Todd finally in the R&R HallofFame

[vurt]

some would say "who the hell are you talking about?"

Todd Rundgren.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Rundgren

thanks

never heard of him, or any associated bands.... bizzare

not even his production?
xtc? meatloaf? grand funk railroad? bad finger? surely at least 2 of those names are familiar

[PatchAdamz]

some would say "who the hell are you talking about?"

Todd Rundgren.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Rundgren

thanks

never heard of him, or any associated bands.... bizzare

not even his production?
xtc? meatloaf? grand funk railroad? bad finger? surely at least 2 of those names are familiar

Or any one of his many great tunes:

Hello It's Me - # 5 billboard


Can We Still Be Friends - #29 billboard

I Saw The Light - #16 billboard

Good Vibrations - #34 billboard

A Dream Goes On Forever - #69 billboard

Bang The Drum All Day - #63 billboard

Real Man - #83 billboard

Couldn't I Just Tell You - #93 billboard

And many more....

ALSO:

Solo albums

Runt (1970)
Runt. The Ballad of Todd Rundgren (1971)
Something/Anything? (1972)
A Wizard, a True Star (1973)
Todd (1974)
Initiation (1975)
Faithful (1976)
Hermit of Mink Hollow (1978)
Healing (1981)
The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect (1982)
A Cappella (1985)
Nearly Human (1989)
2nd Wind (1991)
No World Order (1993) (TR-I)
The Individualist (1995) (TR-I)
With a Twist... (1997) (remakes album)
One Long Year (2000)
Liars (2004)
Arena (2008)
Todd Rundgren's Johnson (2011)
(re)Production (2011) (covers album)
State (2013)
Global (2015)
White Knight (2017)
Space Force (2021)



Nazz

Nazz (1968)
Nazz Nazz (1969)
Nazz III (1971)

Utopia

Todd Rundgren's Utopia (1974)
Ra (1977)
Oops! Wrong Planet (1977)
Adventures in Utopia (1979)
Deface the Music (1980)
Swing to the Right (1982)
Utopia (1982)
Oblivion (1984)
POV (1985)

Other albums

Up Against It! (1997)
(1980s demos for the musical of the same name)
Disco Jets (2001)
(Utopia album recorded 1976)
It's Alive! (2006)
(The New Cars)
Runddans (2015) (with Lindstrom and Emil Nikolaisen)



Selected productions

Straight Up (1971) – Badfinger
Halfnelson (1971) – Halfnelson/Sparks
New York Dolls (1973) – New York Dolls
We're an American Band (1973) – Grand Funk Railroad
Shinin' On (1974) – Grand Funk Railroad
War Babies (1974) – Hall & Oates
Bat Out of Hell (1977) – Meat Loaf
Remote Control (1979) – The Tubes
Forever Now (1982) – The Psychedelic Furs
Next Position Please (1983) – Cheap Trick
Love Bomb (1985) – The Tubes
Skylarking (1986) – XTC
The New America (2000) – Bad Religion
Separation Anxieties (2000) – 12 Rods
Cause I Sez So (2009) – New York Dolls

[vurt]

some would say "who the hell are you talking about?"

Todd Rundgren.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Rundgren

thanks

never heard of him, or any associated bands.... bizzare

not even his production?
xtc? meatloaf? grand funk railroad? bad finger? surely at least 2 of those names are familiar

Or any one of his many great tunes:

Hello It's Me - # 5 billboard


Can We Still Be Friends - #29 billboard

I Saw The Light - #16 billboard

Good Vibrations - #34 billboard

A Dream Goes On Forever - #69 billboard

Bang The Drum All Day - #63 billboard

Real Man - #83 billboard

Couldn't I Just Tell You - #93 billboard

And many more....

billboard isn't a thing here.
here, he never bothered the charts ever, as far as im aware?

[PatchAdamz]

1984: Grammy Award nomination for Best Music Video - “Videosyncracy”[1]
1995: Berkeley Lifetime Achievement Award from the Popular Culture Society at UC Berkeley.[5]
2017: Honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music, where he delivered the commencement address, and an honorary doctorate from DePauw University.[135][136]
2018: Nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's class of 2019.[109] Since becoming eligible in 1995,[109] he has often been asked about his absence from the Hall of Fame.[103] A 2018 poll conducted by the institution, which is not factored in the final vote, placed Rundgren as the third-most deserving nominee on the ballot.[137][nb 8] In 2016, Rundgren told an interviewer: "It doesn't have the same cachet as a Nobel Peace Prize or some historical foundation. If I told you about how they actually determine who gets into the Hall of Fame, you'd think that I was bullshitting you, because I've been told what's involved. ... It's just as corrupt as anything else, and that's why I don't care."[110]

[PatchAdamz]

billboard isn't a thing here.
here, he never bothered the charts ever, as far as im aware?

Todd Rundgren UK Charts:

I SAW THE LIGHT 30.06.1973
BANG THE DRUM ALL DAY 23.07.1983
LOVING YOU'S A DIRTY JOB 23.11.1985

Also:
THE OFFICIAL U.K Billboard Charts
https://www.billboard.com/charts/official-uk-songs

[Frantz]

Writing one of the best ELO tunes

You got that backwards.

"Do Ya" was written by Jeff Lynne when he in The Move, pre-ELO. He then rerecorded it in ELO.

Utopia, Todd's band, covered "Do Ya."

[thecontrolcentre]

Nice one Todd. Well deserved.

I saw him live at Knebworth Fair with Utopia and caught his one man show in the 80s. A true star

[zerocrossing]

some would say "who the hell are you talking about?"

Todd Rundgren.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Rundgren

thanks

never heard of him, or any associated bands.... bizzare

not even his production?
xtc? meatloaf? grand funk railroad? bad finger? surely at least 2 of those names are familiar

Or any one of his many great tunes:

Hello It's Me - # 5 billboard


Can We Still Be Friends - #29 billboard

I Saw The Light - #16 billboard

Good Vibrations - #34 billboard

A Dream Goes On Forever - #69 billboard

Bang The Drum All Day - #63 billboard

Real Man - #83 billboard

Couldn't I Just Tell You - #93 billboard

And many more....

billboard isn't a thing here.
here, he never bothered the charts ever, as far as im aware?

He produced XTC’s Skylarking. Surely you know that album... no? Dear God? I believe he did all the scoring and drum machine programming on that. I think I once read that he didn’t read music, so he played all the parts into a Prophet 5 r3 and recorded the MIDI and used a music notation program to create the score for the musicians to play.

[vurt]

Todd Rundgren.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Rundgren

thanks

never heard of him, or any associated bands.... bizzare

not even his production?
xtc? meatloaf? grand funk railroad? bad finger? surely at least 2 of those names are familiar

Or any one of his many great tunes:

Hello It's Me - # 5 billboard


Can We Still Be Friends - #29 billboard

I Saw The Light - #16 billboard

Good Vibrations - #34 billboard

A Dream Goes On Forever - #69 billboard

Bang The Drum All Day - #63 billboard

Real Man - #83 billboard

Couldn't I Just Tell You - #93 billboard

And many more....

billboard isn't a thing here.
here, he never bothered the charts ever, as far as im aware?

He produced XTC’s Skylarking. Surely you know that album... no? Dear God? I believe he did all the scoring and drum machine programming on that. I think I once read that he didn’t read music, so he played all the parts into a Prophet 5 r3 and recorded the MIDI and used a music notation program to create the score for the musicians to play.

yes, i know who he is
i was asking dave the same thing.

[vurt]

billboard isn't a thing here.
here, he never bothered the charts ever, as far as im aware?

Todd Rundgren UK Charts:

I SAW THE LIGHT 30.06.1973
BANG THE DRUM ALL DAY 23.07.1983
LOVING YOU'S A DIRTY JOB 23.11.1985

Also:
THE OFFICIAL U.K Billboard Charts
https://www.billboard.com/charts/official-uk-songs

ah you live and learn.
don't remember the last two and wouldn't remember the first, having not been born.

ive honestly never heard it called 'billboard' though. hence my confusion

[whyterabbyt]

Fun fact: He’s Liv Tyler’s real father.

Nope.

[zerocrossing]

Todd’s one of the people that I have a hard time recommending. His catalogue is really uneven. Even on his best albums there are super cringeworthy tunes. I tried to listen to Oops, Wrong Planet recently, and I found a lot of it had me reaching for the skip button. OTOH, almost every album has something that’s genius on it. I’m not sure if I would have gotten into him if I hadn’t dated a girl who was a super fan and I got dragged to every local show for a long time.

[Frantz]

I like Todd's music but I really love how innovative he is:

* He took his Meatloaf royalties and heavily invested in music video pre-MTV. He had the 8th video ever played on MTV. He made a lot of videos himself on Amiga computers.

* He predicted music streaming early on. He failed to convince record companies to put music on servers. Then Napster came along.

* When CD-Is came out he got heavily into interactivity. He rebranded himself TR-I and made a CD-I and live shows focused on interactivity.

* He coded his own Patronet website in Flash before Patreon. The concept was similar to Patreon.

* The last time I saw him live, he was performing with a 20 year-old VJ and dancer/singers. It was weird but definitely not an oldies act.

[zerocrossing]

Fun fact: He’s Liv Tyler’s real father.

Nope.

Huh. The story that I heard was that he was thought to be her adoptive father, but was actually her biological father, not Tyler. I guess that’s wrong, but just looking at her, I’d bet $10 that a DNA test would prove me right. Just look at her, then look at young Todd photos. The resemblance is much stronger than with Tyler.

[whyterabbyt]

Fun fact: He’s Liv Tyler’s real father.

Nope.

Huh. The story that I heard was that he was thought to be her adoptive father, but was actually her biological father, not Tyler. I guess that’s wrong, but just looking at her, I’d bet $10 that a DNA test would prove me right. Just look at her, then look at young Todd photos. The resemblance is much stronger than with Tyler.

Rundgren was thought to be her father, and she grew up as Liv Rundgren. But it turned out Tyler was actually her biological father, something she challenged her mother on because of her resemblance to his daughter Mia Tyler. She subsequently changed her surname to Tyler.

All this is well known, and you'd lose your $10.

Or are you saying she's getting it wrong?

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... g-families