The closing song, "Boogies (Hamburger Hell)", opens with a reference to Beefsteak Charlie's, which former Utopia drummer Kevin Ellman was currently operating along with his family. Critic Robert Christgau called the second side Rundgren's "clearest and most interesting set of songs since Something/Anything?" and magazine Rolling Stone's rock critic John Milward said "the original material that fills side two is a more ambitious tribute to his influences and his strongest collection of pop tunes since his classic " Something/Anything"." The first side is dedicated to "faithful" re-recordings-near-replications of the originals-of some classic 1960s psychedelic-era songs, while side two comprised original material. The album's core group of musicians-Rundgren, Wilcox, Siegler and Powell (all members of Utopia)-makes this a Utopia album in all but name, though other official Utopia albums featured songs written by other members of the band and not just by Rundgren. Rundgren explained the motivation of the first side as treating rock music like European classical music, where a piece is performed over and over again in essentially the same way. Faithful is Todd Rundgren's seventh album, released in 1976.
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