Healing (Todd Rundgren)

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Healing
Studio album by Todd Rundgren
Released	February, 1981
Genre	New Age music Pop rock Power pop
Length	53:37
Label	Bearsville Rhino
Producer(s)	Todd Rundgren
Professional reviews
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Todd Rundgren chronology
Hermit of Mink Hollow (1978)	Healing (1981)	The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect (1983)

Healing is Todd Rundgren's ninth studio album, released in 1981. It showcased a much gentler, much less experimental side of Rundgren that was rarely shown. The album had a spiritual side to it as well, that Rundgren had hinted at, but explored fully here. While the album lacks many true standout songs, the album flows as a whole, making it one of his finest serious albums, and the beginning of an underrated run of work released throughout the 1980s.

The song "Time Heals" was the second video shown on MTV.^[1]

In 1989, members of a Connecticut-based fan network called The Nexus, publishers of Utopia Times, voted Healing their favorite Rundgren album, although it was relegated to second place the following year in favor of his then-newest album, Nearly Human.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Side one 1.2 Side two 1.3 7-inch disc 2 Personnel 3 Charts 4 Footnotes

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Todd Rundgren.

[edit] Side one

1. "Healer"
2. "Pulse"
3. "Flesh"
4. "Golden Goose"
5. "Compassion"
6. "Shine"

[edit] Side two

1. Healing, Part I
2. Healing, Part II
3. Healing, Part III

[edit] 7-inch disc

In its original vinyl configuration, Healing included an additional 7-inch record with two songs:

1. Time Heals
2. Tiny Demons

These form the last two tracks on the compact disc version.

[edit] Personnel

• Todd Rundgren - Arranger, Engineer, Instruments, Producer, Vocals

[edit] Charts

Album - Billboard

Year	Chart	Position
1981	Pop Albums	48

Singles - Billboard

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1981	"Compassion"	Mainstream Rock	48
1981	"Time Heals"	Mainstream Rock	18

[edit] Footnotes

1. ^ Kopp, Bill. Todd Rundgren (HTML). Trouser Press. Retrieved on August 15, 2006.