Want One

Had pleasant moments, and I don't think it is a sub-3 affair. But won't be in a rush to listen again.

If Muse were a Pokémon whose final forms were all west end and Broadway musicals

Boring

😧

Truly boring, whiny vocals with uninspired arrangements.

While I do think that I prefer Want Two (though admittedly I haven't gone back to it since I listened to it for this project), I really liked this a lot. I was really impressed by him again, he reminds me a lot of an Elton John or Leonard Cohen type, only more grandiose in the music. It's like listening to someone singing over the score for a historical epic, and it's just a blast to listen to. I've also just been consuming a lot of gay media the past couple days, I watched Saint Maud at home and then La Bola Negra in the theater, so it helps that I'm just in that mindset, but I still really liked this a lot. Favorites: Oh What a World, Movies of Myself, Beautiful Child

Resulta un poco engolado y excesivo. pensaba que me iba a gustar más, pero es diferente.

No half stars is criminal

Some good songs but nothing really memorable for me.

Opening track gave me real Beatles vibes. Enjoyed Go or Go Ahead.

Gorgeous lyrics, gorgeous vocals, gorgeous man.

I have this album - love Rufus, who is a fantastic live show btw, but I think he's an acquired taste. 3.5

It’s like seeking balance on a tightrope. The rope is solid and consistent. It’s supportive. Stretched. Outside forces make each step fell treacherous. Inside forces question each movement. Ultimately, there’s a forward momentum.

Struggled to listen all the way through. Not my style.

I can appreciate the musicianship of this album but I didn’t really connect with the songs or the lyrics.

Good baroque pop record

I gave this a good number of listens back in the 2000s because it really seemed like something that should be jam. I was into a lot of indie folk rock, often with big orchestral flourishes, just like what we're hearing on this album. So why did Rufus Wainwright never click with me? On a relisten I think it's that, despite the big sound and lush arrangements, it all feels a bit hollow. The songs are too neat and slick, the vocals too smooth. It's a frictionless listening experience that, while pleasant, is ultimately forgettable. I really like the song "Oh What a World," but nothing else on here is going to stay with me

New to me. On first listen this was very marginally better than Want Two, but not my bag at all.

This is not the lowest 1 star and I think this is better than ‘Want Two’ but it’s just not for me. 1.5

Thought this started beautifully, maybe lost my attention a little as I went through but nevertheless a good listen

Another LP from this joker? Perhaps your worst decision of the 290 so far RGP and you’ve already made some extremely poor ones… Anyway, this was new to me and I was surprised to discover that “Want One” wasn’t quite as abjectly tedious as “Want Two” although the albums are well matched in their scale of obvious and excruciating plaintiveness. I was also horrified to see that there is also an album called “Want” - please do not do it to us RGP… Tom.

Go Or Go Ahead was good, probably because it sounded a bit like Radiohead, but found the rest to be tiresome. I didn't hate his voice like others seem to but it was a bit too theatrical for me. High 2, almost low 3.

Acquired taste but solid

Beautiful, but nothing I wanted to sing along with - I have this album in my collection, but would probably have never listened to it again, except it popped up on this list ... I think that tells me something 2.4/5

Fav: Natasha maybe idk L: Vicious World, 14th Street, I think there was another 1 What you would input into AI to get this album: coffee shop, theatrical, Billy Joel, sung by Thom Yorke. Sadly modern AI might make something more interesting with those than this. Cover: 1 Theater kid energy Name: 1 so bad it might be good Minecraft Parody: Harvester of Hearts is already a Minecraft parody title, Hardcore World (Vicious World)

no skips. also, UTA client!

The first album I got olin this that made me vocalise "this sucks" while listening, all I can here is an even more bog standard billy joel

Melancholic and unique in sound. I liked this record, even of I don't really see myself going through it again. At least not soon. "Go or Go Ahead" is a beautiful masterpiece.

Csak félig sikerült meghallgatnom annyira idegesített az énekes hangja.

Rufus I'm sorry that the people of this website fail to appreciate your lovely vocals and your masterful Bolero interpolation. The lead-in to that tritone on the word "love"...! That MOMENT of the first track ALONE would almost be worth 5 stars. Who is hating on this and do they have hearts

I should like this album. The arrangements are fine. Rufus’ voice can be grating, but I have a tolerance for his voice. It adds character to his songs. Somehow, it all doesn’t really click. I gave it two listens and didn’t feel the album. Perhaps not being a native English speaker doesn’t help.

This album sounds like something that would be more recent, surprised to see it only came out a year after I was born

очень понравилос, пару песен и альбом сохранил. напомнило GEESE )) и еще была мысль типа жаль что джефа бакли и руфуса в основном знают только по Аллелуя...

Want one more like want none

Only listened to half of it, but meh

Draining... so draining. Every single enjoyable moment on this album is ruined by the whailing sound of Wainwright's singing. I'm sure he is a technically great singer, but man after a while I just couldn't take it anymore. No matter what the music is telling you, the vocals are always saying you the same thing: It's SAD, i'm SAD and EMOTIONAL, i am a SAD and EMOTIONAL man. That's not emotional complexity, that's emotional extortion to make the listener think this is a masterpiece of songwriting and performance.

Interesting and worth revisiting

It's clearly masterfully arranged and the compositions are very good, but the this time and style of pompus, whimsical folk pop just doesn't do it for me, when am I supposed to listen to this? Dancing in a meadow surrounded by wildlife?

Kind of like a soulful pop. I liked it the longer I listened.

Meh

This album slaps!

Want One is apparently the first part of the 'Want' albums, I had listen to the second part (because of the list) about a couple months ago, and I though that one was sweet, those thoughts continue with this album. The arrangements are pretty lovely. The vocals loudly scream Thom Yorke (particularly loud in "Go or Go Ahead") to me. From what I remember Want Two was a bit more better than this, but it wasn't the most rememorable, so I'm having a little trouble remembering every detail but I remember it being more melodic and catchy. Want One had overall higher moments but also had deeper lows compared to Want Two. Unsure if it's worthy to be a must hear, if it's a choice between Want One or Want Two, I think Want Two is more deserving. Highlight Song/s: "I Don't Know What It Is", "Go or Go Ahead" and "Harvester of Hearts"

I just read the brunt of the Wikipedia page. I'm not looking forward to this. 30 seconds in and fuck DreamWorks. Stick to movies. For the first time in this albums generator journey I've considered not even listening to this pos all the way through. I accidentally skipped ahead to 14th Street and it was the same cheap indie-ambient fantasy movie musical default. It feels like it's been made for the sole purpose of selling out to some form of major production. Getting to the end of the album you have that energy of heroic protagonist coming to uplifting parting realizations. The album gains a few decimals because it has a direction, it knows its north and it follows through. I don't strip Rufus of his artistic worth. I think the album fits better on a list of albums ideal for indie coffee shop vibes. But... must listen? Before you die? 0.5/5

wouldve been better if rufus had more diversity in his fault (2.0/5.0)

I want none

Surprisingly likeable.

Monday mornings with Rufus <3

Only interesting as a song or two at a time, not as an album. His voice just sounds boring and whiny for me and I makes it hard to listen to a whole album. Some of the orchestrations are good on here, but many just get lost. I never felt like I was dramatic/theatrical enough to get into this... Or maybe this is just too dramatic/theatrical???

There are some definite Radiohead inspired songs on here. And some showtune songs. I love both of these things

Victorian era ass Radiohead. I kinda liked it this time around.

Somewhat boring. Didn’t click. 2/5

Rufus is a crooner and sometimes his need for the art gets in the way. Decent album if listened to in patches

Great vibe for the time

Sounds very much like a musical, which for me isn't a good thing. Fine if you like that sort of thing. His voice just gets a bit much for me.

It was difficult appreciating Rufus Wainwright's Want One on its own merits without thinking I was listening to Thom Yorke's demo tapes. So I just didn't.

I just about managed to get through the Rufus Wainwright: Want Two album that we had a few a couple of months ago on the list. And now we're here again, with basically the - in my eyes - same album. Sigh. I am very much less accepting of Rufus than the first time around. One album of this type of music was just enough for me, but a second was a drop too much. Rufus feels like a crossover between Michael Bublé and Thom Yorke, but sadly that only concerns his vocal qualities and not the arrangements or productions. While beautiful, this album was a complete snooze-fest for me. It also felt way too self-pitying, but maybe that is more the feeling I get when listening to it than what the actual lyrics say. This just wasn't the day for me to run into this, and I had no patience trying to look at it from the bright side. From a few minutes in, I just wanted it to end. Feels harsh giving this a strong 1 considering how good Rufus vocals are, but I just didn't enjoy this at all today.

Thought we already had this album but apparently we had ”Want Two” by Rufus Waintwright and this is ”Want One”. Did this bring anything new to the table? Absolutley not. I feel the same I did with ”Want two”. The vibrato is annoying. It sometimes sounds like wannabe Radiohead, other times it sounds like wannabe smooth jazz, or whimiscla pop. Nothing of it works. One of these was bad enough but two?! 2 stars.

I Don't Know What It Is - giving me pop-Radiohead vibes Actually, this whole album feels like a Radiohead made-for-radio album. I am just a little bored. 2.5 stars

thoughts: - Oh What A World is giving "memoriesssssssssss, all alone in the moonlight"

I can honestly see why some don't like this, but I do

I don’t think I’ve heard this before and i am not sure if I’ve heard any Rufus Wainwright before. Some of this sounds familiar but I’m not sure if it’s because i heard the song or if it’s because his voice sounds like Thom Yorke. It very much does not sound like Radiohead. These are all well constructed songs and there’s some nice melodies and arrangements, but it gets a bit repetitive where the more upbeat songs blend together and the piano ballads blend together. They’re mostly split up which distracts from that but by the last few songs i was just hoping it would end. Apparently this was going to be a double album out thankfully it as split into 2 separate albums, because I don’t really want to sit through another hour of this. It’s not bad but it’s a chore.

LINDO álbum com lindas músicas e linda voz. tem um quê meio musical, jazz que eu acho um charme. algumas músicas são beeem lentas pro meu gosto, mas a voz dele é um primor, então desce bem melhor do que muitas baladas de outros artistas. destaques pras duas primeiras faixas que são PERFEITAS, "14th street" e "go or go ahead" que tem uma ponte lindíssima e super emocional que arrepia até os cabelos do cy. vou dar um 4, pois hoje to querida.

Sounds like Randy Rainbow? Couldn't finish

To be so privileged and so dull. I’m a nepobaby and this is deep.

Thom York covers John Mayer. It’s ok.

I wanted to hate it but actually it was quite good

I really love Rufus for what he is. Always find his particular blend of over the top drama and show tune sensibility interesting. 4 Boolean: True

Great Songs: I Don't Know What It Is, Natasha Good Songs: Oh, What a World, Vicious World, Movies of Myself, Pretty Things, Go or Go Ahead, 14th Street, Harvester of Hearts, Beautiful Child, 11:11, Dinner at Eight Mid Songs: Vibrate, Want Bad Songs:

Nah. Not feeling this one. Separately, the songs aren’t all bad. But it’s repetitive.

Bored me to tears

The album cover for Rufus Wainwright's Want One was designed by Janet Wolsborn and Rufus Wainwright himself, with cover artwork created by Wainwright and photography by Yelena Yemchuk. The medieval knight theme on the cover of Want One represents a typically masculine, valiant view of life. According to Rufus Wainwright, the imagery reflects the personal struggles he was navigating at the time, particularly his recovery from crystal meth addiction and his complex relationship with his father, Loudon Wainwright(haunted jukebox) Themes including Slaying Personal Dragons:The Triumphant Hero:The "Yin and Yang" Duality. What drivel. Music is horrid too. The only good thing about this album is discovering Yelena Yemchuk's work, which is really good.

Bit of a snoozer.

Over produced crap

It's fine, sometimes a little overwrought

I was trying to decide if I liked this album or if I just thought it was annoying when Rufus sang "My phone's on vibrate for you" and I made up my mind. Despite it having some interesting instrumentation, I think it's an annoying and pretentious album.

Dit is toch wel de 1001 lijst in optima forma hoor; allebei de delen van Want staan op de lijst. En je hoort ook meteen waarom, het is pop, maar dan niet popmuziek die je daadwerkelijk op de radio hoort, dit is een soort barok theater popmuziek. Ik begrijp wel waarom dit interessanter is dan daadwerkelijk populaire popmuziek, maar is het dan nodig om beide delen van het album op de lijst te zetten? De stem van Rufus is prima, niet wereldschokkend ofzo, en de productie begint interessant maar is vooral heel theatraal, krijg bij tijden een soort musical vibe hier van. De reviews die positief zijn van dit album roemen vooral zijn stem en dat die zo doet denken aan Thom Yorke. Laat dat nou net een van mijn minst favoriete stemmen in de muziek zijn! Dit album is ook niet helemaal aan mij besteed. Het is me te theatraal en ik heb het na 2 nummers wel een beetje gehad met aaaaaalleee langgerekte uithaaaaaaaaaaalen, beetje het Mariah Carey syndroom, maar dan zonder de sterke Mariah Carey stem. Nee, uiteindelijk kon ik deel twee ironisch genoeg beter hebben dan het eerste deel. Dit is voor mij net even te veel folk emo pop. Het is zeker niet onluisterbaar, maar dit album duurde voor mij net even te lang en bevat veel te weinig waardoor ik het ooit nog eens aan zet. FAVO:

Haven’t heard him before that I remember. Some of it is ok but mostly it’s just boring to me.

Much like the other Rufus Wainwright album we’ve already been subjected to, Want Two, Want One still sounds like Wainwright desperately trying to sound like Thom Yorke while simultaneously doing everything he can to avoid sounding like Radiohead. Somehow, he manages to land in the awkward middle. Definitely a one-and-done album for this list.

Are you too energetic today? Do you want to take those levels to near zero? This is the album you need! It will instantly transport you to a corner cafe, complete with overpriced coffee, bland baked goods, and a depressingly bleak rainstorm pelting the window for immediate dejection! This is ok to listen to, but it's just a downer to do so.

Starts promising enough, but after 5 or 6 tunes it loses me completely. 2.5/5.

Great voice but very theatrical. A bit too much of that sound across a whole album for me.

Immediately I drew comparisons to Sufjan Stevens, the further I went I started to hear glimpses of Thom Yorke (In Rainbows/Eraser Era), in the end I came out liking this gem of an album which is only half of a double album, I'm excited to find the next part when it eventually appears

Not terrible, wouldn't buy it though

The best songs felt like Radiohead dupes

Rufus has a magnificent voice and brings a lot to his performances both audio and live.

I thought I would enjoy this, but man his voice gets old. It’s a beautiful album but then I realized he’s more or less just moaning

Whiny ass Thom Yorle sound-a-like.

am i crazy or does he sound like an american thom yorke... im probably crazy

I know some Rufus Wainright stuff, but I'm not aware of this album, and have never listened to a full album of him. And, as this is apparently part 1 of a two-part album, it's nice that this is being presented to me before the part 2. This is... fine, in the "just okay" sense. I like the loose, effortless, half-drunk quality of Rufus' singing style. But overall, it's just kind of meh.

Oh hey, it's that guy who covered Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" for the Shrek film soundtrack. I'm pretty sure that's what comes to mind for most people when they think of Rufus Wainwright, myself included. Even then, that's not the version used in the film; it was the John Cale version. That doesn't leave much for me going into this third album of Rufus's, Want One, with its only two singles released specifically in the UK market. This may be the case of another American artist that managed to do better overseas. The question is, does it hold up? Well, without much expectation, I was admittedly intrigued by how good a chamber pop record it turned out to be. Granted, it took a bit for the album to get its momentum, as the repetitive two-note tuba motif for "Oh What a World" was a tad grating to me. Plus, a few tracks in the middle, like the solo piano ballad "Pretty Things", didn't quite enamor me as anticipated. Nevertheless, I can recognize the showmanship on display. Rufus waxed poetic about various aspects of his life up to this point, including his homosexuality, his troubled relationship with his parents, and his prior crystal meth addiction. All of this is carefully delivered through Rufus's pleasant tenor vocals, as the intricate symphonic arrangements ebb and swell as needed with this bombastic production courtesy of Marius de Vries. I cannot deny how evocative and captivating tracks like "I Don't Know What It Is", "Movies of Myself", "Go or Go Ahead", and "14th Street" went off with such pomp and circumstance. It all culminates in the confrontation with his father on the rapturous ballad "Dinner at Eight", taking on this David and Goliath allusion to illustrate how much he felt abandoned by his old man, but still offering an opportunity for both of them to reconcile. Even if it's not a perfect listen all the way through, I had more than enough of a good time with Want One. I am curious how the sister album turned out, but that will be for another time.

No mate this is totally not my kind of music - sounds like a guy who's complating and crying all the time and has a bad mood or some kind of stuff

I'm coming direct from Leonard Cohen into my second listen through of this album. If you don't connect with a singer's voice in some way you're going to have a bad time. Rufus renown for people enjoying his baritone stylings comes across whiney, not full bodied, and lacking projection. Starting from that position looking for a way to enjoy this album. I love classical music so enjoy the nods, but would rather listen to the source material. Go or Go Ahead is the front runner for best track. Yup, I heard enough. My initial gut feeling was right. If you want better and similar go with Billy Joel, or Ted Lasso Jr if you want something more current times. I wouldn't subject anyone to this music, but could see how it would appeal to some. Andrea Bocelli if you need to scratch a classical itch. 2.

Absolutely stunning. Loved everything about this.

Requires another listen without distractions

It's okay for background music but not something I'd return to.

Not sure I needed to hear this???

He's a great singer and I enjoyed parts of the album but as a collective, I don't think I've ever listened to any album so beige and uninspiring.

Grey’s Anatomy-core for people who think one long sophisticated sigh counts as an album.

JL : 2, Go Or Go Ahead

Despite some of the songs being a little precious and over the top show-tune, his voice and songwriting make up for it. It's elegant, ambitious, and most of it works. There are some great songs: "Oh What a World," "I Don't Know What It Is," "Go or Go Ahead, "14th Street" are all standouts. There's even a world music vibe on the rhythmic "Beautiful Child." It's diverse and rewarding and I'm glad to hear this album again after many years.