Cover Charge #12 - David Bowie to Pixies

Cover Charge is simple: A covers B, B covers C, C covers D and so on, until I loop back to where I started, Ouroboros-style.

Last time: Depeche Mode to David Bowie

Once a god-like genius has been posthumously deified, it's easy to forget that for there to be such lofty peaks there must also be some troughs, even if only minor ones. The run of albums Bowie produced in the 1990s (Outside, Earthling and Hours) were, for him, perhaps not the successes he might have hoped for. Still, he was Bowie, so everything is relative, I suppose. Whatever, 2002's less experimental Heathen was viewed by critics as a return to form... and side one, track two was this cover of Pixies' Cactus:

And here's the original from Frank, Kim, Joey and David - I don't think they were ever better than on those first two releases.

Next time: Pixies tackle the challenge of a good cover head on. Which may be too much of a clue.

The Cover Charge "chain" to date.