Want One (studio album)
by Rufus Wainwright

Want One by Rufus Wainwright
Year: 2003
Overall rank: 3,248th   
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 115 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2003 (68th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (555th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,248th)

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Want One is ranked as the best album by Rufus Wainwright.

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   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Want One rankings

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Overall rank: 3,248th | 2000s rank: 555th | 2003 rank: 68th

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Want One ratings

Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 115 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.7/100, a mean average of 75.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.7.

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90/100
From 11/19/2021 18:56 | #276449
Dang. I had heard and enjoyed Poses but never went much further in the catalog. This album, which I am listening to for the first time in 2021, has completely blown me away. It's a masterpiece. Poses was good, but this is on another level.
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From 05/04/2016 10:49 | #165164
A stunning album full of colour and invention. Want one, the follow up to, poses, is Rufus wainwright's best album. Every track is superb, from the Billy Joel-esque, I don't know what it is, to the beautiful but vitriolic, dinner at eight, from the epic, go or go ahead, to the excellent, vibrate. I could mention every song, it's all stunning, beautiful child, want, movies of myself, it's a brilliant record. Want one, is my favourite album ever, along with, Sgt. Pepper, and should be given more praise.
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From 11/09/2013 15:07 | #91413
Beautifully crafted songs throughout.
The opening track is one of the best ever uses of a piece of classical music in a pop song. Ravel's Bolero in this case.
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Thom Yorke: The Musical. Best songs: 14th Street and Beautiful Child.
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From 11/10/2009 09:50 | #7108
A really underrated album. The entire thing from start to finish is just a masterpiece. Like originally the only album I had heard from him was Poses, then someone referred me to Want One and I had really no idea how talented this man really is.
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