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The 10 Best Todd Rundgren Albums To Own On Vinyl
In Spring , a year-old Todd Rundgren wrote his first two original songs, “Hello It’s Me” and “Open My Eyes,” for his band Nazz. If he had stopped there, he would’ve already had enough material to alter the fabric of 20th Century popular music. “Hello It’s Me” has since been covered by the Isley Brothers, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu, and John Legend, the latter of whom called it his favorite song of all time; “Open My Eyes” was far less of a commercial success, but included on the hugely influential compilation, Nuggets, it became part of punk rock’s foundational bedrock.
Fortunately for everyone with a pair of ears and a hi-fi system, Rundgren was just getting started. Nazz only lasted for a couple of albums, but he then launched a prolific solo career and later formed the prog rock band Utopia. But wait, there’s more. Unhappy with the production work on Nazz’s early material, Rundgren taught himself the ins and outs of recording a
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Philadelphia-born Todd Rundgren is outrageously talented. He&#;s a skilled musician on multiple instruments, a strong vocalist with a hint of blue-eyed soul, a gifted studio technician who&#;s produced landmark albums from The New York Dolls, Patti Smith, The Psychedelic Furs, Meat Loaf, and XTC, and a capable composer and arranger.
Rundgren started his recorded career in the late s with the Nazz, making three albums including the outtakes record Nazz III. Frustrated by the Nazz&#;s lack of control, Rundgren educated himself in studio techniques and considered a career as a producer; a significant early credit was as an engineer on The Band&#;s Stage Fright.
Rundgren launched a Laura Nyro-influenced solo career with Runt (). His work quickly became more ambitious &#; &#;s double album Something/Anything featured three sides entirely played by Rundgren, while &#;s A Wizard, a True Star was a psychedelic masterpiece. From the mids, Rundgren arguably spread himsel
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Hermit of Mink Hollow
studio album by Todd Rundgren
Hermit of Mink Hollow is the eighth skiva by American musician Todd Rundgren, released May on Bearsville Records. All of the instruments and vocals were performed by Rundgren. He intended the songs on the album to be performed on piano with minimal arrangements, apart from the bass, drums and voices, and for the ämne to showcase his newly refined singing ability.
Per the title, Rundgren recorded this skiva at his house on Mink Hollow Road in Lake Hill, New York. At the time, he had felt that he had been a "studio hermit" working in an "insular little hour-a-day think tank" and subsequently realized that "too much social interaction [had] affected [his] overall creativity."[3] Although the album's "confessional" songs are often attributed to his recent separation from the model Bebe Buell, Rundgren denied that the songs were necessarily autobiographical.
The album was well-received bygd critics and fans,