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| 4.5 superb | Iai EMERITUS | March 18th 08 |
Undoubtedly Rufus Wainwright's defining statement as an artist, Want Two is almost embarrassingly good - when you even come out of a reading of "Agnus Dei" smelling of roses, you know you're on fire. Rufus's trademark lightness of touch and his pop sensibility help him excel on songs like "The One You Love", "Little Sister", The Art Teacher", and "Crumb By Crumb" - outstanding pop songs one and all - but it's in the album's quiet center that the album defines itself. "Memphis Skyline" is a hushed, elegiac tribute to Jeff Buckley that skims the surface of all sorts of emotions, while the waltz-time acoustic number "Gay Messiah" is a hilarious slab of innuendo that might rank as Rufus' most confrontational moment in some quarters. Brilliant stuff all round.
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| 3.5 great | olisz | June 16th 22 |
This album is a mixed bag for me. While I like most of the songs, there are a few I don't, especially the closer "Old Whore?s Diet", which of course has to go on for almost 9 minutes. If this song wasn't there I would probably put a 4.
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| 4.5 superb | feistymongoose1 | November 15th 11 |
The musicality (everything but the singing) of the album is great... far better than that of Want One. Hometown Waltz excites me, while Old Whore's diet is quite anomalous, and Agnus Dei is humbling. I do think that Rufus' Agnus Dei is like fingernails scraping a chalkboard on account of his untrained classical voice. Despite this, Want Two is a fascinating album.
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| 3.5 great | doofy | January 8th 24 |
| 3.0 good | Shamus248 CONTRIBUTOR | April 18th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Harle | June 4th 13 |
| 3.0 good | MtMoon | February 19th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | bjorkil | January 7th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | quads | June 22nd 10 |
| 4.5 superb | Donkey | April 2nd 10 |
| 3.5 great | TomKat | October 30th 09 |
| 3.0 good | wens | October 1st 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rosemary | September 11th 08 |
| 3.0 good | donovr | December 18th 07 |
| 2.5 average | Bak | November 27th 07 |
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