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Certain Songs #2273: The Smashing Pumpkins – “Mayonaise”

January 22, 2022 by Jim Connelly

Album: Siamese Dream
Year: 1993

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As legend — not to mention a bunch of stories at the time — has it, the sessions for Siamese Dream were fraught, to say the least. In a lot of respects, it a miracle that they finished the record at all. Not only was Billy Corgan suffering from writer’s block and suicidal ideation, guitarist James Iha & bassist D’arcy Wretzky had recently broken up. Oh, and drummer Jimmy Chamberlain had become a heroin addict, often disappearing for days at time, which was a problem, since he was the only other member that the dictatorial perfectionist Corgan would let play on the record.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Mayonaise, Siamese Dream, Smashing Pumpkins

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