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Music CD - Todd Rundgren: A Wizard, A True Star
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Music CD: A Wizard, A True Star
Artist: Todd Rundgren
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Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
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Tracks:
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1. International Feel
2. Never Never Land
3. Tic Tic Tic It Wears Off
4. You Need Your Head
5. Rock And Roll Pussy
6. Dogfight Giggle
7. You Don't Have To Camp Around
8. Flamingo
9. Zen Archer
10. Just Another Onionhead/Dada Dali
11. When The Shit Hits The Fan/Sunset Blvd.
12. Le Feel Internacionale
13. Sometimes I Don't Know What To Feel
14. Does Anybody Love You?
15. Medley: I'm So Proud, Ooh Baby Baby, La La, Cool Jerk
16. Hungry For Love
17. I Don't Want To Tie You Down
18. Is It My Name?
19. Just One Victory
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0081227086428
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Label: Rhino / Wea
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Rhino / Wea
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Studio: Rhino / Wea
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Summary: Mr. Rundgren at his best.
Comment: Todd Rundgren is a great musician and this album is a perfect display of his art. Just about the first half of the album is crossfaded so the songs blend into each other in a great movement of beautifull noise, there are many short tracks that are golden nuggets of music like the track "You don't have to Camp around" which is an all to fast minute and five seconds long. The album is laced with lots of nice synths that make it sound spacy and at some points like a videogame. This is the first Todd Rundgren album I heard (Todd's third lp) and its what got me into him I suggest this to anyone intrested in progressive music. Todd Rundgren is a true artist that is too overlooked.
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Summary: Todd Rundgren: A Wizard, A True Star.
Comment: This album was a big part of my life when it was released in 1973. I'd never heard anything else like it. The album marked a transition for Todd from his 1972 classic pop album Something/Anything? to his detour into progressive rock. Having produced and engineered Janis Joplin's Farewell Song, Badfinger's Straight Up, Grand Funk's We're an American Band and Shinin' On, Meat Loaf's Bat out of Hell, Patti Smith's Wave, and XTC's Skylarking, Todd established himself as a wizard in the studio, while his own projects were establishing him as a true star. The first side of this album is an extended, mind-blowing medley of songs flowing into a single song cycle, which not only includes Todd's version of "Never Never Land" from Peter Pan, but a familiar medley of covers of doo-wop and bubblegum soul hits (Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Delfonics, and The Capitals) that segue into each other. With this album, Todd also pushed the limits of how much music he could fit onto a piece of vinyl (55:56 minutes, to be exact). The music sounds better on CD than it did on vinyl. Musically, this album reveals Todd's psychedelic, avant-garde fusion, and Zappa influences. He plays all the instruments on this album, and at the time toured with the psychedelic Gibson SG guitar that Eric Clapton played in Cream.
Individual tracks include:
1. International Feel
2. Never Never Land
3. Tic Tic Tic It Wears Off
4. You Need Your Head
5. Rock And Roll Pussy
6. Dogfight Giggle
7. You Don't Have To Camp Around
8. Flamingo
9. Zen Archer
10. Just Another Onionhead/Dada Dali
11. When The Shit Hits The Fan/Sunset Blvd.
12. Le Feel Internacionale
13. Sometimes I Don't Know What To Feel
14. Does Anybody Love You?
15. Medley: I'm So Proud, Ooh Baby Baby, La La, Cool Jerk
16. Hungry For Love
17. I Don't Want To Tie You Down
18. Is It My Name?
19. Just One Victory
This is the album that made me a Todd fan for life.
G. Merritt
Customer Rating:
Summary: Sometimes I Don't Know What To Feel
Comment: This is a far out and trippy album and features what would be the first touring Utopia lineup. This album reminds me sort of prog rock crossed with glam rock in a sort of T-Rex kind of way with a Las Vegas stage show thrown in. Far out and totally Todd, No one has ever recorded an album like this and no one ever will again. Opening with International Feel to the closing Just One Victory, this album is a feast for the senses. I would recommend going out and getting yourself a pair of good headphones for this one. The JVC Japan import comes with all the original inserts that the old lp copies originally came with which is nice to have again although mini ones.
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Summary: Todd Rundgren's Masterpiece!
Comment: Dazzling, multi-colored, and multi-layered are perfect ways to describe this *vivid* album (the brilliant cover truly does summarize this album in a nut shell) but, unless you're a bit of a quirky idealist yourself, it may not make a whole lot of sense to you at first. Those who hold tightly to their "conventions" may struggle with this one. Personally, I find that I can understand and relate to it better than many albums that I've heard. This album is finely crafted and wildly adventurous, all while having a strikingly strong sense of humanity all throughout. There are essentially two separate albums here (it was a perfect idea to style the title as two separate phrases). The "A Wizard" portion is marked by zany madcap madness, avant-garde experimentalism, and a generally highly animated tone. This portion begins with "International Feel" and ends with "Le Feel Internationale" (which is basically the same song, but it's so good that it's a welcomed treat each time). The "A True Star" portion, which makes up the rest of the album, is full of well-crafted pop and soul numbers that are distinctly marked by Todd's warm and big-hearted, yet sharp and clever approach. This album was kind of disorienting the first time that I listened to it. None of it falls neatly into any particular "type" category (which is one of the main things that I love so much about it), and the first half is mostly made up of seemingly incongruous song fragments with no breaks in between, with Todd seeming to go out of his way to make the transitions from song to song as abrupt as possible. And, thank goodness he did, because this sequence would not be nearly as thrilling if he had crafted it any other way. It's one of the most thrilling song sequences that I've ever heard. The warm psychedelic soul number "Sometimes I Don't Know What To Feel" that begins the "A True Star" portion is so honest, transparent, and completely devoid of pretense that it remains just as striking and touching each and every time that I listen to it. And he goes from that right into the downright Stevie Wonder/Paul McCartney-esque impeccably crafted, melodic perfection of "Does Anybody Love You?". Todd shows incredible musical and artistic range throughout this entire album (I think he even outdoes Curtis Mayfield's original on his remake of "I'm So Proud" during the Soul medley, and his moving rendition of "Never, Never Land" sounds like a totally original creation), and his quirky sense of humor and general big-heartedness just make the ride that much more rewarding. This is one of the greatest albums that I've ever heard and, I encourage everyone who is curious to pick it up.
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Summary: Will only ToddHeads be reading these reviews?
Comment: because WE know, we know and have known the magical artistry of the Man, but will this music be spread to the next generation of ears? Will they get it ? Does it matter? If you have known Todd's music or if you are curious because of maybe seeing him recently with the New Cars, this is one of his best musical expressions. I would say his recent Liars is up there too. This was done before all the studio gimicks that are so over used now and to think he was so ahead of his time...well maybe to the 20 somethings that may not be a big deal... anyway, that all does not really matter, what matters is the musical expression, Todd's quirkey ideas, his lyrics, his melodies, his arrangements, the flow of one song to the next ( do NOT do random shuffle , listen to the songs in order, at least at first) and imagine Todd at his lanky gap toothed copper haired youthful zanyness and appreciate that he has graced our world with his inner ( and yes outer) beauty.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Digitally remastered reissue of his 1973 album for Bearsville. Contains the original cover art & all 19 of the cuts that first graced it, including the hit 'Sometimes I Don't Know What To Feel'. 1999 release.
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