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Originally posted by Gar
Yep that's the title of his new album, due out on 3rd of November. Here's the tracklisting for it: 1. 9 Crimes 2. The Animals Were Gone 3. Elephant 4. Rootless Tree 5. Dogs 6. Coconut Skins 7. Me, My Yoke And I 8. Grey Room 9. Accidental Babies 10. Sleep Don't Weep

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Originally posted by Padre Cruz
Very possible Dera, my initial reaction too. '9 crimes' but 10 songs - which one is innocent?

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Originally posted by Padre Cruz
Very possible Dera, my initial reaction too. '9 crimes' but 10 songs - which one is innocent?

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Accidental Babies is surely the innocent

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Originally posted by ctrlaltdelete
Where's Rev Jules to wade in with an unfunny diatribe against Mr Rice? This thread's been here a whole 90 minutes! He's losing it.

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Originally posted by Padre Cruz
Very possible Dera, my initial reaction too. '9 crimes' but 10 songs - which one is innocent?

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9 Crimes alright.Call the cops!! The humour-free, pretentious egomaniac is back to make our lives a misery for the foreseeable future. '9'?? What the f**k is that supposed to mean? Yes, Dera I agree.It is possible to even hate the song-names especially when they are as ludicrous as 'Coconut Skins', 'Dogs' 'The Animals Were Gone' 'Me, My Yoke and I' WHAT????!!!! Oh Dear.

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Originally posted by ctrlaltdelete
Where's Rev Jules to wade in with an unfunny diatribe against Mr Rice? This thread's been here a whole 90 minutes! He's losing it.

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Seeing as the frames are floating his boat these days, maybe he's off tapping his foot to 'O' ...

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You called ? I am not listening to the frames, I am listening to one of their songs and no, do not blaspheme, there is nothing that would make me change my mind about ricecakes, watch this space.

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Originally posted by yoshimi
I liked O too.

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Originally posted by Rev Jules
the lyrics for dogs were posted on his website 2/3 years ago. the guy is a classic case of cant write, cant sing, cant play, looks awful and comes across like a twat on stage and in interviews but hes fooled enough people to get dumped by renee, as I said before a motel in tijuana awaits him

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Originally posted by jmc105
don't you think it's even a tiny bit impressive for someone who can't write songs or play guitar, or sing, to become a songwriter and lead singer with a band, get a record deal (juniper), write and record a critically acclaimed, award-winning solo album, sell two million copies of it, and perform sell out tours around ireland, the uk, europe, australia and the us, all just by "fooling people"? man, he makes george bush look like an amateur. as for the motel in tijuana, i'd say you'd be far more likely to find him camping on the beach. i think "o" is a brilliant, beautiful album, but to be honest i'm not expecting too much from "9". i'll wait til i hear it before making my mind up tho.

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A) If ricecakes became President of the United States of America I would be impressed but, sorry, George W Bush outclasses him in every respect as an entertainer. B) I think the poor fella would catch his death if he camped on the beach C) Apparently, far more people die of coconuts falling on their heads than shark attacks so, if he does camp on the beach, please let it be somewhere with both coconut trees and shark infested waters.

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Originally posted by Rev Jules A) If ricecakes became President of the United States of America I would be impressed but, sorry, George W Bush outclasses him in every respect as an entertainer. B) I think the poor fella would catch his death if he camped on the beach

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Originally posted by Rev Jules A) If ricecakes became President of the United States of America I would be impressed but, sorry, George W Bush outclasses him in every respect as an entertainer.

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Originally posted by jmc105
well now you might find war, death, torture and pollution more entertaining than tousle-haired troubadours singing their songs, i can't argue with that cos it's just your opinion. however.... bush fooled just over 62 million people into voting for him, at a cost of around $372,000,000. damo (sorry, i do like nicknames, but 'ricecakes' just sounds a bit too gay for me) fooled 2 million people into buying his album and it didn't cost him anything. so on a purely financial level, he kicks dubya's ass. tijuana is nice and toasty during the summer, and during the winter i'm sure he'd have plenty woolly jumpers to keep him warm. as for coconuts and sharks, well, his head is apparently safe and sound up his own hole and he's made out of tofu. no problem. you'll have to try harder i'm afraid.

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I'll tell you what I find funny Will Ferrell as George Bush http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_84VT6Gxd4 Be warned, you need a sense of humour to enjoy this and I think yours was surgically removed at birth, thus your ongoing defence of ricecakes Don't worry, I have a 12gauge shotgun* if the sharks and coconuts don't do the trick *NB: The 12 gauge shotgun in this post is a literary and metaphorical construct and not an actual firearm in the possesion of the author. No ricecakes were harmed during the writing of this post nor at any time afterwards. Any similarity between ricecakes and musicians of actual talent or ability is purely coincidental.

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Originally posted by Gar
Back to this thread though......Is no-one here looking forward to Damien Rice's new album?

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His accountant posts on Cluas?????

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Jmc105, where you getting this info that Bush fooled 62 million people into voting for him? Yes, Florida was rigged in his favour but he was still in the race right up to that last state. And when he went up against John Kerry in the most recent election, he won fair and square. It's not about him fooling the American citizens - they wanted to vote for him (those that did vote at least) in the two elections that he stood in. Back to this thread though......Is no-one here looking forward to Damien Rice's new album?

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Originally posted by Gar A huge majority of American voters will opt for the candidate who appeals to them on those issues.

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Sorry to derail the thread further, but, er, "huge majority"?

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Originally posted by Gar
Jmc105, where you getting this info that Bush fooled 62 million people into voting for him? Yes, Florida was rigged in his favour but he was still in the race right up to that last state. And when he went up against John Kerry in the most recent election, he won fair and square. It's not about him fooling the American citizens - they wanted to vote for him (those that did vote at least) in the two elections that he stood in. Back to this thread though......Is no-one here looking forward to Damien Rice's new album?

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the bould revlon reckoned that damien rice has achieved his level of success in spite of a lack of talent, not because he is talented. and that reminded me of bush. i don't consider the man competent to manage a starbucks franchise, let alone the united states of america. i was in denver during the 2004 election and watched the presidential debates. the contrast between kerry, who was able to address the issues he was asked about with intelligence, and bush, who ignored the questions in favour of saying what suited him (a familiar enough tactic round here incidentally) and still failed to construct meaningful sentences, was shocking. regardless of what your political or moral beliefs may be, how any sane, thinking person could entrust the running of their country to george w. bush is beyond me. just over 62 million people voted for bush in total, and i reckon that if they believe he is the best man for the job that somewhere along the line somebody must have brainwashed them. i am looking forward to the new album, but having heard some of his new material i'm not expecting it to be as good as 'o'. in spite of my lack of a sense of humour, and thanks for clearing that up it's such a relief just to finally know, i'll see your ferrell and raise you a black bush. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DprRG8uitwA

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Originally posted by jmc105
ah in fairness now, i mentioned bush in passing, i had no interest in getting into a debate about the man. fair enough, you think he's playing a role, and he does have certain amount of charm, which he uses to good effect. i think his lack of intelligence is painfully obvious, and that without a combination of his ex-president daddy, his brilliant campaign managers, a seriously dodgy election in 2000, the war in iraq, a poor 2004 campaign by the democrats and a willingness on the part of millions of americans to vote for along party lines, he wouldn't be president today. i wouldn't go so far as to call him stupid, but compared to someone like clinton, (wasn't he a rhode's scholar?), he ain't smart. came across an interesting report on the iq's of the last twelve american presidents recently, which places george w last with an iq of 91. clinton was top with 182. http://www.lovenstein.org/report/

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I dont think that proves anything, c'mon now, quoting an anti-bush website which has no real evidence for their claims. As for the new album, well Gar, in the absence of any tracks to listen to, I'd say it proves that being able to count is not one of Ricecake's skills, there are 10 songs listed and the album is called '9'?

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gar - it's hard to talk for very long about an album that hasn't come out yet and no-one has heard anything from. rj - first read about that report in "de paper", then came across it online, had a closer look today and you'll be happy to hear that it's all a hoax. or rather, it started as an email joke which sounded real enough to fool some journalists, who published it, the silly things. http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/lovenstein.html maybe i'm misunderestimating the poor man, maybe there's really a keen intellect hiding in there somewhere, but i've watched him say and do so many things that remind me of homer simpson that i really don't think so. surely damien rice's counting skills, going by your logic anyway, were shown up years ago, when "o" turned out to have any tracks at all on it?

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Classic, I knew it was dodgy if jmc105 was using it to back himself up. Now, is 'O' or '0', a numeral or a letter, i haven't explored ricecakes enough to know, but if it was indeed a numeral then the album should have been blank, which would have made it much better to listen to indeed

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where will this thread go next?! f**kin hell, my head is melted

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Here are my favourite top three songs about bears 'Bear Necessities' - The Jungle Book '(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear' - Elvis Presley 'Simon Smith and his Amazing Dancing Bear' - Randy Newman

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Originally posted by ctrlaltdelete
s**t thread. what's the point in discussing an album no-ones heard? Gar just stuck it up to show off that he's 'in the know' enough to get a press release emailed to him. big swinging mickey. and jules do you contribute anything to this site apart from frothing at the mouth about damien rice and that vanity piece moonlighting as an opinion column?

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Well, I'll answer this one at length, but I also specialise in winding up people like you, and it works every single time, fish - barrel - dynamite. I mean its a discussion board, and yet, when the discussion goes in a direction you dont like you throw your toys in the air and start whining and then there is a bunch of random personal abuse. But at the end of the day, all I care about is that the discussion board stays entertaining, readable and quotable, which it is, and if I have to be the target of someone's ire in the process, so be it

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Originally posted by Idiot Kid
How important is a song title to the quality of the song? I must have missed that decision, I really should pay more attention in meetings.

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Originally posted by ctrlaltdelete
s**t thread. what's the point in discussing an album no-ones heard? Gar just stuck it up to show off that he's 'in the know' enough to get a press release emailed to him. big swinging mickey. and jules do you contribute anything to this site apart from frothing at the mouth about damien rice and that vanity piece moonlighting as an opinion column?

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Well, I'll answer this one at length, but I also specialise in winding up people like you, and it works every single time, fish - barrel - dynamite. I mean its a discussion board, and yet, when the discussion goes in a direction you dont like you throw your toys in the air and start whining and then there is a bunch of random personal abuse. But at the end of the day, all I care about is that the discussion board stays entertaining, readable and quotable, which it is, and if I have to be the target of someone's ire in the process, so be it

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Originally posted by yoshimi
I'm a relative newbie, but the nature of the remarks come across as quite damning and would nearly make some people afraid to post what they think. I run a forum myself that's busier than this, and it's strongly negative posts like Jules' (and others too) which can really make it go off, create ructions on and off line, and send posters away. a.

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Originally posted by Rev Jules A) If ricecakes became President of the United States of America I would be impressed but, sorry, George W Bush outclasses him in every respect as an entertainer. B) I think the poor fella would catch his death if he camped on the beach

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Haha. Bush is a genius. I'll be sad when he steps down, one of the world's greatest entertainers, yet forced to go in his prime. The US needs to change the law and let him stay another term. I don't mind Rice at all, don't own any of his cds. Best of luck to him

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