Andrew C. is right — it’s unlikely I’ll ever get another chance to hang a song about a cannonball on an actual news peg, so here’s his choice for the honor. When it was released as a single in 1993 it reached No. 44 on the Hot 100, which is better than it sounds — by the mid-’90s rock songs had trouble cracking the charts. Melody Maker named it the top single of 1993.
