Todd Rundgren is a GOD

[sus]

admit it.

you listen to "I saw the light" on a continuous loop, too.

DON'T YOU!

[GOPisEvil]

1. Todd IS God!

I just wanna bang on the drums all day!

[southpaw]

2. Glad you got the "a" in there, because...

[XNASA]

3. Yup.

Lot's of TR fans here at DU.

For me, it's "Couldn't I Just Tell Ya" that's on a loop.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

4. Yep. That and 'Wolfman Jack'

[sus]

6. Wolfman Jack WISHES he were as Godlike as Todd

Let the Wolfman/Rundgren battle begin!

[mr blur]

5. This is true!

"Sometimes I don't know what to feel..."

[Fovea]

7. My loop

"Give us just one victory, and we're on our way."

[bbernardini]

8. You do realize Todd released stuff after 1974, right? :)

Just kidding, of course. His new album is incredible, and the live show is one of the best I've ever seen, by Todd or anybody.

[dorktv]

9. The only thing I think about Todd R. is that he is either

really really ugly or really really hot...I can not figure out which one he is.
But I like his music.

[Mike Daniels]

29. It's the former

How he ever got a chance to get it on with Bebe Buelle I'll never understand.

[Canuckistanian]

10. I don't know who he is, give me a clue

Just Something, Anything

[sus]

12. you...don't....wha??

GET THEE TO A NUNNERY!

[zbird]

16. Good one!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

17. LOL.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

11. You wanna watch me get *really* stupid, quick?

Put "Couldn't I just Tell You" or "Open My Eyes" on loud.

Out the window goes my last shard of dignity. ;-)

[fudge stripe cookays]

30. Funny "Couldn't I Just Tell You" story....

Several years ago at Fry Street Fair...

(a Denton, Texas tradition every spring-- it allows everyone to show off their new body piercings and tattoos while seeing cool bands, imbibing too much alcohol, and take a break from classes for a weekend)

there was a large guy in the middle of the street playing his guitar very forcefully. He suddenly broke into a rollicking version of "CIJTY."

Delightedly I romped up to him, and we finished the song as a drunken, goofy duo. My friend had to pretend she didn't know me. We got an ovation from the passersby.

FSC

[lapislzi]

13. You went to my high school, didn't you?

You're the one who filled the yearbook with "Todd is God" boosters, aren't you?

Fess up.

[sus]

15. GUILTY..

and i'd do it again!!

[lapislzi]

18. It was fate that we'd meet up

Love your kitty gif, btw. He looks like one of mine.

[sus]

19. remember 5th period english?

what a BLAST.

[lapislzi]

21. Please. Jim was drunk most days

He hated girls and used to make fun of me. But we did read some cool books.

[sus]

26. Jim was *so* latent.

my friend Brett's cousin's boyfriend goes to the same gym and he's seen that up close and personal.

[fudge stripe cookays]

14. An I the only one who REALLY likes the 80s Utopia stuff?

I love Oblivion and POV, in addition to the older stuff. Oblivion was the first complete album of his/Utopia's that I bought (based on "Crybaby.")

I finally found a double CD copy of both of them on CD with a couple of cuts off Trivia too.

"Fix Your Gaze" is brilliant.

[bbernardini]

22. Not at all!

There's some BRILLIANT stuff on those two albums. "Crybaby" and "Play This Game" are two of the greatest pop songs of all time.

I always thought it was cool that they opened the reunion shows in '92 with "Fix Your Gaze". Way to mess with people.

[SiouxJ]

23. I loved "Adventures in Utopia"

which was what, 1980? It's responsible for creating a lifelong Todd fan who has seen him live dozens of times. Yes, Todd is God!

[GOPisEvil]

24. I knew a Todd thread would bring you out!

:hi:

[SiouxJ]

25. I resisted the temptation to post as long as I could ;-)

'bout time we had a Todd thread again. It's been awhile.

:hi:

[mac56]

27. Hi SiouxJ!

:loveya:

Figgered I'd find you here!

Now we just have to look for ProfessorGAC -

[SiouxJ]

28. Yeah, he's the obvious omission from this thread so far

:hi: Mac!

[Bill of Rights]

I like Utopia

My favorite Todd album is Hermit of Mink Hollow. My favorite Todd song is Real Man.

BUMP for TODD!

[Philostopher]

42. 'Suits' and 'Swing To The Right'

My favorite Utopia albums, though 'If I Didn't Care' and 'Winston Smith' from Oblivion sometimes seem a little more pertinent than I like these days, too.

But when I want to throw some Todd on and just leave it, it's usually 'A Wizard ... A True Star!' for some reason. Occasionally, I'll also do the same with 'No World Order,' but frankly it's too wrapped up in the devolution of my first marriage to be enjoyable anymore.

The only successful thread I ever started here was one about Todd.

I love the cover for 'Liars.'

[CO Liberal]

20. Albeit, One Of the Lesser Gods.....

:-)

[chaska]

31. WRONG!!!

Bigtime wrong.

[Seeking Serenity]

32. Boy, did I join DU at the right time

I LOVE TODD! (and Utopia, too!)

My first Todd concert (which was also my first time to try X) was in support of his "A Cappella" album. Great! Just him, a guitar, piano some back-up singers and a tape player (for his non-a-cappella songs). Blew me away.

I love him!

:headbang: :yourock: TODD!

[Seeking Serenity]

33. kick

:kick: This is too good a thread to let languish.

[Wickerman]

34. One of my favorite Todd songs become more relevant every year

that passes:

I am the emperor of the highway
I wield the universal will
One might chance to overlook on my divineness
Unless I’m sitting in the imperial poupe de ville
I am the emperor of the highway
Strapped with foolish mortals such as these
I need never indicate my intentions
I can stop and go and turn just as I please
For I am the emperor of the highway

Hold!
Methinks that thou hast driven too far
I am the royal prince of foreign sports cars
Better that I should drive a wheelchair or jog
Than to be blown off by a regal road hog

I am the emperor of the highway
(where did you ever get that gas sucking pig of a car? )
This time my friend, you are outclassed
(any real man would drive a stick shift)
For my uncle is the duke of the state police
(cut me off again and I will punch your lights out)
And he will place his royal boot upon your ass
(this is my exit, we shall meet another day)

Don’t forget who’s emperor of the highway
For I am the emperor of the highway!

[Seeking Serenity]

35. Get Todd into the RnR Hall of Fame!

"Induct Todd Rundgren into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/toddrund/

[nightperson]

36. How late

can someone give a much-deserved kick? It's so nice to see people throw around "CIJTY"'s.

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[LynneSin]

44. Even Grovelbot thinks so

:bounce:

[skooooo]

38. Wish I could find his "Initiation" album...

...loved that as a kid!

Jesus, Mohammed............................

[mr blur]

39. This thread made me dig out The Hermit of Mink Hollow.

A great album - I'd forgotten how goof. Just ordered Liars, too

[mr blur]

40. Or even "how good"

Oops! (wrong planet)

[Taverner]

41. The use of that song in "Six Feet Under" was genius

When Nate found his wife was missing...sitting in her car...

It just fit...and I'll always associate that song with that scene...

[Skittles]

43. I love him.

:)

[Dan-W]

45. Heck, I had vinyl of

"Nazz", "Nazz Nazz", "Nazz III" & "Runt".