David Ford VS Damien Rice

[Guinness]

As the above statement quotes:

Whose better? :D :?

[arginite]

FORD everytime!!!!!

[Guinness]

you really put up a good fight there...

I need reasons to why he is though?

[rusty66]

Damien Rice has too much ego. He thinks he is Bono and Gary Lightbody all in one smug little package. [He isn't ya know!]

And he left the Noonan. How could he be so sily?

[Guinness]

Noonan?

[rusty66]

Bellies

[Lazarus]

damien rice i'm afraid.

dont care about his ego. if you can write tunes like accidental babies you can have as nuch ego as you damn well please.

david ford is excellent though.

[thesneakybandit]

i think damien rice is possibly the most over-rated songwriter ireland has ever produced. this country is full of whiney men with guitars who have been plugging (or should that be unplugging) away for years. rice's songs are full of overblown pomp and orchestral indulgence and it's more than a coincidence that his best work is when it's at it's most stripped down and featuring the vocals of the often overlooked lisa hannigan. each of damien rice's albums have a few stand out songs which have been cleverley and brilliantly written but so too do albums by david kitt, mundy, paddy casey and mark geary to name but a few. damien rice s not the saviour of irish music that hotpress seem to think he is. he's just a 'good' songwriter who got some lucky breaks.

as for david ford, i don't know as much of his work. i have heard a lot of the live 'milk and cookies' bootlegs which show him to be an affable and rather charming live performer with a good rapport with his audience. his 'i sincerely apologise...' album has been getting an equal amount of play on my laptop to damien's last release and i find ford's songs more genuine, more sincere and his voice is a lot more easy on the ear. only time will tell how talented and prolific a writer david ford can become...

as for damien rice, well, he's the new david gray!

[Guinness]

David Grey... I don't even rate him!

Yes David Ford is quite the charmer on stage but I have never heard Damien Rice due to those people buying out the EP tickets last year. I'll be earlier next year. I duno, I just think that for someone to write music and produce it on a home studio kit and then to have expoded onto the scene with such promotion must grab some reward. I think i read somewere that for the "blowers daughter" it was about a past girlfriend who at the time he wasn't talking to. And he could never get it right, until one night he asked her over and accually played the song to her face while recording... not sure if that true but it makes an impact.

David Ford on the other hand has all my backing behind him as from the minute I stummbled onto his site I read this which made me believe that he IS a true artist doing it for himself rather than the label! Here it is:

http://www.davidford.mu/go.php?object=about

[Kate]

no question.
david ford everytime.
the man has the most beautiful voice since brett anderson 1st sang to me, and easyworld , apologies for the cheese- but it's true, saved my life.

david ford is my ultimate idol, and comparisons to mr rice- erm, i bought '0' because of them, listend, then promptly put it in a drawer to be resold at a later date.
nothing.

and david ford introduced me to a certain mr special, so even more big ups to him for that!

[Lazarus]

i think damien rice is possibly the most over-rated songwriter ireland has ever produced. this country is full of whiney men with guitars who have been plugging (or should that be unplugging) away for years. rice's songs are full of overblown pomp and orchestral indulgence and it's more than a coincidence that his best work is when it's at it's most stripped down and featuring the vocals of the often overlooked lisa hannigan. each of damien rice's albums have a few stand out songs which have been cleverley and brilliantly written but so too do albums by david kitt, mundy, paddy casey and mark geary to name but a few. damien rice s not the saviour of irish music that hotpress seem to think he is. he's just a 'good' songwriter who got some lucky breaks.


as for damien rice, well, he's the new david gray!

you will die a peasants death!

i'm not accusing anyone of doing it here, but people nowadays seem to back away from damien rice because he's succesful.

sorry, but 'o' is an incredible album, and '9' is fantastic.

oh, and david gray is wank.

[boesboes]

Ford all the way!!!

as i recently heard quoted " David ford is Damien Rice for people who actually give a sh*t about music"

[gnossos]

very tough to call this. although i think Ford may possibly just scrape it!




however i have to disagree with some of you - David Gray (especially his early stuff) is excellent!

[MCGlentworth]

Definitely David Ford for me.

And I'm another one who might not have discovered Duke had it not been for Ford.

[Kwany]

Ford for the world :D

[Lazarus]

this thread is littered with people who have clearly not listened to '9', which in my humble opinion is one of the top 3 albums of 2006, alongside SFTDF, and 10000 days by tool.