Rufus Wainwright
Want One
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AMG Review of Want One
Zac Johnson
All Music GuideRufus Wainwright croons and cries through another set of obscenely lush and opulent pop operettas on his third album Want One. As is to be expected, the songs are meticulously layered and richly textured, with full orchestral passages and many-throated harmonies. Producer Marius deVries (Björk, Massive Attack, Madonna) didn't mess with the already successful Wainwright sound, allowing for the young singer/ songwriter/multi-instrumentalist to explore his familiar themes of love, loss, and "singin' about places" with the anticipated fanfare and flourish. The album's strongest segment comes in the middle, beginning with the intimate-to-epic "Go or Go Ahead," barreling through the wildly spinning ock opera "14th Street," and landing softly on the gently chiming "Natasha." Oddly, unlike his previous two releases, Wainwright's musings seem less focused and a little meandering on a handful of the songs. The lazy, loping "Want" is much more stream-of-consciousness than anything else he's recorded, and the slightly goofy "Vibrate" (with its references to Britney Spears and electroclash) may sound dated before the album is played a second time. The sessions that produced Want One were apparently so prolific that another volume (Want Two?) is in the works, but it could turn out to be that distilling both albums down to one would have made for a more complete overall work. Who knows, this new looseness to his rigid pop constructivism may end up being a good thing, and, frankly, Wainwright could be singing lists of names out of the phone book and it would still be more exciting and inventive than 99 percent of the other albums out there.
Rufus Wainwright should be my friend
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Beautiful Child by Rufus Wainwright came up as i had my itunes on shuffle tonight and i thought about how much i like this song, which is quite a bit. So i decided to make it my song of the day. Being the music geek that i am, I've been posting my songs of the day on my myspace profile and blog. So as i went to myspace to do that tonight, i realized that Rufus is not my myspace friend yet. ...
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rufus rufus rufus!
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man this boy can carry a tune! wait til the end of the song and you'll hear him hold a note for eternity...literally, eternity. he's just fag-fucking-tastic in every respect
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Rufus Wainwright should be my friend
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Beautiful Child by Rufus Wainwright came up as i had my itunes on shuffle tonight and i thought about how much i like this song, which is quite a bit. So i decided to make it my song of the day. Being the music geek that i am, I've been posting my songs of the day on my myspace profile and blog. So as i went to myspace to do that tonight, i realized that Rufus is not my myspace friend yet. ...
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Best of the 2000s: Top 100 Albums of the Decade, 40-21
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Almost there, gang! Welcome to the penultimate day of The Rawking Refuses To Stop!’s countdown of the Top 100 Albums of the Decade. To click through the entire list, click below.100-81 | 80-61 | 60-41 | 40-21 | 20-1#s 40-21 after the jump. 40. Rufus Wainwright – Want OneI could never understand why people liked [...]
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