Sounds Of The Studio

• Jay Laush, Lynnwood, WA notes

  The "Baby Let's Swing" medley on the B-side of the "We Gotta Get You a Woman" single has a different mix than the album. After the "1-2-3-5" count-in, it starts immediately on "Laura I saw you open in LA", skipping the little Latin bit. Also, the transition into "The Last Thing You Said" is not so abrupt and even sounds like the pitches have been matched. Ditto on the change to "Don't Tie My Hands". It's almost like it was slopped together for the LP but someone put more work into the single, even if it was just a B-side. As much as everyone wants the "lost" Runt tracks to see the official light of day, I hope this version of the medley can see a digital release.

• Brian Little: From the first Nazz CD, a definite cough on When I Get My Plane at 0:28 & a maybe cough (something) on See What You Can Be at 1:57.
• Bruce #43 offers: I was just listening to "Todd" the song being "I Think You Know". At 2:21 into the song you can clearly hear a cough.
• Roger Linder: In listening to AWATS on headphones, I was jarred to discover an apparent flaw during the medley. At 3:44 into the song the lyrics are:

  Mistakes, I know I've made a few...

  And during the singing of the word "mistakes" the sound level on the left channel drops almost completely out.
  [Update] TR indicated during a Rundgren Radio interview on May 5, 2009 that this was not intentional.
• Another from Bruce #43: On Todd Rundgren's Utopia, the song being "Freedom Fighters" at 1:36 the left channel drops out for a micro second.
• Roger Linder: In "Hope I'm Around" on Ballad, from 0:51-0:53, the track has a bit of a burble.
• Brian Leonard notes: The final two notes of "Le Feel Internacionale", the end of Side 1 of the elpee, are missing on my CD (AWATS). (Is this the case for all CD pressings??)

  Charlie Olver writes:
  No - just the Rhino (US) and Castle (UK) ones. (Castle used Rhino's digital master for this album, although most of their Todd reissues were newly remastered.) There's an old ('80s) Dutch pressing on Bearsville that has the ending intact (and also has a gap before the beginning of what-once-was-Side 2); so does the Japanese mini-LP-sleeved remaster, which is still available. Incidentally, I'm not usually a sucker for these mini-LP-sleeve things, but this one is really nice - the cover is die-cut, and inside is the original inner-sleeve/lyric sheet, the Patti Smith poem insert, AND the postcard (the one that the names on the Todd poster were derived from)... all miniaturized (but printed very clearly). Let's hear it for attention to detail (Ra, Ra, Ra)!

• Jonathan Risen notes that Something/Anything?'s "Hello It's Me" has a tape dropout at 2:25.
• Almost too obvious to mention: On the Something/Anything "Hello It's Me", at 2:57, Todd seemingly stumbles over the word "I'll", and he sings "Come....around to see you once in awhile" This was issued as the single and became the "hit" version. (T. Storm Hunter)
• Johanthan Risen also hears Todd sniff between verses (as if he had a cold) at 0:27 on "Does Anybody Love You" (A Wizard, A True Star).