The king is wearing no clothes!! Damien Dempsey

chem

I'm sorry but is Damien Dempsey the singer a joke that I just have not got yet?

Music by numbers or what! lee, gee, pee, jee........

I'm sure leaving cert poets could do better then his muck!

Table Top Joe

The first time I heard him, many moons ago now I presumed it was a piss take(Richie Kavanagh job) I was genuinely stunned he was serious......I was even more stunned when I saw people actually liked this stuff, the first thing I heard was that cringeworthy "Doobalin Toon" rubbish.......hes shockin

Witchie

I'm in the same camp with you guys. I just don't get him at all. Shocking bad.

BNMC

I couldn't care less about him just as long as he stays in Dublin and don't infest the rest of the country with his "bleedin' Dooblaaan toons".

DrumSteve

I think Damo is a good artist; the lyrics in Colony for example are head and shoulders above most artists.

But sure just fire away at slagging the dublin accent. How original.

kneemos

Heare his new song the other day and it has a nice air to it but the lyrics are a bit shocking in fairness.

Boombastic

BNMC wrote: »

I couldn't care less about him just as long as he stays in Dublin and don't infest the rest of the country with his "bleedin' Dooblaaan toons".

Too late..He's playing at a festival in clare next weekend

Fr_Dougal

He's a lyrical genius.

When can we go down beside the sea, beside the sea
When can we go down just you and me, just you and me
Warm I am feeling inside your arms, inside your arms
I want to vanish into your charms, into your charms

Travelling out to the sandy coast, the sandy coast
Mountains and valleys revive my ghost, revive my ghost
Go with the river down to the sea, down to the sea
Flow like the river so carelessly, so carelessly

The ocean goes rolling, it rolls to the land
And that's where we meet it, we greet on the sand
And everytime I'm angry the sea gets angry too
And everytime I'm happy the sea is calm and blue

When can we go down beside the sea, beside the sea
When can we go down just you and me, just you and me

endacl

Nice to see somebody happy to be themselves and sing in his own accent. If you don't like it, well, luckily enough for you he's not compulsory.

chem

Shakespeare better look out!

Sulla Felix

I think OP needs to give us a list of his top 5 artists/bands so we know whether this criticism is coming from someone with taste.

Neeson

What is his new song?

chem

endacl wrote: »

Nice to see somebody happy to be themselves and sing in his own accent. If you don't like it, well, luckily enough for you he's not compulsory.

I taught "it" was from Cork??

chem

chem wrote: »

Shakespeare Rebecca Black better look out!

FYP

anncoates

He exists primarily to dampen the knickers of female culchie arts students with a proletarian fetish.

Boombastic

chem wrote: »

Shakespeare better look out!

This is bigger than Shakespeare, Spiral better look out. : pac:

Miss Lockhart

I thought it was the emperor who enjoyed nudity.

Not a fan of Damien Dempsey but I don't think he's the worst out there by any means.

nocoverart

I personally think his songs are a bit all over the place, but least he sings from the heart with passion. There's an awful lot of sh1te out there that we could be mentioning. 95% of day-time radio for a start.

HerrScheisse

anncoates wrote: »

He exists primarily to dampen the knickers of female culchie srts students with a proletarian fetish.

Now that is a proper insult, well thought out and delivered with the fast timing of a takeaway pizza :pac:

chem

Sulla Felix wrote: »

I think OP needs to give us a list of his top 5 artists/bands so we know whether this criticism is coming from someone with taste.

True!

I just like any music that has meaning and substance.

Thanks for your question Damo!

Handsome Bob

I'll let Damo himself respond:

You knock me, if you're so mighty, why waste your time with me
If I'm bad, ignorant and sad
Why waste your time, you're mad
You're just mad, because your life is sad
You've done nothing worth while

Weevil

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

He's a lyrical genius.

Reminds me of the unforgettable Dis'ree:

Life by Des'ree


I’m afraid of the dark,
‘specially when I’m in a park
And there’s no-one else around,
Ooh, I get the shivers.
I don’t want to see a ghost,
It’s a sight that I fear most.
I’d rather have a piece of toast and
watch the evenings news.

Life, oh life, oh life, oh life doo,
doot doot dooo. Life, oh life,
oh life doo, doot dooo.

Sulla Felix

chem wrote: »

True!

I just like any music that has meaning and substance.

Thanks for your question Damo!

Aww, go on OP. I'm actually not too mad about his work myself. I solve this horrible problem by not listening to it.
Maybe just one, rather than a list?

dd972

Damien Dempsey thinks he's Dublin incarnate and some sort of sensitive hardman, a bit of a bore really.

He'd have been driving a Tacsai if he wasn't strumming tunes with his eyes closed shut and head jerked back giving it the earnest trouabour schtick.

HerrScheisse

Almost as good a lyricist as the Cranberries:

Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
Does anybody care?


But...at the least, they had a very catchy melody! And fame. World fame.

Christ the Redeemer

I think he's pretty good.

allprops

I believe that Damo goes home to his nice three story in Newtownpark Avenue, enjoys the rugger and just puts on the working class shtick to sell records and to do what anncoates said.

dharn

I thought it was just me, glad to see there are other people out there who dont get him he is vastly overated, he was featured on today fm recently, such fecking fawning over him ,, good man damo,,, brilliant, I could not believe what I was hearing he was ****ing awful

kfallon

What's the hang up with lyrics OP, The Beatles are considered the greatest of all time but just have a listen to "I Am The Walrus" and the lyrics in that.

I like Damo, does a great live show.

anncoates

No rock star stould ever be called Damo..

End of.

dharn

Come on the beatles wrote most of there lyrics under the influence of psychadelic drugs, damo coverd the ' boyes are back in teown', it has to be the worst cover version of any song ever

Los Lobos

Seize the day is a brilliant album, ye don't have a musical bone in your body if ya don't realise this. As the late great Gabrielle once said, dreams can come through

rolliepoley

I went to school with him, was in the same class and i'll tell you this he did'nt sound like that then, its all put on, the whole fame thing is gone to his head, he fkn loves himself.
That accent when he sings i just cant stand it.

joe swanson

Absolute dung is the technical term for his music. Nothing against him but hes not a good singer or writer.

Neeson

How he still survived after this murdering I do not know.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V0Aaesx5l-M&desktop_uri=%252Fwatch%253Fv%253DV0Aaesx5l-M

HerrScheisse

It would be ok for a wedding.

Napper Hawkins

Neeson wrote: »

How he still survived after this murdering I do not know.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V0Aaesx5l-M&desktop_uri=%252Fwatch%253Fv%253DV0Aaesx5l-M

In fairness to him, that wasn't too bad. Not great by a long shot, but not terrible.
He took an awful song and made it his own and dare I say, improved it a little.

Let's see Will.i.am do that without turning it into some "beep beep holla y'all let's get retarded up hyar yo" electronic monstrosity of aural **** slime.

You couldn't pay me to listen to his cd's but I don't get the hatred, to be honest. You don't have to listen to him. He at least plays, sings and writes his own stuff, like him or not that makes him head and shoulders more talented than most of the ear raping, contrived ****e that passes for music these days.

GoldenTickets

Neeson wrote: »

How he still survived after this murdering I do not know.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V0Aaesx5l-M&desktop_uri=%252Fwatch%253Fv%253DV0Aaesx5l-M

That is woeful! Jesus Christ.

I think Damo is having a good long laugh at the expense of his fans. The voice is a put on obviously, but it's so poorly put on. He sounds like someone mocking the Dublin accent, but then that's exactly what he is.

The first song I ever heard of his was Party On, check out this stink bomb:

Party On

Doing E, doing speed, doing cocaine
Mix it with alcohol and go insane
In the morning the edge of the knife
Where the hell is the bright side of life?
It's a farcical high for a few hours
Then you're blind and you can't see the bright flowers
For the light of a child and the glee
If you splurge then the law you'll agree
Turns you into a shell of what you used to be
All the weeks you're living in a fantasy
Fantasise about the party to come
Then your day-life just doesn't seem fun
I'm not telling you how to do your thing
I'm just laying down some facts about indulging
How the sh_t going 'round can become
Your controller, your dictator, your one

I'm giving it up I swear in the New Year..
No more of that for me, you'll see...
I'm going to be going straight I can't wait
Until this year is gone, party on..

Coming down on the ground in a small house
You're a man but you feel like a small mouse
Not so long ago you felt like a king
Someone give me psychiatrist a ring
We'll have no bread and feel feckin' brain-dead
All alone in a room full of E-heads
Feel so hollow and sickingly and worthless
There's no cure in the mosques or the churches
I met strangers who barely six hours ago
Were the best friends I thought I'd ever know
Now they're strangers again 'cos I'm down
And I won't say 'hello' if I see them in town

Utter, utter sh*te.

bgrizzley

is it just me, or is anyone else reading all this thread in his singing voice?

Wacker The Attacker

Theres work to do

too ra loo

downonthefarm

bustin outta!a here bustin outta here ...
I would take him anyday over that sanctimonious wanker bono or that gear bag out of aslan

Mocha Joe

downonthefarm wrote: »

bustin outta!a here bustin outta here ...
I would take him anyday over that sanctimonious wanker bono or that gear bag out of aslan

I'd rather an actual gear bag than any of them.

razorblunt

He's the dub version of John Spillane "well done everyone weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllll dun".

Jesus John knock it off will ya.

Yamanoto

I believe Brush Shiels & Roddy Collins are his natural parents.

dirtyden

razorblunt wrote: »

He's the dub version of John Spillane "well done everyone weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllll dun".

Jesus John knock it off will ya.

That is quite a good comparison. Both of them decent enough pub singers who have developed a persona that gives them fame beyond their talents.

Weevil

Yamanoto wrote: »

I believe Brush Shiels & Roddy Collins are his natural parents.

In fairness, Brush would kick his arse in a Pub-rock drag down.

Ihatecuddles-old

I wouldn't kick him out of bed for singing!

Ruudi_Mentari

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

I wouldn't kick him out of bed for singing!

Don't mind them. Brush has a fine voice....

Xavi6

Can't stand him either, his voice goes through my head and I'm not patriotic enough for the navy and light blue specs that I'd need to stomach a gig.

Having said that, I've friends who love him and he's got a big enough fan base so there's a market for it.

tallus

I like his voice when he isnt putting on the dubbelin accent.

fryup

a one man wolfe tones