Love. Bang. Crash. Wakka, Wakka, Bam Thwok

[venta]

After a somewhat fraught experience of trying to download iTunes and get it to behave sensibly (and thankyou zandev for the assistance), I've now got a copy of Bam Thwok, the new Pixies' single.

And, y'know, I rather like it. Sounds like the Pixies - but not enough to make me think they've not evolved at all in the last fifteen years. The trademark guitars and slightly spiky vocals are still there, but seem somehow mellower. It's a good song for summer. Though I must admit, while I like the organ solo, it fits rather oddly into the song.

Anyone else heard it, and got any opinions ?

Comments

[zotz]

Pixies' version of Head On doesn't really do anything worthwhile with the song.

It's odd how attitudes to cover versions alter depending on which one you met first.

Yes. There are a fair few I like more than one version of, but which you get to know does affect how you feel about ones you meet later.

asking whose the "dreadful cover" of Marilyn Manson's Sweet Dreams was...

Or the questions about Dead Souls and who it was that was covering Nine Inch Nails songs.