A positive Billy something we all SP fans need I think
Beautiful
******* Brilliant album !!!!!!
It took me a bit to warm up to it, but this turned out to be a pretty good album. certainly the best to come out of the "new" pumpkins.
I just listened to this album for the first time, somehow missing it in Pumpkins line-up of albums. Really digging the album. It's Pumpkins but you can tell Billy is trying to add new elements while keeping that Pumpkins sound, and I think he did a great job. The new drummer playing very much in style to Jimmy. Yeah, two thumbs up, its a good album, though a couple songs get a little weird, I just expect that anymore with a Pumpkins album.
progrock power rock! Love it. This is beyond...
Mike byrn got the chops... he is like mini jimmy..
Best Pumpkins material in nearly a decade
this album just gets stronger and stronger with each listen.
💜 this song so much😏. Thank you
Love it!!
Love it love it LOVE IT
Amazing!
Such a great song! Welcome back S.P.!
Straight up man! Guess which album was great. "Machina of the gods". Where are the fans that listen to every album in order these days? No one else has the musical context of the band. Oh and Gish is always gonna have a special place in my heart!
this is true music
Welcome to a new era of awesome music
Very good album - i will buy it.
still making great music nice
uma grande banda...
rest in the shells ive designed>>>>>>>> AMAZING................ This Is my FAV song EVER!!!
timing
Pretty good, I don't really like much of the pumpkins stuff past 92 but this is actually really good, i like the new direction
AMAZING
awesome!
Thanks Billy, I appreciate you being famous and not letting that effect the way you make music.
Yes, a very good album, too!
Oh and long live the Mighty SP!
Still got it!