Human Cannonball

School of Fish | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 23, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000008KGQ
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #170,438 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Overlooked and underrated, November 18, 2006

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Justin Gaines (Northern Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Human Cannonball (Audio CD)

1993's Human Cannonball was the second (and final) album from School of Fish, an alternative rock band that almost, but not quite, made it big when people cared about this kind of music. The single "3 Strange Days", from the band's debut album was a minor hit, but for whatever reason didn't bring the band much attention. This is a shame, because School of Fish was easily as good, if not better than, most of that era's other alternative rock bands.

Human Cannonball isn't quite as good as their excellent self-titled album. There are more "filler" songs on this album, but there are still plenty of great tracks as well. Strong songs like "Take Me Anywhere", "1/2 a Believer", "Stand in the Doorway", and especially "Kerosene" more than make up for the album's weaker songs. They're not overly poppy, but they are catchy enough to really stick in your head hours after you listen to the album.

Sadly, the band members went their separate ways after this album. Singer/songwriter/guitarist Josh Clayton-Felt released a pair of impressive solo albums before dying of cancer in 2000.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent 90's Alternative music, March 27, 2003

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Celeste M. Harmer (Clifton Heights, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Human Cannonball (Audio CD)

Please buy this CD! SOF is one of the most under-rated bands in history. There are lots of catchy songs in this compilation, such as "Take Me Anywhere" (their biggest hit), "Everyword", "Blackout", etc. SOF was a bona-fide Alternative band, and a fine one at that. It's a shame they didn't get the recognition they deserved so that they could have gone onto bigger and better things.

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite albums of ALL time, April 15, 2010

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Joseph M. Davis "Quaker" (Easton, MD, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Human Cannonball (Audio CD)

I was born about the same time as rock n roll and, in my humble opinion, this album is damn near perfect. It rocks, it has intelligent lyrics, it has clean, beautiful melodies blended with straight up rock. It's well mixed and engineered, too, but it's the music that matters most... and these are simply great songs that you will sing in your head (or out loud) for days, after listening to them. Fountain and Kerosene both blow me away, and who can't love a song like Fuzzed and Fading?