Friday is the 25th anniversary of the release of The Breeders' sophomore album, Last Splash. The band started as kind of a side project for Pixies' bassist Kim Deal, and she recruited her sister Kelley and a couple others for Last Splash, which was the band's biggest album, reaching #33 on the Billboard album charts and producing the single "Cannonball" -- the very video and song that convinced me to start doing a Retro Video of the Week nearly seven years ago. "Cannonball" is a fantastic rock song, and it ended up being The Breeders' biggest hit, going up to #44 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. It was the first Retro Video of the Week, and now it is the 300th Retro Video of the Week. Enjoy the video, and dammit, live your lives. Wear shorts and knee-high white socks. Roll cannonballs down the sidewalk. Blow whistles under water. Rock. Roll.
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