Editing Want Two

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Want Two
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Rufus Wainwright]]
| cover      = Rufus Want Two.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = November 16, 2004
| recorded   = Bearsville Studios, Woodstock, NYC; also London
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = {{flatlist|
*[[Baroque pop]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/release-the-stars-mw0000747012|title=Release the Stars – Rufus Wainwright – Songs, Reviews, Credits – AllMusic|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=October 3, 2016|archive-date=March 6, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306173134/http://www.allmusic.com/album/release-the-stars-mw0000747012|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[alternative rock]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/feb/25/popandrock.shopping3|title=CD: Rufus Wainwright, Want Two|website=[[TheGuardian.com]]|date=February 25, 2005|access-date=December 18, 2016|archive-date=October 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010085626/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/feb/25/popandrock.shopping3|url-status=live}}</ref>
}}
| length     = 54:08
| label      = [[Geffen Records|Geffen]]
| producer   = {{hlist|[[Marius de Vries]]|Rufus Wainwright}}
| prev_title = [[Want One]]
| prev_year  = 2003
| next_title = [[Release the Stars]]
| next_year  = 2007
| misc       = {{Singles
 | name        = Want Two
 | type        = Studio
 | single1     = The One You Love
 | single1date = February 28, 2005 (UK)
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
| MC = 78/100<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/want-two/rufus-wainwright|title=Reviews for Want Two by Rufus Wainwright|publisher=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=October 3, 2016|archive-date=October 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161014222635/http://www.metacritic.com/music/want-two/rufus-wainwright|url-status=live}}</ref>
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/want-two-mw0000633174|title=Want Two – Rufus Wainwright|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=October 3, 2016|last=Collar|first=Matt|archive-date=November 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171115143404/https://www.allmusic.com/album/want-two-mw0000633174|url-status=live}}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
|rev2score = B<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/2004/11/19/want-two/|title=Want Two|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=November 19, 2004|access-date=February 12, 2020|last=Browne|first=David|author-link=David Browne (journalist)|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212113734/https://ew.com/article/2004/11/19/want-two/amp/|archive-date=February 12, 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[The Guardian]]''
|rev3score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/feb/25/popandrock.shopping3|title=Rufus Wainwright, Want Two|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=February 25, 2005|access-date=October 3, 2016|last=Petridis|first=Alexis|author-link=Alexis Petridis|archive-date=October 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010085626/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/feb/25/popandrock.shopping3|url-status=live}}</ref>
|rev4 = ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
|rev4score = {{Rating|4|4}}<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-dec-05-ca-rack5-story.html|title=Wainwright packs a 1–2 punch|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=December 5, 2004|access-date=August 21, 2017|last=Hilburn|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Hilburn|archive-date=October 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017143321/http://articles.latimes.com/2004/dec/05/entertainment/ca-rack5|url-status=live}}</ref>
|rev5 = ''[[NME]]''
|rev5score = 9/10<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/reviews-nme-7640|title=Wainwright, Rufus: Want Two|journal=[[NME]]|date=March 19, 2005|access-date=August 21, 2017|last=Marshall|first=Julian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325041737/http://www.nme.com/reviews/rufus-wainwright/7640|archive-date=March 25, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|rev6 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
|rev6score = 6.0/10<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8559-want-two|title=Rufus Wainwright: Want Two|work=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|date=November 15, 2004|access-date=October 3, 2016|last=Deusner|first=Stephen M.|archive-date=October 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161006041108/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8559-want-two/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|rev7 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
|rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite journal|title=Rufus Wainwright: Want Two|journal=[[Q (magazine)|Q]]|issue=224|date=March 2005|page=92}}</ref>
|rev8 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
|rev8score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/rufuswainwright/albums/album/6596449/review/6660777/want_two|title=Want Two: Rufus Wainwright|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=December 15, 2004|access-date=October 3, 2016|last=Walters|first=Barry|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090615190412/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/rufuswainwright/albums/album/6596449/review/6660777/want_two|archive-date=June 15, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|rev9 = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
|rev9score = B−<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fyLttHWpa9EC&pg=PA100|title=Rufus Wainwright: Want Two / Richard Swift: The Richard Swift Collection Volume One|journal=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|volume=21|issue=1|date=January 2005|access-date=August 21, 2017|last=Caramanica|first=Jon|author-link=Jon Caramanica|page=100}}</ref>
|rev10 = ''[[The Village Voice]]''
|rev10Score = B−<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv305-05.php|title=Consumer Guide: DJ Kicks|work=[[The Village Voice]]|date=March 22, 2005|access-date=October 3, 2016|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|archive-date=March 27, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170327072913/http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv305-05.php|url-status=live}}</ref>
}}

'''''Want Two''''' is the fourth [[studio album|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 [[extended play|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 (film)|Trade]]''.

Mother [[Kate McGarrigle]] and aunt [[Anna McGarrigle|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, "{{lang|fr|Coeur de Parisienne – Reprise d'[[Arletty]]}}" and "{{lang|fr|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]]''.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Robert Dimery|author2=Michael Lydon|title=1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition|date=February 7, 2006|publisher=Universe|isbn=0-7893-1371-5}}</ref>

==Track listing==
# "Agnus Dei" – 5:45
# "[[The One You Love (Rufus Wainwright song)|The One You Love]]" – 3:44
# "Peach Trees" – 5:59
# "Little Sister" – 3:22
# "[[The Art Teacher]]" – 3:51
# "Hometown Waltz" – 2:33
# "This Love Affair" – 3:13
# "[[Gay Messiah]]" – 3:14
# "Memphis Skyline" – 4:51
# "Waiting for a Dream" – 4:14
# "Crumb by Crumb" – 4:13
# "Old Whore's Diet" – 9:09

===Bonus tracks===
# "{{lang|fr|Coeur de Parisienne — Reprise d'Arletty}}" (live) (UK & EU bonus track) – 2:46
# "{{lang|fr|Quand vous mourez de nos amours}}" (live) (UK bonus track) – 3.23
# "Chelsea Hotel, No. 2" (live) (bonus track on ''[[Want (Rufus Wainwright album)|Want]]'') – 3:47
# "In with the Ladies" (bonus track on ''Want'') – 3:52

===''Live at the Fillmore'' DVD===
#"DVD Intro" – 1:26
#"L'Absence" – 4:00
#"14th Street" – 4:33
#"Harvester of Hearts" – 3:41
#"Natasha" – 3:24
#"The Art Teacher" – 3:34
#"[[Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen song)|Hallelujah]]" – 4:22
#"Matinee Idol" – 2:58
#"Vibrate" – 3:17
#"Gay Messiah" – 4:17
#"Want" – 5:27
#"Greek Song" – 3:52
#"Foolish Love" – 5:35
#"[[I Don't Know What It Is]]" – 5:40
#"[[Dinner at Eight (song)|Dinner at Eight]]" – 5:00
#"Beautiful Child" – 6:28
#"[[Oh What a World (song)|Oh What a World]]" – 4:13
#"Liberty Cabbage" – 4:56
#"California" – 3:28
#"As in Happy" – 3:40
#"DVD Credits" – 1:35

==Personnel==
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* Rufus Wainwright – voice (1–12), piano (1–7,9,10), additional vocals (2,3,8,11), acoustic guitar (2,3,8,11), keyboards (11), orchestral arrangements (1,4,7,9–11)
* Sophie Solomon – violin (1)
* Pit Hermans – [[cimbalom]] (1)
* [[Marius de Vries]] – keyboards (1,10,11), [[vibraphone]] (3,9), programming (2–4,8–11), orchestral arrangements (1,4,7,9–11)
* Isobel Griffiths – orchestra contractor (1,4,9,11), horn contractor (5,10)
* [[Gavyn Wright]] – orchestral leader (1,4,9,11)
* [[Martha Wainwright]] – additional vocals (2,3,6,8,12), violin (6)
* [[Gerry Leonard]] – electric guitar (2,3), guitars (9)
* [[Charlie Sexton]] – electric guitar (2,3)
* Jeff Hill – bass (2,3,8–12), additional vocals (12)
* [[Levon Helm]] – drums (2)
* Roberto Rodriguez – percussion (3)
* [[Sterling Campbell]] – drums (3,9)
* Matt Johnson – drums (3,8)
* [[Kate McGarrigle]] – additional vocals (6), [[banjo]] (6)
* [[Anna McGarrigle]] – additional vocals (6), [[accordion]] (6)
* Lily Lanken – additional vocals (6), recorder (6)
* Brad Albetta – bass guitar (6)
* Maxim Moston – violin (7,10,12), [[concertmaster]] (7,10), orchestral arrangements (1,4,7,9–11)
* [[Antoine Silverman]] – violin (7,10)
* [[Joan Wasser]] – violin (7,10), viola (12)
* Julianne Klopotic – violin (7,10)
* Vivienne Kim – violin (7,10)
* Fiona Murray – violin (7,10)
* Cenovia Cummins – violin (7,10)
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* Christopher Cardona – violin (7,10)
* Danielle Farina – [[viola]] (7,10)
* Alison Gordon – viola (7,10)
* Eric Hammelman – viola (7,10)
* Kathryn Lockwood – viola (7,10)
* Anja Wood – cello (7,10)
* [[Jane Scarpantoni]] – cello (7,10)
* [[Julia Kent]] – cello (7,10,12)
* Carlo Pellettieri – cello (7,10)
* Troy Rinker Jr – bass guitar (7,10)
* Alexandra Knoll – [[oboe]] (7)
* David Sapadin – [[clarinet]] (7)
* Daniel Shelly – [[bassoon]] (7)
* [[Teddy Thompson]] – additional vocals (8,12)
* Jenni Muldaur – additional vocals (8)
* [[Suzzy Roche]] – additional vocals (8)
* Leona Naess – additional vocals (11)
* David Theodore – oboe (11)
* Rob Burger – [[Hammond organ]] (11)
* [[Gina Gershon]] – [[Jew's harp]] (11)
* [[Antony Hegarty|Antony]] – voice (12)
* [[Julianna Raye]] – additional vocals (12)
* [[Roger Greenawalt]] – [[ukulele]] (12), banjo (12)
* [[Steven Wolf]] – [[djembe]] (12), [[tambourine]] (12), additional programming (12)
* Alexis Smith – programming (2–4,8–11)
* [[Van Dyke Parks]] – orchestral arrangements (1,4,7,9–11)
* Jack McKeever – engineer
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==Chart positions==
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Chart (2004)
!Peak<br />position
|-
| French Album Chart<ref>[http://lescharts.com/search.asp?cat=a&search=Rufus+Wainwright Rufus Wainwright French Charting] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214084638/http://lescharts.com/search.asp?cat=a&search=Rufus+Wainwright |date=February 14, 2009 }} Retrieved on October 13, 2008</ref>
| align="center"|160
|-
| Netherlands Album Chart<ref>[http://dutchcharts.nl/search.asp?cat=a&cat2=s&search=Rufus+Wainwright Rufus Wainwright Dutch Charting] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213222811/http://dutchcharts.nl/search.asp?cat=a&cat2=s&search=Rufus+Wainwright |date=February 13, 2009 }} Retrieved on October 13, 2008</ref>
| align="center"|68
|-
| Portuguese Album Chart<ref>{{cite web|access-date=October 13, 2008|url=http://portuguesecharts.com/search.asp?cat=a&search=Rufus+Wainwright|title=Portuguese Charts|publisher=PortugueseCharts.com|archive-date=February 14, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214012646/http://portuguesecharts.com/search.asp?cat=a&search=Rufus+Wainwright|url-status=live}}</ref>
| align="center"|30
|-
| [[UK Albums Chart]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/5051/rufus-wainwright/|title=RUFUS WAINWRIGHT|date=August 7, 2004|website=Officialcharts.com|access-date=November 16, 2024}}</ref>
| align="center"|21
|-
| U.S. [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]<ref>[{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=rufus wainwright|chart=all}} Rufus Wainwright American Charting – Billboard 200] Retrieved on October 13, 2008</ref>
| align="center"|103
|-
{{album chart|Scotland|21|date=20050313|access-date=April 29, 2024}}
|}

==Awards==
{{awards table}}
|-
| rowspan=2|2005 || rowspan=2|''Want Two'' || [[GLAAD Media Awards|GLAAD Media Award]] – Outstanding Music Artist  || {{nom}}
|-
| [[Juno Award]] – [[Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year|Adult Alternative Album of the Year]]  || {{nom}}
{{end}}

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
*{{Metacritic album}}

{{Rufus Wainwright}}

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[[Category:2004 albums]]
[[Category:Geffen Records albums]]
[[Category:Rufus Wainwright albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Marius de Vries]]