Faithful (Todd Rundgren album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Faithful
Type = Album
Artist = Todd Rundgren


Released = April 1976
Recorded =
Genre = Pop rock
Length = 50:04
Label = Bearsville
Rhino
Producer = Todd Rundgren
Reviews =
* allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:8zktk60x9krw link]
* "Rolling Stone" (Not rated) [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/119183/toddrundgren?pageid=rs.ArtistDiscography&pageregion=triple1 link]
Last album = "Initiation"
(1975)
This album = "Faithful"
(1976)
Next album = "Hermit of Mink Hollow"
(1978)

"Faithful" is Todd Rundgren's seventh album, released in 1976. The first side of the LP is dedicated to "faithful" re-recordings, meaning treatments approaching near-replications of the originals, of some classic 1960s psychedelic-era songs, while side two comprises original material.

Rundgren explained the motivation of the first side as treating rock music like European classical music, where a piece is performed over and over again in essentially the same way. Critics generally hailed the latter half of the album as a comeback for Rundgren as a pop songwriter Fact|date=February 2007.

Track listing

ide one

#"Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" (Jeff Beck, Jim McCarty, Jimmy Page, Keith Relf)
#"Good Vibrations" (Mike Love, Brian Wilson)
#"Rain" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
#"Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)" (Bob Dylan)
#"If 6 Was 9" (Jimi Hendrix)
#"Strawberry Fields Forever" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)

ide two

#"Black and White" (Rundgren)
#"Love of the Common Man" (Rundgren)
#"When I Pray" (Rundgren)
#"Cliché" (Rundgren)
#"The Verb "To Love"" (Rundgren)
#"Boogies (Hamburger Hell)" (Rundgren)

Personnel

*Todd Rundgren - Guitar, Producer, vocals
*Roger Powell - Trumpet, Keyboards
*John Siegler - Bass, Cello
*Jon Wilcox - drums

Charts

Album - Billboard

Singles - Billboard