Something/Anything?, Todd Rundgren, 1972, 1:28
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
An undoubtedly impressive feat, this double album. Rundgren wrote the songs and played all the instruments on this double album (except for the last few songs). I'm coming to this backwards, because I only know Rundgren from his later, more experimental stuff. Based on the material on this album he's been called "the male Carole King," and it really is an apt epithet. Frank ballads, sort of AOR-pop, with just a little bit of the mischievous imp here and there (like on the song "Slut"). It's an assured, intelligent, well-made and even beautiful album, but not my style. Favorite tracks: "Wolfman Jack," "I Saw the Light."
