Todd Rundgren - Todd (1974)

Todd Rundgren - Todd (1974)
rock | 1CD | EAC Rip | FLAC+CUE+LOG | cover | 470MB
Castle Music | '99 remaster | RAR +5% recovery

AMG:
Maybe some listeners thought that the sonic trip A Wizard, A True Star was a necessary exercise in indulgence and that he would return to the sweet pop of Something/Anything? for its follow-up. Not a chance. As it turned out A Wizard was the launch pad for further dementia -- and, depending on your point-of-view, indulgence. Its follow-up was Todd, an impenetrable double album filled with detours, side roads, collisions and the occasional pop tune. That those pop tunes are among his best may come as little consolation to the lightweight fan who has stumbled upon Todd. Conceptually, A Wizard, A True Star may be the wilder record, but Todd is a more difficult listen, thanks to the layers of guitar solos and blind synth prog tunes, such as "In and Out the Chakras We Go."Large stretches of the album are purely instrumental, foreshadowing the years of synth experiments with Utopia that were just around the corner. The murk subsides every so often, revealing either exquisite ballads ("A Dream Goes on Forever"), blistering rock ("Heavy Metal Kids") or, more murk and dementia (particularly with how Gilbert & Sullivan rear their heads not only on the requisite novelty "An Elpee's Worth of Tunes," but an honest-to-goodness cover of "Lord Chancellor's Nightmare Song"). These are some major additions to his catalog, but the experiments and the excesses are too tedious to make Todd a necessary listen for anyone but the devoted. But for those listeners, the gems make the rough riding worthwhile.

This re-issue:
Sleeve notes - Paul Lester
Project co-ordinator - Steve Hammonds
Thanks to Michael Crombleholme,
Mary Lou Arnold & Sally Grossman
Mastered by Andy Pearce at Masterpiece
Imagery courtesy of Bearsville Records
Design - Sarah Southin @ Castle Music Ltd
Representation - Eric Gardner @ Panacea

Track list;
1. How About A Little Fanfare?
2. I Think You Know
3. The Spark Of Life
4. An Elpee's Worth Of Toons
5. A Dream Goes On Forever
6. Lord Chancellor's Nightmare Song
7. Drunken Blue Rooster
8. The Last Ride
9. Everybody's Going To Heaven/King Kong Reggae
10. Number 1 Lowest Common Denominator
11. Useless Begging
12. Sidewalk Cafe
13. Izzat Love?
14. Heavy Metal Kids
15. In And Out The Chakras We Go (Formerly: Shaft Goes To Outer Space)
16. Don't You Ever Learn?
17. Sons Of 1984

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