Gotta agree that this is the greatest Pumpkins tune ever written. I mean, how did Billy manage to write this epic track, at such a young age. Also, to note, he looks the happiest I've ever seen him, in this video. He's young, talented, and has hair. Whiny or not, the guy is a freakin' genius. Cheers to this great video of a classic.
Thank god for my first girlfriends brother who gave me this cassette tape when it was released... it inspired me to a incredible part of my life in playing guitar and is a top album for me ever recorded. Mayonnaise is the climactic peak. This is a beautiful version in their prime and in the greatest teenage years of my life... I was happy to see Billy, James and Jimmy together again in Dallas this year!
This song is called mayonaise because after billy finished the song he went into his fridge and low and behold the first thing he saw was mayonnaise. So he called the song mayonaise. Classic billy
Rolling stone magazine voted this song from a poll of pumpkins fans and determined that this is the most popular song by the band, by a significant margin!
when his voice cracks when he says I just want to be me, its hard to find emotion like that in any music. Just that emotion makes Billy Corgan a God to me up there with the likes of Elliott Smith, Kurt Cobain and Matthew Good. You just can't fake emotion like that.
“I love my mom” written across the top of his guitar. Made me get teary eyed! Omg. Such a great song and awesome guitar talent. Billy was/is a musical genius. 💫✨
i wonder who billy makes eye contact with about 4 1/2 minutes in, that is definitively quite a sly smile. also, can u imagine being there and hearing this song for the first time, live? good god...
Just remember, when you were having your experience as a young person with this music, there were older people who scoffed and said “kids these days don’t have anything like (whatever band they were into)”. The kids today who you think have no idea what good music is are making their memories now. Let them ❤
I was driving home to see my family and brought a friend of a friend to see his girlfriend that lived nearby (a 3 hour drive) First time spending time with him. I let him listen to the radio, while I had my air pod in. Eventually he asked what I was listening to. I told him , smashing pumpkins, thinking he probably never heard of them. He perked up and said play mayonnaise. I gladly did. We jammed the whole way. He became my best friend for the next year. We both moved to different cities and eventually lost contact with each other.I recently found out he passed away. RIP Marcus. Hoping you’re hearing this song in heaven. Save a spot for me.
This is what music truly is. Its emotional, expresses ones self, and induces feelings that can only be felt when listening to this song specifically. Siamese Dream means so many things...
This era was , to me the top of their powers as a band. On SD every song was epic. All these performances from this time were incredible. This is Smashing Pimpkins, the greatest band in the world at this time.
It's like, when I'm sad this sound is the representation of my feelings and I think it happens the same thing to a lot of people, It's the same when I'm happy, I feel a beautiful nostalgia... you just gotta love the smashing pumpkins
I have 2 questions: Why have I never seen this video before? and How can anyone not like the Smashing Pumpkins? This is one of the most touching performances EVER. Thanks for posting.
I watched this video 10years ago first time So emotional...I have not words for this feeling with this video and this song... So many feels and memories in this song...
Was 13, a smidge too young for the concert. My 7th grade history teacher got to go see them in Austin. I was dishappy. BUT saw them in '96! Garbage opened. I might be old now?
In the mid-90's on those cold, dreary, overcast February winter days, when I'd get depressed and lay on my big cumfy couch with a blanket over me---this was my themesong. ---An Awesome Jam!
Billy Corgan truly has an amazing voice. One of those that cannot be duplicated. So glad hes one that made it through those 90s Alternative years & still going🤘
This is my favorite video on RU-vid and the best version of Mayonaise I've ever heard. The Pumpkins were at their peak here, and this film a perfect portrayal of the band. Whoever shot this bootleg is a genius. Thank God it's back and I hope it stays.
I saw them n the fall of 1993 - I was 18 - and the stage is identical . They had mirrors just like in the video . I saw them in Iowa city at a real snazzy ballroom . Awesome to see that stage . I thought the mirrors were a really imaginative touch . Thanks for uploading this piece of SP live history ; to make me remember of that Great Night - which was my 2nd time seeing them live . My 1st was in 1991
this music was one thing that I happened to be the right age for. Billy is 2 years older than me, and I was there for Siamese Dream and later album tours. I'm an avid music listener but Siamese Dream is the most listened to album in all my collection. It was a music revolution. For a brief time, honest emotion and great music writing came together and was recognized.
i agree, i am so nostalgic of the nineties, ever since my first love of music - alternative obviously when i was a preteen i wished i actually was a young adult in the prime time of great music in the nineties. smashing pumpkins is my all time favorite band, they were formed when i was born.
I would say this is my definite sound of 90s..i remember hearing this song on my walkman going to the convenient store to buy cigs in the middle of the night..20 plus years later..it still have the same feelings to me
This is not only one of my favorite songs of all time and my favorite song from the Pumpkins, but this live version is the best. I love the special ending. They should have done that for the Siamese Dream album.
I agree!! I saw them on that tour when I was 14. I BEGGED my mom to drive my friends and I out of town to see them...I even took my yearbook picture in that blue Mello Collie concert tee. Ahhh memories.
This has to be the best live version of this song on the net.I adore this song so much it reminds me of when i was like 14/15 and getting wasted everyday and writing songs & rebeling ect..ect..same what every teenager was doing at that time.Oh how i wish the Original lineup were still together not that bollocks billy calls SP nowdays,Still i thank everyone for uploading old skool SP's videos like this as it gives fans like myself the memorys we need. Thanks for upload.
wow. all siamese dream and even gish songs have such a brilliant structure...theres nothing compareable to this masterpieces...wish billy will return to this outstanding sound
