Want Two - Rufus Wainwright

Want One - Rufus Wainwright

Want One is the third album release from Rufus Wainwright and it was my first introduction to him back in 2005. I had actually been given a free concert to see him so bought the album so I knew what I would be singing along too! As it turned out, it wasn t really a sing along concert! Rufus Wainwright is the son of Loudon Wainwright III, a famous American songwriter, folk singer, humorist (he was the resident singer with Jasper Carrot in the 1980 s show, Carrot Confidential) and actor (he played Captain Spalding in M*A*S*H). Rufus sister, Martha, is also a singer/songwriter as is his mother, Kate Garrigle, so there is a clear love of music in the family! Rufus has a ...

Want One - Rufus Wainwright

Want One is the third album release from Rufus Wainwright and it was my first introduction to him back in 2005. I had actually been given a free concert to see him so bought the album so I knew what I would be singing along too! As it turned out, it wasn t really a sing along concert! Rufus Wainwright is the son of Loudon Wainwright III, a famous American songwriter, folk singer, humorist (he was the resident singer with Jasper Carrot in the 1980 s show, Carrot Confidential) and actor (he played Captain Spalding in M*A*S*H). Rufus sister, Martha, is also a singer/songwriter as is his mother, Kate Garrigle, so there is a clear love of music in the family! Rufus has a ...

Want One - Rufus Wainwright

"Want One" is the first half of American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright s "Want" album. From start to finish, this album dazzles and delights. It is, at times, monstrously extravangant (check out the fully orchestrated rock-opera-style "14th Street"), marvellously adventurous (see "I Don t Know What It Is" - tales of life, travel, parents, heaven and hell) and heart-achingly beautiful (try "Dinner at Eight") Indeed, "Dinner at Eight" was described by the League of Gentlemen s Reece Shearsmith as one of the finest songs he had ever heard. It tells of Rufus s relationship with his father, also a master ...

Want One - Rufus Wainwright

"Want One" is the first half of American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright s "Want" album. From start to finish, this album dazzles and delights. It is, at times, monstrously extravangant (check out the fully orchestrated rock-opera-style "14th Street"), marvellously adventurous (see "I Don t Know What It Is" - tales of life, travel, parents, heaven and hell) and heart-achingly beautiful (try "Dinner at Eight") Indeed, "Dinner at Eight" was described by the League of Gentlemen s Reece Shearsmith as one of the finest songs he had ever heard. It tells of Rufus s relationship with his father, also a master ...

Poses - Rufus Wainwright

heard of him? But then is popularity a measure of how many people like you, or is it how much people like you? If it is the second type then Rufus is certainly an admired fella. Here he has produced an aching beautiful, ultra camp journey through music, incorporating Counting Crows’ piano splendor, Jeff Buckley soaring vocals and waltzing cadenced prose. The album begins and ends with the superb ‘Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk’ an intriguing song of his own fragility. In typical Wainwright style, the lyrics rise and fall with the orchestra like a boat on the ocean. Rufus leads, with the piano, banjo, cello, drums and viola driving the song forward ...

Poses - Rufus Wainwright

heard of him? But then is popularity a measure of how many people like you, or is it how much people like you? If it is the second type then Rufus is certainly an admired fella. Here he has produced an aching beautiful, ultra camp journey through music, incorporating Counting Crows’ piano splendor, Jeff Buckley soaring vocals and waltzing cadenced prose. The album begins and ends with the superb ‘Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk’ an intriguing song of his own fragility. In typical Wainwright style, the lyrics rise and fall with the orchestra like a boat on the ocean. Rufus leads, with the piano, banjo, cello, drums and viola driving the song forward ...