Cannonball (track)
by Supertramp
Year: 1985
From the album Brother Where You Bound (track #1)
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Cannonball appears on the following album(s) by Supertramp:
- The Autobiography Of Supertramp (track #11) (compilation) (1986)
- The Very Best Of (track #15) (compilation) (1990)
- Brother Where You Bound (track #1) (this album) (1985)
- Retrospectacle (track #28) (compilation) (2005)
- Live, 1997 (track #5) (2006)
- It Was The Best Of Times (track #7) (1999)
- Classics Volume 9 (track #14) (compilation) (1987)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 09/08/2025 01:28 | Moondance | 15,470 | 75/100 |
| ! | 12/14/2024 12:17 |  doombringer | 11,881 | 75/100 |
| ! | 09/04/2024 04:53 | morphee | 2,386 | 87/100 |
| ! | 07/30/2024 12:25 | Johnnyo | 41,631 | 80/100 |
| ! | 03/25/2024 01:12 | phmusic | 62,859 | 100/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 4% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 81.4/100, a mean average of 82.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.7/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.5.
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This is Supertramp's Dance on a Volcano, the first track on the first album with one of the band's major contributors (Roger Hodgson, in this case), and just like Genesis, they absolutely blow the roof off. Great angry lyrics and killer delivery from Rick Davies overtop of the slickest of grooves: explosive percussion, jamming bass, and moving piano lines. It's one of the best songs of their career, and I'm glad to see it's moved up to an 83 from a 79 when I made my prior comment a year ago tomorrow. Let's get this track to the 85 and star it deserves!
The fact that Cannonball and Just Another Nervous Wreck both are rated 79/100 is atrocious. Both are top 10 Supertramp songs.
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