Mayonaise (song)

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"Mayonaise"
"Mayonaise" cover
Song by The Smashing Pumpkins
from the album Siamese Dream
Released 27 July 1993
Recorded 1992 - 1993
Genre Alternative Rock
Length 5:48
Label Virgin Records
Writer(s) Billy Corgan
Producer(s) Butch Vig, Billy Corgan
Siamese Dream track listing
  1. "Cherub Rock"
  2. "Quiet"
  3. "Today"
  4. "Hummer"
  5. "Rocket"
  6. "Disarm"
  7. "Soma"
  8. "Geek U.S.A."
  9. "Mayonaise"
  10. "Spaceboy"
  11. "Silverfuck"
  12. "Sweet Sweet"
  13. "Luna"

"Mayonaise" (not to be misspelled Mayonnaise) is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins, first officially released on the 1993 breakthrough album Siamese Dream. It was recorded from December 1992 to March 1993 at Triclops Sound Studios. According to Billy Corgan, the whistling sound heard in "Mayonaise" came from a cheap guitar he bought, which, whenever he stopped playing it, created the whistling sound. This sound was then incorporated into the song. Corgan apparently got the title for the song after he looked "in [his] refrigerator".[1]

Despite having garnered considerable radio play and remaining a fan favorite, "Mayonaise" was never an officially released single.

[edit] Versions

Several versions of the song are available. Before being officially released on Siamese Dream, an acoustic outtake of the song was included in the Mashed Potatoes box set given to friends in 1993-1994. It was also a part of the official promos Still Becoming Apart and The Smashing Pumpkins 1991-1998, with a slightly phased acoustic guitar part and a tambourine. Most recently, a live acoustic version was released on Earphoria and the Vieuphoria video. The Vieuphoria version, originally broadcast in 1993 on the British television show Naked City, features the band playing the song intertwined with footage of the band.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Corgan, Billy, James Iha & D'arcy Wretzky. Interview. Dublin Chat. Imusic. 1996-11-05.
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James Iha · D'arcy Wretzky · Melissa Auf der Maur
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Discography (Categories: albums and songs)
Studio albums Gish · Siamese Dream · Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness · Adore · Machina · Machina II · Zeitgeist
Compilations & EPs Lull · Peel Sessions · Pisces Iscariot · Rotten Apples & Judas 0 · Earphoria · Rarities and B-Sides
Box sets Siamese Singles · The Aeroplane Flies High · The Aeroplane Flies Lower
Singles "I Am One" · "Tristessa" · "Siva" · "Rhinoceros" · "Cherub Rock" · "Today" · "Disarm" · "Rocket" · "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" · "1979" · "Zero" · "Tonight, Tonight" · "Muzzle" · "Thirty-Three" · "The End Is the Beginning Is the End" · "Ava Adore" · "Perfect" · "The Everlasting Gaze" · "Stand Inside Your Love" · "Try, Try, Try" · "[Untitled]"
Rare & specialities Early 1989 Demos · Light Into Dark · "Daughter" · The Smashing Pumpkins 1991-1998 · Still Becoming Apart · Machina/Machines of God (promo) · The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music · Live at Cabaret Metro 10-5-88
Tribute albums A Gothic-Industrial Tribute · Midnight in the Patch · The Killer in You
Videography
Videos Vieuphoria · Greatest Hits Video Collection
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Record labels Caroline · Constantinople · Reprise · Sub Pop · Virgin Studios Pumpkinland · Sadlands
Other Alternative rock · "Homerpalooza" · Mashed Potatoes · Bernadette O'Brien · Yelena Yemchuk