Mayonaise

"Mayonaise" is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins first officially released on the 1993 breakthrough album Siamese Dream. It was written by Billy Corgan and James Iha and was recorded from December 1992 to March 1993 at Triclops Sound Studios, with production by Corgan and Butch Vig.
The song has gone on to become one of the bands "beloved and iconic" songs in their catalogue. In 2012 it won a Rolling Stone readers poll for "The Best Smashing Pumpkins Songs" by "a significant margin". In 2021, Kerrang ranked the song as the band's fourth best, and it was voted the #3 most underrated song of all-time by the Ultimate Guitar community.https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/friday_top_20_most_underrated_songs_of_all_time-117686
In April 2023, the Netflix series Beef featured the song in the episode "Figures of Light", sending the song to the #5 position on the Billboard LyricFind Global and US charts.
In September 2023, just over 30 years after the song was released, "Mayonaise" finally received a commercial offering. Released through Capitol Records as part of the Siamese Dream 30th Anniversary celebrations and shows, it is a special edition 12" maxi single. The two-sided 45 RPM vinyl featured the studio recording on one side, and the live acoustic performance from Vieuphoria on the other side.https://madamezuzus.com/products/12-vinyl
== Song title ==
Corgan apparently got the title for the song after he looked "in [his] refrigerator". Later, he stated in an interview with a Colombian radio station that the name stands for the phonetics of 'My Own Eyes'. Again at the Gish-aversary event in 2021, he further explained the title originated from a line in "Rhinoceros", , and not just a play on words with 'My Own Eyes' as previously believed.
While appearing on the podcast REINVENTED with Jen Eckhart on October 20, 2022, Corgan admitted that previous explanations for the song title were inside jokes and disclosed the true story. The band visited Japan in 1992 while touring Gish and noticed that the record company had mistranslated a lyric from Gish into a fan booklet as "mayonnaise seas". The band thought this mondegreen was funny and used "Mayonaise" as a temporary song title when recording Siamese Dream but it eventually stuck. On July 4, 2023, Corgan stated on Q101's Brian and Kenzie Show that the mondegreen cited above was from a lyric on the song "Rhinoceros".
== Composition and equipment ==
The song written by James Iha and Billy Corgan and was recorded from December 1992 to March 1993 at Triclops Sound Studios. Iha stated that he "...came up with those chords and did a demo of it, it was an instrumental demo of the song. I played it for Billy and he liked it, he came up with the vocal melody and the lyrics. We worked on the arrangement together." For the intro, Iha used a cheap Kingston guitar he got at a pawnshop, which had "terrible" intonation according to Triclops engineer Jeff Tomei.
The howling feedback heard during the refrains (i.e. at the ~2:01 mark) is from a $65 Kimberly Bison guitar, which Corgan nicknamed "Kimberly Kay". The feedback would occur whenever the guitar wasn't being played, so the band used it to their advantage. Kimberly Kay was also used on "1979", "Panopticon", and "Pissant".An old friend stopped by the studio today, Kerry Brown's blogspot, September 21, 2009
==Versions==
Several versions of the song are available. Before being officially released on Siamese Dream, an acoustic mix (labeled as an outtake) of the Siamese Dream recording was featured on 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.
On a the Smashing Pumpkins tribute album MySpace Smashing Pumpkins Tribute, compiled by MySpace and Spin, The Academy Is... covered the song.
The band Emanuel also covered the song on the 2005 Smashing Pumpkins tribute album The Killer in You: A Tribute to Smashing Pumpkins.
== Videos ==
== Lyrics ==
== Single release ==
At the Siamese Dream 30th Anniversary shows, a special 12-inch, 45 RPM peach-colored maxi single of "Mayonaise" became available for pre-order. 100 copies were autographed by Billy Corgan, with the non-autographed copies of unknown quantity. Both quickly sold out. Before online orders shipped by November 20, 2023, it became available in-store at Madame ZuZu's on November 12.https://www.facebook.com/MadameZuZusTeahouse/posts/pfbid033fTgWNLRfbeC5DMRssn4FMjP1C5cNGEa9R42yPqMmKJoWw3rps3EJRJSjQd5LBaVl
The maxi-single may be considered as part of The Smashing Pumpkins archive releases, despite both tracks being previously commercially available. Many of the maxi-singles included the standard archive team note, which explains efforts taken to ensure quality of the live recordings.https://www.discogs.com/release/28905235-The-Smashing-Pumpkins-Mayonaise This may however be simply as the vinyl release was overseen by Madame ZuZu's like other archival releases, thus the note was included in the usual manner.
== Personnel ==
The Smashing Pumpkins
* 
* 
* 
* 
Technical staff
* 
* 
* 
* 
* 
* 
* (2011 remaster)
== Charts ==
Chart (2023)	Peakposition
== References ==
== External links ==
*