“Cactus”
by David Bowie (originally by The Pixies)
from the album Heathen
2002
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I can’t claim to have ever gotten too into Bowie’s music, but there are certainly standouts, and more than anything, I think he’s kind of the coolest. The coolest what? Whatever. Just definitely one of the coolest.

I first learned about this cover when this album came out, and my boss, who was a huge Bowie fan (he and my co-worker, who was younger than me and much younger than him, used to get into arguments about Bowie vs. Bono), told me about it. He knew I was a huge Pixies fan. I certainly won’t say I prefer this to the original, and it’s not even one of my favorite Bowie songs, but it still gets points because, you know, he’s the coolest.