Todd Rundgren - Something/ Anything? Double Album 3 3/4 ips 4 track stereo tape

Label: Warner Brothers BST 2066-F-P

Tape Speed: 3 3/4 ips.

Country: US

Released: June 1972

Genre: Rock

Condition: The tape is Near Mint *No issues detected plays and winds as new.

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Tracklist - Details *Sources: Wiki, Allmusic

Studio album by Todd Rundgren - Released February 1972 - Recorded Late 1971.  Studio I.D. Sound Studios and Runt Recorders, Los Angeles The Record Plant, New York City, Bearsville Studios, Woodstock

Singles from Something/Anything?

• "I Saw the Light"   Released: March 1972
• "Couldn't I Just Tell You"  Released: July 1972
• "Hello It's Me"  Released: December 1972
• "Wolfman Jack"   Released: December 1974

TRACKLIST

1. "I Saw the Light" 2:56
2. "It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference" 3:50
3. "Wolfman Jack" 2:54
4. "Cold Morning Light" 3:55
5. "It Takes Two to Tango (This Is for the Girls)" 2:41
6. "Sweeter Memories" 3:36
7. "Intro" 1:11
8. "Breathless" 3:15
9. "The Night the Carousel Burnt Down" 4:29
10. "Saving Grace" 4:12
11. "Marlene" 3:54
12. "Song of the Viking" 2:35
13. "I Went to the Mirror" 4:05
14. "Black Maria" 5:20
15. "One More Day (No Word)" 3:43
16. "Couldn't I Just Tell You" 3:34
17. "Torch Song" 2:52
18. "Little Red Lights" 4:53
19. "Overture–My Roots"
20. "Money (That's What I Want)" (Janie Bradford, Berry Gordy, Jr.)
21. "Messin' with the Kid" (Mel London)" 2:29
22. "Dust in the Wind" (Mark Klingman) 3:49
23. "Piss Aaron" 3:26
24. "Hello It's Me" 4:42
25. "Some Folks Is Even Whiter Than Me" 3:56
26. "You Left Me Sore" 3:13
27. "Slut" 4:03

----------------------------- AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

After two albums, Todd Rundgren had one hit and a burgeoning cult following, plus growing respect as a hitmaking record producer. There's no question he was busy, but as it turns out, all this work only scratched the surface of his ambition. He had decided to abandon the Runt pretense and recorded a full double album by himself (save for one side). Others had recorded one-man albums before, most notably Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney, but Rundgren -- without borrowing musically from either artist -- captured the homemade ambience of McCartney with the visionary feel of Music of My Mind, adding an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music from Gilbert & Sullivan through Jimi Hendrix, plus the crazed zeal of a pioneer. 
Listening to Something/Anything? is a mind-altering trip in itself, no matter how many instantly memorable, shamelessly accessible pop songs are scattered throughout the album. Each side of the double album is a concept onto itself. The first side is "a bouquet of ear-catching melodies"; side two is "the cerebral side"; on side three "the kid gets heavy"; side four is his mock pop operetta, recorded with a full band including the Sales brothers. It gallops through everything -- Carole King tributes ("I Saw the Light"), classic ballads ("Hello It's Me," "It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference"), Motown ("Wolfman Jack"), blinding power pop ("Couldn't I Just Tell You"), psychedelic hard rock ("Black Maria"), pure weirdness ("I Went to the Mirror"), blue-eyed soul ("Dust in the Wind"), and scores of brilliant songs that don't fall into any particular style ("Cold Morning Light," "It Takes Two to Tango"). It's an amazing journey that's remarkably unpretentious.
 He may have contributed self-penned liner notes, but Rundgren peppers his writing with self-aware, self-deprecating asides, and he also indulges his bizarre sense of humor with gross-outs ("Piss Aaron") and sheer quirkiness, such as an aural tour of the studio at the beginning of side two. Something/Anything? has a ton of loose ends throughout: plenty of studio tricks, slight songs (but no filler), snippets of dialogue, and purposely botched beginnings, but all these throwaways simply add context -- they're what makes the album into a kaleidoscopic odyssey through the mind of an insanely gifted pop music obsessive. Rundgren occasionally touched on the sheer brilliance of Something/Anything? in his later work, but this extraordinary double album is the one time where his classicist songcraft and messy genius converged to create an utterly unique, glorious record.
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Todd Harry Rundgren (born June 22, 1948) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and record producer who has performed a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the band Utopia. He is characterized for his sophisticated and often-unorthodox music, flamboyant stage outfits, and his later experiments with interactive entertainment. 

A native of Philadelphia, Rundgren began his professional career in the mid-1960s, forming the psychedelic band Nazz in 1967. Two years later, he left Nazz to pursue a solo career and immediately scored his first US top 40 hit with "We Gotta Get You a Woman" (1970). His best-known songs include "Hello It's Me" and "I Saw the Light" from Something/Anything? (1972), which have heavy rotation on classic rock radio stations, and the 1983 single "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" (1972) was influential to many artists in the power pop genre.  His 1973 album A Wizard, a True Star remains an influence on later generations of "bedroom" musicians.

Rundgren was one of the first acts to be prominent both as an artist and as a producer. His notable production credits include Badfinger's Straight Up (1971), Grand Funk Railroad's We're an American Band (1973), the New York Dolls' New York Dolls (1973), Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell (1977) and XTC's Skylarking (1986). Additionally, he organized the first interactive television concert in 1978, designed the first color graphics tablet in 1980, and created the first interactive album, No World Order, in 1994.

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