Faithful (album)

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Faithful
Faithful cover
Studio album by Todd Rundgren
Released April 1976
Genre Pop rock
Length 50:04
Label Bearsville
Rhino
Producer Todd Rundgren
Professional reviews
Todd Rundgren chronology
Initiation
(1975)		 Faithful
(1976)		 Hermit of Mink Hollow
(1978)

Faithful is Todd Rundgren's seventh album, released in 1976. The first side of the LP is dedicated to "faithful" re-recordings, meaning treatments approaching near-replications of the originals, of some classic 1960s psychedelic-era songs, while side two comprises original material.

Rundgren explained the motivation of the first side as treating rock music like European classical music, where a piece is performed over and over again in essentially the same way. Critics generally hailed the latter half of the album as a comeback for Rundgren as a pop songwriter[citation needed].

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side one

  1. "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" (Beck/McCarty/Page/Relf)
  2. "Good Vibrations" (Love/Wilson)
  3. "Rain" (Lennon/McCartney)
  4. "Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)" (Dylan)
  5. "If 6 Was 9" (Hendrix)
  6. "Strawberry Fields Forever" (Lennon/McCartney)

[edit] Side two

  1. "Black and White" (Rundgren)
  2. "Love of the Common Man" (Rundgren)
  3. "When I Pray" (Rundgren)
  4. "Cliché" (Rundgren)
  5. "The Verb "To Love"" (Rundgren)
  6. "Boogies (Hamburger Hell)" (Rundgren)

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Charts

Album - Billboard

Year Chart Position
1976 Pop Albums 54

Singles - Billboard

Year Single Chart Position
1976 "Good Vibrations" Pop Singles 34