Oceania (studio album)
by The Smashing Pumpkins

Oceania by The Smashing Pumpkins
Year: 2012
Release date: 2012-06-19
Overall rank: 4,343rd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
68/100 (from 241 votes)
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Accolades:
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Award Top albums of the 2010s (781st)
Award Best albums of all time (4,343rd)
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The Smashing Pumpkins bestography

Oceania is ranked 7th best out of 28 albums by The Smashing Pumpkins on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Smashing Pumpkins is Siamese Dream which is ranked number 56 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 18,073.

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Oceania track list

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Average Rating: 
68/100 (from 241 votes)
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06/25/2025 19:18 yoviendra1  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 3668/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 68.4/100, a mean average of 67.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 68.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.1.

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From 02/18/2016 08:59
This record is a mixed bag. Not their best and not their worst. Meh.
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70/100
From 01/29/2016 18:18

This is a good entry into th Pumpkins catalogue and was a significant improvement on Zeitgeist

It sounds quite like melon collie at times

Well wort a listen
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Rating:  
60/100
From 11/19/2015 03:21
When I first listened to the first two tracks I said to myself "Boy this is gonna be a long album..." Coz those 2 songs are really horrible. If you survive those 2 songs however, the album range from average to good. Highlights includes One diamond one heart and The Celestials.
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Rating:  
80/100
From 11/06/2015 20:49
Best Pumpkins album since Mellon Collie....I feel it would have been an even stronger album without the last three tracks.
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80/100
From 01/17/2015 02:00
I have to say that I spun this a ton the summer it came out. Sure, it's gonna age like shit, I agree, but I think it stayed fresh longer for me than for anyone else.
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From 03/28/2014 18:54
Some attempts are made to bring in a classic Pumpkins dreamy shoegaze sound but it comes off as phony and uninspired. Significantly worse than Zeitgeist.
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70/100
From 02/09/2014 11:27
Solid album indeed, some of the best music billy has written in years. Quasar is the opener and fucking rocks like any pumpkin's opener should, whilst Pinwheels is one of the most beautiful songs the band has released in years.
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80/100
From 05/29/2013 16:27
I was a big fan of the Pumpkins in the '90s, growing up with the likes of Gish, Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie. Everything since from Billy has failed to captivate me like those records. Enter Oceania, Billy's most accomplished songwriting in over fifteen years. Many of the songs are unexpectedly subtle and even subdued. Billy sings and plays with more emotion, as if he really cares about this new incarnation of the band. One of the greatest surprises in '12 alternative rock.
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100/100
From 04/13/2013 21:40
I think it was underestimated..
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