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Amy B.
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I've been listening to a lot of Rufus Wainwright again lately, and I just love his music. We all know the role Van Dyke Parks had in getting him a record deal, and Elton John called him the greatest songwriter on the planet. I'm not sure I'd go THAT far, but I think he's very under-appreciated as a songwriter but also a singer (though some people find his voice grating). Go or Go Ahead, Dinner at Eight, Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk...these are incredible works. Here's his Black Cab Sessions performance from 2012.
http://www.blackcabsessions.com/?id=1334223648
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I really liked Out of the Game a lot, but otherwise I'm more impressed by his talent than his actual output. (Kind of like how I feel about Sufjan Stevens.)
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I think he's a wimp
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I listened to him quite a bit a couple of years ago.
Poses
is a great album. He did cover "Wonderful/Song for Children" for a benefit compilation (
War Child Heroes
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Quote from: Devin on August 19, 2014, 04:01:54 AM
I think he's a wimp
Thanks for your comment and its contribution to this thread.
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He's one of those people who a lot of people still don't know about, after all this time. I think his melodies are beautiful, and the orchestrations are often so lush that you forget to pay attention to the lyrics. He's written a lot about addiction, misguided decadence and hedonism, etc. His song "I Don't Know What It is" is about emerging from addiction. I love this stripped down performance of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLzjalLki4U
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I totally forgot he appears on the
Moulin Rouge
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Saw him live on the going to a town tour. He is the real deal singing wise but the live show was too long and a drag
Been a fan since the Cohen cover on the shrek soundtrack
His discography is 90% fillers though but the good songs are something else:
Dont know what it is
California
Cigarettes and chocolate milk
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Can't stop listening to the song 'Poses' what a piece!
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Quote from: cablegeddon on September 30, 2014, 02:30:31 PM
His discography is 90% fillers though but the good songs are something else:
I disagree about the filler. He has a ton of great, great songs.
Memphis Skyline (about Jeff Buckley, conjuring the myth of Orpheus in the lyrics)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS-nz3CMBJ0
This Love Affair (about walking away from drug abuse)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmuc-Ge9FlM
Sad With What I Have (written while his mother was sick; covered here by an opera singer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf4CTMCYMSo
Candles (again, about his mother)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlzeNSkgUo
ETA: Go or Go Ahead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYb5vyBuD3E
I could post tons.
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Want One, seriously good, dense, elaborate album. Gorgeous music.
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