Music writer Ben Sisario described this stance as ``vintage college-rock 'tude--the hit, the pop song, should be avoided as inauthentic, while the aggro, anticommercial song represents legitimacy.'' Ivo Watts-Russell stated if Black Francis had been possibly persuaded to release the version of the song recorded during the session for the ``Gigantic'' single--which he described as ``totally streamlined and ready for radio''--that ``maybe if a major label company was able to convince people to take a more commercial route, maybe Pixies would have sold a whole bunch more records than they did.
Ivo Watts-Russell
Black Francis