Where did you first hear a Damien Rice song? - Page 2

sherifkarama · 01-30-2008, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by srahman24

It was Dec. 2004 - I was in Ireland (for the first time) for a grand total of 3 days and The Blowers Daughter was playing on the radio during the drive from Dublin Airport to Dundalk. I got O for Christmas that year and I was absolutely, completely hooked from then on.

But the real this-man-is-brilliant moment came after seeing him live in July, 2006. That show was unbelievable. Damien solo, unplugged, a great theatre dating back to 1919, heat wave in the city/continent, NO air conditioning whatsoever, 2nd row center and a security guard that let my friend get away with taking a candle holder from the stage for me.

It was pretty much as close to transcendental as you can get.

This is an amazing story! Being in Ireland and discovering this great Irishmen right there and then...awesome :P

Van Gericke · 01-30-2008, 08:30 PM

someone who usally listens to progressive rock sent me a link to the "for sessions" video of.. dunno eskimo or volcano or delicate. i think eskimo, but i am not sure.

riceman · 02-03-2008, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Kilombo

The rooftop of my host's house in Paraguay, homsick as ****, in the middle of an aftermath of unanswered love, in the middle of the night, still above 20° Celsius all alone looking at the stars and getting drunk with Chilenian wine.. is there a better way to get to know Damien?

Very cool place to get to know him!

wicklowgurl · 02-03-2008, 04:48 PM

i heard cannonball on the radio and asked my brother who sang it and he told me about damien,about a week later i bought 'O',its such an amazing album and iv loved damo evr since

wicklowgurl · 02-03-2008, 05:16 PM

great story

wicklowgurl · 02-03-2008, 05:17 PM

great story

Mikko · 02-04-2008, 09:03 PM

My brother told me to get O, because "Damien Rice sounds like Jeff Buckley with strings." So I got the album and loved Amie at first, never really listening to the rest of the album. Soon I realized that the other songs actually existed and fell in love.

Vyru · 02-04-2008, 09:21 PM

Hah, I was a closet Damien Rice fan for a while, I was with the whole "Grunge" scene, and my "friends" were all into metal, so I was expected to be into that kind of stuff too.

I first heard him on a compilation CD called Hits 60... I was chilling out in my room one evening, and this amazing song came on, I listened, and listened, and listened, eventually reaching for the back of the CD case, I found it was Cannonball. I put that CD away for a year or so, but after a rough patch at school, with bullying, I found his music again and bought a copy of O. I've been a fan ever since. <3

esgii · 02-06-2008, 04:26 PM

in the movie "closer" ,i first heard "the blower's daugther" ...the lyrics were very impressing !! later that day i listened that song again and again...then i heard 9 crimes..It was vey lucky moment in my life cause since then ı have been damien rice fan!

aurora · 12-28-2008, 08:24 PM

Nice topic, I like the stories...
I found him by accident not so long ago, 2005... in youtube, "The Blower's Daughter"... then I looked for more, and more, and here I am!
Sometimes I think "why do I hear this man if his music totally kills me...?", but I can't help it... I need it!
(Masoquism? ha!)

dawno · 12-28-2008, 09:22 PM

it was sometime in early 2003 - a friend of mine kept trying to convince me to come see him at a bunch of small venues in new york city: sin-e, mercury lounge, north six etc.... but i wasn't able to make any of the gigs. my husband and i had read about Damien in Q mag and finally decided to buy O.... needless to say i was extremely irked with myself for not heeding my friend's advice sooner!

Cerque · 12-28-2008, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by melodie

i heard the blower's daughter when i saw closer at the cinema. i got very obsessed with it but for some reason never really thought of getting other songs. a few weeks later my friend was answering one of those myspace quizzes and she mentionned cheers, darlin. i liked the way the title sounded and got O the next day!

In the car with my father. canonball. Was not gone on it first. It would take me 2 years to buy the album and fall in love with it.

eva_arg · 12-29-2008, 03:21 PM

there was a bunch of mp3s in someone's computer, I saw like 6 or 7 songs of him and I thought "oh, Damien Rice... I heard he's good, let's see if they're right". so I brought them home. first song I heard was dogs. then, when I heard The blower's daughter I went "oh!!!! this guy sings this?!" I've listened to it many times before and never noticed it was him LOL

Cerque · 12-29-2008, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by eva_arg

there was a bunch of mp3s in someone's computer, I saw like 6 or 7 songs of him and I thought "oh, Damien Rice... I heard he's good, let's see if they're right". so I brought them home. first song I heard was dogs. then, when I heard The blower's daughter I went "oh!!!! this guy sings this?!" I've listened to it many times before and never noticed it was him LOL

He he, same here, I started noticing songs i didn't know were his as well. That happens with most bands i get into.

October Sky · 12-29-2008, 05:19 PM

In the first season of the show Lost there was a character who carried around a CD player for some of the season, and every now and then they would end an episode with him listening to a CD and a song playing. For one episode they used "Delicate" and ended the episode with the CD player batteries finally going out. Very cool

Right then I was like, I have *got* to get that album. Of course I'm lazy, so it took me a long time to get around to it. Meanwhile I also heard the song in Alias, and when I finally got O I swear I listened to it for months straight without ever changing CDs.

Cerque · 12-30-2008, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by October Sky

In the first season of the show Lost there was a character who carried around a CD player for some of the season, and every now and then they would end an episode with him listening to a CD and a song playing. For one episode they used "Delicate" and ended the episode with the CD player batteries finally going out. Very cool

Right then I was like, I have *got* to get that album. Of course I'm lazy, so it took me a long time to get around to it. Meanwhile I also heard the song in Alias, and when I finally got O I swear I listened to it for months straight without ever changing CDs.

I remember that happening in lost as well but back then I didn't know it was Damo's

Timeé · 12-31-2008, 01:19 PM

If i remember correctly it was Hugo Reyes (Hurley), and the song stopped short when the batteries ran out in the CD Player. I think he smacked it with his palm when it stopped.

ThatYouAreNear · 12-31-2008, 02:44 PM

Supporting the Counting Crows at the Corn Exchange in (I think) August 2003, and well all I wanted was him and Lisa to get off so I could see the Crows, but one line/lyric stuck with me which was "I don't know" and well I went and found the album to discover 'the professor' as it turned out to be was not even on the album...but that didn't matter once I listened to it properly. I think the following January I found Gemma Hayes through the Crows also, they aren't a bad bunch at introducing new music!

shon · 01-03-2009, 05:46 AM

I first heard Cannonball on MTV 3 years ago. I was like "This guy is cool.i love this kind of music" but then I totally forgot about him. And about 1 year later, I was watching a drama and they had Cannonball in the OST, I just coudn't get the song out of my head so I decided to find more about him. And then I'm here.
I did watched Closer before I discovered Damo but I had no impression of The Blower's daughter. It actually took me a while to like this song.

newscaster rachel · 01-23-2009, 06:40 PM

spring 2005.....so my bestfriend from grad school andy and i were on one of those let's hang out for 8 hours straight and just kick it, nothing planned...it was a beautiful night in pasadena, california and we were walking all over town sitting on a bench for awhile talking, walking through the city lights and then we wondered into the Apple store and he put a headset over my ears, played a song and walked away as i listened...it was cannonball... i completely fell in love with andy after that....didn't take long til i was in love with damiens music, i spent the whole next day at work listening to O

borneoman · 01-24-2009, 08:47 AM

^^^ Never heard that Damien & Lisa had opened for Counting Crows!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Corn Exchange, what was that???? US or UK???? Must have been anamazing gig, looove Counting Crows!!

^^^^^^ and this is the scene from Lost in which they used DELICATE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3cUu2g20g8

paulita.wilson · 02-01-2009, 05:23 PM

the first time I listened to Damien was on an episode of the first season of Lost. There was a beautiful and peaceful scene on the beach .. and the song was Delicate... I fell in love with his music.

I actually love to download music from episodes of different tv series.. or movies or tv commercials.. but Damien Rice has been my best discovey!! =)

Kristi · 03-12-2009, 03:17 PM

Winter of 2002-2003 in Ireland. Ah, memories...

Ligi · 03-18-2009, 01:48 AM

I turned on VH1 one morning, about 5 years ago.. early early morning when no one else was watching. All of a sudden, the most beautiful song I'd ever heard by the name of Volcano took over my television screen and I was so moved. No one else had heard of him and I started a quest for his music. It was love at first listen.

02-04-2008, 09:03 PM	#37
Mikko Eskimo Friend Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Finland Posts: 44	My brother told me to get O, because "Damien Rice sounds like Jeff Buckley with strings." So I got the album and loved Amie at first, never really listening to the rest of the album. Soon I realized that the other songs actually existed and fell in love. __________________ Trouble, trouble, trouble..

02-04-2008, 09:21 PM	#38
Vyru Guardian of common sense Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Jolly Ol' England. Posts: 74	Hah, I was a closet Damien Rice fan for a while, I was with the whole "Grunge" scene, and my "friends" were all into metal, so I was expected to be into that kind of stuff too. I first heard him on a compilation CD called Hits 60... I was chilling out in my room one evening, and this amazing song came on, I listened, and listened, and listened, eventually reaching for the back of the CD case, I found it was Cannonball. I put that CD away for a year or so, but after a rough patch at school, with bullying, I found his music again and bought a copy of O. I've been a fan ever since. <3 __________________ ~* In the book of life, there aren't any answers in the back *~

02-06-2008, 04:26 PM	#39
esgii Eskimo Baby Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 3	in the movie "closer" ,i first heard "the blower's daugther" ...the lyrics were very impressing !! later that day i listened that song again and again...then i heard 9 crimes..It was vey lucky moment in my life cause since then ı have been damien rice fan! __________________ I should have kissed you when we were alone...

12-29-2008, 03:21 PM	#43
eva_arg Eskimo Regular Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Argentina Posts: 1,795	there was a bunch of mp3s in someone's computer, I saw like 6 or 7 songs of him and I thought "oh, Damien Rice... I heard he's good, let's see if they're right". so I brought them home. first song I heard was dogs. then, when I heard The blower's daughter I went "oh!!!! this guy sings this?!" I've listened to it many times before and never noticed it was him LOL __________________

12-31-2008, 01:19 PM	#47
Timeé Intello Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Co. Donegal, Ireland. Posts: 2,435	If i remember correctly it was Hugo Reyes (Hurley), and the song stopped short when the batteries ran out in the CD Player. I think he smacked it with his palm when it stopped. __________________ Wasted and wounded, it ain't what the moon did Got what I paid for now See ya tomorrow, hey Frank can I borrow A couple of bucks from you?

01-30-2008, 08:30 PM	#32
Van Gericke Eskimo Baby Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 24	someone who usally listens to progressive rock sent me a link to the "for sessions" video of.. dunno eskimo or volcano or delicate. i think eskimo, but i am not sure.

02-03-2008, 04:48 PM	#34
wicklowgurl Eskimo Baby Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Galway Posts: 6	i heard cannonball on the radio and asked my brother who sang it and he told me about damien,about a week later i bought 'O',its such an amazing album and iv loved damo evr since

02-03-2008, 05:16 PM	#35
wicklowgurl Eskimo Baby Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Galway Posts: 6	great story

02-03-2008, 05:17 PM	#36
wicklowgurl Eskimo Baby Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Galway Posts: 6	great story

12-28-2008, 08:24 PM	#40
aurora Eskimo Baby Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 10	Nice topic, I like the stories... I found him by accident not so long ago, 2005... in youtube, "The Blower's Daughter"... then I looked for more, and more, and here I am! Sometimes I think "why do I hear this man if his music totally kills me...?", but I can't help it... I need it! (Masoquism? ha!)

12-28-2008, 09:22 PM	#41
dawno just mildly free Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: metro nyc Posts: 769	it was sometime in early 2003 - a friend of mine kept trying to convince me to come see him at a bunch of small venues in new york city: sin-e, mercury lounge, north six etc.... but i wasn't able to make any of the gigs. my husband and i had read about Damien in Q mag and finally decided to buy O.... needless to say i was extremely irked with myself for not heeding my friend's advice sooner!

12-29-2008, 05:19 PM	#45
October Sky Eskimo Regular Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 100	In the first season of the show Lost there was a character who carried around a CD player for some of the season, and every now and then they would end an episode with him listening to a CD and a song playing. For one episode they used "Delicate" and ended the episode with the CD player batteries finally going out. Very cool Right then I was like, I have got to get that album. Of course I'm lazy, so it took me a long time to get around to it. Meanwhile I also heard the song in Alias, and when I finally got O I swear I listened to it for months straight without ever changing CDs.

12-31-2008, 02:44 PM	#48
ThatYouAreNear Eskimo Baby Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 2	Supporting the Counting Crows at the Corn Exchange in (I think) August 2003, and well all I wanted was him and Lisa to get off so I could see the Crows, but one line/lyric stuck with me which was "I don't know" and well I went and found the album to discover 'the professor' as it turned out to be was not even on the album...but that didn't matter once I listened to it properly. I think the following January I found Gemma Hayes through the Crows also, they aren't a bad bunch at introducing new music!

01-03-2009, 05:46 AM	#49
shon Eskimo Baby Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 14	I first heard Cannonball on MTV 3 years ago. I was like "This guy is cool.i love this kind of music" but then I totally forgot about him. And about 1 year later, I was watching a drama and they had Cannonball in the OST, I just coudn't get the song out of my head so I decided to find more about him. And then I'm here. I did watched Closer before I discovered Damo but I had no impression of The Blower's daughter. It actually took me a while to like this song.

01-23-2009, 06:40 PM	#50
newscaster rachel Eskimo Baby Join Date: May 2007 Location: san diego, california Posts: 28	spring 2005.....so my bestfriend from grad school andy and i were on one of those let's hang out for 8 hours straight and just kick it, nothing planned...it was a beautiful night in pasadena, california and we were walking all over town sitting on a bench for awhile talking, walking through the city lights and then we wondered into the Apple store and he put a headset over my ears, played a song and walked away as i listened...it was cannonball... i completely fell in love with andy after that....didn't take long til i was in love with damiens music, i spent the whole next day at work listening to O Last edited by newscaster rachel; 01-23-2009 at 06:43 PM.

01-24-2009, 08:47 AM	#51
borneoman Insane Eskimo Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 6,151	^^^ Never heard that Damien & Lisa had opened for Counting Crows!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Corn Exchange, what was that???? US or UK???? Must have been anamazing gig, looove Counting Crows!! ^^^^^^ and this is the scene from Lost in which they used DELICATE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3cUu2g20g8 __________________ I made you laugh, I made you cry, I made you open up your eyes, didn't I?

02-01-2009, 05:23 PM	#52
paulita.wilson Eskimo Baby Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Santiago, Chile Posts: 1	the first time I listened to Damien was on an episode of the first season of Lost. There was a beautiful and peaceful scene on the beach .. and the song was Delicate... I fell in love with his music. I actually love to download music from episodes of different tv series.. or movies or tv commercials.. but Damien Rice has been my best discovey!! =)

03-12-2009, 03:17 PM	#53
Kristi The Prodigal Eskimo Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: We are nowhere and this is now. Posts: 2,397	Winter of 2002-2003 in Ireland. Ah, memories... __________________ I like you, do you like me?

03-18-2009, 01:48 AM	#54
Ligi Adore Adore Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: where the orchids grow Posts: 431	I turned on VH1 one morning, about 5 years ago.. early early morning when no one else was watching. All of a sudden, the most beautiful song I'd ever heard by the name of Volcano took over my television screen and I was so moved. No one else had heard of him and I started a quest for his music. It was love at first listen. __________________ I may be numberless, I may be innocent; I may know many things, I may be ignorant; I could ride with kings and conquer many lands or win this world at cards and let it slip my hands.