Something/Anything? by Todd Rundgren

Something/Anything?, released on Bearsville in February 1972, was Todd Rundgren's third album but the first under his own name after two credited to Runt, and he made it a double. Most of it is a one-man show. Fed up with session players, he decamped to Los Angeles in late 1971 and played every instrument, sang every voice and produced it all himself, piling up more songs than a single LP could hold. Then an earthquake rattled the city, and he headed back to New York for looser sessions with Moogy Klingman, wrapping things up at Bearsville.

Each of the four sections chases its own mood, and the last was cut live in the studio with no overdubs. It's a sprawling, sweet-toothed pop feast, heavy on ballads, and it handed him Hello It's Me, a US top-five hit in late 1973, plus I Saw the Light. After this, Rundgren swerved hard toward the experimental and the progressive, starting with A Wizard, A True Star.

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