Glynis

"Glynis" is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins that was first released on the No Alternative compilation album, and later on Rarities and B-Sides and on the 2012 deluxe reissue of Pisces Iscariot. The 2012 mix is almost identical to previous versions except with different vocal takes with Billy Corgan laughing at his crackling voice.

An old Speak & Spell toy "hello" starts the song, and the soupy solo in the middle is the result of double-tracked guitars fed through a vintage Electro-Harmonix Bassballs pedal. The song is a dedication to former Red Red Meat bassist Glynis Johnson, who passed away from AIDS-related complications in 1992.

The song "Glynis" is about this girl Glynis who was in a band called Red Red Meat in Chicago, and they're still a band now. She was very sick for a long time and no one knew what was wrong with her and then she found it she had AIDS and she died two months later. And it's not that I knew her very well; we'd played with them, and I've known of her for a very long time. There were things written about her and there's a lot of people who know her better than I. But it really effected me because, not so much--and I don't mean to undermine one person's passing--but it effected me more the way people talked about her dying, and the way people moralized about it, than it did the fact that a human being's life had passed.