Want Two

It’s for someone, just not me.

Not for me.

Who picked these? SMH

I see we are back on a run of giving me stuff that sucks major suckage to the suckiest degree of suckiness. Suck you and Suck off. 1.0

Unfortunately, this is not my vibe. I’ve also never heard of this individual before. Very boring and odd.

oof, just a tad more music and this could be another Radiohead. but as it is, difficult to listen to.

Horrible

Overly wordy, boring, and irritating.

hah. I can't do better than this review: "This is the worst Radiohead album ever."

No, don't ever need to listen to or suggest this artist to anyone. Why is it even on this list?

It turns out I don't WANT 2. The technical pieces are there but they don't amount to anything I can get invested in. The long drawn out vocals were grating by the third track. It feels like the critical praise was for something other than the music.

Voelt een beetje als een musical. En daar heb ik een gezonde hoeveelheid haat aan.

This was a struggle to get through. Whiny, depressing, and not super inspired in general. I can't really get over his affected voice. It's almost like he's trying too hard to pretend he's not trying. Then there's some boring piano riffs. Not my thing. 1/5.

I'm sipping that hatorade with this one

Not for me 1/5

Started out with a song that repeats "Agnus Dei" over and over until you want to throw the record out the window. The One You Love was a little better but not that much. Peach Trees was where his voice really started to drone on. I didn't read the title until halfway through the song and was wondering why he was singing about "umbrella pastries." The rest of the album continues that boring droning sound. Gay Messiah was kinda interesting, but that was it. Each song alone would be around a 2, but I just couldn't wait for this to end. Best song: Gay Messiah

This just sucks. He can’t play piano or guitar, just plays the same few chords and waxes operatic over them with that whiny voice like he’s Thom Yorke or something. This just pissed me off, it isn’t clever or brilliant or artistic, it’s just trash.

OMG I don't know the last time I was so utterly bored by an album. Most albums I'm able to find something interesting, whether it's socially conscious lyrics or an unusual combination of genres, but not here. Not with Rufus Wainright. I don't know what's wrong with Wainwright that his voice always whines and he only has one tone for his songs. I guess a single by him wouldn't be so bad, but a whole album of drivel? Lord, please help me. At least there's no Want Three, but there better not be a third Wainwright album on this list. Otherwise, heaven has forsaken me.

Very strong voice but put me in an awful mood

It's like he's trying too hard, but still has no talent. This was a torment.

i "Want Two" of this guy's albums to be removed from this list

Very boring and stuffy. Some of the arrangements are okay enough, but Rufus needs to hire a diction coach because his vocals felt very slurred and sloppy. An instrumental version of the album could be more interesting, but honestly not much more

Rubbish

Uuggghhhh... 1 out of 5. I'd give it 0, but the 1st and 10th songs at least don't remind me of a Radiohead cover band playing an airport Marriot lounge.

1/5 - I did not need to hear this album, and I barely made it through. Just absolutely not my thing, though The One You Love and The Art Teacher were OK.

Rufus is a good singer, but my fuck.....it's just.....not my genre. It's like Michael Buble got really into renaissance fairs .....I had another of his albums in the past (Want One) and felt similarly about that one. Favorite songs: Crumb By Crumb, Hometown Waltz, The Art Teacher Least favorite songs: Peach Trees, Memphis Skyline, This Love Affair, Old Whore's Diet 1/5

I can only put this one in terms that will only make sense to a Canadian. No one will say it, but Rufus Wainwright is a cut-rate Hawksley Workman. The same worst instincts, but without any of the janky charm. Hawksley Workman sanded down to a little nub. I sort of enjoyed this for the first 30 seconds of fricked up violin but then this guy starts singing fake Latin with his thick Canadian accent (no amount of theatre kid delivery can cover it sorry Rufus) and it lost me. I don’t like it.

Like Radiohead if they lacked talent and Thom Yorke was trying to piss you off.

We've got Thom Yorke at home...

This was a tough start to the project lol. So much whinging and whining. Best one was the peach song

Even worse than the first one.

Again to whiny. UGH

Artiste inconnu. Le premier morceau est très original (+1), mais ... c'est le seul. Je me suis terriblement ennuyé sur les suivants. Et il perd un point car trop long, je ne suis finalement pas allé au bout. =>1/5

This was fucking dreadful. I got so over this cunts voice half way through I had to stop. End of story.

not my vibe

This has some weird shit. But also ne enough, nor constantly weird. I know Rufus' name, but nothing else about him. This is also kinda folk-ey, but not enough to turn my stomach all the way. Based on the cover imagery I was cautiously hopeful, but that came crashing down fast. I didn't like it.

geen idee wat het was, maar de emmer is vol en moet dringend geledigd worden

I mean, I did not want one, why would I want two of this? It sounds that the guy is trying to sing like Thom Yorke but fails dramatically. The music sounds as if the guy wanted to produce "clever" music or whatever; it just makes it boring. Why do we need two albums from this guy here? Why?!

Painful. Without his mom and dad this guy wouldn’t stand a chance of being heard. I don’t get the allure of continuing to pay him.

Fell asleep halfway

I think the fact that the Legacy section on wikipedia article for this album only says it was included on this list sums it up better than I possibly could. Bad songs, badly performed.

Wow, this was boring. His voice is so dreary that I had to go and eat some ice cream just to cheer myself up

Too whiney for my taste

How can an album with songs called “Gay Messiah” and “Old Whore’s Diet” be so fucking BORING. Also, dude needs to stop slurp-breathing into the microphone.

rubbish

meh

Two too many from Rufus on this list. In the four songs I lasted a vocal similarity to Thom Yorke reared its head, but otherwise its OTT business as usual.

What really lowered this for me was that clear winking desire to "elevate" mall muzak offerings with that specific brand of smug Bush-era liberalism. I believe Rufus could have made good music instead, he has it in him, but he made Dear Sister which is just the worst. I know that's "the point" but there's not love or fun like a Residents song it's just disgustingly and puke-inducingly sweet in tone. This whole album is a Poe's Law situation,

Heard of Rufus but never listened to him before. Dude thinks he's Radiohead 1/5

the one you love

Very strong opening with Agnus Dei, reminded me of Popol Vuh. However the second track The One You Love went downhill immediately. His singing strongly reminds me of Thom Yorke, sounding like some kind of acoustic Radiohead, with his weird mumbly vocals, and the vocals on The Art Teacher I especially ssssssfffff hated because of the ssssssffff way he would suck in ssssssffffff breaths between his sssssssffffff teeth throughout. In a word, pretentious. In two words, pretentious and insufferable. In three words, pretentious, insufferable and overlong.

I'm glad that "Want One" was taken off the list at some point because the inclusion of two of these fucking albums is ridiculous. 1.41

Why is he mumbling?

Every nothing-much album that turns up on this list reminds me that the brilliant Midnight Oil don't appear at all. In fact, no Australian bands appear on it. Anyway, This album is just nothing. Leave the singing to daddy.

Put this guy and the singer from Muse in a room and lock the door. Forever.

I question this entire list!

This is the guy that shows up at a party with a guitar and thinks everyone everyone wants plain sing and no one does.

Hot garbage! I had to turn it off. I fucking hate this guy

This sounded like a high school version of Radiohead. It was awful.

No

I like Rufus Wainwright. I did not like this album. It was tedious, whiny, and boring.

Pleeeeaaaasssseeee, veldig kjedelig, veldig lange ord, sytete. Verdens verste Radiohead-album?

Does less than nothing for me. Orchestral Thom Yorke? I like Radiohead, but I couldnt make it through this.

Challenge music!!! As pretentious as I imagined. They’ve been listening to Thom Yorke way too much. Do I have to listen to this?

I really did not enjoy this album.

The One You Love The Art Teacher

Soundtechnisch interessant aber zu depressiv verkopft. Nicht an einem grauen Herbsttag hören!

Olha bixo, q negócio chato. Musica para dormir

Rufus Wainwright can fuck off

I think I reached This Love Affair and realised I wasn't enjoying at all.

Garbage mumble moans. This album should never have been made.

Everything I don't miss about early 2000's singer songwriters

Very rough listen.

2/10

No

I wanted to stick a knitting needle in my ears...

Again? is this list repeating albums? Oh no, someone really decided to include 2 albums from Rufus Wainwright. It's not the awful thing in the world of music, but I'll rate it with 1 star, paying some respect to the other 1001 albums that are not on the list and that can be a good replacement for this one.

most overrated Wainwright.

Not an album any of us will be coming back too. A rare 1star for me, as this lack basic human decency

wtf is this

Med frygt for at fornærme både pølsemænd og Radiohead, så lød første del af det her som pølsemandens Radiohead...

Man...I had a hard time with this one. Just not my cup of tea. 1.5/5

awful

A bit too whiny for my taste.

Uninspired pop ballads, unnecessary to listen to.

Seichter Baroque Pop. Maximal noch als Fahrstuhlmusik.

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This is music for people who call people who are normal "sheep" and use the word sportsball. Fucking awful.

Don't like this one.

It was hard to even stand the first song. The rest of the album varies from an "Radiohead"-arrangement for either a church- or a cat- choir.

Boring AF! It sounded like when the paster sings the liturgy at a traditional Lutheran service. Not sure why this is on the 1001 album list. I really didn't need to hear it.

I got Wainwright's Want One just two days ago. I described that as overwrought, full of pomposity and ridiculous grandeur. This is similar, but somehow worse. I don't want to be the one baptised in cum. Someone will ask for my head And I'll get down on my knees and give it to him. When your lyrics are this beautiful, I guess it distracts from your voice being as nasal and whiny as that. Jesus H Christ, you mopey little bastard.

The album is pretentious and it was unnecessary. I did not care for it. Totally unremarkable. It is better than a one but not really a 2. I will round down.

Not my cup of tea

Do you want two? I'll give you one

Hooray, my first 1 rating after 80 albums! I've heard worse than this before but oh man, this is putting me to sleep. I'm stopping a couple tracks from the end because I just can't bear another non-descript ballad with average vocals. I'm not seeing the Thom Yorke comparison everyone is making, maybe it's the super weak songwriting that's stopping me. Please no more.

Utter rubbish. Whiny and annoying. Piss off.

We just had a Rufus Wainwright LP and it was painfully mediocre. I'm not listening to another.

No, I really struggled with this, found it so incredibly depressing, I would never even consider listening to any of this

Yikes. What the hell.

A wide range of products are available to purchase at the gift shop. Please donate anything you can. An old couple walking along the beach stop and tell me to tie my shoelaces, before I trip and fall. But I've already fallen. A single red rose on a pillow. The tangled language of your Bulgarian mother as she tries to build the perfect snowman for you. The moon has never looked as pretty as it does this evening. Who framed Roger Rabbit?

1/5 Best: The One You Love Worst: Agnus Dei

Saai gejank

A collection of very dull songs. It's on the list because?......

hard pass

I really cannot stand this type of music at all. If you love listening to whiny, nasally voices, this is for you. I enjoyed The One You Love, and it turns out that's because it's the only track that attempted to be holistic music. You know, with actual arrangements, changes, feel, basically anything besides sitting on a stool and droning on behind a mic?

Not sure what this album is doing on this list

I ALREADY RATED THIS YOU IDIOTS

More dreary old shite. Cross between badly drawn boy and Radiohead. Devils music

After the first two tracks I’m thinking This is an easy 5 star album, but then there’s too many slow songs in a row. It’s like yesterdays album except the music on this one isn’t that interesting. Maybe I need to have it sit with me but on first impressions I’m not jelling with it.

Hell no

meh...

Wainright might have the most annoying voice I've heard since the last Bjork album I listened to. It starts off with an absolutly terrible crappy "song" (I'm not sure I even want to call it that) and doesn't get much better the rest of the way. An entrie album of completely boring tracks sung by a whiny bitch.

I hate Rufus Wainwright

I found the beginning of this so insufferable that I did not listen to the full album. If anyone gives this a 5 I’ll give it a full shot.

Very boring.

So people got through that first track? I was in a really good mood til I listened to this.

eipä kyllä lähtenyt, on vähän turhan paljon näyttämistä. voisin luunnella uudestaan sen takia, että ehtis enemmän kiinnittää huomiota yksityiskohtiin

Harhautunut ammattilainen kuvittelee luovansa jotain suurta samalla, kun säveltää klassisvaikutteista poppia, joka redusoituu laulu- ja sovitustekniikan esittelyyn.

First one I've given a single star. This was bad

Irremediably dull. He probably thinks the idea of “Baroque Pop” is high concept art. It’s actually hokey as fuck.

Well, that was definitely the worst album I have heard here so far. I honestly struggle to understand what is so appealing on this record, that it ended up on a list of greatest albums of all time. You can tell that Rufus has great 'opera' voice and unique style of singing, but it's far from being groundbreaking or entirely original. I had a really hard time trying to finish the album. Last song was somehow a breath of fresh air, 'Old Whore's Diet'. It included Anhoni from Anthony and the Johnsons, that I highly rated a week ago. Unfortunately, it was not enough to save this record. I was very hesitant to give one star to any of those bands, but I think in my opinion, Rufus really earned that. There shouldn't be a place for this album on the list.

Je respecte l'artiste et reconnais son talent, mais ce n'est pas pour moi. Pièce la plus intéressante: Waiting For A Dream

This would have been pretty good if the producer had had the balls to tell this guy that he shouldn't be anywhere near a microphone.

Awful

christ that first track is like nails on a chalkboard, couldn;t finish it. rest far too boring, gave up halfway. miserable man

Rufus combines classical, pop, poetry and melancholy, to terrible effect. He gets the worst from all these things and makes a god awful mess. It's like nick cave with out the dark humour and melancholic poetry. Mozart with just the shit garden centre twiddles. It's like nothing I want to listen to again.

Je reconnais que Rufus Wainwright est un artiste prolifique et talentueux dans son genre et je crois qu'il faut effectivement avoir écouter au moins un album. Par contre, son style n'est vraiment pas dans mes cordes. J'ai de la difficulté avec sa voix et musicalement je ne trouve pas ça très novateur ou intéressant. J'avoue préférer d'abord la musique dans un disque, donc rien pour m'aider avec cet album. Je respecte l'artiste, mais ce n'est pas pour moi. Pièce la plus intéressante: Waiting For A Dream

Little bit too radiohead *

At some moments it sounds like he is close to something that may be acceptable

Huevísima total

1 out of 5. Not my cup of tea and never felt any song hooked me in.

A tad slow and boring for my taste. Overall all songs on the album sound similar and none really stood out.

Sombre whining with little melody. No thanks.

The vocals felt very monotone and grating throughout. The variety in the instrumentals between songs was nice, I just can't get behind the lead vocalists style.

what. the. actual. fuck. is. this?!

This album is definitely overrated. Sounds like a poor man's Thom Yorke. With this album and several Radiohead albums on the list, me thinks the author has an obsession with the band.

Not really my thing. He's got a great voice but the whole opera vibe is just too much

Not my style, not extraordinary, more disturbing

Tries a little bit of everything and isn't great at any of it. Pretentious lyrics, drab songs and one of the most irritating voices around. If these are the selections for the week, I dread what the weekend's pick is gonna be like.

Terrible

A bit dreary. Not for me

Not my style