best song on "something/anything?" by todd rundgren

if I had seen this poll before it closed I definitely would have voted for "Cold Morning Light"

"saving grace" - 0? wtf?!?!

inexplicably love "Song of the Viking."

Nothing inexplicable about it, it's one of my favourite songs on the album. But I've got a thing for songs about vikings...

Slut was robbed.

i've listened to "breathless" a million times but never heard this (via wikipedia page for talk boxes:

In 1972 Todd Rundgren used a Talk Box on the album Something/Anything? on the instrumental track, "Breathless". Over a synthesized background his VCS3 synthesizer repeatedly "sings" the words "I am so breathless",

im absolutely enamored and obsessed with "the night the carousel burnt down" after listening to this record for the first time this week

"saving grace" - 0? wtf?!?!

That's the only song on the first three sides I skip. The best bit is the pre-chorus, which borrows from one of the songs on the Runt records.

I was just thinking this morning of the era when you slowly got familiar with lengthy records like Trout Mask Replica on double LP. This was another expansive record that makes its own world.

Always forget how hard the bridge of “one more day” hits. What a beautiful song overall.

All alone
All my friends are gone
Ears of stone, eyes gone blind
Too little to do and too much time

middle 8, whatever

fuck that first lieutenant. shut up and wait, my arse.

That's the only song on the first three sides I skip.

this is a crazy opinion to me, "saving grace" for sure one of the best tracks here

Some other specific things I dislike about it are the sloppy rhythm track and the cloying fadeout, but basically I find it complete boilerplate compared to the similar things he was writing at the time, and the biggest culprit for explaining why he felt he was becoming mired in formula and then changed so much with A Wizard/A True Star.

It’s funny that he kind of recycled the melody for “izzit love”