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30-years ago #6
Cannonball by The Breeders
Released 30-years ago, Cannonball by The Breeders is super infectious and outrageously cool. As a debut single, it must be up with the very best.
Beginning with what sounds like a fun soundcheck, there is a roll of drumsticks, a bass kicking into life, beats, a playful guitar riff and then a wonderful distorted, chugging one.
Kim Deal, fresh from her Pixies break up, is in no rush to sing, allowing the delightful groove to run until 49 seconds before singing;
Spitting in a wishing well
Blown to hell, crash
I'm the last splash
Deal sounds super sweet during the verses, then she is deliciously distorted in the bridge to the chorus hook. And oh, what a hook?! I imagine that anyone reading this who is even remotely familiar with the song will be singing it right now.
In the shade
In the shade
Cannonball is an incredibly leftfield pop song, but Deal knows the benefits/pop trick of repeating lyrics and she uses the lines I know you little libertine, I know you're a cannonball after the first verse and then to start the second verse. Deal then goes on to sing the brilliant seductive but bonkers line;
I'll be your whatever-you-want
The bong in this reggae song
Spike Jonez directed the video which features the band in a rehearsal studio, interspersed with a cannonball rolling down streets and Deal sticking her head under water for the waa ooo ooo section.
But it's the sun kissed in the shade, in the shade hook that gets me every time I listen to this song. Cannonball is a perfect slice of energetic garage punk pop. It just has absolutely everything, I can play it 7-times in a row and it still feels fresh.
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