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Oddly enough, while Todd Rundgren actually produced Bad Religion's The New America, their second and least-loved album until recently that has absolutely nothing to do with him, Into the Unknown, sounds way more like his stuff.

Has jackshit to do with Rundgren.

Literally from a record produced by Rundgren.

I'm enjoying the Stars game myself. Hope your Flyers do well ... until they face the Stars if that's a possibility of course. I'd be wishing the same to goaztecs and his Ducks were they not playing the Stars. I actually just got done watching the most recent Cosmos episode about Stars. We're up 4-2. Good night for stars. 

I hear stuff from Todd Rundgren's Utopia album on that Time and Disregard track, when he was doing more lead guitar in a prog vein. I don't hear much of him in I Love My Computer, but then he's produced so many other group's albums. Not eveything he touches sounds like him. 

Flyers didn't look good against the Rangers on Sun. It's going to be a battle for them to win the next two.

That's my point. It's odd that the band released something similar to his sound a decade or so before they may have even heard of him, but he produces something for them and his sound is not found yo. lol They didn't get along apparently though, so that could be part of it. 

Dallas looked good against the Ducks, but ... it didn't matter. 

I heard there was some clash with the XTC guys too when TR produced one of their albums.

Dammit man, you're killing me with these cheese steaks. u can't get decent ones in Arizona! 

Thousand year door is a great game.  I watched my friend play it, and I played a bit myself.  Great music, cute game.

I've been careful about my diet lately, but on game day, it's all out the window. I eat what I want.

I found myself playing Paper Mario TYD, settling into such a groove, that time just flew by. I got real comfortable with that game and could go all day with it. That's how good it is - music, graphics, gameplay, all hitting at 1000 percent.

Thousand Year Door is one of the best RPGs on the GameCube.  The chapter where you are in the wrestling ring has so many great parodies.  The writing in that game is very clever.

Yeah there were lots of contributors to the video game crash.  The ET game was one of many.

At one point in the Glitz Pit, the audience was cheering "Gonzales" all over, but one in the corner said "Jumpman? Who's that?"; and after I won the second time and was leaving the building, a huge crowd of fans surrounded me in the entranceway and little dialog bubbles were popping up all over praising me, but if you looked closely, one said, "I really have to go to the bathroom. It's an emergency!" Little jokes like these are all over this game. It's such a joy to see stuff like that.

The first part of Tic Tic Tic has kind of a Mario sound or atleast I think it would make a good song for a video game.

They were many things that set off the 1983 crash. ET was just one that iniciated a push.

Those piano chords sound really playful. 

My point exactly. To deny ET had anything to do with it, like my buddy was doing, was rediculous to me, hence the very loud arguement. It went quickly back to joking though. 

Todd is one of my favourites. I've seen him live about 5 times, twice with Utopia and 3 times playing his solo stuff. I've followed him since back in his Nazz days,

Here's the original version of Hello It's me. Looking and sounding very British invasionny even though they were clearly an American band. A little slower than Todd's version.

I've never seen him live, you lucky dog you, even though I live really close to where he grew up. I had all his albums at one point, even those Nazz ones. Open My Eyes is my fav from those years.

How about those album titles: Nazz, Nazz Nazz, Nazz III. That last one should've been called "Nazz Nazz Nazz". What up with that?

I always thought so too. LOL

The last time I saw him in Toronto we already had tickets and then got free passes at the last minute from Vince Welnick of The Tubes who happened to be in Todd's band at the time.

Vince had hooked up with my friend Debbie at some point and she talked him into getting us all back stage passes.

Good memories. :)

Cool!

I played Thousand-Year Door without the help of a guide when it first came out (or Internet for that matter since I didn't get my first laptop until about a year or two later), though I spent a large amount of play-time wondering where to go next to make the story move forward.

I've got my friend's computer two feet from my screen all the time. Kinda hard not to look up a guide, but I resisted it most of the time. I only looked up something when I felt I would have to search the entire world for the answer. 

One of those times was in trying to get into the cave on Keelhaul Island. I did the right combinations of hits on the statues but nothing happened. The guide reminded me of the crystal skull that Flavio had. You would think Flavio, standing there watching you wack away, would say, "hey, I got this skull that might be useful." It was another "duh" moment. I should've remembered he had that thing.

I go with the play value video series that tells how the video game crash took place. ET was part of it but so was the flood of bad games being made on the 2600. They only reason why Atari went into PC's is because the guy that bought atari back then also own commodore 64.

Atari was so afraid of third parties when Activision started, but then they let just anyone make an Atari game. What was up with that?