Name your top 5 Todd Rundgren songs!

Love Of The Common Man
Sometimes I Don't Know What To Feel
Crybaby (with Utopia)
Lysistrata (with Utopia)
Hurting For You

 

The Verb "To Love"
The Last Ride
Believe in Me
Wailing Wall
Be Nice to Me

 

All from the Bearsville era:
"We Gotta Get You a Woman"
"Wailing Wall"
"Hello It's Me"
"Can We Still Be Friends"
"Bang the Drum All Day".

Honourable Mention, from the Warner era:
"The Want of a Nail".

 

First five to come to mind:

The Last Ride
Fair Warning
Love Is The Answer
Hurting For You
Healing

 

Drive
International Feel
Black Maria
Everybody's Going to Heaven/King Kong Reggae
You Cried Wolf

 

Hmmm...hard to pick, and like others, it'll change tomorrow and the next day.

Utopia Theme
Seven Rays
Sons of 1984
Heavy Metal Kids
Don't You Ever Listen

 

1. It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference
2. Love In Action
3. Crybaby
4. Can We Still Be Friends
5. I Saw The Light

 

I don't think I've seen a song I wouldn't include in my top 5 yet ('Bang on the Drum' maybe, but top 10)! So let's go with five deep(ish) cuts from more recent albums that probably haven't been mentioned. No particular order:

Tables Will Turn (from 'The Individualist')
Pretending to Care (from 'A Cappella')
Wondering (from 'Liars')
That Could Have Been Me (from 'White Knight')
Where Does the Time Go? (from 'One Long Year')

 

Solo only and in no particular order:

1. Fade Away
2. Wailing Wall
3. Shine
4. Let's Do This
5. There Goes Your Baybay

 

Let me have another go at this:

1. No.1 Lowest Common Denominator
2. Don't You Ever Learn
3. Sidewalk Cafe
4. Heavy Metal Kids
5. Black and White

 

Love is the Answer
A Dream Goes on Forever
Pretending To Care
Fade Away
Parallel Lines

 

1. Black and White
2. "Love of the Common Man"
3. "When I Pray"
4. "Cliché"
5. "The Verb "To Love""

 

TR Faithful devote.

 

Sometimes I Don't Know What to Feel
Zen Archer (cue the arrows!)
Fidelity
A Dream Goes On Forever (& His Friends version Steve Stevens guitar)
Afterlife

going to be a different 5 tomorrow

 

Zen Archer
I Saw The Light
The Ikon
The Seven Rays
Hiroshima

 

"I'm in the Clique"
"Chain Letter"
"It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference"
"Couldn't I Just Tell You"
"I Don't Want To Tie You Down"

 

Real Man
Love Is The Answer
Hello, It's Me
Can We Still Be Friends
Sometimes I Don't Know What To Feel

 

Here's five more I love.

Hawking
Tin Foil Hat
The Spark of Life
Mister Triscuits
Mary and the Holy Ghost

 

Real Man
Change Myself
Sometimes I Don't Know what to Feel
Cold Morning Light
Healing

honorable mention - God Said

 

Couldn't I Just Tell You
Torch Song
We Gotta Get You A Woman
International Feel/ Le Feel Internationale
Communion With The Sun (with Utopia)

 

Caravan
Black Maria
Sometimes I Don’t Know What To Feel
Trapped
Buffalo Grass

 

1. Useless Begging
2. Soothe
3. Cliche
4. Just One Victory
5. A Treatise On Cosmic Fire (I'm serious!)

 

The Ikon
Utopia Theme
Couldnt I Just Tell You
Never Never Land
Love In Action

 

ok totally off the top of my head so surely forgetting something and certainly ever changing, also leaving out utopia for the sake of slightly less sophie's choice...

God Said
The Verb to Love
Temporary Sanity
Healing
Initiation (can I cheat and say the entire initation side 1 suite?)

 

Can I cheat and say the entire "A Wizard, A True Star" album?