TOTO "africa" classic or dud

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.

does anybody remember "Georgy Porgy"?

Oops you're right I was aware it's a song from the 70's but I was flipping through similar artists and radio stations with Outfield and Rick Springfield that I forgot it's not from the same decade. It sounds good together paired with that set tho

in what universe is "more than a feeling" not a hugely popular song

a way less rockin' one

you people are just making shit up..

Even this happened

https://youtu.be/Tjb2jwA0YCY

Oh I know "more than a feeling" is huge I just thought based on personal experience that "your love" was more popular

"Your Love" just scraped the bottom of the top 40 even in Canada. I had no idea it was a classic in the US until I had a housemate in Buffalo who sang along to it all the time.

Ffs what even is "Your Love". To mouth it mildly Boston's song is more popular.

"Mouth"? Put.

you know it. but if you think you don't, you wouldn't be the first: In Which Doctor Casino Listens to Classic Rock Classics for the First Time

I grew up in the 80s and can sing along almost perfectly with "Africa" and "More than a Feeling" and have no idea what "Your Love" even is.

your love is a crewsh outfield jam

seriously, you have heard "your love" four hundred times, i swear to you. i thought i hadn't heard it either, it just has the most generic title imaginable. if it had been called "I Just Wanna Use Your Love (Toni-i-ight)" a lot of confusion could have been avoided.

oh yeah I totally know that song but wouldn't had you not explained lol

but no way is that shit more popular than MTAF, I used to sing MTAF to myself when I was 9 and that was 1990

'More Than a Feeling' has quite possibly featured on the majority of all rock compilations that have been released since 1976. I can't think of a classic rock song that seems to have been everywhere like that one, apart from maybe 'Sweet Child o' Mine', but even then it's not even close.

More Than A Feeling is epochal, and a total "song x invents band y" mainstay.

Tom Scholz has probably made more money from 'More Than a Feeling' alone than a lot of bands have made in their entire careers.

That's why it's called "More Than a Feeling," iirc.

Lmao

If nothing else, this discussion got me to pay attention to the lyrics to "Your Love". Guy is a total slimeball!

I'm 47 years old and familiar with all the music in this thread, with the exception of "Your Love" - hearing it for the first time now, and my authentic hot take is that it is an utter pile of shit - strained vocal, horrendous production, repellent lyric, generic chord progression.

im 41 and thought i didn't know a song called "Your Love" until Doc Casino called it "I Just Wanna Use Your Love (Toni-i-ight)" and then i realized, yes, i have heard it a million times. (in fact, just heard it in the background of a football game.)

i srsly cannot fathom how a 47yo familiar w/ everything else in this thread has never heard it

Idk where MatthewK is but I really don't think it's that big of a song in a lot of places outside the US (and I guess where Moka lives - Mexico iirc?).

Despite the band being from London, the song was a hit only in the United States, where it reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #7 on the Mainstream Rock chart in 1986.

I'm in Ireland and I'm definitely familiar with the song but also didn't know the title or the band

I grew up in Australia - neither the song nor The Outfield in general had or have any presence here whatsoever.

Just checked and no chart placement here whatsoever.

https://img.discogs.com/mSsRPiDCuseG0wAP8A8cEzrXKA8=/fit-in/400x406/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3779078-1344088020-7998.jpeg.jpg

This was the Verison I had and only because I had a friend who worked for CBS.

OK, I stand corrected, I 100% know this song. But not as well as I know "Africa," that's for damn sure!

here are two remixes of Toto "Africa" i came up with earlier this year. there are two tracks, one is the main beat/instrumental hook with some digital noise effects, the other is a 22 minute long chopped and screwed version of the same. this will be available for download for the next week:

https://wetransfer.com/downloads/5acfc0c2dee3bfa072a0844d008c966720170928150840/543578d31e7e23c11c8754affd1b534c20170928150840/7dc3e9

liking the repeating groove a lot, even tho the vocals and the chorus add a lot of emotion it's perhaps the verse groove that's truly undeniable about this song

I'm 47 years old and familiar with all the music in this thread, with the exception of "Your Love" - hearing it for the first time now, and my authentic hot take is that it is an utter pile of shit - strained vocal, horrendous production, repellent lyric, generic chord progression.

I’m 47 and have heard YL about 1,400 times and my cold take is identical to your hot take. One of my least favorite top 40 hits of all time and a noisome stain on the standard eighties radio playlist

Yeah in “classic rock” radio in Mexico “Your Love” is bigger than “more than a feeling” which you very rarely hear. Classic rock radio over here is a bit strange, per example: there’s noone I know who knows what a Fleetwood Mac is and in the US/UK Rumours is one of the 10 best selling albums of all time.

Africa has always been on rotation. I might tune in one of these days and share a tracklist so you can compare.

When did this become a fucking Outfield thread

Relax, Caesars. The Outfield just wants to use your thread. Tonight.

Caesars? Calstars. Gah.

''I saw a cat today...''

I DONT WANNA LOSE UR LUV

For some reason I always paired the Outfield song with "She's a Beauty" by the Tubes.