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“Mayonnaise” by The Smashing Pumpkins

“Mayonnaise” by The Smashing Pumpkins appears on 30 radio countdowns from 15 stations between 1993 and 2023. Its best result is #74 on the Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1994. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #122 alternative song of 1994 and #1,644 alternative song of all time.

30countdowns
15stations
#74best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1993–2023years charted

"Mayonaise" sits ninth on Siamese Dream, the Smashing Pumpkins' second album, from 1993, and it's the record's dreamy, aching heart, a swoon that earns the shoegaze tag people hang on it. Billy Corgan produced it with Butch Vig, and the whole thing sulks and swells and never quite comes back down to earth.

It wasn't a single back then, and it didn't need to be. Rolling Stone's readers voted it the best thing in the band's catalog in 2012, and Kerrang ranked it fourth among the Pumpkins' songs in 2021. Then the Netflix series Beef played it over the closing scene of its last episode in April 2023, pushing it to number 5 on Billboard's LyricFind Global and US charts, and that November Capitol finally issued it as a single for the album's 30th anniversary.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

Hard Rock & Metal

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1993 88 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 1993 91
1994 89 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1994 107
1994 74 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 1994 91
1994 90 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1994 106
1994 74 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1994 101

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1995 244 Live 105 Live 105 Revolutionary 300 (July 1995) 300
1999 237 WHFS WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) 500
1999 168 91X 91X Fat 500 Songs of All-Time (July 1999) 500
1999 777 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
1999 241 107.7 The End The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1077
2002 655 KISW KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) 999
2002 760 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) 2002
2004 224 107.7 The End The End Original Alternative 500 (May 2004) 500
2005 515 99X 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) 1000
2006 366 Live 105 Live 105 500 Co-Op Countdown (Memorial Day 2006) 500
2007 440 KROQ KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007) 500
2007 1615 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2007 531 WTMD WTMD Top 897 Songs of All Time 897
2008 1550 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 1453 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 1369 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1340 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1392 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 1445 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2018 545 The Current The Current's 893 Essential Songs 892
2020 1377 WXPN WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time 2020
2021 739 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s 908
2022 473 KEXP KEXP Top Songs of the Last 50 Years (1972-2022) 491
2023 239 The Current The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s 893
2023 159 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time 909

Also listed as: Mayonaise.

Charting alongside it in 1994

Best songs of 1994 →
  1. 1Black Hole SunSoundgarden
  2. 2CloserNine Inch Nails
  3. 3Self-EsteemThe Offspring
  4. 4Interstate Love SongStone Temple Pilots
  5. 5Come Out and PlayThe Offspring
  6. 6Basket CaseGreen Day

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