Healing (Todd Rundgren album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Healing
Type = Album
Artist = Todd Rundgren


Released = February, 1981
Recorded =
Genre = New Age music
Pop rock
Power pop
Length = 53:37
Label = Bearsville
Rhino
Producer = Todd Rundgren
Reviews =
* allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:en59kext7q7m link]
* "Rolling Stone" Rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/221554/toddrundgren?pageid=rs.ArtistDiscography&pageregion=triple1 link]
Last album = "Back to the Bars"
(1978)
This album = "Healing"
(1981)
Next album = "The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect"
(1983)

"Healing" is Todd Rundgren's ninth studio album, released in 1981. It showcased a much gentler, much less experimental side of Rundgren that was rarely shown. The album had a spiritual side to it as well, that Rundgren had hinted at, but explored fully here. While the album lacks many true standout songs, the album flows as a whole, making it one of his finest serious albums, and the beginning of an underrated run of work released throughout the 1980s.

The song "Time Heals" was among the first music videos aired on MTV.

In 1989, members of a Connecticut-based fan network called The Nexus, publishers of "Utopia Times," voted "Healing" their favorite Rundgren album, although it was relegated to second place the following year in favor of his then-newest album, "Nearly Human."

Track listing

All songs by Todd Rundgren.

ide one

#"Healer"
#"Pulse"
#"Flesh"
#"Golden Goose"
#"Compassion"
#"Shine"

ide two

#Healing, Part I
#Healing, Part II
#Healing, Part III

7-inch disc

In its original vinyl configuration, "Healing" included an additional 7-inch record with two songs:
#"Time Heals"
#"Tiny Demons"These form the last two tracks on the compact disc version.

Personnel

*Todd Rundgren - Arranger, Engineer, Instruments, Producer, Vocals

Charts

Album - Billboard

Singles - Billboard

Footnotes