In 2003, Irish singer/songwriter Damien Rice wooed listeners with his debut, O, a collection of songs that displayed his (and counterpart Lisa Hannigan's) poignant yet interesting and intelligent vocals over quiet guitars and strings. On O, Rice was able to come off as sensitive and emotional without seeming sappy or cheesy, a difficult balance to attain, and certainly an impressive accomplishment. He was also able to write simple, pretty songs that still managed to have a voice and style of their own, and stick out from the rest of the acoustic guitar folk-pop. Needless to say, because of all this, he definitely put some pressure on himself for what he would present on his next release. What he turned out, 9, unfortunately shows signs of a sophomore slump. There are still some great tracks on it -- the stellar "The Animals Were Gone," the Dylan-esque "Coconut Skins" -- and to give him credit, Rice ventures into other genres, using a piano more frequently and even an electric guitar once or twice ("Me, My Yoke & I" is a ock song, no two ways about it) along with his usual timid acoustic accompanied by orchestral strings, but where before he was able to write love songs that didn't come across as clichéd or affected, on 9 (which, incidentally, has ten tracks) he seems so aware of the danger of coming off as trite that he tries too hard to overcome it, and ends up with something that seems very forced. For the most part his melodies -- excluding the aforementioned pieces -- are nothing more than unmemorably nice, but when coupled with hooks like "The girl who does yoga/When we come over" (from "Dogs") and "Does he drive you wild?/Or just mildly free?" (from "Accidental Babies") they become memorably painful, which takes away from what's actually great about 9: namely, the musical arrangements and Rice's voice (Hannigan, though she begins and ends the album, is hardly present), whose emotion ranges from dejected apathy to anger and is always pretty believable. 9 is by no means a failure, or even bad, but it dulls in comparison to what Rice can really produce, which makes it disappointing overall.
First MOG post! Yay.Okay, so I've always been a really big Damien Rice fan. From the moment I first heard Cannonball, I knew I was in love. Even still, when '9' came out, I didn't get it right away. Don't ask me why, I really don't know. I was just as excited about it as all my other DR-obsessed friends, but for some reason I have a problem actually buying albums. I always just figure why waste...
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Last Thursday I saw one of my favorite concerts of this year. Damien Rice played the Mann Center, and it was both heart-breaking and exhilarating. Here's my review:"I feel naked," our friend leaned over and whispered. We nodded our head. "Exposed, but in a good way," we replied, in awe of the man who was causing this feeling. It was the third song in and Damien Rice was alone on the stage, bathed
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monday mornings with a cup of coffee and damien rice is pretty delicious. even if i have math class later today & a paper on the american society values found within a disney character to write.regardless, i can see the foothills from my kitchen window & the clouds are cotton candy puffy & white. though i would not complain if there was rain & puddles to splash in.l *
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The new Damien Rice album is the the last CD I bought. I highly recommend it for slow, chill, depressing mode. 2 cents!
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Um, Audrey your going to kill me.Yeah so I'm not seeing incubus because ticket prices are nuts ($500 for 2!), and Modest Mouse is actually not playing till May (stupid Pollstar had the wrong info). But...I am still seeing Arcade Fire on the 20th in ParisAnd I'm seeing Damien Rice the day before (19th) in Paris.His album, btw, is Phenomenal! Really, just get it, you wont be disappointed. Like 6 ...
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I've found it. I've found the first really spectacular album for me for 2007. In all technicality, Damien Rice's 9 was released in late 2006 (November to be exact). Damien's breakthrough album, O, was absolutely perfect in itself and, truthfully, I almost like 9 better. The lyrics are original and truthful in a very bare way. They're the kind of imagries that can be understood without understan...
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So I got the new Damien Rice CD. I saw it in Starbucks. I guess that means he's huge. So I ripped it. I hit play. I heard a piano. Nice. I heard some other songs. Nice. But not as good as the songs on "O".I've only listened through to the end one time, and I'm currently giving it another listen as I type, so maybe it will grow on me, but my first thought is that the songs aren't really masterpi...
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How long can you rage? What exactly is the meaning of a "cancelled stamp"?
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I have recently bought the new Damien Rice album 9, and it is one of the most wonderful things in the world. I listen to it ever night as i go to sleep and most times it is on in the car driving to school at 7:30 in the morning. I love it when Damien Rice screams "horny" during elephant, it is amazing!Thanks to Dave Smallen from STN i have discovered this amazing music and i appreciate that gre...
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Hmm.. i first thought this was a blogging site. but i guess this is for hardcore muSick lovers huh? well.. i guess that means no personal blogging here then.. 8[I'm still stoked that i discovered this whole new social culture that's designed purely for music lovers.. interesting colony i had to say... aha..
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woo hoo, i got the new damien rice today!!so far, my favorite song is coconut skins.i also got:brand new- the devil & god are raging inside mebright eyes- noise floornow i need the new shins...and possibly at war with the mystics.....i heard that it wasn't very good, but the yeah yeah yeah song was pretty sweet. yoshimi was awesome, so i will keep my faith in the flaming lips...!!!rip james bro...
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Damien is on the road again and i am so pumped he is coming to New Zealand!!!his new album is awesome, but to tell you the truth, ive heard it all before... as much as i hate downloading illegal music, i did happen to find alot of "unreleased" material on limewire about a year ago... stuff from concerts or jus cut material from his debut album, 'O'so imagine my surprise when i got the new album...
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Does anyone have sheet music for this song? I can't seem to find anything on the internet...
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I love Damien Rice and I was so glad when he came out with a new album. I was needing some new Damien Rice. Do not get me wrong I love O, B-sides, and randam live stuff I found online. I was just needing some new songs and I had never wanted any artist to come out with new songs so much. Rice is my goto for quite music, when I am feeling a little down, hell I even made out to O. So I was glad I...
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I love the way this song lulls you into a kinda of melancholy place and then just explodes with anger...when I hear this song I think about one particular relationship in my life...in fact I think somehow Damien Rice implanted some sort of recording device in my brain and plucked these lyrics right out of my head!
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accidental babies ~ damien rice"and i know i make you cry, and i know sometimes you want to die but do you really feel alive without me?"today the music is speaking to mecarrying me off to an embrace of melodythe trigger-gun reaction of emotive lyrical flash-floodswith every song that shuffles towards me i am gifted something impossible to turn from or ignoretoday i feel the music sweeping thr...
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Leave me out with the waste This is not what I do It's the wrong kind of place To be thinking of you It's the wrong time For somebody new It's a small crime And I've got no excuse Is that alright with you? Give my gun away when it's loaded That alright with you? If you don't shoot it how am I supposed to hold it Is that alright with you? Give my gun away when it's loaded Is that alright with ...
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monday mornings with a cup of coffee and damien rice is pretty delicious. even if i have math class later today & a paper on the american society values found within a disney character to write.regardless, i can see the foothills from my kitchen window & the clouds are cotton candy puffy & white. though i would not complain if there was rain & puddles to splash in.l *
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This sad little personal evacuation of soul performed by Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan did a surprise attack on my senses last night. I never expected anything with this much depth to be on Jay Leno. It's a bit to the "right" of what I would normally listen to [lately, lots of Emilie Autumn], but it really has a somber mood about it. I'm especially attached to Lisa Hannigan's rather dry [dry li...
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Does anyone have sheet music for this song? I can't seem to find anything on the internet...
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Well, my good Real Life friend (and fellow MoGger)Teejalo and I are both avid mix CD makers. Not to mistake "avid" for anything akin to "overzealous" (though we are quite passionate) or "overabundant in our ourput" (though we may produce many CDs, it is only because we have devoted so much more time to music). I digress.Recently Teej 'challenged' me, so to speak, for each of us to make a CD of ...
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^^ (ref to title) ^^ i think thats the Tegan lyric...dont ya love that? when you have a favorate song that you turn up load everytime in your car and you're singing the lyrics that you think are the lyrics but yet you really have no idea what they are... it just sounds about right to you..which reminds me.. Story time. my friend and i where on a roadtrip last new years and there was a song off...
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Hmm.. i first thought this was a blogging site. but i guess this is for hardcore muSick lovers huh? well.. i guess that means no personal blogging here then.. 8[I'm still stoked that i discovered this whole new social culture that's designed purely for music lovers.. interesting colony i had to say... aha..
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Last Thursday I saw one of my favorite concerts of this year. Damien Rice played the Mann Center, and it was both heart-breaking and exhilarating. Here's my review:"I feel naked," our friend leaned over and whispered. We nodded our head. "Exposed, but in a good way," we replied, in awe of the man who was causing this feeling. It was the third song in and Damien Rice was alone on the stage, bathed
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damien rices new cd "9" is due out in a few weeks and it probably wont disappoint any fans of his first release "O". "9" is full of the kind of songs melancholly 15 year olds with an affectation for scruffy troubadours will lock themselves into their bedrooms and pine over incessently. the dynamic hasnt changed, soft acoustic/vocal/cello/light percussion. the order in which this takes place var...
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FIRST MOG POST.As of today, only one artist comes to mind when I feel chipper, depressed, tired, angry or defiant. His name is Damien Rice, and he's most probably the only artist who has catered to all the emotions that have raced in my head.My iTunes playlists used to be sorted depending on the emotions that they channel or relieve when I listen to them. Post-hardcore and emo tunes when I'm frust
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woo hoo, i got the new damien rice today!!so far, my favorite song is coconut skins.i also got:brand new- the devil & god are raging inside mebright eyes- noise floornow i need the new shins...and possibly at war with the mystics.....i heard that it wasn't very good, but the yeah yeah yeah song was pretty sweet. yoshimi was awesome, so i will keep my faith in the flaming lips...!!!rip james bro...
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Um, Audrey your going to kill me.Yeah so I'm not seeing incubus because ticket prices are nuts ($500 for 2!), and Modest Mouse is actually not playing till May (stupid Pollstar had the wrong info). But...I am still seeing Arcade Fire on the 20th in ParisAnd I'm seeing Damien Rice the day before (19th) in Paris.His album, btw, is Phenomenal! Really, just get it, you wont be disappointed. Like 6 ...
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| 1 9 Crimes |
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| 2 The Animals Were Gone |
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| 3 Elephant |
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| 4 Rootless Tree |
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| 5 Dogs |
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| 6 Coconut Skins |
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| 7 Me, My Yoke & I |
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| 8 Grey Room |
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| 9 Accidental Babies |
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| 10 Sleep Don't Weep |
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