2nd Wind is the thirteenth studio album by the American musician Todd Rundgren. It was released in 1991 and reached number one-hundred and eighteen on the Billboard 200 album chart. 2nd Wind includes the single "Change Myself" and was Rundgren's final studio album on a major label until 2004's Liars.
As with its predecessor, Nearly Human, Rundgren chose to record the album 'live' with a full band, as opposed to playing all of the instruments himself. The album was recorded at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, California.
Rundgren terminated his relationship with Warner Bros. Records shortly after its release. He was said to have grown increasingly unhappy with the label's insistence that he start including single-worthy material.
The album includes three songs ("The Smell of Money", "If I Have to Be Alone" and "Love in Disguise") written for the Joe Orton play Up Against It. "Gaya's Eyes" continues the new, more adult sound introduced on the preceding album Nearly Human.
Always a believer in cutting-edge technology, Todd used the video for the album's only single, "Change Myself," as a showcase for the NewTek Video Toaster, a desktop video card for the Commodore Amiga computer.
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“I stand in awe of my body, this matter to which I am bound has become so strange to me. I fear not spirits, ghosts, of which I am one,—that my body might,—but I fear bodies, I tremble to meet them. What is this Titan that has possession of me? Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in nature,—daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it,—rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! the solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? where are we?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)