O by Damien Rice

Pros: Delicate, Volcano, and Older Chests
Cons: Pretentious, monotonous, directionless, and lacking creative verve

Consider me unimpressed. After reading time and time again about the merits of Damien Rice’s debut album, I took it upon myself to buy it--full price, mind you. That was months ago, and still I cannot completely understand or concur with the ...

Pros: Beautifully played, beautifully sung, perfect "sad b---ard" music.
Cons: Not everyone liked "sad ba---rd" music. No lyric sheet.

Everyone gets sad. We all have those nights when things are just f**ked up beyond belief, and all you wanna do is sit in the corner of your room with all the lights of and only the flickering light of the television to console you. If you're one of those ...

Pros: beautiful.
Cons: nope.

I discovered Damien Rice at the very instant that I most needed his music. It was a languid summer day, I was feeling quite low and burnt out in general. Deciding not to succumb to the mood I had seemingly put myself in, I drove into town and picked up ...

Pros: lush melodies, stirring lyrics
Cons: no thanks

There are only two scenarios which seem fitting to explain Damien Rice’s debut cd O. Either he is quite possibly the world’s greatest pretender – able to make all believe that he was unfortunate at the hands of love or he got his heart ...

Pros: Damien Rice spills his guts and makes a damned beautiful mess of 'em.
Cons: Maybe you don't want to see (or hear) Damien Rice's spilled guts.

Friday, February 20, 2004 Sun Prairie, Wisconsin Dear Andy , Is it snowing in Lanarkshire? It sorta is here. There’s a winter storm warning all over northeastern Wisconsin tonight, but I’m in the south, and ...

Pros: -
Cons: -

Tracks with great hooks, that bump and grind, causing you to dance in your car seat are great. Songs of that type are usually shallow, simple, and fun. Damien Rice’s “O” album is the exact opposite of that. “O” is a record to ...

Pros: I do believe so.
Cons: To even suggest such a thing is a felony.

One thing that I positively despise is when someone (particularly someone I know personally) discovers a new fledgling musical talent before I do. But its not really so much _that_, maybe more if the new fledgling musical talent in question is something ...

Pros: Simple, sweet, gorgeous
Cons: Wish it could have lasted longer

With the first few beats, the first wistful strums of an acoustic guitar - the first breathy phrase ...

Pros: Eskimo, Delicate, and The Blowers Daughter
Cons: Not a single thing

Open yourself to a unique and pure sound. I have been trying to open my ears up to some new and different music lately. A friend of mine recently introduced me to Damien Rice. The album title “O”, gives you exactly that feeling…..” ...

Pros: Beautiful, haunting, gut-wrenchingly honest lyrics and vocals. Amazing.
Cons: Experimental additions to some songs don't pan out so well.

My sister recently turned me on to Damien Rice when she lent me her copy of Damien's latest cd, "O". I was instantly taken with his haunting, stripped-bare lyrics and voice. My immediate impression was that Damien Rice's music was something like David ...

Pros: quality songwriting
Cons: mellow, love lorn and sadly reflective

Maybe its because this is not my regular taste in music, but Damien Rice seems to have come from nowhere over night to deliver one of the finest albums of recent years. I know that over night success thing is just a myth and is perpetuated by the way the ...

Pros: A superb album that really brings folk/rock into the main stream
Cons: that if you dismiss it without checking him out youll probably regret it

An album that made it too late into my top 10 for the year is Damien Rice’s debut offering “O”. He’s another along with Jason Mraz who I have discovered thanks to Virgin Radio where his last single “Cannonball” seems to have made it onto the play list on ...

Pros: Not a single one. Nada. Nil. Which is appropriate to Rice's sense of pint-sized nihilism.
Cons: That the talent-starved music industry publicizes this whiny neophyte as a rising star.

This melodramatic, overwrought collection is the musical equivalent of hemlock: one dose will do you in. Its' one-track concept is linear in all the worst ways; fraught with an endless stream of melodramatic break-up/breakdown tunes sparsely augmented ...

Pros: everything: instrumentation, lyrics, rhythm, variety, Lisa Hannigan.
Cons: Nothing.

Author's Note: This was edited on January 15, 2008, after having a significantly longer portion of time in which to listen to the album, and I find I generally like a few songs a lot more now then when I bought the album, so yeah. Irish ...

Pros: 10 songs of breathtaking beauty. A superb lyricist.
Cons: Listening to this man's story is not for all moods. Takes a lot from you.

Ever play the game ‘Operation?’ I never got the chance to, my best friend owned it but he took the heart out and damaged it. I imagine such an experience would be similar to listening to this album. In ‘O’, the debut from singer-songwriter Damien ...