180 Gram Double Vinyl! Limited to 500 Copies! 24th Studio Album from Pop Superstar!
Todd Rundgren is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and recordproducer. Hailed in the early stage of his career as a new pop star, supportedby the certified gold solo double LP Something/Anything? in 1972, his career hasproduced a diverse range of recordings as solo artist, and during the seventiesand eighties with the band Utopia. He has also been prolific as a producer andengineer on the recorded work of other musicians.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Rundgren engineered and/or produced many notablealbums for other acts, including Straight Up by Badfinger, Stage Fright by TheBand, We’re an American Band by Grand Funk Railroad, Bat Out of Hell by MeatLoaf, New York Dolls by New York Dolls, and Skylarking by XTC. In the 1980s and1990s his interest in video and computers led to his “Time Heals” being theeighth video played on MTV, and “Change Myself” was animated by Rundgren oncommercially available Amiga computers.
His best-known songs include “Hello It’s Me” and “I Saw the Light”, which haveheavy rotation on classic rock radio stations, and “Bang the Drum All Day”,which is featured in many sports arenas, commercials, and movie trailers.Although lesser known, “Couldn’t I Just Tell You” has had a major influence onartists in the power pop musical genre.
State is his twenty-fourth studio album. Released in April 2013, the album waswritten, performed and produced by Rundgren alone with the exception of vocalsby Rachel Haden on “Something From Nothing”.
’Imagination’ gels with a synthesized arpeggio recalling Tony Banksswirling keyboard intro to Genesis classic ‘The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway’butthen the music shifts into darker territory as distorted guitars and heavy drumsweave a lumbering leitmotif. The verses are sparse and deliberately sanitized,with Rundgren pronouncing ‘I am what I am, and thats all that I am’ in adetached tone, echoing the philosophical tenets of French mathematician ReneDescartes and Popeye the Sailor Man. Its a bleak yet engaging opener whoseform, execution, and lyrics probe humanitys great questions…” – PeterRoche, Examiner
Features:
180 Gram Double Vinyl
Limited to 500 Copies
Import
Gatefold Jacket
Selections:
LP1 – Side A:
1. Imagination
2. Serious
LP1 – Side B:
1. In My Mouth
2. Ping Me
3. Angry Bird
LP2 – Side C:
1. Smoke
2. Collide-A-Scope
3. Something From Nothing
LP2 – Side D:
1. Party Liquor
2. Sir Reality
