Sometimes when I'm listening to Todd Rundgren...

[Jim Anchower]

...I think that he may be the single most talented person in the post-war pop idiom, outside jazzers of course, but they're not really in the 'pop' idiom. I'm not saying he's got the 'best' catelog of songs, but he may be the most ability, though he's chosen to harness it in different ways. If he felt inclined to just write perfect pop songs he would probably have no equal excepting maybe, Lour Reed, David Bowie Paul McCartney or Brian Wilson, but he'd be their peer. As far as those guys go, he's pretty much the American David Bowie (just as McCartney and Wilson are analagous, interestingly enought).

Thoughts?

PS: Mind blowing performer as well.

 

[Macanudo]

This Todd Rundgren?

I love that song. It's one of my guilty pleasures. But yeah, Rundgren is a talented dude.

 

[irishtexan]

Hendrix woulda wrote **** like that if he was around in 83. It was clearly a period of very bad judgment for extraordinarily talented people.

Cocaine is a helluva drug.