TOTO "africa" classic or dud

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

the lyrics are so bad, one of many hopeless sentences:
the moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation

Mountain = mountain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuiwIFLKa2I

thought this bump was gonna be about the weezer cover stinking up yr local alternative station's airwaves

this song is getting run into the ground so quickly it's alarming. on its way to being the new "don't stop believin'"

Yeah, I've seen so many halfassed covers and memes of this once glorious song

its v easy to avoid this song and its imitators if u dont push play on shit automatically

the difference b/w this and "don't stop believing" is that "africa" is a good song

Trying to picture what it would look like for an old, wise man to turn as if to say “Hurry boy she’s waiting there for you!”

xp otm & otm

i'm not among them but many people still think (or once thought) "don't stop believin'" is a good song!

chop them in the throat

no that would hurt!
i am one of those people. i don't really like "don't stop believin'" much now but there was a time when i would enjoy it if it came on the radio. same for "africa"
when things become so laden with quasi-cultural meaning that they stop being enjoyable is a sad time really

"sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti"
^^prog rockers very much in character

^ I was thinking the same thing: "Africa" is the last mainstream hurrah of prog, along with maybe "Eye in the Sky." The next year, you've got "Owner of a Lonely Heart", popular progrock highly adulterated by new wave jolts.

What was ever prog about Toto?

first 2 albums iirc?

Seems like a reach, but ok.

Genesis were still having US top ten hits in the late 80s iirc xps