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Generally favorable reviews- based on 118 Ratings
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Positive: 102 out of 118
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Mixed: 7 out of 118
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Negative: 9 out of 118
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Jan 26, 2018
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Feb 6, 2014
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Feb 22, 2013I'm not sure how to feel about this album. I'm a HUGE Pumpkins fan. But this seemed a little too poppy. With the exception of "My Love is Winter", "The Celestials", "Quasar", "Panopticon" and "Violet Rays." Not my favorite. But, it's was a noble effort. The Smashing Pumpkins are as good as they were in the 90's. Maybe it'll grow on me.
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Feb 1, 2013
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Aug 13, 2012Oceania has both that classic sound we love and something completely new at the same time. A very mature album and maybe the their best work yet. Amazing on the first listen, but commands multiple listens and grows more each time.
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Jul 28, 2012Really enjoyed this album. Billy has still got it, that's for sure.
Not typical Pumpkins, but I guess this band really isn't the Pumpkins anyway. Still a great listen with a few tracks which I just get carried away listening to. -
Jul 25, 2012
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Jul 17, 2012It really pains me to say this. SP was THE definitive band of my youth. This album is hot garbage. It's no better than any of the other horrible albums that have come out by SP in the past 10 years (not to mention an absolutely dreadful solo album by Corgan). Sadly, I'm done with SP and will no longer hope for them to produce good music.
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Jul 13, 2012
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Jul 4, 2012
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Jul 4, 2012This is an amazing record that needs to be listened with your heart and without preconceptions... You will be rewarded if you listen to what is truly in there .... and not what the critics or a deluded mind says... ; )
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Jul 1, 2012This is an amazing record that needs to be listened with your hearth and without preconceptions... You will be rewarded if you listen to what is truly in there .... and not what the critics or a deluded mind says... ; )
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Jul 1, 2012
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Jun 28, 2012
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Jun 26, 2012This new Smashing Pumpkins album shows Billy Corgan and his new bandmates coming up with some beautiful music - great melodies, lyrics & just coolness! It's no doubt that Corgan is an amazing frontman - the great pumpkin that some refer to him as - and a musical artist with lots of awesome ideas and realizations. He shines wonderfully on this album.
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Jun 24, 2012
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Jun 22, 2012This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Jun 22, 2012
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Jun 21, 2012
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Jun 21, 2012Oceania is a true return-to-form for the Smashing Pumpkins. This album contains the emotional, powerfully written songs that singer-songwriter Billy Corgan was famous for in the
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Jun 21, 2012Amazing. not since Siamese Dream has a Billy Corgan album sound so intense. It is a beautiful, exciting, rocking album from a band that has, at best, released mediocre material over the last 19 years. So Good!
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Jun 21, 2012
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Jun 20, 2012
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Jun 20, 2012Another addition to what is the great Billy Corgan and Smashing Pumpkins. Buy it even if your skeptical. Its well worth the purchase. Album starts off really Strong with Quasar and just keeps your interest from there the whole way threw.
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Jun 20, 2012Most of the critics and people who dislike this amazing album, its basically because Billy Corgan is the only remaining member of the original band....but F** that...This album is amazing, easily the best since the 1995 masterpiece Mellon Collie, Oceania yells out loud what Smashing Pumpkins its all about, Billy Corgan and the new members at their best
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Jun 20, 2012
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Jun 19, 2012This is my favorite band. I wish the title track had been produced differently, based on how they've been playing it live (no fade in or out), and I'm slightly more partial to live versions of Pinwheels. Otherwise, this is a really solid contribution that I think points to new ways for SP to continue the legacy. Ride on!
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Jun 19, 2012
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Jun 19, 2012
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Jun 19, 2012Thematically and sonically alive album from the 'new' Pumpkins. I was on the fence about purchasing it, but I'm glad I did because it contains some of Corgan's best work in a long time. He's still a douchebag, but thank God he put something out as pretty and fairly dynamic as "Oceania" so at least we know he still has some creativity left.
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Awards & Rankings
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Aug 29, 2012Oceania lacks the emotional force that it needed to transcend what it is: a former rock star trying to sound vital again.
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UncutAug 2, 2012The loss of drummer Jimmy Chamberlain smarts, but "Quasar" and the :The Celestials" recall the Pumpkins' '90s heyday with out coming over as retread. [Sep 2012, p.86]
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Jul 19, 2012Forget that it's probably the middle part of some overblown epic song set and enjoy it for what it is: 13 songs that try to break new ground, and generally succeed, while managing to sound like the Pumpkins we know rather than plastic studio production.