Healing

Todd Rundgren

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Original Release Date: February 1981
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B0000032PH
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #28,401 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Product Description
Special 20bit K2 Japanese limited edition issue of the album classic in a deluxe, miniaturized LP sleeve replica of the original vinyl album artwork. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Remarkable!, May 15, 2004

By	vidar (Oslo, Norway) - See all my reviews

I bought this album in 1981. I was 15, and "Healing" was one of the very first albums I bought with my own money. That's how crazy I am! And I liked it then, just as I like it now. No matter how many times I hear it, I am still taken by surprise due to its uniqueness and originality. There is no other album quite like it. It does have something in common with its predessessor, the excellent "Hermit Of Mink Hollow", but it's also very different. I like to think of "Hermit" as DAY and "Healing" as NIGHT.
This album has atmosphere! It's loaded with synths and drum machines, but don't let that scare you. Just be aware that "Healing" is very personal, spiritual, and about as idiosyncratic as it's possible for a pop album to be. My favourite track is "Shine". This song means so much to me! It is, in my opinion, a good candidate for the definitive Todd Rundgren song. Mystical, futuristic, soulful and incredibly intense. The 20-minuite long "Healing"- suite is great, even if i sometimes think part II is a bit too long. But that depends on what mood I'm in.
Still, I agree with some other reviewers, that track number 4, "Golden Goose" is out of place somehow. As a vinyl release, "Time Heals" b/w "Tiny Demons" came as a free, additional single to the album. If I could choose, the single would have been "Time Heals" b/w "Golden Goose". And "Tiny Demons" would have been track number 4 on the actual album. I use to program my disc that way, since I think it makes a tremendous improvement. Try it yourself!
For me, "Healing" will remain an album I return to frequently. This is one I will play at the oldies house!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tie with "Hermit of Mink Hollow" for best Rundgren album, September 6, 2001

By	Greg (Alpena, MI) - See all my reviews

I've been a huge fan of Todd Rundgren since the early eighties. He is a great guitarist (and does quite well on most other instruments as well), a fair singer, and an amazing composer. If you know a bit about music, and you've never heard him, the best way to describe his songs is to say that they are catchy pop, but at the same time contain alot of nice-sounding outside non-diatonic harmony.

Anyway, the best songs on this disc are Shine and Healer, and these two songs are also a perfect intro to Todd for the uninitiated. There's not really a bad song on this whole disc, though, and it's kind of a mystical, New-Age concept album. If you'd like to get into Todd Rundgren (and everybody should...), this would be a great place to start. If you're already a fan, this should definately be in your collection.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ditto - This is as good as album-making gets, March 25, 1999

By A Customer

No question one of the finest albums ever recorded. Works on every level, as a meditation on life, hurt, and anger; as an expression of the bonds all of us share; and as a stiff warning to the music industry to take his vision seriously, unvarnished and undiluted. A must have.