Something/Anything?

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艺人: Todd Rundgren
语种: 英语
厂牌: Rhino / Bearsville
发行时间: 1972年02月01日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

专辑介绍

1972 年，23岁的Todd凭借这张公认的摇滚杰作成为了国际摇滚巨星。这张摇滚史上最出色的双专辑之一的作品&Something/Anything?& 中倾注了Todd个人的灵感，才华和汗水。专辑被Todd分为四部分，前三部分完全由Todd一人全包全揽了创作，演唱，演奏和制作的繁重工作，而在第四部分则邀请了很多专业乐手助兴演奏，还有Randy Brecker和Micheal Brecker(The Brecker兄弟真是赶场无数啊。。。。。。)在管乐部分的增色。

专辑中包括了Carole King式的&I Saw the Light&，Randy Newman式的&Piss Aaron&，Van Morrison全盛时期风格的&Dust in the Wind&，Zappa口味的&Some Folks Even Whiter Than Me&，强烈启发了&Boston&这样乐队的&Couldn't I Just Tell You&(我自己这样觉得)，传统民谣的&Hello It's Me&，Motown风味的&Wolfman Jack&，古怪奇特的&I Went to the Mirror&，&It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference&(R&B)，，&Sweeter Memories&(蓝眼睛Soul)，&Breathless&(电子实验乐)，&Black Maria&(迷幻摇滚)，&Little Red Light&(早期重金属)，&Slut&(硬摇滚)，还有让我难以形容的美妙动听的&Cold Morning Light&，而且通篇作品常常间或弥漫拉丁乐及Jazz的氛围&It takes two to tango&。。。。。。这张专辑不仅可以看作一册装帧印刷精致的流行乐百科全书;更是一场音乐领域个人才华，野心与探索的极限挑战;一程所有人内心生活和思考的隐秘探索之旅;一席绝妙旋律听觉的完美夜宴。

简言之，这是一张货真价实的Masterwork。

这张专辑在滚石杂志选出的500张历代最强专辑中排名第173位。

Others had recorded one-man albums before Todd Rundgren, most notably Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney, but with Something/Anything? he captured the homemade ambience of McCartney with the visionary feel of Music of My Mind, adding an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music from Gilbert & Sullivan through Jimi Hendrix, plus the crazed zeal of a pioneer. Listening to Something/Anything? is a mind-altering trip in itself, no matter how many shamelessly accessible pop songs are scattered throughout the album, since each side of the double-record is a concept unto itself. The first is &a bouquet of ear-catching melodies&; side two is &the cerebral side&; on side three &the kid gets heavy&; side four is his mock pop operetta, recorded with a full band including the Sales Brothers. It gallops through everything -- Carole King tributes (&I Saw the Light&), classic ballads (&Hello It's Me,& &It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference&), Motown (&Wolfman Jack&), blinding power pop (&Couldn't I Just Tell You&), psychedelic hard rock (&Black Maria&), pure weirdness (&I Went to the Mirror&), blue-eyed soul (&Dust in the Wind&), and scores of brilliant songs that don't fall into any particular style (&Cold Morning Light,& &It Takes Two to Tango&). It's an amazing journey that's remarkably unpretentious. Rundgren peppers his writing with self-aware, self-deprecating asides, indulging his bizarre sense of humor with gross-outs (&Piss Aaron&) and sheer quirkiness, such as an aural tour of the studio at the beginning of side two. There are a ton of loose ends throughout Something/Anything?, plenty of studio tricks, slight songs (but no filler), snippets of dialogue, and purposely botched beginnings, but all these throwaways simply add context -- they're what makes the album into a kaleidoscopic odyssey through the mind of an insanely gifted pop music obsessive.

Something/Anything?

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