Day 721 - Todd Rundgren - Something to Fall Back On

For those who don't know, I am listing my 10,000 favorite songs in this blog. This will take just under 30 years from start to completion. This blog can be found at Blogger, Livejournal for your convenience.

DAY 721
Todd Rundgren - Something to Fall Back On
From "A Cappella"
Year: 1985



First heard this song on a Todd Rundgren greatest hits compilation. I found myself wondering what kind of keyboard he was using.

That's not a keyboard.

EVERYTHING in this song started out as Todd's voice. In fact, every sound on the entire "A Cappella" album started out as Todd's voice. He altered all of his vocals to make them sound like conventional instruments. That would even be a wild project by today's standards, but such an ambitious project would have been unheard of in 1985.

Then again, it seems like Todd has been ahead of his time fairly often throughout his career. He played every instrument and sang every vocal on the first 3/4 of his "Something/Anything" album. Multi-tracking yourself isn't exactly uncommon these days, but he was doing it in 1972!

Listen to the song on Blip.fm

ROCK!

Glenn Case

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Here's my choices sorted by Artist, by album cover, and by year.