Name your top 5 Todd Rundgren songs!

Hard to go wrong here, let's see...

Parallel lines
Cliche
Fix your gaze
Kindness
Pretending to care

Turned out a bit ballady, but who cares!

 

Today it would be:

Libertine
Fix Your Gaze
Feet Don't Fail Me Now
Something to Fall Back On
Infrared and Ultraviolet

 

What are your 5 favorite from the 1982 Utopia album?

Mine:

Libertine
Call It What You Will
Bad Little Actress
Infrared and Ultraviolet
Feet Don't Fail Me Now

 

Sometimes I Don't Know What To Feel
I Saw The Light
Couldn't I Just Tell You
Unloved Children
Wailing Wall

 

Good choices!

Let's see (the whole album is good):
Libertine
Bad Little Actress
I'm Looking At You But I'm Talking To Myself
Chapter and Verse
Neck On Up
Honorable mention: Burn Three Times cracks me up

 

Gah, it's an album that's impsossible for me to whittle down as well

I love Burn Three Times too! It's funny in that "I don't know if this is dumb on purpose or it was just 1982 and they thought it sounded good" kinda way.

 

Glad to see everyone naming their favorites. All of them are good!

Anyway, a Todd fan on YouTube showcased his top Todd songs in the form of a short, 17-minute video. It's by no means a top 5, but there's some very good song choices in here.

 

1. The Smell Of Money (2nd Wind)
2. Hammer In My Heart (Utopia)
3. The Aging Musician (w/ The Residents)
4. Just Another Onionhead / Da Da Dali
   
5. The Sold-Out Artist (w/ The Residents)

I swear I'm not just being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian, I just love Todd when he's goofy and outright bizarre. Special Mention to his production on Skylarking.

 

I saw the Light
Hello Its Me
Open My Eyes
Not Wrong Long
Under The Ice

 

I'm a huge Todd fan and my list would echo a few of the lists already on here.

Sometimes I just shake my head though - this guy has a canon of work that rivals (and probably exceeds) the collected works of the great pop/rock composers and musicians of our time. You know who they are. But Todd never seems to get the credit he deserves.

Guy is criminally underappreciated.

 

Mega agree.

 

Light
Dream
We Gotta Get You A Woman
Hello It's Me
Side 1 of Wizard. (Isn't that one long track/song?)

 

I Saw The Light
Hello It's Me
Real Man
Couldn't I Just Tell You
Can We Still Be Friends

 

Ah yes. One of my gods...This is actually impossible for me but I'll throw a few that instantly come to mind:

No World Order (1.1 version on the regular "No World Order" CD and NOT the version on "No World Order Lite"
Buffalo Grass (from the "One Long Year" album)
Courage (from the Arena album)
In My Mouth (from the "State" album)
Afterlife (from the "Liars" album)

God,. Just 5 is so unfair.

 

I Saw The Light
Hello, It's Me
We Gotta Get You A Woman
Bang On The Drum All Day

 

Never doubted it. The 'Treatise' is totally awesome!