Damien Rice - O

p-t saviour · 01-02-2002 7:05pm #1

Its stunning... just stunning. Listening to it, i didnt want it to end... worth every cent.

anyone else heard it?

pugwall · 02-02-2002 11:42pm

He was playing in tower records today. He's playing again in tower on thursday 7th @7. Make the effort to go......It will be worth it.........trust me
The records great too!:D

insanebadgergirljess · 03-02-2002 12:21am

Did tower records by any chance sell out the albums they had? cos i saw him playing at 1 (so very amazing) and after looked around to get the album but couldn't find it anywhere,and didn't have time to ask.

pugwall · 03-02-2002 12:42am

yeah. there were plenty of copies available in hmv though.

o sleep · 03-02-2002 8:35pm

yeah, my friend got it. i wasn't too impressed. just a little bit ... boring? a couple of great songs mixed in with fillers.

gouty · 04-02-2002 1:27am

Pshaw! 'Fraid you're just plain wrong - Damien Rice is the messiah of Irish minstrelsy he has something individually resplendent to share with us. Two chords, the truth and funny ears. I for one say ‘DAMIEN TELL US MORE, AND DON’T HEED PLAYER HATERS LIKE O SLEEP AND HIS KIND’.

I rest my emotional baggage.

jonny · 04-02-2002 10:29pm

in all fairness gouty, unbiased as i am about damien's music, because i do like it, but wouldn't think hes "the messiah"(as you call him), o sleep has a fair point, and its a fair point cuz thats his/her opinion, damiens music doesn't rock his/her boat, and therefore he's not wrong, and hes not right, and youre not wrong and youre not right. but i DO wonder whether in 10 years time if you saw what u just wrote about damien rice's music, would you not blush, MAYBE some people MIGHT think that what you said COULD be a BIT of an overstatement.:rolleyes:

knobbles · 05-02-2002 2:03am

i was impressed with what i heard 4 or 5 years ago
when he first emerged and i thought some of the songs like
volcano were great. the single last year was really good too
but i've had a brief listen to the album and i'm not so sure
yet if it's as great as you say it is.
it did seem to lack a bit of lift, a bit too layed back
which borders with boredom.

i did believe he had the potential so i'll this one digest for a
while.

gouty · 05-02-2002 9:00pm

Originally posted by jonny
in all fairness gouty, unbiased as i am about damien's music, because i do like it, but wouldn't think hes "the messiah"(as you call him), o sleep has a fair point, and its a fair point cuz thats his/her opinion, damiens music doesn't rock his/her boat, and therefore he's not wrong, and hes not right, and youre not wrong and youre not right. but i DO wonder whether in 10 years time if you saw what u just wrote about damien rice's music, would you not blush, MAYBE some people MIGHT think that what you said COULD be a BIT of an overstatement.:rolleyes:

Okay, but the packaging sure is nice.

Young Ian · 05-02-2002 9:19pm

Yeh, 'scuse my overwhelming ignorance... where does that song The Proffessor come from? Is it Juniper or what. Sounds like Jeff Buckley, a bit, except, not really. Only the French bit, then okay.

gouty · 05-02-2002 9:22pm

don't know haven't heard it

p-t saviour · 05-02-2002 9:24pm

its a Damien Rice song (funnilly enough), didnt make the album cos apparently it woulda sounded outta context and the only recording that the messiah:) was happy with is the live one on the blowers daughter single... great song tho...

gouty · 05-02-2002 9:34pm

who's this rice fellow anyway?

clevenger · 05-02-2002 9:43pm

look at your shoes gouty and then start moaning uncontrollably thats who he is.

only kiddng folks put your shotguns away...

he's actually rather good, the best artist Open House ever had

Lisaq · 05-02-2002 11:11pm

Ok... the whole French bit In the proffesser sounding like Jeff, hmm, i get. he.. damien... even might be described as a bit like jeff, but i dunno, comparisons between the two would just go round in circles. besides jeff has left us 4 a better place, so now he can do no wrong! MWAHAHA

pugwall · 05-02-2002 11:14pm

download 'the professor' now from www.damienrice.com

Lisaq · 05-02-2002 11:21pm

"Lovin' is fine, if you've plenty of time for walkin; on stilts at the edge of your mind, yeah, and lovin' is good if your dic's made of wood, but the dic left inside only half understood her.. what makes her come, what makes her stay..."
yepo, kickass song

p-t saviour · 06-02-2002 12:26am

there's 2 hidden tracks after eskimo (the last track), the first goes "i've packed my suit in a bag, i'm all dressed up for prague"... does anyone know what its called? the second is Lisa Hannigan singing a capella to the tune of silent night, its the most beautiful fúckin' thing..................................

Gar_ptc · 06-02-2002 3:22pm

they didnt include the proffessor on the album?!!?
sacrilige...
the song rules,its a bloody angsty song"for a singer song-writer"

i'm told lisa sings a version of it form her point of view...would be a good b-side....

Richie · 06-02-2002 3:28pm

Well as young Mr. p-t saviour said Gar, the Professor definitely wouldn't have sounded right on this album. This album is the delicate one, and apparently the next one is gonna be the rockier, livelier one. People wanted to hear the Professor on CD, so the ebst thing he could do was to stick it as a b-side on the first single. Which he did!

p-t saviour · 06-02-2002 11:14pm

saw lisa singing it from her point of view, it was fairly spectacular, "he's the professor and he feels that he should know what makes me come and what makes me stay.... etc." great stuff, i'll be along to tower tomorrow to check the man out once again!

Richie · 07-02-2002 10:25am

Oh yeah, that first secret track is simply called "Prague".

pugwall · 07-02-2002 4:35pm

Damien Rice & co will be in Tower Records tonight @ 7.
Be there!

Young Ian · 09-02-2002 4:47pm

The Proffessor in Tower Records really really good. I loved it when the band came in and did the waltzy french bit and even though he lost it, it was still great

p-t saviour · 09-02-2002 5:59pm

i'll second that!!!... hey ian, get back to the drunktank! way to make public urination hilarious

Young Ian · 10-02-2002 11:24am

Hey, it wasn't public urination, it was telling a garda to "Suck my ****ing cock." I feel just like George Michael.

eclectichoney · 10-02-2002 8:36pm

the album got to #7 in the charts which is pretty amazing but the poor guy was playing everywhere the past couple of weeks

it's a really great record, every second of it, and well worth checking out. can't wait till woman like a man gets released tho'

pugwall · 18-02-2002 1:05am

O throbs with sheer humanity and bloody-minded honesty in the face of emotional debris.

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p-t saviour · 18-02-2002 1:47am

These tender moments are nicely offset by the slightly off-kilter, even bitter sentiment of 'Cheers Darlin", allegedly recorded in a state of non-sobriety.

hmmm, now that's a cool idea, recording a drunken ode to a woman, while drunk!!

you reckon it's true? I'd love to know...

yellum · 18-02-2002 2:49am

heard it. Nice, amie is my fav followed by eskimo. Finnish Opera singers are great.

Damien Rice - O

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