Todd Rundgren - With a Twist... (1997)
Tracklist front / back album covers
"I Saw the Light" - 3:43 from Something/Anything? (1972)
"Influenza" - 4:21 from The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect (1982)
"Can We Still Be Friends" - 3:36 from Hermit of Mink Hollow (1978)
"Mated" (Utopia) - 4:45 from POV (1985)
"It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference" - 4:20 from Something/Anything? (1972)
"Love Is the Answer" - 3:53 from Oops! Wrong Planet (1977)
"Fidelity" - 4:00 from Nearly Human (1989)
"Never Never Land" (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne) - 2:03 originally from Peter Pan (1954) and previously on A Wizard, a True Star (1973)
"Hello It's Me" - 4:29 from Nazz (1968) and Something/Anything? (1972)
"I Want You" (Leon Ware, Arthur "T-Boy" Ross) - 4:42 originally recorded by Marvin Gaye (1976)
"A Dream Goes On Forever" - 2:59 from Todd (1974)
Todd Rundgren Band Members / Musicians
Todd Rundgren - Composer, Producer, Engineer
Prairie Prince - Percussion
Kasim Sulton - Bass, Vocals
Jesse Gress - Guitar
John Ferenzik - Keyboards
With a Twist... is a 1997 album by Todd Rundgren. Asked to produce an album of new versions of his older singles, Rundgren decided to record the songs in Bossa nova style with elements of Exotica, complete with tropical bird call effects at the beginning of "Hello, It's Me" similar to Martin Denny's recording Quiet Village. Continuing the theme, Rundgren toured theaters with a replica of a tiki bar, the performers on a very small stage with selected audience members being seated at tables also on the theater stage, and being served drinks by the monitor engineer/bartender. The performers never acknowledged the larger theater audience, and the show ended when the last "bar patron" left the stage.
A new version of "Love of the Common Man" from Faithful, done in a style similar to that heard here, was included on the later album One Long Year.
