Description
180GR/GATEFOLD/8P folded INSERT/BLACK vinyl
Artist
American musician (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, saxophone, theremin), singer-songwriter and record producer.
Born June 22, 1948 in Upper Darby, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Todd Rundgren began his career in blues band Woody's Truck Stop but left to form Nazz in 1967 who charted with "Open My Eyes" and "Hello It's Me." He left Nazz in 1969 to pursue a solo career and released Runt (1970), Runt: The Ballad of Todd Rundgren (1971) and double LP Something/Anything? (1972) on which he singly wrote, performed and produced 3 of the 4 sides of the album, the 4th side being a single live take with a studio band.
Rundgren also took on production projects for other groups at Bearsville Studios whilst his musical boundaries stretched from Pop to Heavy Metal to Soul as demonstrated by 'A Wizard, A True Star' (1973), followed by another double album 1974's Todd and 1975's Initiation. At this time he also started to release progressive and experimental live and studio material with his backing band Utopia.
Rundgren continued to produce solo material, notably Faithful (1976) featuring one side of originals and one side of covers from 1966, Hermit of Mink Hollow (1978), Healing (1981), The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect (1983) and the aptly named A Cappella (1985). Utopia disbanded in 1986 having released a string of live and studio albums under the Todd Rundgren/Utopia banner all of which featured Rundgren's seemingly inexhaustible songwriting, vocal and performance contributions.
After a break he released the live studio album Nearly Human (1989) followed by 2nd Wind (1991) performed before a live audience who were instructed to remain silent. In 1993 Rundgren reinvented himself again on the Internet as TR-i ("Todd Rundgren interactive") and released No World Order (1993) followed by The Individualist (1995). His Patronet work, which trickled out to subscribers over more than a year, was released in 2000 as One Long Year.
Rundgren returned to recording under his own name for With a Twist, an album of bossa-nova covers of his older material. Also released were Reconstructed which features techno remixes of Rundgren and Utopia tracks by other artists and Todd Rundgren and His Friends which contains various artists remakes and remixes Rundgren songs.
In 2004, Rundgren released Liars and in 2005, following considerable rumour and speculation it was announced that he was joining the line-up of 80's rock band The Cars, now renamed as The New Cars. A live album The New Cars: It's Alive, was released in 2006.
Rundgren and long term partner Bebe Buell raised actress Liv Tyler as his daughter until age 11 due to the drug excesses of her biological father, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith.
Tracks
A1
I Saw The Light
02:59
A2
It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference
03:51
A3
Wolfman Jack
02:55
A4
Cold Morning Light
03:35
A5
It Takes Two To Tango (This Is For The Girls)
02:43
A6
Sweeter Memories
03:32
B1
Intro
01:10
B2
Breathless
03:15
B3
The Night The Carousel Burned Down
04:32
B4
Saving Grace
04:11
B5
Marlene
03:55
B6
Song Of The Viking
02:37
B7
I Went To The Mirror
04:06
C1
Black Maria
05:18
C2
One More Day (No Word)
03:44
C3
Couldn't I Just Tell You
03:36
C4
Torch Song
02:51
C5
Little Red Lights
04:51
D1
Overture
02:30
D2
Dust In The Wind
03:46
D3
Piss Aaron
03:28
D4
Hello It's Me
04:41
D5
Some Folks Is Even Whiter Than Me
03:57
D6
You Left Me Sore
03:43
D7
Slut
03:35
Releases
Formats
Vinyl, 8-Track Cartridge, Reel-To-Reel, Cassette, CD, File, SACD
Labels
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, Rhino Records , Music On Vinyl, Warner Bros. Records, Analog Spark, Rhino Records , Victor, Bearsville, Castle Communications, Edsel Records, Essential, Get Back, Bearsville Records
Countries
Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Russian Federation, Spain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Europe
years
1972, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
