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I really enjoyed your Utopia album analysis! I am a big Utopia fan. This is my album grades: 1. S - Adventures in Utopia (One of the greatest albums in history, and Caravan is my favorite Utopia song) 2. S - Utopia (The Ikon is arguably the greatest art rock song in history) 3. A - Ra 4. A - Swing to the Right (I love the feel of this album with the Droste Effect used on the cover, it is like a Hipgnosis album cover) 5. A - Oops Wrong Planet (Love is the Answer is one of the greatest ever) 6. A - Utopia (Feet Don't Fail Me Now is one of my favorites. For some reason Roger Powell singing songs are incredible!) 7. B - POV (Terrific last album. Makes me sad though being the last. Maybe a miracle new album will happen) 8. B - Oblivion (I am a big fan of Cry Baby and the Mtv video) 9. B - Disco Jets (I liked the first song on it, it could have been used as the Sonic Hedgehog theme music throughout the video game) 10 - C - Deface the Music (I did not like the direction they took here, Beatles copy)

As a long time Todd & Utopia fan would fully agree with your rankings, only minor point would have included Another Live as it contains four original Utopia songs such as Another Life, The Seven Rays & Mister triscuits. These are great songs and showcase the band’s evolution but can understand as the remaining songs are covers. Much appreciate your dedication and insight. Thanks a lot

Love your in depth critique. Found myself nodding in the affirmative throughout. Bravo

Like a previous commenter said, my opinion is almost exactly opposite. Oblivion is by far my favorite album. How can you not like the guitar work on “Welcome to my Revolution”. I would classify it as a more alternative 80’s sounding album, with the exception of “Crybaby” more in a straight rock/pop style. It could easily fit into the programming on Sirius/XM’s First Wave channel. Interestingly, when I had Kasim Sultan autograph my copy he told me it was one of his favorites. So it it Oblivion, Adventures, Oops, Ra, POV, and Swing for me. Deface is the low point for me and I really believe it hurt the band. They were building with Adventures, the follow up with Deface turned a lot of people off and I don’t think they recovered from it.

Love your in depth analysis of the albums and the songs. My disagreements with your rankings would be ... I would put Disco Jets into the B category, Swap Deface with Oops, drop Swing to a C. Oblivion and P.O.V. go to A for me. Well done!

My ranking is practically an upside-down version of this. Can't stand the progressive stuff (Utopia, RA), while Oblivion is probably my favorite Utopia album (the Network Utopia and POV albums are a close second).

The ranking almost seems like " earliest best , later , worse " but I think without exception every Todd product has at least a few " worth the price of admission " songs. So this is most for your money ?

I believe ranking a band that has 2 distinctive sounds. My friends loved the prog Era, which I've never had the attention span to dig into that space. I entered at the self-titled album and I'm decidedly more of a power pop music fan. Therefore, the 'utopia and 'oblivion ' records were highly influential to me as a listener. 😮😮

You missed an album Todd Rundgren’s Utopia - Another Live 1975 yes, it’s a live album, but it’s a live album of new material just like the first one it does have a couple of covers is but still considered a Utopian release discography it is not a typical live album release

TR's Utopia : S. Wow... An A for Disco Jets ! I personally don't dislike it and really like a couple of tunes. Listened to it again to remember it and Disco Jets, the tune, is actually both very good and easy to listen to. Rising sign, very good too. Cosmic Convoy, good and easy too. As a whole, very synth oriented and easy to listen to. As a side project, it's fun. Would be a B for me. Recorded in two days if my memory serves me correctly... Ra : A. Electrified Fairy tale is very good to introduce children to prog music. Oops : B for me. Windows is great indeed. Adventures : A for me. Very good. Deface, Swing and Utopia : some songs are A, others are B. Oblivion : S. Favorite power pop album ever. POV : almost an S. Only A because of Mystified and Zen Machine.

I would rate every Utopia albul as an S ...>EXCEPT for Deface the Music .... Hio Paloi is a really good track but other than that its not listenable to me I can literally BINGE on any other UTOPIA album for days at a time ..... especially UTOPIA 2 album which I am known by my piers to sing out loud with absolutely no shame ...

My favorite is Another Live.

I will not get mad at this guy's opinion of Swing to the Right *listens to the guys opinion on Swing to the Right* I will get mad at this guy's opinion of Swing to the Right

u forgot travis scott bud

TRU A AL B DJ C RA A Oops B Adv B Def B Swing C Network B Oblivion B POV C