Pixies - Wannadoo Commercial

The Pixies
Velouria

Now, I haven’t actually seen this commercial that features The Pixies song Velouria. Why? Because it had only been broadcast in the UK this year. That’s quite unfortunate because I would have taken The Pixies over the recent so-called punk or “emo” choices of commercial makers in the U.S. Come on you pilgrim, it’s the Pixies - ground zero for a thousand billion fascinated punks and musical imitators everywhere.

Velouria is off of their awsome Bossanova album which a lot of people have noted sounds quite different from their other albums such as Surfer Rosa and Come On Pilgrim. It’s like they’ve collected all the mayhem and roughness of their other work and distilled it into a refined dark punk album that has a really angry sheen to it. Less raw, but nevertheless engaging in a grim way.

The commercial is for the Broadband company called Wannadoo which I know nothing about… I read on another site that it features BMX bikes and I could definitely see that going along with Black Francis’ snarling vocals. How this would fit in with broadband is beyond me, but as we’ve seen many times before the music in the commercial doesn’t have to have ANYTHING to do with the product. Go figure…

by Bryan