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* ContractualObligationProject: Rundgren has stated that ''The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect'' was recorded just so he could get out of his contract with Bearsville, in spite of including above-mentioned BlackSheepHit.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He was involved with the production of ''[[Music/KanyeWest Donda]]'' thanks to BigNameFan 88-Keys, but claims that his contributions were unused before offering a [[https://www.stereogum.com/2160627/todd-rundgren-kanye-west-donda/news/ blunt assessment]] of Kanye's [[TheDitherer process]].

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He was involved with the production of ''[[Music/KanyeWest Donda]]'' thanks to BigNameFan fan 88-Keys, but claims that his contributions were unused before offering a [[https://www.stereogum.com/2160627/todd-rundgren-kanye-west-donda/news/ blunt assessment]] of Kanye's [[TheDitherer process]].process]].
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** Wayne Gladstone uses a snippet of Utopia's "Everybody Else Is Wrong" as his intro for his Website/{{Cracked}} series ''Hate by Numbers''.

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** Wayne Gladstone uses a snippet of Utopia's "Everybody Else Is Wrong" as his intro for his Website/{{Cracked}} series ''Hate by Numbers''.Numbers''.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He was involved with the production of ''[[Music/KanyeWest Donda]]'' thanks to BigNameFan 88-Keys, but claims that his contributions were unused before offering a [[https://www.stereogum.com/2160627/todd-rundgren-kanye-west-donda/news/ blunt assessment]] of Kanye's [[TheDitherer process]].

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* DoingItForTheArt: Seems to be his only reason for being involved in music.
** If an act he's producing has unfinished songs, he's been known to finish their songs, but refuse a writer's credit for doing so.
** When making ''A Wizard, a True Star'', he sought "to imprint the chaos in my head onto a record without trying to clean it up for everyone else's benefit," which he acknowledged resulted in a loss of half his audience at the time. He wasn't remotely bothered about this. Admittedly, he'd made enough money from production that he didn't have to worry too much about the success of his solo material, which essentially afforded him a form of ProtectionFromEditors as well.



** At home games at Lambeau Field, "Bang The Drum All Day" is played every time the [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Green Bay Packers]] score a touchdown.

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** At home games at Lambeau Field, "Bang The the Drum All Day" is played every time the [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Green Bay Packers]] score a touchdown.
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* OneOfUs: The reason he became a RecordProducer is because he was dissatisfied with the production on Nazz' work and wanted to do a better job for others. He also considered becoming a computer programmer for a time in the late 1960s/early 1970s.
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* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}: Did the cover art for the 1978 LiveAlbum ''Back to the Bars''.
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* BlackSheepHit: "Bang the Drum All Day" isn't very typical of his work.

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* BlackSheepHit: "Bang the Drum All Day" isn't very typical of his work. To be fair, his output is so stylistically diverse that no single song ''could'' be very typical of his work, but "Bang the Drum All Day" is an outlier even by those standards.
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** At home games at Lambeau Field, "Bang The Drum All Day" is played every time the Green Bay Packers score a touchdown.

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** At home games at Lambeau Field, "Bang The Drum All Day" is played every time the [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Green Bay Packers Packers]] score a touchdown.
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* CriticalDissonance: Critics didn't like ''Todd Rundgren's Utopia'' very much, but it's the second best selling Utopia album and ProgressiveRock fans still love it.
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* OneOfUs: The reason he became a RecordProducer is because he was dissatisfied with the production on Nazz' work and wanted to do a better job for others. He also considered becoming a computer programmer for a time in the early 1970s.

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* OneOfUs: The reason he became a RecordProducer is because he was dissatisfied with the production on Nazz' work and wanted to do a better job for others. He also considered becoming a computer programmer for a time in the early late 1960s/early 1970s.
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* OneOfUs: The reason he became a RecordProducer is because he was dissatisfied with the production on Nazz' work and wanted to do a better job for others. He also considered becoming a computer programmer for a time in the early 1970s.
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* BlackSheepHit: "Bang the Drum All Day" isn't very typical of his work.

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* RealSongThemeTune: Wayne Gladstone uses a snippet of Utopia's "Everybody Else Is Wrong" as his intro for his Website/{{Cracked}} series ''Hate by Numbers''.

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** At home games at Lambeau Field, "Bang The Drum All Day" is played every time the Green Bay Packers score a touchdown.
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Wayne Gladstone uses a snippet of Utopia's "Everybody Else Is Wrong" as his intro for his Website/{{Cracked}} series ''Hate by Numbers''.
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* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}: Did the cover art for the 1978 LiveAlbum ''Back to the Bars''.

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* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}: Did the cover art for the 1978 LiveAlbum ''Back to the Bars''.Bars''.
* RealSongThemeTune: Wayne Gladstone uses a snippet of Utopia's "Everybody Else Is Wrong" as his intro for his Website/{{Cracked}} series ''Hate by Numbers''.
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* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}: Did the cover art for the 1978 LiveAlbum ''Back to the Bars''.

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