Want Two

Want Two is the fourth album by American-Canadian singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright. The album was released on November 16, 2004. Four of the tracks on this album were released in the summer of 2004 as the EP Waiting for a Want on the iTunes music store.

Want Two is, according to Wainwright, the darker sibling of 2003's Want One – its subject matter concerned with "the world we live in" (RW Geffen Bio) after Want One's focus on the intensely personal. The artist's song selections here show his range to be broad, veering from romantic ballad ("Peach Trees") to tragic ballad ("This Love Affair"), sophisticated pop ("The One You Love") to third person/first person narrative lament ("The Art Teacher"), personal tongue in cheek manifesto ("Gay Messiah"), to a classical pop hybrid written about Jeff Buckley ("Memphis Skyline") and songs beyond category. "Agnus Dei" is used in the trailer for the 2007 film Trade.

Mother Kate McGarrigle and aunt Anna (McGarrigle) both perform and sing on "Hometown Waltz". Anohni of 2005 Mercury Prize winners Antony and the Johnsons sings lead vocal alongside Wainwright on "Old Whore's Diet". The initial UK version of the record contains bonus live tracks, "Coeur de Parisienne – Reprise d'Arletty" and "Quand vous mourrez de nos amours" (written by French Canadian songwriter Gilles Vigneault).

Legacy

The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Track listing

1. "Agnus Dei" – 5:45
2. "The One You Love" – 3:44
3. "Peach Trees" – 5:59
4. "Little Sister" – 3:22
5. "The Art Teacher" – 3:51
6. "Hometown Waltz" – 2:33
7. "This Love Affair" – 3:13
8. "Gay Messiah" – 3:14
9. "Memphis Skyline" – 4:51
10. "Waiting for a Dream" – 4:14
11. "Crumb by Crumb" – 4:13
12. "Old Whore's Diet" – 9:09

Bonus tracks

1. "Coeur de Parisienne — Reprise d'Arletty" (live) (UK & EU bonus track) – 2:46
2. "Quand vous mourez de nos amours" (live) (UK bonus track) – 3.23
3. "Chelsea Hotel, No. 2" (live) (bonus track on Want) – 3:47
4. "In with the Ladies" (bonus track on Want) – 3:52

Live at the Fillmore DVD

1. "DVD Intro" – 1:26
2. "L'Absence" – 4:00
3. "14th Street" – 4:33
4. "Harvester of Hearts" – 3:41
5. "Natasha" – 3:24
6. "The Art Teacher" – 3:34
7. "Hallelujah" – 4:22
8. "Matinee Idol" – 2:58
9. "Vibrate" – 3:17
10. "Gay Messiah" – 4:17
11. "Want" – 5:27
12. "Greek Song" – 3:52
13. "Foolish Love" – 5:35
14. "I Don't Know What It Is" – 5:40
15. "Dinner at Eight" – 5:00
16. "Beautiful Child" – 6:28
17. "Oh What a World" – 4:13
18. "Liberty Cabbage" – 4:56
19. "California" – 3:28
20. "As in Happy" – 3:40
21. "DVD Credits" – 1:35

Personnel

Chart positions

Awards

References

External links

• Want Two at Metacritic

1. Rufus Wainwright
2. Want One
3. Why We Want You to Be Rich
4. Two Girls Wanted
5. All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth
6. The Wanted
7. Body and Soul (Joe Jackson album)
8. Walk the Moon
9. Dune: Part Two
10. Rufus Wainwright discography
11. The Monster with 21 Faces
12. Want (Rufus Wainwright album)
13. Sinhala Only Act
14. Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956
15. The One You Love (Rufus Wainwright song)
16. I Don't Know What It Is
17. I Want You to Want Me
18. I Don't Want to Grow Up
19. Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1999 film)
20. Two-spirit