TOTO "africa" classic or dud

the rosanna shuffle is the rhythm of my soul

they were a bunch of savants really, "good musicians" making terrible music

my friday night is ruined

http://images2.onionstatic.com/onion/2386/6/16x9/1200.jpg

this is #content

If JP's work on "Rosanna" is garbage, then give us an example of his "brilliance"

i dont even care that much abt toto!

certainly not half as much as you weirdos anyway

this is like those comedy tv show threads where you sign up to talk abt a fun thing & get dragged through 9000 thinkposts abt the mechanics of the fictional universe ... suck all the syrup out of the slurpee & leave nothing but a sad clump of crushed flavorless ice YOU MONSTERS

jk i love you all

If a Porcaro shuffles in the forest and no one is there to hear him, is he really shuffling?

Who names a band "Toto" though, really

I thought the name was latin, rather than any Wizard of Oz reference?

Pretty sure "Jessie's Girl" is still a more popular song than "Africa" even as of 2017.

― billstevejim, viernes 22 de septiembre de 2017 22:50 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Spotify says

Africa 203M listens
Jessie's Girl 85M listens

Godbless the age of easily accesible data

Christ, I thought it would have easily been the other way around.

Toto does not suck, they are good and their albums are good. In fairness to those of you who are wrong, I did not know this until a couple of years ago. Before that, I was wrong, like you

Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever heard a Toto album in full...

what are the Toto deep cuts

I actually wasted my own time photographing a very poignant mastering anecdote from the pages of Tape Op for you ingrates

it was incomplete!

No that was everything that regarded Toto, they moved on to a different subject, and yes I do resent you questioning my journalistic Toto integrity

I'm sorry. I thought it was nice

It's ok the important thing is we all love Africa by Toto and not for memetic reasons

There's nothing that a thousand memes or more could ever do

"No that was everything that regarded Toto"

toto in toto

:D

Although now I wonder how it is that Africa towers over a lot of 80s hits in terms of spotify plays and youtube views, but still has less than Sweet Child o Mine.

Rosanna Shuffle is awesome. I saw a great Jeff Porcaro tutorial where he was explaining some other Toto song I didn't recognize, and demonstrating all the other ways he could have arranged the drum part, and then explaining why he didn't do those things and instead chose a different set of fills and patterns, to make it interesting to him, to the band, and to anyone paying attention.

I think it's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRHf22WCPew

The sentiment of SCOM is a lot easier to grasp in fairness

though I'm someone who loves looking at spotify play counts, I think they're pretty limited when you're not comparing within one single artist, because you never know *when* a catalog got added... in general you figure all these big acts have been on there forever, but that isn't always the case so there's always an asterisk next to the comparisons imo

Sweet Child of Mine at least in my generation had big appeal with the most frat-like kind of douchey classmates so it would play in every party they appeared in. It wasn't the 80's either I'm talking early 00's. You still hear it every now and the. remixed into other songs in clubs in my city.

I don't think I ever heard Africa outplayed anywhere but "oldies radio".

Yeah I never thought of "Africa" as obscure but idk what would be surprising about "Sweet Child o' Mine" getting more plays.

sweet child is also a very good song that ppl like by one of the most successful rock bands in history when will mysteries cease

man can't believe everybody here has heard of "Africa". when I was growing up I asked schoolmates if they knew that song and they'd shh their mouths and beckon me over to a secret panel on one of the library's bookshelves which led down several vine-covered corridors to reveal 7 other people who were willing to know real truths.

Why did they keep the members of Toto hidden behind a secret panel?

shh

https://media1.giphy.com/media/l2Je7nwgG6ADhw3fy/200_s.gif

lol

Xp unlike say Jessie's Girl this is really a song I only know through revival. I have no childhood memory of it

"Jessie's Girl" is actually less familiar than "Africa" to me, tbh.

revival bums me out because another one of my awesome hipster-ready remixes that i've been sitting on for like ten years makes devastating use of 'africa' in the album-closing stretch, which will now seem hackneyed if i ever attempted to put the dumb thing out there. my bad for waiting oops

do it, being part of the crowd is good

hurry boy, it's waiting there for you

Inspired by this thread I started looking for the total spotify plays of other "80's classics" and I'm impressed that THE OUTFIELD - YOUR LOVE only has 84M plays in spotify! I thought for sure that one would be bigger than Africa.

say it isn't so!

More than a feeling by Boston per example was a song that I thought was less popular than both Jessie's Girl and Your Love but alas it has 132M plays.

BRB will listen to Your Love on repeat until my ears bleed.

Toto vs Poco vs JLo

TOTO vs T.A.T.U.

More than a feeling by Boston per example was a song that I thought was less popular than both Jessie's Girl and Your Love but alas it has 132M plays.

"More Than a Feeling" (not at 80s song btw) has been one of the most played songs on US and Canadian classic rock radio throughout my listening lifetime. If its numbers are lower than "Africa", I would suspect that the caveats Dr Casino mentions might be at work.

Just heard "Hold the Line" on the radio.