When you say "Runt", do you mean "Runt" or "Runt. The Ballad of Todd Rundgren"
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 July 2013 12:00 (ten years ago) link
I meant the former, the one with "We Gotta Get You a Woman". I still haven't listened to all of The Ballad of.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 13 July 2013 12:09 (ten years ago) link
I saw him live last night. full on EDM for the most part! The only old song he played was "secret society" from POV, wtf. Oh and he did EDM covers of "personality crisis" and "prime time". 3 piece band, electronic drum kit (think it was prarie prince), lasers, multiple pairs of scifi goggles. Some great guitar solos from Todd and the other guitarist, but todd was mainly singing and dancing. Idk, it was weird.
― brimstead, Saturday, 13 July 2013 19:17 (ten years ago) link
t/s: oblivion vs. P.O.V.
― brimstead, Saturday, 13 July 2013 19:22 (ten years ago) link
circle of amour by prince sounds pretty todd-y.
― StillAdvance, Sunday, 14 July 2013 09:24 (ten years ago) link
Imago... I'd also be interested to know what you'd think of the first Utopia album (this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Rundgren's_Utopia_(album) ), since it was his full-on prog album.
Not Imago here, but if I may interrupt, I'd say it was...
http://lyriki.com/images/thumb/a/a4/AlbumArt-Various_Artists-Best_Prog_Rock_Album_(2003).jpg/250px-AlbumArt-Various_Artists-Best_Prog_Rock_Album_(2003).jpg
Oh, and Evening Star, stick with the 35-min synth composition ('A Treatise on Cosmic Fire'). I've always loved the first half of this, and then, about 30 years later, I finally learned to appreciate the rest of it!
― Bloody Snail, Sunday, 14 July 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link
"The Ikon" is really quite amazing - one of the greatest (and longest) prog epics. I never came around to "Treatise" but the start of part three (when things really start to go into full freak mode) is entertaining.
― frogbs, Monday, 15 July 2013 01:17 (ten years ago) link
i adore the main riff of "the ikon". those first two utopia albums are so much fun. i could listen to Mid70s Todd and Roer jams forever.
― regular speed of candy on chrome (brimstead), Monday, 15 July 2013 03:35 (ten years ago) link
roer = roger powell
that part in the Ikon when it turns into one of Todd's trademark awesome R&B ballads - the "you don't have to be afraid" bit, it always floors me because its really out of nowhere.
heres the real question - is he worth seeing live nowadays? he's coming to Milwaukee and tickets aren't really too bad - my Dad is big into Todd and I was thinking about taking him.
― frogbs, Monday, 15 July 2013 03:46 (ten years ago) link
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― regular speed of candy on chrome (brimstead), Monday, 15 July 2013 03:47 (ten years ago) link
Most of his new stuff is still really soulful, though, he opened with "truth" from Liars and that's kind of where the new stuff branches out from.
― regular speed of candy on chrome (brimstead), Monday, 15 July 2013 03:49 (ten years ago) link
my bad, didnt fully read the thread - I dunno if that's good or bad, I don't think either of us have heard anything even up to POV, but his new stuff does get good reviews. interesting
― frogbs, Monday, 15 July 2013 13:00 (ten years ago) link
i just remembered that he DID play a medley of "hello it's me"/"i saw the light"/"can we still be friends" for the encore. all sidechain-y dance pop versions.
― regular speed of candy on chrome (brimstead), Monday, 15 July 2013 20:47 (ten years ago) link
I'm astounded by how great the second side of Faithful is - combine it with side one of Initiation and you've got a hell of a record
― frogbs, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
for all the praise "Couldn't I Just Tell You" seems to get, "Love of the Common Man" is basically just as good, and maybe even more repeatable
― frogbs, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 17:54 (ten years ago) link
IDM covers of "personality crisis" and "prime time".
I was just gonna ask "The Tubes' "Prime Time?" and then I went to youtube. Uh, yeah, that's kinda goofy. The synths sound way too thin and cheesy.
― Same old bland-as-sand mood mouthings (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 19:03 (ten years ago) link
Love of the Common Man is great
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 19:15 (ten years ago) link
this guy is a piece of shit
― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 21:58 (ten years ago) link
a soulless fake prog nilsson is no way to go through life, son
― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 21:59 (ten years ago) link
There is nothing fake about Rundgren's prog.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 22:04 (ten years ago) link
Ummmm
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 22:11 (ten years ago) link
a soulless fake prog nilsson
Even if this was true, it sounds like it would be pretty cool.
― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 22:22 (ten years ago) link
soulless? have you heard "the last ride"?
― brimstead, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 22:53 (ten years ago) link
when i met her, it felt like the first time i heard "bang on the drum all day"
― brimstead, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 22:55 (ten years ago) link
haha this dude makes my skin literally crawl so there's really no reasoning w/my unfettered hatred y'all!
and i respect the classic rock canon too! seriously! name me someone who respects it more! you can't! but i can't hang w/this dude so gross
― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 22:58 (ten years ago) link
Haha M@tt, thanks for the new DN!
Todd's career is kinda like Stephen King's to me; I've hung with him through some ill-advised crap, and there's a bunch I've skipped entirely, but I think when he's on he's pretty great. sund4r otm upthread re: post-Beatles/Beach Boys pop-rock, 70s singer-songwriter tunes, post-Hendrix guitar solos, eccentric 1-minute art-pop songs, Zappa-meets-Yes epic prog, soul-pop balladeering, electronic new wave... and I would add yacht rock. And Prince.
― Fakeprog Nilsson (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 23:20 (ten years ago) link
i just tried again today, i always try again with certain classic rock artists that i don't like
maybe next time
he also produced stage fright by the band like shit, kinda irritated by that as well, they had andy johns version of the songs on the expanded reissue, sounded so much better
― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 23:44 (ten years ago) link
"Couldn't I just Tell You" flies by in a warp of ecstasy and guitar
― calstars, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 00:53 (ten years ago) link
The single mp3 in my collection with the highest play count is Tic Tic Tic, It Wears Off. I wish it had an ending, though. So suspenseful!
― 3×5, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 06:38 (ten years ago) link
You should check out The Nazz
― DDD, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 09:08 (ten years ago) link
maybe you needn't try again with Todd. he irritates most of the people who actually like him so what chance do you have?
"fake prog" is a strange accusation though. he went prog when he was on the verge of becoming a huge pop star, so it's hard to me to not believe he's sincere about it. that first Utopia album is legit as hell.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 13:23 (ten years ago) link
I feel like as a person, deep inside he is not prog. He could make any type of prog music but it would not resonate with me. He's a prog studio gangsta.
There's also something about him that makes me want to punch him for no reason at all.
― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 14:26 (ten years ago) link
envy
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 14:33 (ten years ago) link
I mean, for this song alone... how the hell was this not a huge hit? Love this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNN96qYE9kg
― Fakeprog Nilsson (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 14:55 (ten years ago) link
I completely refuse to engage with this on any level although I'm getting an ulcer...
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
Ladies, ladies settle down like I said I'll keep at it
― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
gym coach
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 15:45 (ten years ago) link
Hit the showers champ
― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 17:13 (ten years ago) link
how the hell was this not a huge hit?
i like todd and i like "love of the common man," but it could've used a better singer tbh.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 22:45 (ten years ago) link
Utopia's "Freak Parade" is really great".
Still need quite a lot of his albums. Hermit Of Mink Hollow or Wizard A True Star are my favorites.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 23:04 (ten years ago) link
Black Mariah!
― calstars, Saturday, 6 December 2014 01:47 (nine years ago) link
4 disc "at the bbc1972-1982" came out this week.
wonder if it has the old grey whistle test performance of "tiny demons", just vocals and guitar. it's good stuff.
― brimstead, Saturday, 6 December 2014 05:59 (nine years ago) link
Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the first ever official release of TODD RUNDGREN AT THE BBC. This four-disc collection comprises three CDs and a DVD (NTSC / Region Free) featuring all of the surviving radio and television broadcasts in the BBC archive transmitted on radio and television in the UK between 1972 and 1982. The set features on CD Todd's solo 1972 BBC Radio One ""In Concert"" performance, recorded soon after the release of his seminal album ""Something Anything"", the classic 1975 performance by Todd Rundgren and Utopia at Hammersmith Odeon, London, (including a previously unreleased track 'Something's Coming') - on the first ever UK concert tour of Todd Rundgren and Utopia, a 1977 performance at the Oxford Polytechnic by Todd Rundgren and Utopia (promoting the ""Ra"") album, and a DVD featuring three different performances for the classic ""Old Grey Whistle Test"" series; the 1975 Todd Rundgren and Utopia session, a film of Todd Rundgren & Utopia at the Bearsville Picnic in 1977 (performing 'Singring and the Glass Guitar') and the entire recordings made for a 1982 solo Todd Rundgren Whistle Test special (including two songs not featured on the original TV broadcast). This set is sure to delight the legions of Todd Rundgren fans and is a superb document of Todd's continuing development as both a solo artist and with his band Utopia between 1972 and 1982.
― brimstead, Saturday, 6 December 2014 06:00 (nine years ago) link
i think it's weird he's not mentioned more as a progenitor of electronic pop
― (曇り) (clouds), Monday, 8 December 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
$12.49 on Amazon MP3, price is certainly right
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Monday, 8 December 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
26 tracks of this on Spotify.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 12 December 2014 03:50 (nine years ago) link
anything ever come of his collaboration between Lindstrom, Todd Rundgren, and Serena-Maneesh?
― a duiving caTCH, a stuolllen bayeeeess (jamescobo), Sunday, 25 January 2015 14:53 (nine years ago) link
might have to go see this latest Todd tour, in which he's onstage with 2 female singers and a DJ/keyboardist who apparently will be Dam-Funk (!!?)
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 13:37 (nine years ago) link
Highly recommended for all early-'70s Todd lovers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqW7EfA3VWE
― clemenza, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 13:43 (nine years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/02/todd-rundgren-renaissance-rocker
He took out a vape pen and drew on it. “As a matter of fact, I have a vanity line of cannabis coming out. It’s called Hello It’s Weed.”
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Friday, 30 December 2022 03:00 (one year ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/NssGJTL/ezgif-1-78f6334692.jpg
― birdistheword, Friday, 30 December 2022 03:25 (one year ago) link
legit
― frogbs, Friday, 30 December 2022 03:30 (one year ago) link
Lionel Ritchie announcement in 3, 2, 1,
― nickn, Friday, 30 December 2022 08:49 (one year ago) link
What would Lionel Ritchie call his vanity line?
― birdistheword, Friday, 30 December 2022 17:54 (one year ago) link
hello, is it weed that you’re looking for?
― the late great, Friday, 30 December 2022 17:59 (one year ago) link
probably better name for a delivery service
― the late great, Friday, 30 December 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
LMAO, I'm sold
― birdistheword, Friday, 30 December 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQkG8K9tbe0#OneThread
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 31 December 2022 21:51 (one year ago) link
Quite a few good Todd interview clips on Make Weird Music channel, which has a ton of prog content and recommendations for bands I've never heard ofhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRTDlnjVM1o
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 11 March 2023 22:38 (one year ago) link
Well worth a look around the channel
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 11 March 2023 23:02 (one year ago) link
“It was late…last night”
― calstars, Sunday, 12 March 2023 01:11 (one year ago) link
Were you feeling something wasn't quite right?
― clemenza, Sunday, 12 March 2023 02:18 (one year ago) link
Something to Fall Back On is his best song imo. Could have been a great quasi-Motown stomper in any age.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 12 March 2023 09:20 (one year ago) link
Wolfman Jack has a classic-era Motown vibe as well.
― henry s, Sunday, 12 March 2023 15:14 (one year ago) link
I love the mid 80s “tough guy” production and performance of “want of a nail”
― calstars, Sunday, 12 March 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link
Do you rate it so highly because of or in spite of the a cappella arrangement?
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 13 March 2023 15:36 (one year ago) link
Mostly in spite - it would hold up incredibly well even if it had (for a 1985 analogy) I'm Your Man-type production as it's such a strong song. That said, the production still gives it crucial peripheral strangeness (e.g. the way the Witch Doctor-y 'do-do-do's sound so sampled and assembled, like someone gently going glissando on a keyboard, or the way the beat 'feels' like beatboxing but clearly is something more indeterminate).
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 16 March 2023 11:11 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaF4m4T8x6c
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Friday, 12 January 2024 15:55 (two months ago) link
this was the first song my dad taught me to play on piano, it's always gonna be special to me. could never do the fast part at the end though!!
― frogbs, Friday, 12 January 2024 16:08 (two months ago) link
Written by request of Patti Smith, who wanted him to do a song about his Scandinavian background.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 12 January 2024 16:23 (two months ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/track/0tufiRu3Ij4sEaLvlqt9Bb?si=wU-t3E_5THS0BbmJWf9ShQ&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A7pguPd8sT14AhOcbrnksHn?
― calstars, Thursday, 14 March 2024 20:16 (two weeks ago) link
(21st c schizoid man cover)
― calstars, Thursday, 14 March 2024 20:17 (two weeks ago) link
Don't know why I let Healing sit in collection for so long before listening to it, I'm loving it
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 14 March 2024 23:49 (two weeks ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rcPhyVZL8w
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 15 March 2024 00:10 (one week ago) link