Faithful (album)

Faithful
Studio album by Todd Rundgren
Released	April, 1976
Genre	Pop rock
Length	50:04
Label	Bearsville Rhino
Producer	Todd Rundgren
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone (Not rated) link
Todd Rundgren chronology
Initiation (1975) Faithful (1976) Hermit of Mink Hollow (1978)

Faithful is Todd Rundgren's seventh album, released in 1976. The first side of the LP is dedicated to "faithful" re-recordings, meaning treatments approaching near-replications of the originals, of some classic 1960s psychedelic-era songs, while side two comprises original material. Rundgren explained the motivation of the first side as treating rock music like European classical music, where a piece is performed over and over again in essentially the same way. Critics generally hailed the latter half of the album as a comeback for Rundgren as a pop songwriter .

Track listing

Side one

1. "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" (Beck/McCarty/Page/Relf)
2. "Good Vibrations" (Love/Wilson)
3. "Rain" (Lennon/McCartney)
4. "Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)" (Dylan)
5. "If 6 Was 9" (Hendrix)
6. "Strawberry Fields Forever" (Lennon/McCartney)

Side two

1. "Black and White" (Rundgren)
2. "Love of the Common Man" (Rundgren)
3. "When I Pray" (Rundgren)
4. "Cliché" (Rundgren)
5. "The Verb "To Love"" (Rundgren)
6. "Boogies (Hamburger Hell)" (Rundgren)

Personnel

• Todd Rundgren - Guitar, Producer, Vocals
• Roger Powell - Trumpet, Keyboards
• John Siegler - Bass, Cello
• Jon Wilcox - Drums

Charts

Album - Billboard

Singles - Billboard