Todd by Todd Rundgren

Todd, Todd Rundgren's fifth studio album, hit the racks on Bearsville in February 1974, and one double album clearly wasn't enough for the man: this was his second, hard on the heels of A Wizard, a True Star from the year before. Same restless brain, only now with the guitar turned up and a synthesizer wired into every spare socket.

Roughly half of it is Rundgren alone, playing everything like a mad scientist locked in the lab overnight; the rest he cut with shifting lineups of musicians. It's art rock that won't sit still, lurching from experiment to pop song and back again, and the one that kept its head above water was "A Dream Goes On Forever", a tender little tune that made the US singles chart at 69 while the album climbed to number 54.

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