I know you will not think of Todd Rundgren as a new wave guy, after all, he got his start way back in a band called Nazz. However, his band Utopia put out a few new wave sounding albums in the early 80s. Just curious to know if there are any other fans out there?
I always considered "Adventures In Utopia" a great album.
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Todd Rundgren/Utopia
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by devildog » Wed Sep 08, 2004 8:16 am
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by Grunch » Wed Sep 08, 2004 8:46 am
While not new wave sounding, but very Beatlesque, I always really like Deface The Music. Agree they did have some more new wave sounding material later.
By the way, Todd's solo Something Anything is a major must have
By the way, Todd's solo Something Anything is a major must have
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by oneno » Wed Sep 08, 2004 8:48 am
I don't think Rundgren as a whole is new wave but your right , some of his stuff was pretty right on. Geez look at his "Todd" album cover, multi colored hair in kind of a long shag looked pretty new wave to me. Hermit of mink hollow had onomotopoeia prett
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by unguarded moment » Wed Sep 08, 2004 8:50 am
I've got the self-titled CD, the one with "Feet Don't Fail Me Now" and "Princess Of The Universe", et. al., and the other CD I have is "Deface the Music" (Beatles tribute or parody, depending on how you look at it, but I can't imagine Todd not being a hug
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by phillyidol » Wed Sep 08, 2004 9:19 am
I don't know much of his stuff but he is good. I remember a song called utopia or the road to utopia. Very cool!
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by buffalochipz » Wed Sep 08, 2004 1:59 pm
"Crybaby" by Utopia is a great song to blast and drive really fast to. I especially like the multitracked echo scream of "C'MON!" about three minutes in. His newest CD Liars was kinda disappointing. My favorite Todd CD is probably Nearly Human....does
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by bpdp3 » Wed Sep 08, 2004 7:29 pm
Todd is Godd!!
Well, maybe not, but he was a visionary and a pretty swell musician and songwriter (handled everything on his Something/Anything lp).
I think many of his songs would be favorable to new wave fans.
"Crybaby" is one of my favorites,
Well, maybe not, but he was a visionary and a pretty swell musician and songwriter (handled everything on his Something/Anything lp).
I think many of his songs would be favorable to new wave fans.
"Crybaby" is one of my favorites,
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by harleytexas » Thu Sep 09, 2004 6:50 am
I love the song One World. I went out and bought the 45 of it after hearing it on CHUM fm back in the 80's when they played new wave stuff even before CFNY played some songs.
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