Faithful (Todd Rundgren album)

Faithful
Studio album by Todd Rundgren
Released April 1976
Genre

Pop rock

Psychedelic rock
Length 50:04
Label Bearsville
Rhino
Producer Todd Rundgren
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 .

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Rolling Stone (Not rated) [2]
This table needs to be expanded using prose. See the guideline for more information.

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" (Jeff Beck, Jim McCarty, Jimmy Page, Keith Relf) - 3:12
  2. "Good Vibrations" (Mike Love, Brian Wilson) - 3:44
  3. "Rain" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 3:16
  4. "Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)" (Bob Dylan) - 3:24
  5. "If 6 Was 9" (Jimi Hendrix) - 4:55
  6. "Strawberry Fields Forever" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 3:53

Side two

All songs written by Todd Rundgren

  1. "Black and White" - 4:42
  2. "Love of the Common Man" - 3:35
  3. "When I Pray" - 2:58
  4. "Cliché" - 4:00
  5. "The Verb "To Love"" - 7:25
  6. "Boogies (Hamburger Hell)" - 5:00

Personnel

Charts

Album - Billboard

Year Chart Position
1976 Pop Albums 54

Singles - Billboard

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

References

  1. ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r17095
  2. ^ http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/119183/toddrundgren?pageid=rs.ArtistDiscography&pageregion=triple1
Todd Rundgren
Studio albums
EPs
Todd Rundgren's Short Johnson
Live albums
Back to the Bars · Live in N.Y.C. '78 · Live in Chicago '91 · A Cappella Tour · Another Side of Roxy
Singles
"We Gotta Get You a Woman" · "Be Nice to Me" · "A Long Time, A Long Way to Go" · "I Saw the Light" · "Couldn't I Just Tell You" · "Sometimes I Don't Know What to Feel" · "Hello It's Me" · "A Dream Goes On Forever" · "Wolfman Jack" (featuring Wolfman Jack) · "Real Man" · "Good Vibrations" · "Love of the Common Man" · "Can We Still Be Friends" · "You Cried Wolf" · "All the Children Sing" · "It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference" (Live) · "Time Heals" · "Compassion" · "Bang the Drum All Day" · "Hideaway" · "Something to Fall Back On" · "Parallel Lines" · "I Love My Life" · "The Want of a Nail" · "Can't Stop Running" · "Change Myself"
Compilations
Anthology (1968-1985) · The Best of Todd Rundgren · Singles · The Very Best of Todd Rundgren · Free Soul Runt · Go Ahead Ignore Me · The Essentials · Bootleg Series · Can't Stop Running · The Definitive Rock Collection · For Lack of Honest Work
Related articles
Utopia · Bat Out of Hell · An Elpee's Worth of Productions