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buffalo7478
With Todd, expect the unexpected. Everything from blue-eyed soul to rock to prog to experimental and currently electronic dance music.
He worked producing The Tubes, Psychedelic Furs, XTC and many others.
His live shows can be completely different from one tour to another...not just setlist, but genre.
Yes indeed. He can change like a chameleon from album to album, tour to tour, much like Neil Young or Bowie. He also has been a musical pioneer, with some of the earliest forays into music video production, the first truly interactive performer (Woodstock '94 or '99), could make an entire album himself (all instruments, vocals, producing, engineering), computer graphic images live during a show, and was the first artist to play a live stereo broadcast show on FM radio.
Since he has such a large and varied back catalog, I'd agree with others to try out a compilation first,
Enjoy your Todd adventures. He's a theater-level draw now, but back in 1979 I saw him headline an all-day festival over the Cars, Cheap Trick, Eddie Money, etc. and he was on the bill with Skynyrd, 10cc and the Stones at Knebworth 1976. An invaluable, but often overlooked, artist in our modern frenzied world of media.
Some faves:
Classic solo lovelorn ballad, A Dream Lives on Forever:
Jubilant anthem with Utopia, Just One Victory:
Johnnie Jingo, from the all voice-generated album A Cappella:
Cliche, from the album Faithful, side 2 of which he tried to successfully recreate classics from Hendrix, Beach Boys, Beatles, etc: