Via Facebook, I saw this article yesterday:

I have been a Todd Rundgren fan since 1973, and I thought to myself, "I can do that." So using the same goofy categories as the BuzzFeed article, here are "20 Todd Rundgren Songs For Almost Every Occasion In Your Life."

1. When you know better days are coming — "Can't Stop Running" from Nearly Human

   

   "I can't stop running
    I have a vision of myself breaking the finish line string
    I still can hear it
    This dream is calling
    So I'll keep running"

2. When you meet a person who gives you butterflies — "Buffalo Grass" from One Long Year

   

   "But since you first infected me
    We've been connected karmically
    Should I escape your gravity
    In every other solar system
    There you'll be"

3. When you're giddy waiting to hear back from that person — "Waiting Game" from Nearly Human

   

   "But I swear here and now
    Your heart will be mine
    You'll surrender to my love
    My weapon is time
    And your wall of resistance
    I will slowly undermine"

4. When you're feeling nostalgic — "Past" from Liars

   

   "And my todays are gray, the seconds tick away
    But if I close my eyes it's only yesterday
    And I see rainbows surrounding you and me
    But that was in the past
    I know it was the past"

5. When the first bite is just too good to be true — "Burn Three Times" from Utopia

   

   "I'm no burger king, I'm no pizza pie spinner
    Don't come sniffin' 'round here for something to eat
    It's a gourmet thing, not a TV dinner
    So stay out of the kitchen if you can't take the heat"

6. When you're soul-searching and excited for the future — "Second Wind" from 2nd Wind

   

   "Now that I know what to fight for
    Now that I need more adventure
    Now that I have thoughtful patience
    Now that I can see the future
    Blow like cyclone my second wind"

7. When you're going through a breakup but still keep your head up — "Saving Grace" from Something / Anything?

   

   "I think I'm gonna love it
    I know they won't believe it
    When they finally see the saving grace in me
    I know the time is gonna come
    When I will mean something to someone
    Until that day I'm hanging on "

8. When it's election time and you look at your newsfeed — "King Kong Reggae" from Todd

   

   "The president of the U. S. A.
    Watch the big monkey do the King Kong Reggae
    Everybody fall down on your knees and pray
    Here comes that big monkey doing the King Kong Reggae "

9. When you set out on a road trip — "The Road to Utopia" from Adventures in Utopia

   

   "I blink my eyes and then it happens again
    I lose my way but I discover a friend
    It's a typical day on the road to utopia"

10. When you feel invigorated and want to sing — "Blue Orpheus" from A Cappella

    

    "But when I hear my Blue Orpheus sing
     I know that life is a wonderful thing
     Somewhere there's love and perpetual spring
     I know life is a wonderful thing"

11. When life is good and nothing can get you down — "Feel Too Good" from Deface the Music

    

    "Can't let the little things bother me
     Because I feel too good
     I feel so good that you just can't bring me down"

12. When you're feeling confident — "My Angel" from Oops! Wrong Planet

    

    "I can feel
     Near me always
     Something to live up to
     Someone to depend upon
     When I have fallen from grace
     When I grow weak from the pace
     I can feel the breath of gentle wings on my face
     And when the world closes in around me
     Then my angel
     Will come and roll away the stone
     Like a hand reaching down from the heavens"

13. When it's sunny and you're day-dreaming — "Another Life" from Another Live

    

    "Something happened just the other night;
     I had a vision in the middle of a daydream
     In a place I'd never been before
     I couldn't tell if I was still awake or sleeping
     I saw so many things I barely recognized
     I thought that I was lost but then I saw you"

14. When you match with someone cute online — "Not Tonight" from It's Alive

    

    "So put me in your Blackberry
     And I'll take your email
     And we'll meet when the time is right"

15. When you realize you have found your best friend in life — "Mated" from POV

    

    "If anyone should ask
     Say we're mated
     For as long as this life lasts
     We are mated
     Why else would you be here right now
     And you know we'll still be here tomorrow"

16. When you have a successful DTR (define the relationship) with the person you've been dating — "Family Values" from The Individualist

    

    "... Everybody lends a hand
     Everyone in the house
     Making sure we have our fun
     While gettin' done what must be done in the house
     'Cause we got them, we already got them
     We got family values"

17. When you're doing taxes and hoping for big returns — "Rock Love" from Adventures in Utopia

    

    "Let me be your advisor
     Keep the monkeys off your back
     Figure your taxes
     Stay up all night making sure that everything is right
     Get thee behind me Satan"

18. When all you need is the one you love — "Fade Away" from The Hermit of Mink Hollow

    

    "The sea will rise, mountains fall
     The earth will turn itself upside down
     But we have seen it all before, we will always be around
     In a hundred million years when the planet disappears
     You and I will stay and watch the world fade away
     And in a million trillion years when the stars all disappear
     You and I will stay and watch it all fade away"

19. When things start heating up with you and your lover — "Don't Hurt Yourself" from The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect

    

    "I know you're angry, that's all right
     I said I don't care, well, I lied
     But I don't care who wins the fight after all
     As long as you don't hurt yourself
     Don't hurt yourself"

20. When life is too confusing but you press forward — "Sometimes I Don't Know What To Feel" from A Wizard, A True Star

    

    "Sometimes I just feel so alone
     I don't want to admit to my friends that I feel confused
     I wonder what I'd do with myself if the world was gone
     Something makes me stay on my feet
     Don't you dare admit to defeat
     And if I tell myself it's all right
     I can comfort myself through the night and watch another day dawn
     And everything will be cool"

As was asked in the original article, so what's your go to song? Mine is "Courage" from the Arena album:

"Ah, but when push comes to shove  I will have the thing I love  If I have the courage of my convictions  And your heart I would enslave  And this whole world I would save  If I have the courage of my convictions"

Copycatting is alive in the lab.