I’m kind of stuck in the middle of a Todd Rundgren jag at the moment. And if you’re a Todd fan, there are many reasons to be excited. With the recent releases of not one, but two new live recordings from a recent tour, each of a classic album: “Todd” (originally released in 1974)and “Healing” (1980), plus the belated appearance of the 1976 Utopia album “Disco Jets,” I guess … [Read more...] about Song Of The Day – “Bardo” by Todd Rundgren
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Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Does Anybody Love You?” by Todd Rundgren
Rodgers & Hammerstein…Lerner & Lowe…Andrew Lloyd Webber…Todd Rundgren? Todd’s name up there with some of Broadway’s most illustrious composers is not so farfetched. Indeed, one can trace the Broadway sensibility Rundgren has harbored for years thorough tracks like “Can’t We Just Be Friends,” “It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference,” “Parallel Lines,” “Change Myself,” … [Read more...] about Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Does Anybody Love You?” by Todd Rundgren
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Freedom Fighters” by Todd Rundgren’s Utopia
They were originally billed at Todd Rundgren’s Utopia for their first few albums in 1974 and 1975, and then they just became Utopia…but under any name they were just another vehicle for Todd to go all prog on us instead of sticking to the radio-friendly pop and blue-eyed soul that he’d been serving out up to this point. Sure, we’d had a taste of the wiggy Todd before on the … [Read more...] about Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Freedom Fighters” by Todd Rundgren’s Utopia
