Todd Rundgren, Producer To The Stars

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
XTC - Skylarking (1986)	8
New York Dolls - s/t (1973)	8
Psychedelic Furs - Forever Now (1982)	4
Hall & Oates - War Babies (1974)	4
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell (1977)	3
Badfinger - Straight Up (1970)	2
Bad Religion - The New America (2000)	1
Halfnelson (Sparks) - s/t (1971)	1
Patti Smith - Wave (1979)	1
The Pursuit Of Happiness - Love Junk (1988)	1
Hiroshi Takano - Awakening (1991)	0
Hiroshi Takano - Cue (1990)	0
The Pursuit Of Happiness - One-Sided Story (1990)	0
Great Speckled Bird (Ian & Sylvia) - s/t (1970)	0
Bourgeois Tagg - Yoyo (1987)	0
Cheap Trick - Next Position Please (1983)	0
Tom Robinson Band - TRB Two (1979)	0
The Tubes - Remote Control (1979)	0
Grand Funk Railroad - Shinin' On (1974)	0
Grand Funk Railroad - We're An American Band (1973)	0
12 Rods - Separation Anxieties (2000)	0

― henry s, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

Sort of tails off after Skylarking dunnit.

― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

Remote Control ripe for re-assessment...

― henry s, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

skylarking will win

― Zeno, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

Noo Yahk Dahls!!!!!

Gawd, TPOH were zzzzzzzzzz.

Who the hell are 12 Rods? Like a porn star "Superbowl Shuffle?"

― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

NYDolls for me too

― Zeno, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

afaik the Rods felt totally screwed working with Rundgren

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

Who the hell are 12 Rods? Like a porn star "Superbowl Shuffle?"

Pitchfork - gay?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

i want Will Powers to be on here

― jaxon, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

Like the first Roxy Music album, Halfnelson aka Sparks is so full of amazing ideas and brilliant yet lo-fi production that I can't NOT vote for it, in spite of the presence of The Dolls and XTC.

Remote Control gets nothin' but love from me, too.

― Dan Peterson, Thursday, 17 January 2008 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

Gotta be "Skylarking" although I hope the excellent and underrated "Straight Up" will receive some well-deserved votes too.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 17 January 2008 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

the dolls by a big margin; but i love TRB TWO, skylarking and forever now

― outdoor_miner, Thursday, 17 January 2008 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

I will forever rep for BAT OUT OF HELL.

― Simon H., Thursday, 17 January 2008 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

In the Bob Ezrin poll, I opined that The Wall was the best-produced but was nowhere near my favourite. Similarly, New York Dolls is my favourite LP up there but sounds pretty muddy compared to most Runt production jobs. But of course that was probably the point, so who knows? And now I've got the sudden urge to compare it to Too Much Too Soon and pit Rundgren against Shadow Morton, but I'd probably miss the poll deadline...Fuck it, Skylarking it is, although Meat Loaf and Tubes and the Dolls certainly get more turntable time around here. (Grand Funk too, but not the Rundgren-helmed ones so much.)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 05:34 (eighteen years ago)

He also did a marvellous job with The Psychedelic Furs of "Forever Now". Changing their sound considerably - for the better.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 09:20 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

dead heat

― henry s, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

From an interview with Jill Sobule

Your first album was produced by Todd Rundgren. What you your experience working with him?
No regrets and I love Todd, but it was really a tough one to do and I'll tell you why. Here is a story of the first day. I get there because you go to his place. He said, "You know we are taking off a couple days, I forgot to tell you. It's my annual Labor Day party." He would get big screen TVs and invite a bunch of people to watch the Jerry Lewis Telethon on mushrooms. So that was the beginning of that record for better or worse.

― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 00:01 (sixteen years ago)

Might be one or two here interested in this:
http://www.awatslive.com/

Todd Rundgren performs "A Wizard, A True Star" live in its entirety.
But only in Akron. And only once.

― harveyw, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 11:40 (sixteen years ago)

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