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#795 Todd Rundgren on His Virtual Tour, Meat Loaf, Plus Opinions on The Weather Station

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Society & Culture, Music, Arts

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot talk with Todd Rundgren about his own music, his virtual tour and his career as a producer, this week. They also review the new album from The Weather Station.

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Featured Songs:

Nazz, "Open My Eyes," Nazz, SGC, 1968

The Weather Station, "Robber," Ignorance, Fat Possum, 2021

The Weather Station, "Parking Lot," Ignorance, Fat Possum, 2021

The Weather Station, "Atlantic," Ignorance, Fat Possum, 2021

Todd Rundgren, "I Saw the Light," Something/Anything?, Bearsville, 1972

Todd Rundgren, "Hello It's Me," Something/Anything?, Bearsville, 1972

Todd Rundgren, "Can We Still Be Friends," Hermit of Mink Hollow, Bearsville, 1978

Todd Rundgren, "Parallel Lines," Nearly Human, Warner Bros., 1989

Todd Rundgren, "The Want of a Nail (with Bobby Womack)," Nearly Human, Warner Bros., 1989

Todd Rundgren, "Bang the Drum All Day," The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect, Bearsville, 1982

Todd Rundgren, "I Love My Life," Nearly Human, Warner Bros., 1989

XTC, "The Meeting Place," Skylarking, Geffen, 1986

Meat Loaf, "Bat Out of Hell," Bat Out of Hell, Cleveland International, 1977

Meat Loaf, "Paradise By the Dashboard Light," Bat Out of Hell, Cleveland International, 1977

Todd Rundgren, "Couldn't I Just Tell You," Something/Anything?, Bearsville, 1972

XTC, "Dear God," Skylarking, Geffen, 1986

Patti Smith Group, "Dancing Barefoot," Wave, Arista, 1979

Fleetwood Mac, "The Chain," Rumours, Warner Bros., 1977

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to sound opinions and later in the show we'll talk with artist and producer Todd Rungren

0:06.1

about his new virtual tour producing the mighty bat out of hell and more.

0:11.6

But first we've got some new music. I never saw nobody climb over my fence, no black bag, no gloved hand.

0:28.0

I never believed in the rubber.

0:36.0

I figured everything took was gone.

0:40.0

Nothing it did, nothing to be done. That is a little bit of the song Robber the opening track on ignorance the fifth album from the fifth album from The Weather Station.

0:54.4

Greg, the Weather Station is a band, a unit,

0:56.8

but for all intents and purposes,

0:58.2

it is really one extraordinary singer-songwriter, Tamara Lindemannann who has been performing as the weather

1:05.1

station for some time. She'd cut her teeth singing in the folk clubs and

1:12.2

coffee houses of that vibrant Toronto scene.

1:15.7

She migrated to Toronto after growing up in a rural part of Ontario, Canada, singing to herself, singing in the choir, she began writing the songs for this

1:26.6

new album, Ignorance, in early 2019, at home playing on a toy keyboard.

1:35.0

But when she went in to record, she said her goals were the more lush

1:40.0

orchestral sounds of, you know, vintage Fleetwood Mac, Roxy Music, and Talk Talk, an interesting

1:48.8

influence there. Let's play a track from this new album, Ignorance, Tamara Lindemann's fifth record, and we'll come back and give our reviews.

1:58.0

This is Parking Lot by Weather Station on Sound sound demand. and land on the rooftop

2:14.0

upper get into the sky

2:18.0

in the out of sight

2:20.0

then flying down the gate to land on the pavement.

2:27.0

You felt in the internet to watch it in small chest, rising and falling

2:38.0

rising and falling.

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