19. Cannonball- Damien Rice

I don’t know how I am possibly meant to chose just one song of Damien Rice’s. Cannonball is one of the first ones I loved and so it is included here, but really, it could have been almost any of his first album, and many from his second. He took me by surprise when I first listened to the album, the aching voice, the original songs, the perfection of it all is too much. The album ‘0’ is still one of those albums that makes me stop whatever I am doing and listen to it. Music that refuses to be relegated to the background. Music that makes me want to shut up whoever is talking at the time and just listen. That’s probably one of the highest compliments you can pay a piece of music.