Label: Castle Music Ltd. (UK), ESD CD 672
Style: Pop Rock
Country: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. (June 22, 1948)
Time: 43:17, 45:59
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 273, 297 Mb
To say this album is a masterpiece would be underselling it. I don’t feel this album comes up in conversation when people discuss landmark rock albums of last century, or even the 70s.
Each side is separated as follows: ‘A Bouquet of Ear-catching Melodies,’ ‘The Cerebral Side,’ ‘The Kid Gets Heavy’ & ‘Baby Needs a New Pair of Snakeskin Boots (A Pop Operetta).’ The first three sides were recorded in L.A., with every instrument and vocal by Rundgren himself. He also produced those songs. Awe-inspiring talent. The last side was recorded in New York by a ragtag group of musicians. Essentially, anyone who happened to be in or near the studio was roped in to record. The songs were written at a prolific rate thanks to Ritalin and weed.
Unusually, Rundgren, a non-proficient drummer, recorded the drums first on each track, humming the rest of the song to himself as he did it. If he made a mistake on the drums, he changed the rest of the song around the mistake as it was too difficult to go back and re-record. The hits from this one were ‘I Saw The Light’ (inspired by Carole King) and ‘Hello It’s Me,’ a cover of his own band, Nazz. But this is really an album that needs to be listened to in full (and not with two other albums between Sides B and C.)
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