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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="
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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>The worst thing about that song is the incredibly clumsy line "There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do" - jamming in words to fit the tune. It's as bad as Chris Martin extending syllables in weird places as if the music and lyrics met in the changing rooms before the match.</p> -
<p>You're not alone in bagging Africa's lyrics, Crucial. Lukather said this:</p>
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Awkward , have you come up with a convincing explanation yet?<br><br>
There was a guy who used to fish locally and when he anchored up and put his burley down he put the chicken dance on a loop on the stereo on his boat . Never had to worry about anyone parking to close and ruining his fishing .</p></blockquote>
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Kind of counterproductive. Would rather have a boat 10 meres away than subject myself to that.</p></blockquote>
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Yeah - Style Council was unusual - some reasonably hard core political lyrics set to "dinner party" music.
In The Jam doco they mentioned David Cameron was a big fan growing up - Weller said dryly, "I'm not sure he listened to the lyrics". I think they were referencing Eton Rifles at the time.
My brother told me Weller has some solo stuff out these days that is worth looking into, but I haven't as yet.
