History Music / SomethingAnything

* MusicalPastiche: "I Saw The Light" for Music/CaroleKing, "Song Of The Viking" for Creator/GilbertAndSullivan, "Little Red Lights" for Music/JimiHendrix.

* NamesTheSame: "Dust in the Wind" is not the Music/{{Kansas}} song.

* {{Pastiche}}: "Slut" could practically be a lost [[Music/TheRollingStones Rolling Stones]] song.

The 1972 double album ''Something/Anything?'' is Music/ToddRundgren's third and most successful album as a solo artist. Though heavily influenced by the SingerSongwriter movement - Music/LauraNyro in particular - different songs range into [[PsychedelicRock psychedelia]], Creator/{{Motown}} {{Soul}}, PowerPop, early SynthPop, and even opera. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the ''Something/Anything?'' sessions involved copious Ritalin use by the singer. Rundgren played every instrument on the first three sides, but after an earthquake struck his UsefulNotes/LosAngeles studio, Rundgren set up live sessions in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and at his upstate Bearsville studio to complete the final side with a rotating series of session players chosen for him by keyboardist Moogy Klingman.

* {{Instrumentals}}: "Breathless"

* LastNoteNightmare: "The Night The Carousel Broke Down". "Saving Grace" is an inversion, being a standard soft-rock songs other than starting off with a creepy bass note and unintelligible BlackSpeech.

The 1972 double album ''Something/Anything?'' is Music/ToddRundgren's third and most successful album as a solo artist. Though heavily influenced by the SingerSongwriter movement - Music/LauraNyro in particular - different songs range into [[PsychedelicRock psychedelia]], Creator/{{Motown}} Music/{{Soul}}, PowerPop, early SynthPop, and even opera. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the ''Something/Anything?'' sessions involved copious Ritalin use by the singer. Rundgren played every instrument on the first three sides, but after an earthquake struck his UsefulNotes/LosAngeles studio, Rundgren set up live sessions in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and at his upstate Bearsville studio to complete the final side with a rotating series of session players chosen for him by keyboardist Moogy Klingman.

* SongStyleShift: "Hello It's Me" starts out as soft-rock before the horns and chorus drag it into Music/{{Soul}} territory.

* SelfBackingVocalist
* SillyLoveSongs / RealLifeWritesThePlot: Several songs are about one of Rundgren's botched high school relationships, which in turn led to mild CreatorBacklash.

The 1972 double album ''Something/Anything?'' is Music/ToddRundgren's third and most successful album as a solo artist. Though heavily influenced by the SingerSongwriter movement - Laura Nyro in particular - different songs range into [[PsychedelicRock psychedelia]], Creator/{{Motown}} Music/{{Soul}}, PowerPop, early SynthPop, and even opera. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the ''Something/Anything?'' sessions involved copious Ritalin use by the singer. Rundgren played every instrument on the first three sides, but after an earthquake struck his Los Angeles studio, Rundgren set up live sessions in New York City and at his upstate Bearsville studio to complete the final side with a rotating series of session players chosen for him by keyboardist Moogy Klingman.

* StudioChatter / ThrowItIn: All over the record, most famously the botched drum take and "Mother of Goooddddddd!" introducing "Couldn't I Just Tell You"

The commercial and critical success of ''Something/Anything?'' was something of a double-edged sword for Rundgren, who set out immediately to avoid being pigeonholed as a SingerSongwriter on the followup ''A Wizard, A True Star'', aiming to be more of a cult artist and paradoxically ensuring that ''Something/Anything?'' would remain his best-known release.

* CoverVersion: "Money (That's What I Want"

* ThreeMinutePopSong: "I Saw The Light" (3:01) - in the notes, Rundgren says that if there's a hit on the album, this is it.

!!Before we go any further, I'd like to show you a tropes list I made up, and once can be made for any album, even this one:

* TheSomthingSong: "Song Of The Viking", "Torch Song"

!!Before we go any further, I'd like to show you a tropes list I made up, and you can make one up for any album, including this one:

* SpokenWordInMusic: On "Intro", Rundgren creates makes a game of spotting potential production errors on any album, maybe even your favorite album! [[RecordNeedleScratch Then he gets cut off]] and "Breathless" starts up.

* LastNoteNightmare: "The Night The Carousel Broke Down"

* InTheStyleOf: "Wolfman Jack" is styled after Creator/MotownRecords.

The 1972 double album ''Something/Anything?'' is Music/ToddRundgren's third and most successful album as a solo artist. Though heavily influenced by the SingerSongwriter movement - Laura Nyro in particular - different songs range into [[PsychedelicRock psychedelia]], Creator/{{Motown}} Music/{{Soul}}, early SynthPop, and even opera. Rundgren played every instrument on the first three sides