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| "Cannonball" | ||||
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| Single by Damien Rice | ||||
| from the album O | ||||
| B-side |
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| Released | 17 May 2002 | |||
| Genre | Indie folk[1] | |||
| Length | 4:20 | |||
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| Songwriter(s) | Damien Rice | |||
| Producer(s) | Damien Rice | |||
| Damien Rice singles chronology | ||||
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| "Cannonball" on YouTube | ||||
Composition
[edit]- "gentle" 1
- "voice wavers with restraint" 2
- "voice quivering softly acoustic" 4
- "hushed winsomeness" 5
- "acoustic folk ballad with the soaring chorus, "Stones taught me to fly/Life taught me to die," might be considered the record's centerpiece. Keeping the overwhelming theme of reminiscence, Rice confesses the weight of his heavy heart, "It's not hard to fall when you float like a cannonball."3
Release
[edit]October 6 UK https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/sep/26/popandrock October 20 https://www.nme.com/news/music/damien-rice-15-1382971
Critical reception
[edit]Todd Burns of Stylus Magazine regarded "Cannonball" as one of the better songs on O.[2] Alexis Petridis of The Guardian said the track, along with "Amie", "perfectly fix a drowsy, end-of-the-season melancholy."[3] Spin magazine's reviewer wrote that the song "will be there for you after your next breakup—and when you have to sell your Bright Eyes CDs to pay off that NPR pledge you made when you were drunk."[4] musicOMH's Graham Smith called it "melodic" and "pleasant".[5] Amanda Petrusich of Pitchfork was less impressed, writing, "even the leather bound adult-alternative handbook advises against publicly airing sentiments like [...] 'Love/ Taught me to cry.'"[6]
Chart performance
[edit]Re-entry:
- https://www.nme.com/news/music/kasabian-206-1276380
- https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/dec/19/x-factor-little-mix-cannonball
Live performances
[edit]- https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/live/damien-rice-glastonbury-festival
- Limelight invoke
- https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/live/damien-rice-hammersmith-apollo-london
- https://www.gigwise.com/reviews/30093/
- https://www.gigwise.com/photos/101638/damien-rice-live-gig-photos-dublin-ireland
- https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/mar/29/popandrock.reviews
- https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-polyphonic-spree-27-1376795
- https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/live/latitude-2007-henham-park-suffolk
Cover versions
[edit]- https://diymag.com/2016/02/02/yuck-cannonball-premiere
- https://ew.com/article/2015/07/28/natalie-imbruglia-male/
Little Mix version
[edit]Background
[edit]- https://www.gigwise.com/news/69222/
- https://www.nme.com/news/music/damien-rice-7-1271365
- https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/gallery/2011/dec/12/the-x-factor-final-pictures
- "disowned" https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/dec/15/jesy-nelson-abuse-has-cruelly-silenced-one-of-pop-few-unfiltered-voices-little-mix
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/mar/22/simon-cowell-one-direction
Release
[edit]- Digitally 12 Dec https://www.nme.com/news/music/various-artists-3290-1285804
Critical reception
[edit]- https://www.gigwise.com/news/77724/
- https://www.gigwise.com/photos/73236/
- https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/dec/15/jesy-nelson-abuse-has-cruelly-silenced-one-of-pop-few-unfiltered-voices-little-mix
- https://www.theguardian.com/music/shortcuts/2011/dec/12/little-mix-military-wives-christmas-no1
- http://www.noripcord.com/features/top-40-tracks-2012-part-one
- https://theartsdesk.com/new-music/cd-little-mix-glory-days
- https://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4144258-dis-does-pop--the-xmas-bumper-edition
Chart performance
[edit]- https://www.gigwise.com/news/69748/
- https://www.nme.com/news/music/various-artists-3443-1283447
- https://www.nme.com/news/music/various-artists-3275-1283745
- https://www.nme.com/news/music/destinys-child-14-1273850
Rice's response
[edit]https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30001619
Live performances
[edit]https://www.nme.com/news/music/various-artists-3493-1285962
- ^ Boyd, Brian (16 December 2011). "Revolver". The Irish Times. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ^ Burns, Todd (25 September 2003). "Damien Rice - O - Review". Stylus Magazine. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ^ Petridis, Alexis (9 August 2002). "Damien Rice: O". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ^ "Breakdown". Spin. 19 (11): 117. November 2003. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
- ^ Smith, Graham (15 December 2002). "Damien Rice @ Limelight, Belfast". musicOMH. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
- ^ Petrusich, Amanda (18 August 2003). "Damien Rice: O Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved 5 May 2021.