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What did you pay for your button, Bram? And even more important, should we reserve an entry on SPfreaks.com for this it-really-blows-my-mind collectors’ item?[/quote:1jxyvzpr]
the creator sent me a button for free, as i was the person who inspired him to make these.and i guess it could be added to the unofficial part of the spfreaks collection, but it would be a bit silly. funny too.
a recent ebay auction for one of the buttons ended at $2.41. http://www.ebay.com/itm/160833713392
it’s the msopr.com interview: http://www.msopr.com/n/client-roster/th … -pumpkins/
âOCEANIAâ
THE ALBUM:
OCEANIA is the new album by THE SMASHING PUMPKINS, out June 19 via Marthaâs Music/EMI Label Services/Caroline Distribution. The hauntingly beautiful album cover image (above) was photographed by Richard Shay, son of Chicago legend Art Shay.
OCEANIA was recorded at singer/guitarist BILLY CORGANâs private studio in Chicago with his bandmates: guitarist JEFF SCHROEDER, drummer MIKE BYRNE and bassist/vocalist NICOLE FIORENTINO. The powerful 13-song collection (see track listing below) was produced by Corgan and Bjorn Thorsrud and mixed by David Bottrill. Marking THE SMASHING PUMPKINSâ 7th studio record, it is âan album within an album,â part of their 44-song work-in-progress TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE.
OCEANIA was created by the band as a true album experience for listeners to fully immerse themselves in the songs and musical performances. For its release, the band is making the best efforts for all the fans to hear it at the same time as press or radio. In 2012, THE PUMPKINS will perform OCEANIA in full at their solo shows worldwide, backed by visuals prepared by Sean Evans, whose most recent work was assisting Roger Waters on the newest staging of âThe Wall.â THE PUMPKINS will be using new technology in video mapping to create something new and previously unseen. For the second half of the show, THE PUMPKINS will perform classics from their body of work.
Q&A WITH BILLY CORGAN ABOUT THE MAKING OF âOCEANIAâ:
Can you talk about how the recording of ‘Oceania’ may have differed in any way from previous Smashing Pumpkins albums?
âWe worked for a time in an empty movie theatre in Sedona during the winter months of early 2011, sketching out some primary versions of the songs while trying to dial in the emotional terrain we were seeking. In that kind of process it wasn’t that unusual from past records where I’d worked with a band as a unit to help me define a set of templates to work towards. We’d just come off the road, and had a good sense of what was no longer working in our eyes from a dynamic point of view. We worked hard to create space in the music, but not lose any of the emotive power that I like to have behind my songs.â
You finished ‘Oceania’ before deciding to team up with EMI Label Services/Caroline Distribution, so that would mean you were completely artistically free to create the album you wanted to make. Want to tell us about your creative mind-set during the recording?
âFrom a production standpoint I was dead set on making an album where every song was just as valuable as any other, ignoring the typical claptrap you hear about needing a single. The only way to make the case that every song on Oceania is worth hearing is to put your heart into the sequence as a cohesive whole. Once we felt we’d achieved that balance, only then did we let anyone outside our world hear the record we’d made. The chance to work within the EMI system again felt right to me. But unlike years in the past where I was under a set contract and beholden to a set of external forces which didn’t always fall in our favor, in this set-up they are now our partners in putting Oceania out to a wider marketplace than we could reach on our own.â
What do you feel your bandmates have added to the album?
âI’ve been adamant in stressing that as a group, first and foremost, we are here to make new music together. I’m proud to say that on Oceania I feel we’ve cut our own path forward. Jeff, Mike, and Nicole have all made significant contributions to the tone and texture of Oceania, which is an album that is unlike any I’ve ever made. Yet at the same time I believe it upholds the same musical values I’ve always pushed for with The Pumpkins, be they progressive, emotional, epic, or restless.
Do you feel the recording of the album benefitted by the band having played some of these songs on the road first?
If we’ve learned anything from playing as an intact unit now for over two years, it’s that unless we create our own sound and our own legacy, it’s a given that people will default to what they know; whether it’s my past or someone else’s. We know we have much more in us to share than being an alluring, virtual jukebox. Being in The Pumpkins will always be defined by what we can create from our hands and hearts right now, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.â
THE âOCEANIAâ TRACK LISTING:
Quasar
Panopticon
The Celestials
Violet Rays
My Love is Winter
One Diamond, One Heart
Pinwheels
Oceania
Pale Horse
The Chimera
Glissandra
Inkless
Wildflower
About The Smashing Pumpkins:
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS have created one of the most acclaimed bodies of work in musical history having sold more than 30 million albums, and won multiple Grammy awards in the process. Formed in Chicago in 1988, they released Gish, their influential and platinum debut in 1991, which was followed by albums including the nine-time platinum Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness and the four-time platinum Siamese Dream, as well as the platinum certified 1998 album Adore. The pivotal groupâs many hits defined the alternative music era and continue to resonate on modern rock radio, influencing a whole new generation. The PUMPKINS returned in 2007 with their acclaimed sixth album Zeitgeist and they have since remained on the cutting edge of music and technology with various online releases. OCEANIA is their 7th studio album and the band will support it with a global tour in 2012.
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Typo, it is going to be a replica cassette. CD 3 (must be DVD) looks very interesting too! Or did they really play these songs multiple times?
[/quote:2hrf8jhh]they did!
check it out: http://www.splra.org/wiki/index.php?tit … 988-11-19Bi wonder what the last seven tracks on the dvd are, though.
20 – Blue
21 – Offer Up
22 – The Joker
23 – Slunk
24 – Dancing In The Moonlight
25 – Snap
26 – Hello Kitty Kat[/quote:2hrf8jhh]i guess i need to get more sleep.
i’m pretty good at most of the other things mentioned on that list.
http://www.spfreaks.com/?page=COLLDETAILS&item=3659 (Oceania test pressing vinyl)[/quote:1we6k3gp]
small correction: the code says re1 (RE1) instead of rel (REL).
this doesn’t add much, but here’s another picture of side B:
those two cds are identical.
there is only one version of the album.
there are however small differences depending on where the cd is released, of course. (e.g. EU version, US version, canadian version, japanese version, and so on)i’ve never thought about releases being either a \"single promo\", an \"ep promo\", or an \"album promo\", although i understand what those terms are intended to mean.
i just call these 1-track promos \"promo singles\", as they’re singles, and promotional.i actually just spent the weekend in amsterdam.
no shopping for me though. just drinking lots of heineken.http://www.rasputinmusic.com/?p=6498%5B/quote:2yaeqy1w%5D
someone on sp.com says he won a test pressing at a record store giveaway. maybe it’s the same one? or does this giveaway you linked to still have to happen?there was a little competition where people could edit and make their own version of the Tarantula video…[/quote:27157meq]
yes, but the video and that competition were much later than the promo cds for tarantula or doomsday clock. so that’s not really related.New:
http://www.spfreaks.com/?page=COLLDETAILS&item=3658 (EU Oceania CD)[/quote:2uns2ujq]
thanks!There is ambiguity regarding the IFPI codes on this release. If you own this copy, please forward your codes for comparison.[/quote:2uns2ujq]
yes, people, please have a look at the IFPI codes on your EU copy. i’m fairly certain it says IFPI LK57, but it would be good to have a second opinion on this. and the second IFPI code i can’t read completely. it says IFPI UU00x. the last character seems to be messed up on my copy, so i can’t read it. it would be cool if someone could check their copy and see what it says.
