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"RA" featuring Hiroshima

millionrainbows | 08/31/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

""Hiroshima" is the reason to get "RA", this Utopia CD. This Japanese remastered version sounds excellent, which is important to me on a "noisy" rock recording with cymbals and loud, continuously maxed-out tracks. Also, "Hiroshima" is important to me for another reason: I get that song out every August in honor of the event. Growing tired of my outdated domestic CD, this year I unconsciously ordered this import remastered CD from musicjapan just at the same time the anniversary happened to be approaching, receiving the CD with a thank-you note on the day. Somewhat ironic, wouldn't you say? Talk about serendipity, or else my 'subconscious' is more conscious than I give it credit for. This song is the single strongest artistic statement that Todd Rundgren ever made, and you talk about chills! I hope you will get to hear this brilliant song sometime, hopefully before next August. Get it and join with me in honoring those who died so tragically and needlessly."

Ahhh the 70's

D. W. Daker | Lombard, IL United States | 07/09/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Such a resplendent and creative display of musical virtuosity and unbridled creativity could have only occurred during the 1970's before the age of corporate rock. Every vocal is spot on. Every transition and turnaround is well thought out. Ok so some of the material and its underlying meanings may be lost during the transition of thirty odd years, but the spark is still there. At the time this album was a quintessential musical waypoint in my personal development as a listener.



DON'T YOU EVER F***ING FORGET!

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