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I have been listening to Todd since I was 16 years old. I am now 46 years young and still love Todd. I have on my bucket list must see Todd live in concert one day. My favourite song is "The wheel" but there are many more that are loved just as much. If I met Todd the God, as he is called I would be one happy woman. Todd if you ever get to Victoria, BC Canada you can stay at my house. Not kidding! lol. Check me out on my facebook.
A girls' gotta try! xxoo I would marry you too!
Sue

The Arena CD contest is now closed.

Thanks to all those that posted an entry on this site. I'll be posting an announcement about the winner of the drawing sometime later this afternoon.

My choices would be:

Secret Society- I just love this song
Piece by Piece- TR / The Tubes
Boogie's Hamberburger Hell-
Out of Control-
Shot in the Dark-

Arena ROCKS, I Love it !

This is really tough, so many greats get left off, and it changes all the time. Well here goes.

1. Utopia theme

2. International Feel

3. Worldwide Epiphany

4. Everybody's Going To Heaven/King Kong Reggae

5. Black and White

This could easily be a favorite 50 or 100 favorite Todd/Utopia/Nazz songs list and be filled up.

Tonight the first set might go something like this:

Parole

Zen Archer

Bring Me My Longbow

Cast the First Stone

Rock Love

can't stop running
wildlife
once burned
johnee jingo
the want of a nail

Here they are:

1. Number 1 Lowest Common Denominator
2. The Death of Rock and Roll
3. When the Shit Hits the Fan
4. Worldwide Epiphany
5. You Cried Wolf

Of course, that's just at the moment. My list could totally change in 10 minutes. :-)

Jerry

Okay, here's my fave five!

1. We gotta get you a woman

2. Fade away

3. Love is the answer

4. Pretending to care

5. Can we still be friends

See you in Seattle @ The Triple Door

My 5 are

1] Real Man

2] Love of the Common Man

3] Espresso-All Jacked Up

4] Flaw

5] Hiroshima

1. Parole
2. I'm So Proud
3. Fade Away
4. The Death of Rock and Roll
5. Forget All About It/You Are My Window

1. We Gotta Get You a Woman
2. Hello, It's Me. (True to form)
3. I Saw the Light
4.The Very Last Time
5.Don't Tie My Hands (Extended Version)

1. Afterlife
2. Time Heals
3. Tiny Demons
4 Open My Eyes
5 Just One Victory

GREAT IDEA! MY FIVE SONGS THAT I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR TODD PERFORM ARE:

FAIR WARNING
BAG LADY
AFTERLIFE
FIDELITY
IF I HAVE TO BE ALONE

FIVE IS REALLY JUST A TEASE THERE IS SOOO MUCH MORE!!!!!!!

In no particular order (GEEZ THIS WAS HARD):
IZZAT LOVE?
PRETENDING TO CARE
LOVE IS THE ANSWER
WAILING WALL
THE LAST RIDE

5 favorite songs? How to limit myself?

The day the Carousel burned Down
Range War
How Can You Call that Beautiful (Nazz III)
Birthday Carol
Time Heals

There are so many others... How can I possibly?

Hard to pick 5, but here goes (not in any order)

1."The Medley"

2.Don't you ever learn?

3.Weakness

4.Public Servant

5.Utopia (city in my head)

First of all, at the risk of fogydom, I'd love to see him bring it and swing it like he did in the old days. My pix:

1. The Last Ride
2.. Long Flowing Robe
3. The Wheel
4. Hideaway
5. Bread

This is great thank you Daniel!

My choices would be......

~ Mated

~ Hodja

~ Cliche

~ Hammer in my Heart

~ Trapped (seen it live many times, but it just keeps getting better)

Top 5 to hear:

1. Freedom Fighters: The truth will come. It's just a question of how and when.

2. Rock Love: I've seen these bigshots all come and go. Been there myself and there's one thing I know. You've got to choose your heroes, choose them well. They could be leading you straight into hell.

3. Trapped: Trapped in a world that I never made.

4. Open My Eyes: I can't see a thing, please open my eyes.

5. Sons of 1984: Open your eyes and see. The world that couldn't change for you.... You are the only one. There is nobody left but you. You are the chosen one. There is nobody else to choose.

1. Secret Society

2. We Gotta Get You a Woman

3. One World (yeah, I like Utopia!)

4. Couldn't I Just Tell You (heard it a couple times live...love it!)

5. It Wouldn't Have Made any Difference

Hello, It's Me
I Saw the Light
We Gotta Get You A Woman
Death of Rock 'n Roll
Utopia

1-Unloved Childern

2-Chris Columbus

3-Something to Fall Back On

4-Heavymetal Kids

5-Dust in the Wind

HBD TODD and good luck on your Tour!

Here's my 5 favorite songs-

1. Hang on Paul

2. Open My Eyes

3. Initiation

4. Some Folks are Even Whiter than Me

5. Hamburger Hell

Thanks TODD..hope to see you in Boulder!

Now this is a GREAT contest! If you pick me, you'll be on my X-mas card list for life, ha, ha, ha!

Here's my list!

1. Utopia

2. Strike

3. Mad

4. Mountaintop

5. The Last Ride

pretending (a capella)
hello it's me (something/anything)
when the shit hits the fan/sunset blvd (a wizzard, a true star)
real man (initiation)
mystified (utopia-POV)

1 black & white
2 boogies
3love of the comman man
4 the wheel
5 tiny demons

1. The Last Ride
2. No. 1 Lowest Common Denominator
3. Hideaway
4. Time Heals
5. Only One Winner (Nazz)

Here's five I love:

Lost Horizon

The Last Ride

Utopia Theme

Feel It

Last of the New Wave Riders

I've been a Todd Fan since I heard "Open My Eyes On" in 1968 when I was thirteen. My life has been greatly enriched by his phenomenally fantastic music.

Narrowing it down to 5 songs is gonna be tough! butt...here goes...

1. I'm An Adult Now!

2. Death of Rock & Roll

3. Izzat Love?

4. Lost Horizon

5. Parole

Happy 60th BD TODD! Don't forget to add "The Boulder Theater" to you tour list!

Tough to choose but here goes:
1. Walling Wall
2. The Last ride
3. Sunset Blvd.
4. Property
5. Past

Would love to hear:

Rock-n-Roll Pussy
Broke Down and Busted
The Ikon (full 70's version with the original band)
It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference
Drive

Can't Wait to hear the new ARENA CD version....the live tour was GREAT!

Pretending to Care
Tiny Demons
International Feel
Property
Worldwide Epiphany

Bleeding
Lysistrata
Sons of 1984
Couldn't I Just Tell You
Who's That Man

I have seen the Arena show twice. The new material is great. I have been a fan since 1979. The message in the music is clear and I have selected the following songs as substitutes for others on Todd's current setlist. Wake up Americans!

GET MAD!

Heavy Metal Kids
Trapped
Freedom Fighters
For The Love Of Money
Totally Out Of Control

1. Fair Warning
2. Determination
3. Tables will Turn
4. More Light
5. The Spark of Life

1. Eastern Intrigue
2. Marlene
3. I Went To The Mirror
4. In and Out Of the Chakras We Go
5. Little Red Lights

I'd like to hear Todd playing these tunes live:

Black and White (my all-time live favorite)

Libertine

Broke Down and Busted

International Feel

Don't You Ever Learn?

I love the new Arena songs, too.

Yikes!! Only 5...huh? I'd like to try to limit mine to things I've not heard him do live before. As somebody else mentioned, I've been to so many shows over so many years, it's hard to remember sometimes what I've heard & what I haven't.

Disclaimers aside... here goes nuttin'...

1. You're Fast (At all the Arena shows I kept thinking I'd LOVE to hear this lineup have a go at that!)

2. I Will Wait (Kaz sang it on the album but I thought I read someplace that Todd wrote it pretty much alone. Would like to hear his take)

3. Determination (I've racked my brain & I don't think I've heard it live. I know it was played live on the tour with the Hello People but BTTB was just before the start of my concert-going days)

4. What's Happened to You? or I Still Believe (Artist's choice!! He's been doing The Call's Walls Came Down for a while now. I understand why. But, if he's listened to the rest of their stuff I'd like to hear his take on either one of these.)

5. And God Created Woman (No one will EVER convince me Prince wasn't listening to a lot of Todd when he wrote this. Would like to hear Todd sing it just once)

Great idea! Nice contest!

With many of us going to multible shows per tour, it's kinda difficult to remember all the tours and what he's performed, or not performed during each of them...

My top five that I'd wish to hear live as I type (which changes every second are) :

1) Blue Orpheus

2) Another Life

3) Man Of Action

4) Truth

5) Come As You Are

Heres my five that I would like to see (and have never seen) played live.

1. Fair Warning
2. The Ikon
3. Marlene
4. Secret Society
5. Determination!

Whew!!!!

1. Has to be "If I Have To Be Alone" from Second Wind. Todd's voice at its most powerful, emotional best.

2. "The Night The Carousel Burned Down" from Something/Anything. I swear this would make a great movie soundtrack.

3. "Parallel Lines" from Nearly Human. A song of longing and love lost, or actually never realized.

4. "Fair Warning" from Initiation. A song rarely, if ever done live.

5. "Property" - No World Order Lite version.

Tomorrow it will all change!

I'd like to hear:

Couldn't I Just Tell You
We Gotta Get You A Woman
Just One Victory
A Dream Goes On Forever
Love Is The Answer

Here's what I'd love to hear/see again:

1. The Road to Utopia

2. Rock Love

3. Caravan

4. Last of the New Wave Riders

5. Trapped

and I guess that all means that I'm ready for a reunion tour!

1. The Last Ride
2. No. 1 Lowest Common Denominator
3. Open My Eyes
4. The Road to Utopia
5. Utopia theme

the pressure, cripes!

the healer
hawking (if this one doesn't make you feel, check yourself for a pulse)
there goes your baybay
stand for something (especially now)
one world (for you ahab. i can't BELIEVE you didn't put this on your list)

I would be thrilled to hear any of these great Todd songs live:

1. Sometimes I Don't Know What to Feel

2. Fair Warning

3. Last Ride

4. Out of Control

5.Fade Away

But, then again I'm just happy if Todd plays in a city near me!

I <3 Utopia!

Maybe I Could Change (the solo version of Todd at the Piano!)
Gangrene
Shot in the Dark
Broke Down and Busted
Hideaway

I would love to hear some Utopia. Without Utopia I wouldn't be making the music I make. Utopia taught me about big hooks, arena rock, and yet the songs are still smart, they all have content. I swear by Adventures in Utopia, Oops! Wrong Planet, Utopia, Oblivion, POV. When I write songs if I hit a wall I put on one of these six records. picking 5 songs is really hard, and I am really passionate about Todd's solo music too! any how here's five Utopia songs.
Trapped
Set Me Free
Libertine
Cry Baby
Play This Game
I have to say that the people I call friends, when I turn them on to Todd's music it's Utopia they gravitate to first (maybe it's cause there all under 30!) or maybe they just dig the rock. I'll be seeing Todd in Chicago. on October 6th. My band MR RUSSIA has a gig on October 9th, FREE Show at Double Door, anyone wants to come out and meet some young Utopia fans and watch them rock!

Would LOVE to hear:

1) Wolfman Jack

2) Pretending To Care

3) Play This Game

4) If Not Now When

5) Just One Victory (Yeah, I know he plays it at all the Arena shows, but I still get chills when I hear it)

the wondering
afterlife
weakness
don't you ever learn
initiation
i've loved you for the last 30 years, looking forward to the next 30. thanks, todd