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** ''Todd Rundgren's Johnson'' is an entire album of RobertJohnson covers (and not a dick shot nobody asked for), and ''(re)Production'' consists of covers of songs from albums Rundgren had previously produced.
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Todd Rundgren is a cult favourite musician, singer, [[IAmTheBand multi-instrumentalist]] and RecordProducer from Philadelphia, known for his [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly eclectic, experimental style]], incredibly prolific recording and quirky sense of humour. While he's dabbled in numerous styles and has experimented a lot with his material, he largely operates within a few rock subgenres, namely: PowerPop (coincidentally, the one he made his initial name in), HardRock, ProgressiveRock, PsychedelicRock and {{Soul}}. His MixAndMatchMusicalGenres, dabbling in TrueArtIsIncomprehensible, cult following and emphasis on humour has earned him occasional comparisons to FrankZappa.
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Todd Rundgren is a cult favourite musician, singer, [[IAmTheBand multi-instrumentalist]] and RecordProducer from Philadelphia, known for his [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly eclectic, experimental style]], incredibly prolific recording and quirky sense of humour. While he's dabbled in numerous styles and has experimented a lot with his material, he largely operates within a few rock subgenres, namely: PowerPop (coincidentally, the one he made his initial name in), HardRock, ProgressiveRock, PsychedelicRock and {{Soul}}. His MixAndMatchMusicalGenres, dabbling in TrueArtIsIncomprehensible, cult following and emphasis on humour has earned him occasional comparisons to FrankZappa.
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* ''[[CoverAlbum Todd Rundgren's Johnson]]''
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* Bishōnen: In the Nazz days—also perhaps in the early 70's.
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* Bishōnen: AscendedFanboy: Musically speaking, his early Nazz output is largely a game of {{Following The Lead|er}} of his favourite bands (Music/TheWho, Music/TheBeatles, Music/{{Cream}} and Music/TheYardbirds, mostly).
* {{Bishōnen}}: In the Nazzdays—also days — also perhaps in the early 70's.
* {{Bishōnen}}: In the Nazz
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* CoverVersion: "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" by The Yardbrids, "Good Vibrations" by the BeachBoys, "Rain" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" by Music/TheBeatles, "If 6 Was 9" by JimiHendrix, "Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (and I'll Go Mine)" by BobDylan, "Two Little Hitlers" by ElvisCostello.
** And with Utopia, a cover of "Do Ya" by The Move.
** And with Utopia, a cover of "Do Ya" by The Move.
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* CoverVersion: "Never Never Land" from the ''PeterPan'' musical, "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" by The Yardbrids, "Good Vibrations" by the BeachBoys, "Rain" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" by Music/TheBeatles, "If 6 Was 9" by JimiHendrix, "Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (and I'll Go Mine)" by BobDylan, "The Lord Chancellor's Nightmare Song" by GilbertAndSullivan (yes, we're not shitting you), "Two Little Hitlers" by ElvisCostello.
** And with Utopia, a cover of "Do Ya" by TheMove.Move and "For the Love of Money" by The O'Jays.
** And with Utopia, a cover of "Do Ya" by The
* DrosteImage: The cover of ''Swing to the Right''.
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** Also "Baby Let's Swing" (included as a medley on Runt) is both about and in the style of Laura Nyro, his other major influence from this period.
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* MindScrew: A Wizard, A True Star for sure. And Todd to an extent. It was his psychedelic period!
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* MindScrew: A ''A Wizard, A True Star Star'' for sure. And Todd ''Todd'' to an extent. It was his psychedelic period!
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* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: A Wizard, A True Star is psychedelic without a doubt, but...what exactly ''is'' it?
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* MyGirlIsASlut: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Slut"]].
* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly:A ''A Wizard, A True Star Star'' is psychedelic without a doubt, but...what exactly ''is'' it?
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* PromotedFanboy: Musically speaking, his early Nazz output is largely a game of smashing together his favourite bands (Music/TheWho, Music/TheBeatles, Music/{{Cream}} and Music/TheYardbirds, mostly).
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* PromotedFanboy: Musically speaking, his early Nazz output is largely a game ProtestSong: Todd began moving more into this during TheEighties, with songs like Utopia's cover of smashing together his favourite bands (Music/TheWho, Music/TheBeatles, Music/{{Cream}} "For the Love of Money", "Swing to the Right", "Johnee Jingo", and Music/TheYardbirds, mostly).later on, just about all of ''Liars''.
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* SpokenWordInMusic: He does this often. Does the Intro from Something/Anything count?
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* SelfDeprecation: "An Elpee's Worth of Tunes".
* StraightEdge: Todd used to be straight edge while playing with Nazz and working on his early albums, but he got into marijuana with ''The Ballad of Todd Rundgren'', proceeded to experiment with ever more psychedelic substances, and when he began recording ''Something/Anything?'' he was heavily into Ritalin:
-->"I was a complete teetotaller. I didn't take any kind of drugs or drink or anything. In fact, I had found the behaviour of my peers, while they were high, to be somewhat questionable."
-->"It (Ritalin) caused me to crank out songs at an incredible pace. 'I Saw the Light' took me all of 20 minutes. You can see why, too, the [[PainfulRhyme rhymes are just moon/June/spoon kind of stuff]]..."
-->"With drugs I could suddenly abstract my thought processes in a certain way, and I wanted to see if I could put them on a record. A lot of people recognised it as the dynamics of a psychedelic trip—it was almost like painting with your head."
* SpokenWordInMusic: He does this often.Does the Intro "Intro" from Something/Anything count?''Something/Anything'', for example, wherein Todd jokingly demonstrates some of the engineering flaws that can affect an [=LP=].
* StraightEdge: Todd used to be straight edge while playing with Nazz and working on his early albums, but he got into marijuana with ''The Ballad of Todd Rundgren'', proceeded to experiment with ever more psychedelic substances, and when he began recording ''Something/Anything?'' he was heavily into Ritalin:
-->"I was a complete teetotaller. I didn't take any kind of drugs or drink or anything. In fact, I had found the behaviour of my peers, while they were high, to be somewhat questionable."
-->"It (Ritalin) caused me to crank out songs at an incredible pace. 'I Saw the Light' took me all of 20 minutes. You can see why, too, the [[PainfulRhyme rhymes are just moon/June/spoon kind of stuff]]..."
-->"With drugs I could suddenly abstract my thought processes in a certain way, and I wanted to see if I could put them on a record. A lot of people recognised it as the dynamics of a psychedelic trip—it was almost like painting with your head."
* SpokenWordInMusic: He does this often.
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* EpicRocking: Particularly in his work with Utopia. "The Ikon" is Utopia's most extreme example of this, being slightly over thirty minutes long. His solo piece "A Treatise in Cosmic Fire" (from ''Initiation''), at thirty-five minutes, is even longer. It's worth noting that these pieces were so long they heavily stretched the limitations of the vinyl format, and resulted in the albums being mastered more quietly than normal [=LPs=] (and being easily damaged if played with a worn needle). The sleeve notes of ''Initiation'' recommended that a person record the album to tape to preserve the sound.
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* EpicRocking: Particularly in his work with Utopia. "The Ikon" is Utopia's most extreme example of this, being slightly over thirty minutes long. His solo piece "A Treatise in Cosmic Fire" (from ''Initiation''), at thirty-five minutes, is even longer. It's worth noting that these pieces were so long they heavily stretched the limitations of the vinyl format, and resulted in the albums being mastered more quietly than normal [=LPs=] (and being easily damaged if played with a worn needle). The sleeve notes of ''Initiation'' (which, at sixty-eight minutes in length, is not the longest single LP ever released, but still pretty high on the list) recommended that a person record the album to tape to preserve the sound.
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* EpicRocking: Particularly in his work with Utopia. "The Ikon" is Utopia's most extreme example of this, being slightly over thirty minutes long. His solo piece "A Treatise in Cosmic Fire" (from ''Initiation''), at thirty-five minutes, is even longer. It's worth noting that these pieces were so long they heavily stretched the limitations of the vinyl format, and resulted in the albums being mastered more quietly than normal LPs (and being easily damaged). The sleeve notes of ''Initiation'' recommended that a person record the album to tape to preserve the sound.
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* EpicRocking: Particularly in his work with Utopia. "The Ikon" is Utopia's most extreme example of this, being slightly over thirty minutes long. His solo piece "A Treatise in Cosmic Fire" (from ''Initiation''), at thirty-five minutes, is even longer. It's worth noting that these pieces were so long they heavily stretched the limitations of the vinyl format, and resulted in the albums being mastered more quietly than normal LPs [=LPs=] (and being easily damaged).damaged if played with a worn needle). The sleeve notes of ''Initiation'' recommended that a person record the album to tape to preserve the sound.
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* EpicRocking: Particularly in his work with Utopia. "The Ikon" is Utopia's most extreme example of this, being slightly over thirty minutes long. His solo piece "A Treatise in Cosmic Fire" (from ''Initiation''), at thirty-five minutes, is even longer. It's worth noting that these pieces were so long they heavily stretched the limitations of the vinyl format, and resulted in the albums being mastered more quietly than normal LPs (and being easily damaged). The sleeve notes of ''Initiation'' recommended that a person record the album to tape to preserve the sound.
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* EpicRocking: Particularly in his work with Utopia. "The Ikon" is Utopia's most extreme example of this, being nearly thirty minutes long. His solo piece "A Treatise in Cosmic Fire" (from ''Initiation''), at thirty-five minutes, is even longer.
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* EpicRocking: Particularly in his work with Utopia. "The Ikon" is Utopia's most extreme example of this, being nearly slightly over thirty minutes long. His solo piece "A Treatise in Cosmic Fire" (from ''Initiation''), at thirty-five minutes, is even longer.
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* EpicRocking: Particularly in his work with Utopia. "The Ikon" is the most extreme example of this, being nearly thirty minutes long.
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* FriendsWithBenefits: One common interpretation of "Hello It's Me" is that it's about this.
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* NightmareFuel: The Night the Carousel Burnt Down, from Something/Anything. That ending especially—shivers....
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* SignatureSong: Arguably "Hello It's Me". Also "I Saw the Light", "Can We Still Be Friends?", and "Bang the Drum All Day".
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Rundgren started his career as a guitarist/vocalist in the PsychedelicRock band Nazz [[note]]nothing to do with that [[EdEddAndEddy other Nazz]] - their name comes from "The Nazz Are Blue" by TheYardbirds[[/note]], which he founded in 1967 alongside bassist Carson Van Osten, drummer Thom Mooney and keyboardist/vocalist Robert Antoni. Their first album, ''Nazz'', showcased both his arranging and composing talents and the band's heavily derivative, PromotedFanboy sound - they sounded like a cross between TheBeatles, TheWho, {{Cream}} and TheYardbirds. It spawned a minor hit single, "Hello It's Me", and didn't go much anywhere. A planned double album was shortened to a single LP, ''Nazz Nazz'', and released a year later. ''Nazz Nazz'' showed the band somewhat abandoning its psychedelic trappings and concentrating on catchy, if derivative PowerPop. Rundgren left the band shortly after, as his newfound love of Carole King, Laura Nyro and soul music didn't jibe well with their PowerPop sound. The band disintegrated shortly thereafter, and an album of the material left over from previous sessions was released, imaginatively titled ''Nazz III''.
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Rundgren started his career as a guitarist/vocalist in the PsychedelicRock band Nazz [[note]]nothing to do with that [[EdEddAndEddy other Nazz]] - their name comes from "The Nazz Are Blue" by TheYardbirds[[/note]], which he founded in 1967 alongside bassist Carson Van Osten, drummer Thom Mooney and keyboardist/vocalist Robert Antoni. Their first album, ''Nazz'', showcased both his arranging and composing talents and the band's heavily derivative, PromotedFanboy sound - they sounded like a cross between TheBeatles, Music/TheBeatles, TheWho, {{Cream}} and TheYardbirds. It spawned a minor hit single, "Hello It's Me", and didn't go much anywhere. A planned double album was shortened to a single LP, ''Nazz Nazz'', and released a year later. ''Nazz Nazz'' showed the band somewhat abandoning its psychedelic trappings and concentrating on catchy, if derivative PowerPop. Rundgren left the band shortly after, as his newfound love of Carole King, Laura Nyro and soul music didn't jibe well with their PowerPop sound. The band disintegrated shortly thereafter, and an album of the material left over from previous sessions was released, imaginatively titled ''Nazz III''.
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* AffectionateParody: The Utopia album ''Deface the Music'' is largely a parody of TheBeatles, from their early Merseybeat incarnation up to their trippy PsychedelicRock stuff.
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* AffectionateParody: The Utopia album ''Deface the Music'' is largely a parody of TheBeatles, Music/TheBeatles, from their early Merseybeat incarnation up to their trippy PsychedelicRock stuff.
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* CoverVersion: "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" by The Yardbrids, "Good Vibrations" by the BeachBoys, "Rain" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" by TheBeatles, "If 6 Was 9" by JimiHendrix, "Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (and I'll Go Mine)" by BobDylan, "Two Little Hitlers" by ElvisCostello.
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* CoverVersion: "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" by The Yardbrids, "Good Vibrations" by the BeachBoys, "Rain" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" by TheBeatles, Music/TheBeatles, "If 6 Was 9" by JimiHendrix, "Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (and I'll Go Mine)" by BobDylan, "Two Little Hitlers" by ElvisCostello.
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* Bishonen: In the Nazz days—also perhaps in the early 70's.
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* Bishonen: Bishōnen: In the Nazz days—also perhaps in the early 70's.
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** Also "Baby Let's Swing" (included as a medley on Runt) is both about and in the style of Laura Nylo, his other major influence from this period.
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* CampGay: "You Don't Have to Camp Around", supposedly.
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* MindScrew: A Wizard, A True Star for sure. And Todd to an extent. It was his psychedelic period!
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* SelfBackingVocalist: Todd layers his own voice, especially in his early work, a lot for his solo.
* SpokenWordInMusic: He does this often. Does the Intro from Something/Anything count?
* SignatureSong: Arguably "Hello It's Me". Also "I Saw the Light", "Can We Still Be Friends?", and "Bang the Drum All Day".
* SpokenWordInMusic: He does this often. Does the Intro from Something/Anything count?
* SignatureSong: Arguably "Hello It's Me". Also "I Saw the Light", "Can We Still Be Friends?", and "Bang the Drum All Day".
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* NightmareFuel: The Night the Carousel Burnt Down, from Something/Anything. That ending especially—shivers....
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** Torch Song, from the same album.
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: the album ''A Cappella'', named for an Italian phrase meaning "without instruments," involves no instruments whatever, just Rundgren as a SelfBackingVocalist via lots of overdubbing.
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Alongside his solo career and work with bands, Rundgren is also known as a RecordProducer, having produced albums for such acts as New York Dolls, Badfinger, TheBand, GrandFunkRailroad, MeatLoaf, Bonnie Tyler, PattiSmith, The Tubes, {{XTC}}, BadReligion, CheapTrick, The Psychedelic Furs, and so on. Some of the bands have claimed that working with him was difficult and he acted like a JerkAss, most famously XTC and Bad Religion. However, for many bands their most successful albums have been produced by him, as is the case with XTC (''Skylarking''), Grand Funk Railroad (''We're an American Band'') and Meat Loaf (''Bat out of Hell'').
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Alongside his solo career and work with bands, Rundgren is also known as a RecordProducer, having produced albums for such acts as Music/{{Sparks}}, New York Dolls, Badfinger, TheBand, GrandFunkRailroad, MeatLoaf, Bonnie Tyler, PattiSmith, The Tubes, {{XTC}}, BadReligion, CheapTrick, The Psychedelic Furs, Hall and Oates, and so on. Some of the bands have claimed that working with him was difficult and he acted like a JerkAss, most famously XTC and Bad Religion. However, for many bands their most successful albums have been produced by him, as is the case with XTC (''Skylarking''), Grand Funk Railroad (''We're an American Band'') and Meat Loaf (''Bat out of Hell'').
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Rundgren started his career as a guitarist/vocalist in the PsychedelicRock band Nazz [[hottip:*:nothing to do with that [[EdEddAndEddy other Nazz]], their name comes from a {{Yardbirds}} song]], which he founded in 1967 alongside bassist Carson Van Osten, drummer Thom Mooney and keyboardist/vocalist Robert Antoni. Their first album, ''Nazz'', showcased both his arranging and composing talents and the band's heavily derivative, PromotedFanboy sound - they sounded like a cross between TheBeatles, TheWho, {{Cream}} and TheYardbirds. It spawned a minor hit single, "Hello It's Me", and didn't go much anywhere. A planned double album was shortened to a single LP, ''Nazz Nazz'', and released a year later. ''Nazz Nazz'' showed the band somewhat abandoning its psychedelic trappings and concentrating on catchy, if derivative PowerPop. Rundgren left the band shortly after, as his newfound love of Carole King, Laura Nyro and soul music didn't jibe well with their PowerPop sound. The band disintegrated shortly thereafter, and an album of the material left over from previous sessions was released, imaginatively titled ''Nazz III''.
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Rundgren started his career as a guitarist/vocalist in the PsychedelicRock band Nazz [[hottip:*:nothing [[note]]nothing to do with that [[EdEddAndEddy other Nazz]], Nazz]] - their name comes from a {{Yardbirds}} song]], "The Nazz Are Blue" by TheYardbirds[[/note]], which he founded in 1967 alongside bassist Carson Van Osten, drummer Thom Mooney and keyboardist/vocalist Robert Antoni. Their first album, ''Nazz'', showcased both his arranging and composing talents and the band's heavily derivative, PromotedFanboy sound - they sounded like a cross between TheBeatles, TheWho, {{Cream}} and TheYardbirds. It spawned a minor hit single, "Hello It's Me", and didn't go much anywhere. A planned double album was shortened to a single LP, ''Nazz Nazz'', and released a year later. ''Nazz Nazz'' showed the band somewhat abandoning its psychedelic trappings and concentrating on catchy, if derivative PowerPop. Rundgren left the band shortly after, as his newfound love of Carole King, Laura Nyro and soul music didn't jibe well with their PowerPop sound. The band disintegrated shortly thereafter, and an album of the material left over from previous sessions was released, imaginatively titled ''Nazz III''.
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Rundgren started his career as a guitarist/vocalist in the PsychedelicRock band Nazz [[hottip:*:nothing to do with that [[EdEddAndEddy other Nazz]], their name comes from a Yardbirds song]], which he founded in 1967 alongside bassist Carson Van Osten, drummer Thom Mooney and keyboardist/vocalist Robert Antoni. Their first album, ''Nazz'', showcased both his arranging and composing talents and the band's heavily derivative, PromotedFanboy sound - they sounded like a cross between TheBeatles, TheWho, {{Cream}} and TheYardbirds. It spawned a minor hit single, "Hello It's Me", and didn't go much anywhere. A planned double album was shortened to a single LP, ''Nazz Nazz'', and released a year later. ''Nazz Nazz'' showed the band somewhat abandoning its psychedelic trappings and concentrating on catchy, if derivative PowerPop. Rundgren left the band shortly after, as his newfound love of Carole King, Laura Nyro and soul music didn't jibe well with their PowerPop sound. The band disintegrated shortly thereafter, and an album of the material left over from previous sessions was released, imaginatively titled ''Nazz III''.
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Rundgren started his career as a guitarist/vocalist in the PsychedelicRock band Nazz [[hottip:*:nothing to do with that [[EdEddAndEddy other Nazz]], their name comes from a Yardbirds {{Yardbirds}} song]], which he founded in 1967 alongside bassist Carson Van Osten, drummer Thom Mooney and keyboardist/vocalist Robert Antoni. Their first album, ''Nazz'', showcased both his arranging and composing talents and the band's heavily derivative, PromotedFanboy sound - they sounded like a cross between TheBeatles, TheWho, {{Cream}} and TheYardbirds. It spawned a minor hit single, "Hello It's Me", and didn't go much anywhere. A planned double album was shortened to a single LP, ''Nazz Nazz'', and released a year later. ''Nazz Nazz'' showed the band somewhat abandoning its psychedelic trappings and concentrating on catchy, if derivative PowerPop. Rundgren left the band shortly after, as his newfound love of Carole King, Laura Nyro and soul music didn't jibe well with their PowerPop sound. The band disintegrated shortly thereafter, and an album of the material left over from previous sessions was released, imaginatively titled ''Nazz III''.
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* InTheStyleOf: "I Saw The Light" is a Music/CaroleKing pastiche.
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He also has a flair for cutting-edge computer technology as well. He designed one of the earliest digital paint programs, Utopia Graphics System for the Apple II. He was a fan of the Amiga [=VideoToaster=][[hottip:*:the same hardware responsible for most of the CGI in ''BabylonFive'']], with which he made music videos for his own songs. He had an online distribution system for his music, [=PatroNet=], in the early 90s, long before Napster or iTunes.
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* EarWorm
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* EpicRiff
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* ArchivePanic: See all that above?
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* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}: Did the cover art for the 1978 LiveAlbum ''Back to the Bars''.
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* PromotedFanboy: Musically speaking, his early Nazz output is largely a game of smashing together his favourite bands (TheWho, TheBeatles, {{Cream}} and The Yardbirds, mostly).
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* PromotedFanboy: Musically speaking, his early Nazz output is largely a game of smashing together his favourite bands (TheWho, TheBeatles, {{Cream}} (Music/TheWho, Music/TheBeatles, Music/{{Cream}} and The Yardbirds, Music/TheYardbirds, mostly).
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Rundgren officially began his solo career in 1970, and has been going steady ever since then with his musical mashups and quirky lyrics. While PowerPop and HardRock have remained the basic genres he operates in, at various points he's experimented with PsychedelicRock, ProgressiveRock (between 1973-1976 and with his band Utopia), jazz fusion, NewWave, {{Soul}}, {{Techno}}, ElectronicMusic and others. Predictably, he has a very sizeable {{Fandom}} but only a few, fleeting moments of mainstream success, such as the singles "Hello It's Me" (a 1972 upbeat reworking of the Nazz song with Rundgren on all instruments), "I Saw the Light", "Can We Still Be Friends" and "Bang the Drum All Day". His massive output, both solo and with his two bands Nazz and Utopia, can be a frequent source of both ArchivePanic and SeasonalRot.
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Rundgren officially began his solo career in 1970, and has been going steady ever since then with his musical mashups and quirky lyrics. While PowerPop and HardRock have remained the basic genres he operates in, at various points he's experimented with PsychedelicRock, ProgressiveRock (between 1973-1976 and with his band Utopia), jazz fusion, NewWave, Music/NewWave, {{Soul}}, {{Techno}}, ElectronicMusic and others. Predictably, he has a very sizeable {{Fandom}} but only a few, fleeting moments of mainstream success, such as the singles "Hello It's Me" (a 1972 upbeat reworking of the Nazz song with Rundgren on all instruments), "I Saw the Light", "Can We Still Be Friends" and "Bang the Drum All Day". His massive output, both solo and with his two bands Nazz and Utopia, can be a frequent source of both ArchivePanic and SeasonalRot.
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Rundgren returned to the band format through the foundation of Utopia in 1973. In its initial incarnation, Utopia was a six-piece ensemble with Rundgren, Kevin Ellman (percussion), Mark "Moogy" Klingman (keyboards), M. Frog Labat (Jean Yves Labat, synthesizers), Ralph Schukett (keyboards), and John Siegler (bass and cello). Their output was largely formed of [[EpicRocking long]], jammy ProgressiveRock instrumentals that brought a mixed reception. By 1976, Rundgren revamped Utopia and reduced it to a four-piece band consisting of him, Kasim Sulton (bass, vocals), Roger Powell (keyboards, vocals) and Willie Wilcox (drums, vocals). They also switched to a catchy, mainstream pop/HardRock sound, bringing them critical and commercial success. They carried on for a while, leaning increasingly towards Pop and NewWave, before calling it a day in 1986.
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Rundgren returned to the band format through the foundation of Utopia in 1973. In its initial incarnation, Utopia was a six-piece ensemble with Rundgren, Kevin Ellman (percussion), Mark "Moogy" Klingman (keyboards), M. Frog Labat (Jean Yves Labat, synthesizers), Ralph Schukett (keyboards), and John Siegler (bass and cello). Their output was largely formed of [[EpicRocking long]], jammy ProgressiveRock instrumentals that brought a mixed reception. By 1976, Rundgren revamped Utopia and reduced it to a four-piece band consisting of him, Kasim Sulton (bass, vocals), Roger Powell (keyboards, vocals) and Willie Wilcox (drums, vocals). They also switched to a catchy, mainstream pop/HardRock sound, bringing them critical and commercial success. They carried on for a while, leaning increasingly towards Pop and NewWave, Music/NewWave, before calling it a day in 1986.
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Alongside his solo career and work with bands, Rundgren is also known as a RecordProducer, having produced albums for: New York Dolls, Badfinger, Grand Funk Railroad, MeatLoaf, Bonnie Tyler, Patti Smith, The Tubes, {{XTC}}, BadReligion, CheapTrick, The Psychedelic Furs, The Band, and so on. Some of the bands have claimed that working with him was difficult and he acted like a JerkAss, most famously XTC and Bad Religion. However, for many bands their most successful albums have been produced by him, as is the case with XTC (''Skylarking''), Grand Funk Railroad (''We're an American Band'') and Meat Loaf (''Bat out of Hell'').
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Alongside his solo career and work with bands, Rundgren is also known as a RecordProducer, having produced albums for: for such acts as New York Dolls, Badfinger, Grand Funk Railroad, TheBand, GrandFunkRailroad, MeatLoaf, Bonnie Tyler, Patti Smith, PattiSmith, The Tubes, {{XTC}}, BadReligion, CheapTrick, The Psychedelic Furs, The Band, and so on. Some of the bands have claimed that working with him was difficult and he acted like a JerkAss, most famously XTC and Bad Religion. However, for many bands their most successful albums have been produced by him, as is the case with XTC (''Skylarking''), Grand Funk Railroad (''We're an American Band'') and Meat Loaf (''Bat out of Hell'').
