Todd

by Todd Rundgren

Todd cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: March 1974
  • Label: Bearsville
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:06:50
  • Community rating: 4.14/5 from 7 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Embracing synthesizers and a wildly expansive, heavily drug-influenced studio approach, Todd Rundgren followed up 'A Wizard, a True Star' with this sprawling double album. 'Todd' is a wonderfully eclectic, fiercely progressive pop triumph, balancing beautifully melodic, deeply introspective piano ballads with incredibly quirky, highly surreal psychedelic art-rock experimentation.

Genres

Descriptors: progressive, drugs, eccentric, genre-blending, ambitious, experimental, diverse, accessible, maximalist

Tracklist

  1. How About a Little Fanfare? (1:03)
  2. I Think You Know (3:04)
  3. The Spark of Life (6:23)
  4. An Elpee's Worth of Toons (2:09)
  5. A Dream Goes on Forever (2:21)
  6. Lord Chancellor's Nightmare Song (3:32)
  7. Drunken Blue Rooster (3:00)
  8. The Last Ride (4:48)
  9. Everybody's Going to Heaven / King Kong Reggae (6:38)
  10. No. 1 Lowest Common Denominator (5:12)
  11. Useless Begging (3:39)
  12. Sidewalk Cafe (2:15)
  13. Izzat Love? (1:55)
  14. Heavy Metal Kids (4:17)
  15. In and Out the Chakras We Go (Formerly Shaft Goes to Outer Space) (5:48)
  16. Don't You Ever Learn? (6:06)
  17. Sons of 1984 (4:34)

Credits

  • Todd Rundgren - primary artist, instruments [all other], voice [all other], producer [produced by], engineer [engineered by], arranged by, written-by
  • A.G.I. - art direction
  • Jim Luft - art direction
  • Bob Ludwig - lacquer cut by
  • Joel Shapiro - photography by
  • Bill Klein, Jr. - photography by [back cover photo]
  • Alen MacWeeney - photography by [cover photo]
  • Mark Klingman - keyboards, grand piano, organ, electric piano
  • Gilbert & Sullivan - written-by
  • Buffalo Bill Gelber - bass
  • Wells Kelly - drums
  • Ralph Schuckett - organ, clavinet
  • Peter Ponzol - soprano saxophone
  • John Miller - bass
  • Kevin Ellman - drums
  • John Seigler - bass
  • First United Church Of The Cosmic Smorgasbord - choir
  • Michael Brecker - saxophone
  • Barry Rogers - trombone
  • Randy Brecker - trumpet

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