Todd is my all time favorite artist. It bums me out when people hear this song and think that’s what he’s all about. His musical career is so danged eclectic. He is a master songwriter. Not to mention one of the most respected producers in the music business. Your next song should be Black and White.
This was the first song the teenage Rundgren ever wrote. Originally recorded it with his group, Nazz (from the Philly area). This hit version was recorded for his solo album "Something/Anything." One of the backing singers on the track was Vicki Sue Robinson, who had the huge disco hit, "Turn The Beat Around."
Todd…genius. This is a VERY deep and diverse rabbit hole should you choose to go deeper. He covered a lot of ground musically be it in his solo career or with Utopia. So many suggestions but what i wouldvsay is his live album Back to the Bars is a great document of his solo career through 1978. I would recommend ‘a dream goes on forever’, ‘don’t you ever learn’, ‘the verb ‘to love’ and ‘sometimes i dont’t know what to feel’ from that one…oh…..and ‘hawking’ from the ‘nearly human’ album
I saw him last night Laughlin, NV (7/6/24) and he was fantastic....super band as well...he playrd for two and a half hours....first time to see him, and I was blown away....fantastic voice still at 76 years old...bouncing all over the stage singing, playing guitar! Bass player (five string bass) and his drummer were kick ass too!
"Hello It's Me" was a top-five hit in the US in late 1973. Iconic early seventies -- the bridge -- "'Cause I never want to make you change for me" -- floats the melody around before finding the resolve. The seventies were a lot more mellow socially. Stories of heartache and unrequited love went down a lot more smoothly than they do today, apparently...
Saw Todd live a few times in the past few years. Solo at the Cabot in Beverly, MA and as part of the White Album anniversary performing with Christopher Cross and others. The man is still amazing.
"Hello It's Me" was the first song written by Todd Rundgren. Written in 1967 as a slow ballad about the breakup of a relationship, it was released in October 1968 as the B-side of his band Nazz's debut single "Open My Eyes", and included on the debut album Nazz (1968). Although released as a B-side, it was picked up in preference to the A-side by Boston radio station WMEX, where it rose to No. 1, and was subsequently picked up by other stations. It entered the Billboard chart in February 1969, peaking at number 71, and re-entered the charts the following January, this time peaking at number 66. In Canada, it ranked number 41 in March 1969, and number 58 in February 1970.
Todd has songs he wrote, produced and played every instrument- some lyrics kinda silly and some very profound. Lucky I got to see him with his band Utopia in Tulsa in the early 80’s.
You reacted strongly to this song, and it was definitely thought-provoking to hear your interpretation! I might be wrong, but taken line by line, I've always heard this song as being about a relationship where *both people* are not treating each other well. A soulful song, with a beautiful melody, but sad and self-aware. "I take for granted that you're always there/ I take for granted that you just don't care/ Sometimes I can't help seeing all the way through."
Hey Biz Todd wrote this song after a girl he was dating in high school broke up with him because her father didn't want his daughter dating a guy wirh long hair. She obeyed her father and ended their relationship. This is the second version of the song that was on his double solo album called Something Anything. The original version was slower in tempo and appeared on the album The Nazz which was Todds first band.
MY MAN TODD Next should be "Just One Victory." Or "Hawking." Or "We Gotta Get You a Woman." Or-- if I keep doing that we'll be here all night, but he's my all-time favorite. XD And if you want to continue the Live From Daryl's House train he's done a couple of those as well! (For *that* I vote "The Want of a Nail" for sure.)
Now you have to try Todd on Live From Daryl's House. They tare it up together! Two songs from that show: Didn't I The Last Ride Both performances are gorgeous! 👍
Thank you so much for listening to Todd's music! He is amazing 😍😍 This song was influenced by a high school love interest whose father made her break off the friendship with Todd. I would love to see your reaction to his song "Can We Still Be Friends". He has so many amazing songs but that is one of my favorites 💕💕
People are so close-minded. What's wrong with an open relationship? It would essentially eliminate homicides, assaults and jealousies in marriages that restrict a couple's freedom. He's right. The way things are, people really aren't free once they're in a relationship. But they could be in a freer society.
He produced Meat Loaf’s Bat about Of Hell when no other record label wanted anything to do with it! Turned into one of the all time greatest albums! He spent his own money on that album.
Something/Anything? Is an excellent Todd Rundgren album released in 1972 and is a double album,. I played this thing to death. It had so many good, unique, strange and fun songs. Ilove your rant at the end about the songs, Biz keeping it real.
I'm learning from watching these reactions to songs from the 70's that it was very different back then when it came to relationships. There's a group from the 70's, Dr. Hook, they got a beautiful and romantic song about the one-night stands, "Sharing the Night Together". So don't read too much into the lyrics, just chill and enjoy the vibe.
With you on your rant! My understanding is he wrote it a year after breaking up with a girl who he had been with in high school but, as mentioned before, her parents forbid her from seeing because of his long hair. I remember that being a thing in the early 70s. I think this song perfectly captures the confusion of an 18-year-old in a relationship. The painful dichotomy of the lyrics paired with his voice and building production are 😘
Loved your rant. You're right. Standards. Important and essential if it means anything. There is a song I can't stand called 'Why does it have to be right or wrong?" Well... it IS right or wrong.
You give your honest reaction, and when it’s beyond just the music you do go off, with a certain accent, and seem to speak from experience observing people as you bring us along for some life philosophy.
Todd is one of my favorites. You are hearing his first hit (I believe). This album (Something/Anything) was his most pop album. Todd music got more 'FM'after this album and then later even less circulated. I love even his later stuff. Todd finally got into the Rock Hall of Fame but it took too long. Still waiting for Jethro Tull and Guess Who to get into the hall of fame.
I hear at alot of chicago influence in there Chicago did a song called beginnings which has this same pattern at the end... that repeative loop Rundgren uses a jazz element Chicago uses carribean melodies You should listen to that one. Im going to listen that now. Rundgren is just an animal in the music industry He only had a few radio hits but he has priduced many bands The tubes Hall and oats Meatloaf And the list goes on. He can do it all.❤
It is important to remember that a song isn't necessarily telling the listener that what is happening in the song is a good way to live one's life. A song isn't necessarily dispensing advice, it may just be examining some aspect of human nature. Often a song is exploring a particular lifestyle because it is interesting, or thought-provoking, or controversial. Art explores all of life's intricate tapestry, not just the parts that are safe, or sensible, or morally acceptable to the average person. Besides, what is right for one person isn't necessarily what is right for another. We are all very different.
Dude, he's doing what all smart guys do...telling the gal what she wants to hear. They are obviously just gettting to know each other. He's a guy with game. COME ON!
i don't think he meant he wanted her to be free in the sense of playing around. this came out during the women's liberation movement,so he was saying he respected her as an individual,to be free to do what she wanted as far as having a career,and making her own choices. before women's lib the role of a woman was expected to be the doting housewife,and have the man's pipe and slippers ready when he came home from work with supper on the table. if anything this was a song about supporting a woman and treating her as an equal,not a possession. thus the lyric "and spend the the night if you think i should". her life, her decision.
The apparent story behind this song is that his high school girlfriend's father forbid her from seeing him because he had long hair. You gotta hear more Todd! He's brilliant and as much as I love this song, there is so much more from Todd.
Your rant makes me laugh. I guess that is one interpretation. But there is a different story behind these lyrics. Apparently Todd had a girlfriend in his teen years and they were very close until her dad saw the two of them walking home from school together one day and said "hell no!" you are not going out with that guy. So she dumped him. Just stopped talking to him and their relationship/friendship ended. They never spoke again. The song is represents what Todd thought would have been a better way to break it off with him. He felt that she should have ended it differently. Years later she contacted him through his agent) to ask for tickets to his concert. He sent her a couple but they never spoke. There were a lot of dad's like that back in the day. It was the time of the Vietnam war and any guy with hair down to his shoulders was off limits for their daughters. I love this song and remember listening to it when I was a kid. It always made me feel like I was floating on a cloud. Things were so different back then.
You missed the angle he’s coming from. He and the woman he’s singing about are not a couple. That being said….. Listen to anything from “Nearly Human”.
Hell Ya Biz..... Have to back you up on that,... you want to be with me, than be with me, you want to be with him, don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out...... Keep that S.T.D. to yourself !
I saw him live in concert a few years back at a small venue , Obviously he's in his 70s now and very grouchy , He was doing more talking than singing and someone in the crowd shouted out to sing a song , And he literally told the guy to shut the f**k up ! The rest of the concert never did recover , After that night he kind of lost me as a fan ! You don't talk like that to your fans who have paid good money to see you !
Todd Rundgren is a talent. I think Todd was talking about Liv Tyler the daughter of Steven Tyler of Aerosmith,whom Todd helped to raise partly with her mother. She later found out Steve was her father.
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Todd is my all time favorite artist. It bums me out when people hear this song and think that’s what he’s all about. His musical career is so danged eclectic. He is a master songwriter. Not to mention one of the most respected producers in the music business. Your next song should be Black and White.
Excellent choice! Great tune!
Vintage 70's sound. I miss those days.
This was the first song the teenage Rundgren ever wrote. Originally recorded it with his group, Nazz (from the Philly area). This hit version was recorded for his solo album "Something/Anything." One of the backing singers on the track was Vicki Sue Robinson, who had the huge disco hit, "Turn The Beat Around."
Todd…genius. This is a VERY deep and diverse rabbit hole should you choose to go deeper. He covered a lot of ground musically be it in his solo career or with Utopia. So many suggestions but what i wouldvsay is his live album Back to the Bars is a great document of his solo career through 1978. I would recommend ‘a dream goes on forever’, ‘don’t you ever learn’, ‘the verb ‘to love’ and ‘sometimes i dont’t know what to feel’ from that one…oh…..and ‘hawking’ from the ‘nearly human’ album
Such a classic 70s song. Love Todd Rungren.
Right, that whole freedom riff is so 70’s.
He’s so underrated, I have no idea why he’s not up there with his contemporaries.
One of the best albums ever made. I used to listen to this over and over back in the day. Excellence
I love this song so much!!! It was a big hit back in the day.
I saw him last night Laughlin, NV (7/6/24) and he was fantastic....super band as well...he playrd for two and a half hours....first time to see him, and I was blown away....fantastic voice still at 76 years old...bouncing all over the stage singing, playing guitar! Bass player (five string bass) and his drummer were kick ass too!
"Hello It's Me" was a top-five hit in the US in late 1973. Iconic early seventies -- the bridge -- "'Cause I never want to make you change for me" -- floats the melody around before finding the resolve. The seventies were a lot more mellow socially. Stories of heartache and unrequited love went down a lot more smoothly than they do today, apparently...
Saw Todd live a few times in the past few years. Solo at the Cabot in Beverly, MA and as part of the White Album anniversary performing with Christopher Cross and others. The man is still amazing.
True music ARTIST. He is phenomenal.
"Hello It's Me" was the first song written by Todd Rundgren. Written in 1967 as a slow ballad about the breakup of a relationship, it was released in October 1968 as the B-side of his band Nazz's debut single "Open My Eyes", and included on the debut album Nazz (1968). Although released as a B-side, it was picked up in preference to the A-side by Boston radio station WMEX, where it rose to No. 1, and was subsequently picked up by other stations. It entered the Billboard chart in February 1969, peaking at number 71, and re-entered the charts the following January, this time peaking at number 66. In Canada, it ranked number 41 in March 1969, and number 58 in February 1970.
There is a great episode of Live at Daryl 's house with Todd, but its not at Darryls, its at Todds House, in Hawaii! 😂, and its epic.
I totally fell in love with the song? The Isley Brothers did a great cover.
Love this song!! The video is beautiful, too! Don’t read too much into it. Just enjoy it! ❤
I’ve got tickets to see him in October in Portland, Maine. Can’t wait!
Todd has songs he wrote, produced and played every instrument- some lyrics kinda silly and some very profound. Lucky I got to see him with his band Utopia in Tulsa in the early 80’s.
Did they play "Love Is The Answer"? I would have cried during that song.
I saw Utopia in 1977 & 1980 and they did that song both tiimes.
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He produced one of the best albums ever, Bat Out Of Hell.
Built the studio, sound desk for it. Kit everything out. No one else wanted to know about this album. Todd basically financed the lot.
@@emilymcpaul4204I saw an interview where he said he still gets hefty checks from it.
Another great Todd song is “A Dream Goes On Forever” .
You reacted strongly to this song, and it was definitely thought-provoking to hear your interpretation! I might be wrong, but taken line by line, I've always heard this song as being about a relationship where *both people* are not treating each other well. A soulful song, with a beautiful melody, but sad and self-aware. "I take for granted that you're always there/ I take for granted that you just don't care/ Sometimes I can't help seeing all the way through."
The 70s were different. Peace, love, and women's liberation. ☮️❤ Brought back memories and some tears. Thanks
My absolute favorite ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Hey Biz Todd wrote this song after a girl he was dating in high school broke up with him because her father didn't want his daughter dating a guy wirh long hair. She obeyed her father and ended their relationship. This is the second version of the song that was on his double solo album called Something Anything. The original version was slower in tempo and appeared on the album The Nazz which was Todds first band.
Right On with that Rant! "Be free little bird, go do bird shit!"
Todd is amazing. Thanks for this reaction! Keep rolling with Rundgren! Check out Just One Victory next!
Cool song, thoughtful reaction. Thanks, Biz. I saw Todd 3 times back in the day. He rocked.
MY MAN TODD
Next should be "Just One Victory." Or "Hawking." Or "We Gotta Get You a Woman." Or-- if I keep doing that we'll be here all night, but he's my all-time favorite. XD
And if you want to continue the Live From Daryl's House train he's done a couple of those as well! (For *that* I vote "The Want of a Nail" for sure.)
You should listen to Todd's "Soul" Medley from his album A wizard, a True Star. Very eclectic album; the medley showcases is talent.
Now you have to try Todd on Live From Daryl's House. They tare it up together! Two songs from that show:
Didn't I
The Last Ride
Both performances are gorgeous! 👍
He’s been on tour with Daryl the past couple of years and the Daryl’s House band backs him up as well. Classic stuff. ❤
Thank you so much for listening to Todd's music! He is amazing 😍😍 This song was influenced by a high school love interest whose father made her break off the friendship with Todd. I would love to see your reaction to his song "Can We Still Be Friends". He has so many amazing songs but that is one of my favorites 💕💕
People are so close-minded. What's wrong with an open relationship? It would essentially eliminate homicides, assaults and jealousies in marriages that restrict a couple's freedom. He's right. The way things are, people really aren't free once they're in a relationship. But they could be in a freer society.
"love in such a way that the person you love feels free" - Thich Nhat Hanh. it's the only way that works, otherwise its control freak city.
Thank you so much! This song brings back so many memories!!!✌️
Always love your beautiful energy, brother, the world thank you……,
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I appreciate that
Love this song! 70's were the best❤❤❤❤❤
Love the laugh at 3:54 when Todd's launching
Excellent song.
Another great song that's on my playlist. Thank you for the review 😊
A Dream goes on Forever-Tod Rundgen-- beautiful song Brian Birch
“Master Musician” ❤️
He produced Meat Loaf’s Bat about Of Hell when no other record label wanted anything to do with it! Turned into one of the all time greatest albums! He spent his own money on that album.
The 70s has the best music ever made on this planet !
Something/Anything? Is an excellent Todd Rundgren album released in 1972 and is a double album,. I played this thing to death. It
had so many good, unique, strange and fun songs. Ilove your rant at the end about the songs, Biz keeping it real.
he sang ALL the parts here...
Todd Rundgren and his wife raised Steven Tyler’s daughter Liv Tyler (Lord of the Rings).
The song is about a couple that has already broken up.
This was a double album.He recorded 3 sides in his apartment and played every instrument.
Also Daryl Hall has him on a couple of LADH segments
It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference and Just One Victory are two of may favorites by Todd.
Love this one.....bang the drum is good too....
Great song! I haven't heard it in quite awhile.
I'm learning from watching these reactions to songs from the 70's that it was very different back then when it came to relationships. There's a group from the 70's, Dr. Hook, they got a beautiful and romantic song about the one-night stands, "Sharing the Night Together". So don't read too much into the lyrics, just chill and enjoy the vibe.
You should really do when his was on Daryl’s House. Sweet, It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference or Want of a Nail
With you on your rant! My understanding is he wrote it a year after breaking up with a girl who he had been with in high school but, as mentioned before, her parents forbid her from seeing because of his long hair. I remember that being a thing in the early 70s. I think this song perfectly captures the confusion of an 18-year-old in a relationship. The painful dichotomy of the lyrics paired with his voice and building production are 😘
LOL, you need to review Todd's "Property". If you like the music at the end of this song, I recommend "I Love My Life".
Loved your rant. You're right. Standards. Important and essential if it means anything. There is a song I can't stand called 'Why does it have to be right or wrong?" Well... it IS right or wrong.
Another song LIVE at Daryl’s House (in Hawaii at Todd’s real House) with Daryl’s band.
You give your honest reaction, and when it’s beyond just the music you do go off, with a certain accent, and seem to speak from experience observing people as you bring us along for some life philosophy.
thank you
@@watchbizmatik You’re welcome.(I found out the person your voice reminded of is from Tobago.)
Todd is one of my favorites. You are hearing his first hit (I believe). This album (Something/Anything) was his most pop album. Todd music got more 'FM'after this album and then later even less circulated. I love even his later stuff. Todd finally got into the Rock Hall of Fame but it took too long. Still waiting for Jethro Tull and Guess Who to get into the hall of fame.
I hear at alot of chicago influence in there
Chicago did a song called beginnings which has this same pattern at the end... that repeative loop
Rundgren uses a jazz element
Chicago uses carribean melodies
You should listen to that one.
Im going to listen that now.
Rundgren is just an animal in the music industry
He only had a few radio hits but he has priduced many bands
The tubes
Hall and oats
Meatloaf
And the list goes on.
He can do it all.❤
A favorite! Way up on my playlist! Thanks Biz!
It is important to remember that a song isn't necessarily telling the listener that what is happening in the song is a good way to live one's life. A song isn't necessarily dispensing advice, it may just be examining some aspect of human nature. Often a song is exploring a particular lifestyle because it is interesting, or thought-provoking, or controversial. Art explores all of life's intricate tapestry, not just the parts that are safe, or sensible, or morally acceptable to the average person. Besides, what is right for one person isn't necessarily what is right for another. We are all very different.
Dude, he's doing what all smart guys do...telling the gal what she wants to hear. They are obviously just gettting to know each other. He's a guy with game. COME ON!
Great song from the past.
Beautiful sounding song. Do Bang On the Drum All Day next
He was soo young when he wrote this.
i don't think he meant he wanted her to be free in the sense of playing around. this came out during the women's liberation movement,so he was saying he respected her as an individual,to be free to do what she wanted as far as having a career,and making her own choices. before women's lib the role of a woman was expected to be the doting housewife,and have the man's pipe and slippers ready when he came home from work with supper on the table. if anything this was a song about supporting a woman and treating her as an equal,not a possession. thus the lyric "and spend the the night if you think i should". her life, her decision.
He was talking about "free" being independent. Whether that's a "man" or a "woman" is irrelevant.
The apparent story behind this song is that his high school girlfriend's father forbid her from seeing him because he had long hair. You gotta hear more Todd! He's brilliant and as much as I love this song, there is so much more from Todd.
Black Maria is another good tune by Todd
Loved the rant!
He is also live @ Daryls house
Great Song!
Excellent interpretation.
ToDd Is GoDd!
Love Is The Answer
Verb To Love
A Dream Goes On Forever
Black And White
Black Mariah
Excellent Album
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Your rant makes me laugh. I guess that is one interpretation. But there is a different story behind these lyrics. Apparently Todd had a girlfriend in his teen years and they were very close until her dad saw the two of them walking home from school together one day and said "hell no!" you are not going out with that guy. So she dumped him. Just stopped talking to him and their relationship/friendship ended. They never spoke again. The song is represents what Todd thought would have been a better way to break it off with him. He felt that she should have ended it differently. Years later she contacted him through his agent) to ask for tickets to his concert. He sent her a couple but they never spoke. There were a lot of dad's like that back in the day. It was the time of the Vietnam war and any guy with hair down to his shoulders was off limits for their daughters. I love this song and remember listening to it when I was a kid. It always made me feel like I was floating on a cloud. Things were so different back then.
i read that this song is about the open relationship he had with his gf.
The Isley Brothers had a big hit with this song also.
You missed the angle he’s coming from. He and the woman he’s singing about are not a couple.
That being said…..
Listen to anything from “Nearly Human”.
I do like the song, though :)
Also, Liv Tyler's dad
Hell Ya Biz..... Have to back you up on that,... you want to be with me, than be with me, you want to be with him, don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out...... Keep that S.T.D. to yourself !
Interesting and diverse album.
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Tbh I enjoyed the rant a lot more than I enjoyed the song 😃
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So sick..my whole life
calm down.
He coming from an angle you don't understand!
It was the seventies...just sayin'. Women's Lib and all that:)
I saw him live in concert a few years back at a small venue , Obviously he's in his 70s now and very grouchy , He was doing more talking than singing and someone in the crowd shouted out to sing a song , And he literally told the guy to shut the f**k up ! The rest of the concert never did recover , After that night he kind of lost me as a fan ! You don't talk like that to your fans who have paid good money to see you !
Hey WizManiac you is one groovy gangsta! Word up!
Todd Rundgren is a talent.
I think Todd was talking about Liv Tyler the daughter of Steven Tyler of Aerosmith,whom Todd helped to raise partly with her mother.
She later found out Steve was her father.