Damien Rice

bovine · Post by **bovine** » 7/28/2003, 11:43 am

Yesterday I d/l-ed a few songs from Damien Rice and they're really awesome! The album just came out like a week or 2 ago and I'm going to get it today. From what I've d/l-ed, I'd recommend "Eskimo" the most (although it's the last track with a secret track at the end making it 16 minutes long and a large d/l as mp3s go)

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bovine · Post by **bovine** » 7/30/2003, 5:18 am

Well, I got the album a few days ago, and it's even better than I had thought it would be! Do yourself a favor and go d/l "Cheers Darlin'" :nod:

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buzhwa · Post by **buzhwa** » 7/31/2003, 3:47 pm

I haven't heard of him - who could one compare him to?

bovine · Post by **bovine** » 7/31/2003, 6:36 pm

hmm, there's no one else I've heard that really has that sound. I guess the best way I could describe him is kind of an accoustic folk-rock musician. He writes great lyrics and sings with a lot of emotion. This is what it says on the "reviews" page of http://www.damienrice.com

O is a fantastic debut, one of the best albums to come out of Ireland this year… an absolute triumph of great song writing and honest performing...he has a killer album to his name’
Sunday Tribune

'O is undoubtedly one of the most inspired debut Irish albums ever, a ramshackle freewheeling document of young love and loss’
RTE Guide

'O ebbs and flows gracefully through some of the most heart-wrenching uplifting, sweepingly romantic and darkly contemplative tracks in his repertoire… O throbs with sheer humanity and bloody-minded honesty in the face of emotional debris…this is going to be one of the highlights of 2002…absolutely stunning!’
Hot Press

‘Rice has crafted one of the best Irish releases in the past 12 months… O is one to remember’
Irish Independent

‘He has created here some solid, intense, spine tingling moments’
Irish Times

‘O is an organic odyssey. O is obsessively outstanding. O is overpowering’
IMRO News

'a young singer-songwriter capable of touching the parts most of his contemporaries will never reach'
Daily Telegraph

'o is driven by melody, embellished with sumptuous arrangements and underpinned by emotionally acute lyrics... There is not a poor song on the album. Buy it.'
The Times

'.....Sonically adventurous and almost impossibly emotionally acute'
Times (Play magazine)

'This is no reclusive songster, quietly voicing his internal monologues and musings. He knows how to shout it loud'
Time Out

'Only Bob Dylan comes close to such cracked passion. This Rice is pretty special'
Whats on in London

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sandsleeper · Post by **sandsleeper** » 11/7/2003, 7:46 pm

i just read an article about him in nytimes magazine and promptly dled some stuff on kazaa.

i'm really liking it so far.

olpcc · Post by **olpcc** » 11/7/2003, 8:03 pm

i have been wanting to getthe cd, but its like 15 bucks with my discount at work, so i have been holding off.

Reyna · Post by **Reyna** » 11/11/2003, 11:06 pm

my boyfriend always rambled on about them. i've heard a bit and like it a lot.

Post by **al_** » 11/12/2003, 9:52 pm

bovine wrote:Well, I got the album a few days ago

smart man

Blister · Post by **Blister** » 11/13/2003, 8:43 am

My mom bought O a while ago. She hasn't heard it yet, it lives in my room

Everyone should hear something by him.....he sounds a bit like a more folky Ryan Adams, if that helps?

theclumsybirdman79 · Post by **theclumsybirdman79** » 11/13/2003, 10:56 am

I would compare him to Jeff Buckley.