TOTO "africa" classic or dud

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.

Or maybe more similarly, Cutting Crew.

The Outfield just wants to use your thread. Tonight.
irl lol
no shame at posting itt at this hour either
it's like a funny conversation i can visit on my own schedule

you know i like my threads a little bit colder

JOSIES ON A VACATION FAR AWAY

STOPPPP you're poisoning me

great power pop tune

yes it has a dumb/weird lyric but it is very earnest, i struggle to dislike it

It is pus

i feel the pus echoing tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os5_VYhVycw

i was ready to write it off cos of altering the iconic synth part but those harmonies started and it was forgiven

is there a thread to discuss the greatest vocal harmonies ever written/sung/recorded

I'd post to it

When did this become a fucking Outfield thread

That video doesn't work for me, but I know exactly what it is and it is a jam.

Don't think those count as keytars though, I suspect we are maybe in the pre-keytar era and that those are just keyboards hanging heavy around their necks.

Love how the Y in GARY gives him cat ears in the shots with the backing singers

No, he just had cat ears.

I suspect we are maybe in the pre-keytar era and that those are just keyboards hanging heavy around their necks

They're sort of proto-keytars. If you wanted, back in the mid-70s, Moog could split your Minimoog in two and provide you with the keyboard as a separate unit, that could be connected via a long multi-core cable to the sound-generating half of the instrument. They probably got the idea from seeing Edgar Winter perform 'Frankenstein' with the keyboard for his ARP 2600 hanging from his shoulders. (The 2600's keyboard was designed to be free-standing.)

https://i.redd.it/crbwxzla0ow01.jpg

from https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/8hygq4/currently_africa_by_toto_is_winning_for_our/

The school I attended in the woods voted to have "Through the Years" by Kenny Rogers as our song. In 1991.

I transferred to Little Rock Central.

Happy? WTF is this kindergarten graduation?

xpost waht

that is abominable

"africa" by toto is a great song

these kids today smdh