TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.3587
Todd Rundgren Album Rankings
1
As vast as the Pierce Memorial Archives are, there often are times that I develop an urge to start learning about an artist whose work I either am not familiar with or don't own much of.
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Upon its release,Rolling StonecalledThe Ballad of Todd Rundgren"the best albumPaul McCartney" never made, and even if the album doesn't sound particularlyMcCartney-esque, it does share the homespun, m
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3
Patti Smith once said Todd Rundgren had "the ability to devour and juggle the best of what has passed and shoot it into future perfect.
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4
Something/Anything?proved that Todd Rundgren could write a pop classic as gracefully as any of his peers, but buried beneath the surface were signs that he would never be satisfied as merely a pop sin
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5
Reluctant to start a full-fledged solo career after leavingthe Nazz, Todd Rundgren formedRunt, a band that was a front for what was in effect a solo project.
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6
Todd Rundgren - genius or madman?According to some members of the Bob Pierce Memorial Fan Club(they'd take a bullet for me...
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7
Over the course of 1977, Todd Rundgren movedUtopiatoward a more pop-oriented direction, winding up with the slick mainstream arena rock ofOops! Wrong Planet.
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8
Just when you think that Todd Rundgren is getting predictable, he goes and does something that confuses critics, confounds casual followers, and delights his diehard following.
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9
Maybe some listeners thought that the sonic tripA Wizard, A True Starwas a necessary exercise in indulgence and that Todd Rundgren would return to the sweet pop ofSomething/Anything?for its follow-up.
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10
Patti Smith once said Todd Rundgren had "the ability to devour and juggle the best of what has passed and shoot it into future perfect.
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11
I'm not sure I can pinpoint it, but someplace in "Stood Up," the spry, biting fifth track on Todd Rundgren's newLiars, there's a moment where it hits you what an astonishing talent Liv Tyler's step-da
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12
Healingis a subdued, reflective effort unlike anything else in Todd Rundgren's catalog.
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13
It's fascinating to discover how well Rundgren's studio whizz-kid genius translates to the live arena. And while this box avoids his early-to-mid-'70s heyday, it's still full of wondrousness.
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14
Rock and roll's most underappreciated experimentalist, Todd Rundgren, is back with his first collection of all new (well, almost all new -- we'll get to that in a minute) material in half a decade, an
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15
This is a 36-minute video that shows the live recording session held in San Francisco for Todd Rundgren's Second Wind album.
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17
As the early '80s continued to unfold, Todd Rundgren grew increasingly disenchanted with Bearsville, especially since the label wasn't supporting Utopia.
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26
Following a year of Utopia and the completion of The Hermit of Mink Hollow, Todd Rundgren hit the road with a musical retrospective on the advice of Bearsville president Paul Fishkin, who wanted a li
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27
Another Liveis Todd Rundgren's best effort sinceA Wizard, a True Star—four albums and almost three years ago—and simply one of the best recorded and performed live rock sets.
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45
Others had recorded one-man albums before Todd Rundgren, most notably Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney, but with Something/Anything? he captured the homemade ambience of McCartney with the visionary
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46
It would be easy to dismiss this easy-listening recasting of 11 Rundgren classics as just another perverse Todd concept album, a la A Capella or Utopia 's Deface The Music , but to do so would be to
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47
Returning to solo recording almost immediately after forming Utopia, Todd Rundgren continued with the synth-heavy prog-rock he pioneered with Todd Rundgren's Utopia on Initiation.
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