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008: Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, a True Star (1973)

Discord and Rhyme: An Album Podcast

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The Album Review - Todd Rungren

The first little bit of music we hear in this song is one of my very favorite musical devices. It's called a pedal point and it's when the bass just parks on one note or stays in its general vicinity. And then once the song kicks in what it sounds like. Well first of all you have to if you don't know what the album cover looks like I need to describe that to you. Todd Rungren is staring off into space and he has three left ears. One of them is located behind his eye. He's surrounded by flying objects and impossible geometric shapes and some kind of unreadable writing from some alien civilization or some arcane book of magic. But what it really

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