Todd (album)

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Todd
Todd cover
Studio album by Todd Rundgren
Released December, 1973
Genre Pop rock
Progressive rock
Rock
Length 66:28
Label Bearsville, Rhino
Producer Todd Rundgren
Professional reviews
Todd Rundgren chronology
A Wizard, a True Star
(1973)		 Todd
(1974)		 Initiation
(1975)

Todd is a double album by Todd Rundgren, released in 1974. It was an expansion of his experimentation on A Wizard, a True Star. It showed his growing interest in the synthesizer, and its ability to expand the textures of rock music. Much of the album is intensely experimental. However, it is not without its share of pop songs. Todd also tinkers with the synth-heavy progressive sound he would take further with his later band Utopia. First issues of this LP included a lyrics poster that had 10,000 names sent in from the postcard included in A Wizard, a True Star

"Lord Chancellor's Nightmare" is a cover of a Gilbert & Sullivan song from their 1882 opera "Iolanthe".

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Todd Rundgren except where noted.

[edit] Side one

  1. "How About a Little Fanfare?" (1:03)
  2. "I Think You Know" (3:04)
  3. "The Spark of Life" (6:23)
  4. "An Elpee's Worth of Toons" (2:09)
  5. "A Dream Goes On Forever" (2:21)
  6. "Lord Chancellor's Nightmare Song" (Gilbert/Sullivan) (3:32)

[edit] Side two

  1. "Drunken Blue Rooster" (3:00)
  2. "The Last Ride" (4:48)
  3. "Everybody's Going to Heaven/King Kong Reggae" (6:38)

[edit] Side three

  1. "No 1. Lowest Common Denominator" (5:12)
  2. "Useless Begging" (3:40)
  3. "Sidewalk Cafe" (2:15)
  4. "Izzat Love?" (1:55)
  5. "Heavy Metal Kids" (4:16)

[edit] Side four

  1. "In and Out the Chakras We Go (Formerly - Shaft Goes to Outer Space)" (5:47)
  2. "Don't You Ever Learn?" (6:04)
  3. "Sons of 1984" (4:34)

[edit] Charts

Album - Billboard

Year Chart Position
1974 Pop Albums 54

Singles - Billboard

Year Single Chart Position
1974 "A Dream Goes on Forever" Pop Singles 69
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