Runt
by Todd Rundgren

Runt by Todd Rundgren
Year: 1970
Overall rank: 15,467th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 57 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1970 (191st)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (2,002nd)
Award Best albums of all time (15,467th)

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Todd Rundgren bestography

Runt is ranked 6th best out of 33 albums by Todd Rundgren on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Todd Rundgren is Something/Anything? which is ranked number 1356 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,270.

Todd Rundgren album bestography « Higher ranked (12,446th)
The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect
This album (15,465th)
Runt
Lower ranked (17,878th) »
Healing

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Overall rank: 15,467th | 1970s rank: 2,002nd | 1970 rank: 191st

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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 57 votes)
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01/06/2026 08:28 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  11,52470/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 15% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.2/100, a mean average of 74.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.4.

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From 12/11/2021 02:25 | #277348
The songwriting and singing are good, but the album is very poorly produced and sounds terrible to my ears, muddy and flat. Decent demo, now go make a proper album. If you've ever ping-ponged tracks on audio tape, you'll recognize the sound of overdoing it. Good music that doesn't sound good, it's a problem.
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From 09/17/2017 23:10 | #198160
Brilliant debt, if a little inconsistent and unfocused. Beautiful ballads in Believe in Me and We Gotta Get You a Woman and the Baby Let's Swing Medley and Birthday Carol are masterpieces
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From 01/24/2017 13:42 | #184062
Tier List for my preferences of the tracks on this album:

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