Rufus Wainwright - Want One
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Free Music Review: Unlike any other
Hit: 5 Stars
This tour de force is quirky, brilliant, baroque and yet readily accessible. Rufus Wainwright is one of a kind, and his music defies labeling. "Want One" is a masterpiece of composition, performance and production. The centerpiece, "I Don't Know What It Is," is flavored with influences as diverse as classical opera and The Beatles circa Sgt. Pepper. Wainwright's genius is in embracing his eclectic tastes and blending them into a finished product that is unique and immensely enjoyable.Free Music Review: Rufus's mainstream album
Hit: 5 Stars
This is my favorite Rufus album, followed by Poses, but i do agree with i beilve it was Paul Allastar who did a review on this album, it is a fanstastic album, but can become overwhelming with it. I can listen to it about once a week and enjoy it possibly twice but that is streching it. a highlight in the album for me is "Dinner at Eight" "11:11" "I Dont Know What It Is" etc etc. but a very great album, but you must be in a mood for Rufus i.e. last night i had a 2 hour bus ride back to my hometown and i was listenin to Rufus's self titled and someone knocked me out of my own world and asked me something, i tried to return to it but i couldnt so i suggest listening to all of wainwrights albums by yourself.Free Music Review: Spectacular
Hit: 5 Stars
I absolutely adore this album!!! It's so dramatic and theaterical that you just find yourself wrapped up in this intriguing world Wainwright creates... and you never want to leave. All the tracks have their own flavor- especially refreshing in a world of Dashboard Confessions where all the cuts have the same sound. I wouldn't say it's better necessarily than "Poses"- it has a completely different vibe to it. In any case, love it and I've been cemented in as a permenant Rufus Wainwright fan. My favortie tracks are "O What a World" and "14th Street".Free Music Review: burned
Hit: 5 Stars
I first recieved this from a friend who burned a copy for me. from the first note I was hooked. I immediately went to the store the next day and bought a copy. and then a few days later I bought a few more. this record is incredible. it has many happy sounds of memory for me, personally. The best of Elton John circa 1972 Tumbleweed perhaps? and don't get me wrong, i'm not trying to pigeonhole Rufus. he pulls it off while surpassing his influences considerably. It certainly doesn't sound retro, what with the great production, the guitars, everything! I LOVE IT!!!! gush gush... BRAVO!Free Music Review: Top of the List
Hit: 5 Stars
This is part of a planned pair-Want Two is due next year--so it's possible that in a few months I'll have some second thoughts about Wainwright's decision to cleave his bombastic efforts in two. On the other hand, W2 is supposedly the darker and more experimental half of the material from the sessions, so the division may have been an apt one.Either way, Want One earns its five stars for several qualities. It's consistently good-there are songs that are better than the rest, but none that beg to be skipped. The slowest songs are the shortest, maintaining a flow that carries the album along. The best song of all, "Go or Go Ahead," is the longest, over six minutes of outburst that weaves myth and madness into a stunning package of sonic bliss. A microcosm for the album as a whole, the song builds for more than two minutes before erupting.
Lyrically dense, the album starts out in near nonsense territory with the repetitions of "Oh What a World" and builds to the poignant "Dinner at Eight," an almost tear-inducing finale that acknowledges Rufus's mixed feelings about his abandonment by his famous father. "I Don't Know What It Is" and "Movies of Myself" belong on Top 40 radio, where they could oust less intelligent pop; "11:11" sounds silly at first but makes profound the words " I was alive." Born of personal experience and genetically inherited musical genius, Wainwright's latest may be the finest album of 2003.