Number 956 - Toto


Toto
"Africa"
(1982)
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Genre:Rock

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That's a pretty impressive medal haul for a "mainstream" band don't you think? Toto have released another album in 2006 called Falling In Between, its good to see them still recording but it is a shame you don't hear them on the radio no more. (well here in New Zealand anyway)
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Toto sings love songs of little distinction or consequence, offering greeting-card verse and aural bouquets to fantasy lovers via the medium of cutting-edge studio technology and their own well-honed sessionman "chops." The group's cleverly titled new album, Toto IV, follows this formula to a T, mixing sodden ballads taken at tiptoeing-rhino tempos with booming, echoey rock songs. This band of pros doesn't miss a trick: since Asia has lately become the platinum nom de plume of four British art-rock superstars, Toto has asserted its territorial imperative with a tune called "Africa"–a ringer for the U.K group's FM smash, "Heat of the Moment." There's even a touch of Asia on Toto IV in the artificially malleted xylophone sounds that pop up on occasion. Typical of an album that feels about as real as a Velveeta-orange polyester leisure suit. [Source: RS 374]
For Asia see Number 658
Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs ranked this song at Number (They didn't and they should have) and the Album ranked at Number (Nope, criminal i say)
This song has a crowbarred rating of 52.9 out of 108
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