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Post by aaa-appreciator on Jul 31, 2020 21:48:04 GMT
I’ll check out what the original album covers look like.
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Post by daved on Jul 31, 2020 21:53:56 GMT
I didn’t realise he was so loved around these parts. Now I feel bad I’ve insulted him. I hope he does get into that rock n roll hall and Meat Loaf performs a tribute. With live vocals. Not in this part.
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Jul 31, 2020 23:27:58 GMT
I’ll check out what the original album covers look like. It’s basically the same, but with a 6th finger. I only remember it because the Japanese version made the title pointless. The Alice in Chains LP had a three-legged dog on the cover (and a photograph of sideshow attraction Frank Lentini on the back). Tower Records had both the Japanese and import versions on display on the same rack, so the juxtaposition of cultural differences was striking.
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Post by GeddyLeePierce on Aug 3, 2020 5:06:04 GMT
He gets points for banging Bebe Buell though.
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Post by hugofuguzev on Aug 3, 2020 7:22:54 GMT
He gets points for banging Bebe Buell though. And presumably raising the kid Buell had with Steven Tyler (the one who had a movie career for about fifteen minutes...something tells me if she'd opted for Liv Tallarico instead of Tyler she wouldn't have gotten that part in Armageddon...)
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Aug 3, 2020 8:45:00 GMT
I am not going to feel bad for saying that "Hello It's Me" is simpering garbage of the highest order and a perfect example of everything that was wrong with 1970s schlock rock. Anyone who perpetrates shit like this deserves extreme punishment, and Rundgren hasn't ever had to face the consequences. OK, maybe he may have had some other stuff that wasn't as godawful as that. Or, more likely, maybe he didn't. I never understood why this guy was rated at all. His songs are just pastiches of other then current chart fodder and his productions seem like undistinguished journeyman jobs that could have been done by any hack. Does anyone really hear a New York Dolls album or a Badfinger record or a Tubes LP and say, "Yep. That's definitely an A1 Todd Rundgren production!"? (On the other hand, does anyone really listen to a Badfinger or Tubes record, period?). I’m defending this with the caveat that I know it has no consequence in the grand scheme of things and I don’t really listen to this stuff constantly (and am aware I’m probably the only person under 65 in the country to listen to and/or care about this), but: I) There are some genuinely excellent Todd Rundgren productions that sound unlike any other production in a band’s catalogue, like War Babies by Hall & Oates who are mostly otherwise awful. I think that album is incredible. Far preferable to the shit that David Foster did with them (or anyone) II) The original version of Hello It’s Me by Nazz is the one I heard first and is a million times better than the solo version on Something/Anything. It’s no Open My Eyes, but it’s still a standout track III) The first Tubes album (and with diminishing returns the next three Tubes albums) are genuinely fun and listenable records that I will happily put on repeat. The fourth one - a concept album about a TV addicted loser, produced by Todd Rundgren - is their last great record before David Foster ruined them by removing their sense of humour and anarchy. Badfinger are, and always will be, absolute garbage though.
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Post by Sanjay Gupton on Aug 3, 2020 14:17:23 GMT
I actually just played The Tubes Remote Control album last week. It made me think, “Man, Todd really had a sound when he produced a record.” I can usually spot his producing easily, but I don’t know that making other people sound like Todd Rundgren is any reason to be in the a Rock Hall.
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Post by daved on Aug 3, 2020 15:12:18 GMT
I dislike his trash can snare drum sound. It was especially annoying on The Pursuit Of Happiness stuff he did. And to an extent Skylarking. I’m biased but hearing Andy Partridge’s stories about working with Todd make me think he’s a giant asshole.
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Post by GeddyLeePierce on Aug 3, 2020 17:12:10 GMT
People (especially in SHiteville) hold up A Wizard, A True Star as some kind of masterpiece. I’ve tried but have never been able to make it through the whole album. Maybe I should keep trying?
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Post by daved on Aug 3, 2020 17:51:37 GMT
People (especially in SHiteville) hold up A Wizard, A True Star as some kind of masterpiece. I’ve tried but have never been able to make it through the whole album. Maybe I should keep trying? For shits and giggles I will play it when the wife goes out. Just to see what I’m missing.
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Post by aaa-appreciator on Aug 3, 2020 17:55:04 GMT
People (especially in SHiteville) hold up A Wizard, A True Star as some kind of masterpiece. I’ve tried but have never been able to make it through the whole album. Maybe I should keep trying? Wrong forum bucko. “I’ve never understood/got into [band/album] but it’s being reissued next month and everyone on the forum is frothing for it, help me to appreciate it” (to justify dropping £30-£50 on something I will play once but still not like). These posts are two-a-penny in SHiteVille where a connoisseur of crap will happily school you.
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Post by daved on Aug 3, 2020 19:24:45 GMT
People (especially in SHiteville) hold up A Wizard, A True Star as some kind of masterpiece. I’ve tried but have never been able to make it through the whole album. Maybe I should keep trying? For shits and giggles I will play it when the wife goes out. Just to see what I’m missing. Jesus fucking Christ what is this shit? wow, that is some amateur hour hot garbage.
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Post by sₚⲁᵣₖydₒg on Aug 3, 2020 19:39:22 GMT
One of my favorite albums.
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Post by daved on Aug 3, 2020 19:41:16 GMT
One of my favorite albums. God bless you. Enjoy. It certainly doesn’t do it for me.
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Post by aaa-appreciator on Aug 3, 2020 19:55:30 GMT
The irony is that DeVoid would be pulling at the leash to jump in and contribute to this thread if he could. Literally, salivating as if he were one of the dogs on Kate’s Hounds of Love album cover.
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