Utopia Album Ranking!

Sweet!!! Looking forward to this!

Great show guys, tom, todd, and lets not forget Grant 😎👍🎼👍👍👍

My ranking: I think of the six-man "Todd Rundgren's Utopia" as a different band, basically a 'Todd plus backing band' situation. From "Ra" onwards they became a different kind of band, one that followed the Beatles model of of 4 singer/songwriters who were more or less equals, all taking lead vocals, etc. So my ranking reflects that I prefer the 4 man line-up, while still appreciating the earlier band. My top three here are based on the ones that I think I've given the most listening time over the decades, while the others are still all great albums that I would rate about equally. 1. Adventures in Utopia" 2. Utopia (self-titled '82) 3. Ooops, Wrong Planet 4. RA 5. P.O.V. 6. Oblivion 7. Deface the Music 8. Swing To the Right 9. Another Live 10. Todd Rundgren's Utopia

Yes! A trifecta on MY favorite Utopia album, too!! Whoot Whoot!!! Plus, forty minutes after the livestream ended, I’m almost done with this video! Cheers from work in The Big Apple. Rock Out & Prog On, in a Scott Muni music marathon! Your doppelgänger and mine, ~ The Deserted Dessert of Davey Cretin from CRETIN CLASSICS.

I picked Adventures number 1 last year when Todd, Grant and I picked our top Utopia albums on GRW.

I need to sit down and do a Utopia ranking. Got 'em all on vinyl. Remember getting a bunch of them from a pawn shop in Northampton, Mass. $1 each for Oblivion, Oops, Ra, Deface and Swing. Someone's misfortune was my good luck.

Tom Curless -Agree so much with your comments around 42 mins. in, "why is everything that sounds 80s apparently bad now"?. This has become my pet peeve in music discussions, and particularly on a lot of the prog-based YouTube shows. "Horrible 80s production" seems to be repeated ad nauseum, as if it's a foregone conclusion. To me, some of the best-sounding, sonically deep albums I've heard are from the 80s, from The Moody Blues "Long Distance Voyager" & "The Present", to Rush's "synth period" albums, to Peter Gabriel's 3rd album (Melt?), to some of the Utopia albums discussed here. It seems that now the entire decade is denigrated to the point where it's nearly like a phobia now...there is something bizarre about hearing prog-rock fans complaining about "synthesizers" on albums when they are fans of the genre that elevated synths more than any other, apart from electronic acts like Tangerine Dream, etc.

If any of you aren't familiar with the 2019 reunion/release "Live at The Chicago Theater", by all means, search it out! (Most of it's on YouTube as well.) Roger Powell didn't participate, but, the rest of the guys are there and all these incredible songs mentioned here sound magnificent in their updated, live versions!

Ex Aequo at number one : Todd Rundgren's Utopia and Oblivion ( both into my 20 alltime favorite albums ) Ex Aequo at number two : POV, Adventures and Another live Ex Aequo at number three : Ra, Deface and the three sides album Number four : Swing Number five : Ooops

Todd 7/4/75. Nelson's Ledges! From the heart of Northeast Ohio to the U. of H campus, I've seen Todd a few times.

Willie sent me an e-mail and told me he wrote the music for "Only Human"

I'm sorry but you guys are pretty lame