One Long Year

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Personnel: Todd Rundgren (vocals, various instruments); Jesse Gress, Ken Emerson (guitar); John Ferenzik (keyboards); Kasim Sulton (bass); Prairie Prince (drums). Todd Rundgren, last heard dispensing bossa nova remakes of his better known tunes on WITH A TWIST, returns to form here with an ambitious yet accessible album that ranks among his best. If it's not quite the masterpiece of SOMETHING/ANYTHING, it's in the same spirit-- stylistically all over the map, with Rundgren dabbling in as many genres as he can crowd on to one CD, to mostly superior effect. The opening track, "I Hate My Frickin' ISP," is a big guitar-driven power pop tune in his classic manner (it's also very funny--if he's not being sincere here he's faking it brilliantly); "Buffalo Grass" is a gigantic production ballad that sounds like the apotheosis of his work with Hall and Oates; "Jerk" seems to be a Rundgren-esque version of techno; and the instrumental "Mary and the Holy Ghost" is a sort of sampled high tech update of musique concrete a la the Beatles "Revolution Number Nine." There's also a hilarious solo live version of his 1982 New Wave hit "Bang the Drum All Day," done here in the style of Don Ho, and an opulent remake of the originally rather spare "Love of the Common Man," first heard on FAITHFUL.