Where did you first hear a Damien Rice song?

[riceman]

I was on an email list for Sarah Mclachlan when this girl posted just raving about Damien Rice and how awesome his lyrics were. I blasted her.... and year later I decided what the hell, I'll check him out. I found "O" on eBay for cheap and listened.. what a sweet love affair since then. Especially Cold Water. haven't listened to sarah in an awfully long time!

[Rai]

On a compilation CD entitled 'Contemporary Irish Music and Film', got it when my father went to Galway for a conference and I went with him. It had Volcano on it from Damien, but it took a while for me to notice it among the other wonders.

[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!

[bearbait]

I first heard Damien Rice on an internet radio station at work a couple of years ago - Cannonball & Volcano. I really liked them both - couldn't get Cannonball out of my head for several days - so I bought the CD that weekend. I think it was autumn of 2004.

[verenita]

i heard damien for the first time on tv show dawson´s creek (i said this before), april 2003. they played "the blower´s daughter" at the very end on the episode and i instantly fell in love with the song... a few days after, i went to the music page (dawson´s creek site) and i found the number of the song and this link to his site... it was one of my loveliest memories about damien...

by the way... very welcome to the igloo riceman!

[jemarami]

I first heard him via the internetsite "Pandora". A site that plays artist depending on your taste. The song was Cannonball and I've been listening to Damien every day since then...

[Wheels]

First song I heard was 'Groovin'... someone played me a recording they had made at an early show. Can't remember exactly when that was... well before anything was released... let's say March 1970

[cuuliem]

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!

heard the blower's daughter while watching Closer,
then i tried to find it on the internet but i ended up with "cant' take my eyes off of you"

[Tommy]

Age's ago on a BBC Glastonbury program. He was playing Volcano in their backstage area. I still haven't saw a online clip of that since, would be good if I could find it.

[phoenix3]

the first time i heard a damien rice song was on Hidden Palms ( first episode ) and the song was The Blower's Daughter.

[riotana]

A friend of mine sent me a video where he has playin The Blowers Daughter in front of an audience. I think it was his exam after the guitar course or something like that. Anyway,then I asked him to sent me the song and so I got to know Damien. This was back in 2004.

[A2_Blue]

Originally Posted by riceman

I was on an email list for Sarah Mclachlan when this girl posted just raving about Damien Rice and how awesome his lyrics were. I blasted her.... and year later I decided what the hell, I'll check him out. I found "O" on eBay for cheap and listened.. what a sweet love affair since then. Especially Cold Water. haven't listened to sarah in an awfully long time!

Did you apologize? lol

[heffaface]

i wasnt actaully into music before i heard damien, then one day i was watchin vh1 and they had a show called "3play" where they played 3 songs by one artist and id heard my neighbour talkin bout it so i thought id giv damo a chance. and that started my life musically!!!

[A2_Blue]

I first started listening to Damo in November of 2006. My ex-fiance just broke my heart and I was in really bad shape. While chatting in an internet chatroom, someone mentioned how much they liked Damien rice... I had never heard of him. So, I went to youtube and typed "Damien Rice" and the first video that popped up was the "Blowers Daughter." The first time I played it I just listened... and was captivated. The second time... I broke down in tears. I must have listened to it twenty times that night.

Now he is my favorite musician and I ALMOST never listen to The Blowers Daughter now.

[bjmo11]

Originally Posted by heffaface

i wasnt actaully into music before i heard damien, then one day i was watchin vh1 and they had a show called "3play" where they played 3 songs by one artist and id heard my neighbour talkin bout it so i thought id giv damo a chance. and that started my life musically!!!

i find that crazy that vh1 actully use to play damo, what 3 songs? volcano, cannonball and delicate probably? like that dvd that comes with special versions of O?

by the way the first time i heard him was at the movies in late 2003 early 04 not sure which, i went and saw a movie called "in good company" and it was just miserable and boring but the girl i was with was enjoying it, so there i was half asleep and all of a sudden cannonball comes on and just completely blows me away, i rush home that night listen to that soundtrack on amazon or somewhere, and no sign of it, so i went to some site that showed every song in the movie and sure as **** when i typed in damien rice cannonball, gave it a listen there it was. next day i was at my local music store buying O. and couldnt believe how great the whole cd was. and now 4 years and 5 shows later hes still by far my favorite artist, and just about the only one i listen to besides david gray.

[kski09]

You really mean when did I first see the light, right?

I must admit, it was nothing special ((what am I saying, everything about Damien is special!)) but what I really mean is that my story is pretty mediocre, especially for most...... eh Americans? I saw Closer and was mesmerized by the scene of Natalie Portman walking down the street in a white tank and Damien singing "... I can't take my eyes off of you..." Those were the only words I remember, and I quickly raced off the google him. I found his name, CD, info, etc. A few days later ((much to my embarrassment)) I downloaded the entire CD illegally ((if I can only explain!)). I didn't expect to find anything else to impress me, but I took a shot at it about a month later and sunk into our leather chair on a rainy day and just listened to O in its entirety in one sitting. Amie played first and I was speechless at the strings. I thought, "Well, ok, he's got 2 that are good. We'll see about the rest." Yet track after track amazed me.. I was literally hanging off every last work and strum and hum. To this day, I have never met an album so expertly crafted, so intricately woven, with such raw emotion, or so simply honest, yet so rich and full of beauty. I may be young, but I have a very diverse music repetoire, and I must say that this CD is still number 1 after all these years. It is simply unparalled, and though I try to describe why, I don't think that anyone nor I has every been able to aptly convey why this CD transcends everything.

[.em.]

a friend recommended me to him, so I downloaded a song off some random website. I think the first ones I heard were Delicate and Volcano. This friend later burned a copy of O for me. ^__^

[riceman]

No. Good idea though. Thought that was the wrong place to be obessing over a different artist. doesn't change the fact that she was right........

[riceman]

sweet reply. "O" swept me off my feet too.

[riceman]

This place is sweet. In a bit of a swoon to finally find some people who have heard of Damien Rice!!

[heffaface]

Originally Posted by bjmo11

i find that crazy that vh1 actully use to play damo, what 3 songs? volcano, cannonball and delicate probably? like that dvd that comes with special versions of O?

they played cannonball and volcano off the o special edition and the blowers daughter video wher he's on the beach (minus the closer clips)

[nsenada]

A friend of mine took me to his my first Damien concert and I immediatly got kinda hooked... it's as simple as that! I think he's live so much better than on cd... that doesn't mean that I don't like his cd's... but I prefer his songs live.


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[Swedish Professor]

I was sitting up really late playing poker one night back in 2003 or 2004. As always I had the TV on some random music channel just to have some background noise. That night it was an obscure show on where they played unknown (mostly ****) songs. Then Blower´s daughter came on. I just freezed and actually missed playing a big pot because I had to watch. That night I ordered his album from a website, figured out on the morning that I couldn't wait so I bought it at a musicstore instead. So now I have two.

[camouflage]

One of my friends had his album and mentioned it to me but said I wouldn't like the music. A while after I saw Damien on one of those late shows (Jay Leno I think?) where he performed the blowers daughter and I was immediately hooked. I actually called one of my friends up to turn on the show to watch him and she eventually became hooked as well.

[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?

[Wolly]

my friend had the closer video up on his myspace and i really liked the song. so i went to youtube to listen/watch other songs and i was hooked. i could not believe that i had not dis coved him sooner

[sherifkarama]

My sister heard it on Closer first..then bought the cd and blasted it in the house for hours every day..I kinda HAD to like it :P
Then I saw him in concert in Montreal, and fell in love!

[IgoTastik]

prior to discovering damo...i didn't give a rat's arse bout music...let alone depressed irishmen w/ trouble haircuts ..=p
so..one day, after talking w/ a friend bout random stuff...damo came up and i decided to give it a try...and...music never sounded better :]
i continually find new music everyday, but always come crawling back to damo at the end of the day

[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.

[Mort]

The Blowers Daughter on his old official website. .)