What are you listening to, right now................
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<p>While we're having a retro Tears for Fears fest:</p>
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<p>"Well I feel<br>
deep in your heart there are wounds time can't heal<br>
And I feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel<br>
somebody somewhere is trying to breathe<br>
Well you know what I mean</p>
<p>It's a world gone crazy<br>
Keeps woman in chains"</p> -
<p>And for some reason it's not available in HD.....</p>
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<p>"In violent times</p>
<div>You shouldn't have to sell your soul<br>
In black and white<br>
They really really ought to know<br>
Those one track minds<br>
That took you for a working boy<br>
Kiss them goodbye<br>
You shouldn't have to jump for joy<br>
You shouldn't have to shout for joy</div>
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<p>Toto's Africa reminded me of this classic</p>
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<p>edit - watching that I just realised he might not have been that interested in girls...</p> -
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Toto certainly never looked cool, they looked like a bunch of dorks that the Alpha Betas woulda picked on.<br><br>
But shit they did some fantastic music.</p></blockquote>In case you haven't heard these before, I thought these isolated tracks from Rosanna are amazing.<br><br>
Jeff Porcaro's drum track:<br><br><br><a class="bbc_url" href="
Steve Lukather's guitar track complete with off the chart shredding that is completely at odds with his - ahem - "stage presence":<br><br><a class="bbc_url" href=""></a> -
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Favourites so far<br><br>
Living on a prayer mat by bomb jovi<br><br>
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<p>BTW, according to the management Toto members have collectively played on over 5000 (!) albums with total sales of more than half a billion.</p>
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<p>Along with guys like Jay Graydon, they were pretty much the ultimate session aces. They were the backing band for Boz Scaggs, Thriller (several song writing credits on the album), and members played on a ton of Steely Dan songs. </p>
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<p>Good interview with Lukather:</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.salon.com/2016/07/07/im_not_ready_for_the_dirt_nap_yet_how_toto_outlasted_the_haters_took_back_their_career_and_won_over_a_new_generation/'>http://www.salon.com/2016/07/07/im_not_ready_for_the_dirt_nap_yet_how_toto_outlasted_the_haters_took_back_their_career_and_won_over_a_new_generation/</a></p> -
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<p>The All Music Guide has a really nice paragraph about how critics hated Toto for exploding the authenticity myth:</p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">It's as easy to see why radio listeners loved <a class="" href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/toto-mn0000006320">Toto</a> as it is to see why critics hated them. <a class="" href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/toto-mn0000006320">Toto</a>'s rock-studio chops allowed them to play any current pop style at the drop of a hi-hat: one minute prog rock, the next hard rock, the next funky R&B. It all sounded great, but it also implied that music-making took craft rather than inspiration and that the musical barriers critics like to erect were arbitrary. Then, too, <a class="" href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/toto-mn0000006320">Toto</a>'s timing couldn't have been much worse. They rode in during the middle of punk/new wave with its D.I.Y. aesthetic, and their sheer competence was an affront. Of course, there's always been an alternate history of popular music not available to rock critics (it's written in record stores and concert halls and on the radio), and in that story, <a class="" href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/toto-mn0000006320">Toto</a> was a smash. Singles like "I'll Supply the Love" and "Georgy Porgy" (featuring <a class="" href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/cheryl-lynn-mn0000108256">Cheryl Lynn</a>) made the charts, and "Hold the Line" hit the Top Ten and went gold. The members of <a class="" href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/toto-mn0000006320">Toto</a> had already influenced the course of '70s popular music by playing on half the albums that came out of L.A. All they were doing with this album was going public.
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<div>Starbucks corporate theme-song version:</div>
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<p>I'm sorry, I meant feel the rains. Important distinction.</p>
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<p>Lukather alluded to it in the Salon article, but the number of cool parties that I've been to in London, Paris, or Copenhagen where a good edit of Africa or Georgy Porgy has had people on the floor and singing along ... Huge tunes.</p>
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<p>I bless the rains.</p>
