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The Breeders - Cannonball

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Album: Last Splash
Released: 1993

Cannonball Lyrics

Check check check
One two

Spitting in a wishing well
Blown to hell crash
I'm the last splash

I know you little libertine
I know you're a real coocoo

Want you coocoo Cannonball
Want you coocoo cannonball
In the shade, in the shade
In the shade, in the shade

I know you little libertine
I know you're a cannonball

I'll be your whatever you want
The bong in this reggae song

In the shade, in the shade
Want you coocoo cannonball
Want you coocoo cannonball

Spitting in a wishing well
Blown to hell
Crash
I'm the last splash

I'll be your whatever you want
The bong in this reggae song

Want you coocoo cannonball
Want you coocoo cannonball
In the shade, in the shade
In the shade, in the shade

Writer/s: Deal, Kim
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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The Breeders started as the side project of Kim Deal, who was with the Pixies at the time, but often at odds with their frontman, Frank Black. Written and sung by Deal, "Cannonball" made the US Hot 100 - something the Pixies never did.

Deal formed the band with Tonya Donelly of Throwing Muses (and later, Belly), and they released their first album, Pod, in 1990 (Kim played bass in the Pixies; she switched to guitar with The Breeders). The Safari EP followed in 1992, with Kim's sister Kelley Deal joining the band. Donelly left for Last Splash, with drummer Jim MacPherson coming on board to round out the band with Josephine Wiggs. When Kelley got caught in a drug bust in 1995, Kim morphed the band into the Amps, which released the album Pacer in 1995. The Breeders would return in 2002 with the album Title TK.

The song was originally titled "Grunggae," a combination of 'grunge' and 'reggae.' The name came from Kim Deal thinking the accented riff resembled the accent in Reggae.

The British music paper Melody Maker named this song their Single of the Year for 1993.

Mojo magazine May 2013 asked Kim Deal if she had a sense this song would be a hit. She replied: "Did we record a song that opened with me saying, 'Check 1-2,' and then loads of vocal feedback from my brother's harmonica mike, and think, 'This is destined for radio?' That was the sort of thing that didn't get you played on the radio then. We thought no one would play it."

The loud/soft dynamics in this song is something Kim Deal brought over from the Pixies. The titular cannonball could portend the aggressive part of the track. Most songs with the cannonball metaphor (Supertramp, Damien Rice) use it to indicate a person who is reckless in love. Deal's lyrics are designed to complement the melody; we wouldn't recommend reading too much into lyrics like "I'll be your whatever you want, the bong in this Reggae song."

The video was directed by Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon.

The single was released as a 4-song EP, which also included a cover version of Aerosmith's "Lord of the Thighs."

Nissan used this in commercials for the 2000 Sentra. The song was also heard in trailers for the South Park movie.

The Breeders - Little Fury

The Breeders - Little Fury Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Title TK
Released: 2002

Little Fury Lyrics

Round up, holler girl
Ah, I will sing
Title TK
If I don't black out

Dumb made for fucking
And missing from the party
That boy spun out
Hold what you've got
Hold what you've got

While Xenia twists up, the sky
Akron flakes out
Grindcore Little Fury
(I feel hot tire)

Why is it floating in my beer
Hold what you've got
Hold what you've got

My big drum
On your big face
The one-eyed jazz
As hickeys fade, fade

Round up, holler girl
We'll all need bigger uniforms
It's been a few days
And I know I will have spun out
Hold what you've got
Hold what you've got

My big drum
On your big face
The one-eyed jazz
As hickeys fade, fade

Grindcore little fury
If I don't black out

Hold what you've got
Hold what you've got
Hold what you've got
Hold what you've got
Hold what you've got
Writer/s: Deal, Kim / Deal, Kelley / Presley, Richard / Medeles, Jose / Lopez, Jose
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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The title comes from the little switchblades that say "Fury" on them. Many truck stops sell them.

Title TK was the first Breeders album since 1993. The "TK" in the album is a reference to journalism shorthand for "To Come."

Vocals on this song are shared by Kim and Kelley Deal, who are twin sisters.

This was produced by Steve Albini, who had worked with The Breeders in the past, as well as Nirvana, The Pixies, Bush, and Nine Inch Nails.