As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Sunday, February 23, 2014

#78 A Dream Goes On Forever -- Todd Rundgren (1974)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAezJqZYHkU

Todd Rundgren may have been one of the most ambitious and eclectic musical figures of his generation (note-for-note recreation of “Good Vibrations,” anyone?), but he was never better than when he was crafting great classic pop songs. “A Dream Goes On Forever” was never a big hit, perhaps because it was not nearly as catchy as “I Saw the Light” or “We Gotta Get You a Woman”, but it’s one of his most affecting efforts. A close second would be “Love Is the Answer,” whose incredibly soulful cover version by England Dan and John Ford Coley (of all people) deservedly hit the top 10 in 1979.

All in all, I guess I can forgive him for producing Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell album.   ;-)
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