Deface the Music

by Utopia

Deface the Music cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 24 September 1980
  • Label: Bearsville
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 32:06
  • Community rating: 3.47/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Todd Rundgren

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Utopia's 'Deface the Music' is a sustained Beatles pastiche filtered through Todd Rundgren's power-pop craftsmanship. The album works as both affectionate homage and formal exercise, recreating early-to-mid-1960s pop gestures with late-1970s studio clarity.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, pastiche, infectious, jangly, theatrical

Tracklist

  1. I Just Want To Touch You (2:00)
  2. Crystal Ball (2:00)
  3. Where Does The World Go To Hide (1:41)
  4. Silly Boy (2:20)
  5. Alone (2:10)
  6. That's Not Right (2:37)
  7. Take It Home (2:53)
  8. Hoi Poloi (2:33)
  9. Life Goes On (2:21)
  10. Feel Too Good (3:04)
  11. Always Late (2:22)
  12. All Smiles (2:27)
  13. Everybody Else Is Wrong (3:38)

Credits

  • Jane Millett - illustration

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