{"id":125,"date":"2005-03-01T20:00:23","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=125"},"modified":"2005-05-14T21:36:51","modified_gmt":"2005-05-14T11:36:51","slug":"want-one-rufus-wainwright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2005\/03\/01\/want-one-rufus-wainwright\/","title":{"rendered":"Want One — Rufus Wainwright"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first two songs on this album are so good that I can’t even remember what the rest of it is like.<\/p>\n

Rufus Wainwright’s music had never really appealed to me before: what I had heard seemed a bit too earnest and folky. But last year I heard and liked a track from this album on the radio. Intrigued, I read some reviews and finally bought the album.<\/p>\n

\"Want<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

The first two songs are magnificent. Oh What a World<\/cite> interweaves its lament nicely with Ravel’s Bolero<\/cite>, building to a stirring crescendo. I Don’t Know What It Is<\/cite> is a lot quieter, with a nice quirky melody and toe-tappin’ rhythm. This was the song that had piqued my interest last year.<\/p>\n

I like these opening songs so much that the rest don’t leave so much of an impression on me. Even so, there are some more high points: Vibrate<\/cite> is quite fragile and beautiful despite the jokey refrain (“My phone’s on vibrate for you”), and 14th Street<\/cite> is a fun rollicking singalong.<\/p>\n

It took me so long to buy this album that his next album, Want Two<\/cite> has been released. Maybe I’ll pick that one up in a year or two.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first two songs on this album are so good that I can’t even remember what the rest of it is like. Rufus Wainwright’s music had never really appealed to me before: what I had heard seemed a bit too … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[8,7],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-review","tag-cds","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}