TOTO "africa" classic or dud

Why hasn't anyone sampled it yet?

A little bit better than "Hold The Line" I think, a lot better than the "The Flame", a bit short of "Boys Of Summer", a long way off matching "Don't Stop Believing".

Never could understand the narrative of the video.

>'Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus over the Serengeti'

Horrible lyric, and they DON'T manage to make that clunky line scan at all!

And then a couple of years later they did the soundtrack to Dune, which was also great. Result! As they say.

(To my knowledge I've not heard the Ja Rule track but that's probably because every other Ja Rule track I've heard sent me to sleep.)

And Piter de Vries! (I always had this weird idea that "Stranger in Town" was kinda their song *about* Paul Atreides -- if you stretch it all a bit. "The Sean Youngs think he's Jesus...")

Sure you could always criticize a band that consists of studio musicians that prefer to demonstrate how well and faultless they play rather than writing good songs.
But, they did write good songs back then.

my band covers this song

i think an OB-Xa was used for the main saw wave page and a ARP synth for the bell.

One of the ten best songs ever.

It's true -- it's all about that chorus.

(although saying it's one of the ten best songs ever is a bit over the top).

It's not even the best song on the new Singstar Rock Ballads. And singing along to it really does hammer home just how ridiculous the lyrics in the verses are.

LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE>

this song has done more for africa than bono ever will

I almost said classic, then I realized that the song in my head was Phil Collins' "Take Me Home". This is somewhere in between c and d.

ok, ill just go ahead and retract that. this thread shouldn't have to be tainted by bono.

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wait, toto did the soundtrack to dune????

I still like "Roseanna" better.

Georgie porgy is one of the 10 best songs ever

saying you like "Roseanna" better is indefensible

nuh uh, it's got that sick jeff porcaro beat!

points off for referring to “Separate Ways” as “Journey’s ‘Love Will Find You’” but does make me want to hear Toto’s “Hash Pipe”

you can summon conceptually and creatively loathsome music like . . . anything by Oingo Boingo

GTFO with this

Rock’n’Roll is the sound of America’s disenfranchised, made electric.

Rock'n'roll has been The Establishment for at least 40 years if not longer, and you don't get to just blithely claim hip-hop as "rock'n'roll" for whatever the purposes of this argument are.

v difficult karaoke song ime

“All those little musical catchphrases that were in the hit are all there, but it’s taking place in a soundscape that’s the size of the Serengeti. You think, ‘This is background music.’ No. It’s foreground music. It’s a lot of what I listened to when I was doing First National Band, and one of the reasons why without [pedal steel guitarist] Red Rhodes I never would have been able to put it together. First National Band left a lot on the table. This is on the channel called Shitpost Wizard.”

basically somebody needs to play michael the 11 minute version of "don't you know" by the jan hammer group

http://www.citypages.com/music/82-hit-songs-from-1982-wed-rather-hear-than-totos-africa/491395521

haha that might as well be the top 82 numbers between 1 and 82.

re: the realclearlife link…Tim Sommer has in the past couple of years proffered very caffeinated, tedious hot takes for a couple of outlets. as I guess he's trying to be a pundit decades after Hugo Largo and having signed Hootie and the Blowfish. The most notable such outlet was the New York Observer well into the stewardship of one Ken Kurson, a one time punk rocker who worked for Giuliani 10 years ago and who gutted the legacy of the Observer, a paper I treasure having written for, on the say so of jared Kushner. Well into 2016 and Kurson having been a co-writer of one of President Diarrhea's statements re: the retweeted Star of David/cash meme, Sommer continued to associate with Kurson. So he can shut his fucking mouth re: that hair-ruffling line in his weezer/africa jeremiad. When it counted, he worked for a trumpworld lackey, and apparently still associates with the guy, who was up for a national endowment of the arts post until the feds found out that he's a shady piece of shit.

jfc

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-45608054

A music venue in Bristol is going to play Africa by Toto on loop all night to raise funds for an African charity.

DJ Michael Savage will play the US rock band's biggest hit on vinyl for "five hours straight" at The Exchange in Bristol on 30 November.
He said people can be sponsored for how long they last.

Band member Steve Lukather said in a tweet he would "kill someone after about five plays". He added: "Imagine if you will, we cut this 1981. You think YOU have heard it too much? LOL".

They should raise money by saying for every donation they get they will play it a minute less or something.

The local radio station plays this song once every day, so I feel like cumulatively I've listened to it for five hours already.

Lukather seems cool

https://s3.amazonaws.com/allaboutjazz/media/large/1/0/b/a8d54fc8acb569fe079f7f1dbd22b.jpg
checks out

Luke slays on beat it

Are you guys familiar with his guitar teacher?

Luke is a bit of a rockist crybaby

I was at a high school football game today. dJ playing exclusively hip hop until the game started, then switched to Weezer’s Rosanna and Africa

He met you all the way

There was no reason for a cover of this song.

Yeah it should be like those public radio "save a day" campaigns where they fundraise less if they meet their (totally arbitrary) goal.

"We're almost up to the amount where we can stop playing this fucking song!"

And I say that as someone generally well disposed toward the song. It's just that there is, in fact, a limit.

I hope the djs do what's right. Sure as taramasalata rises like a Memphis among the sarin Geddy Lee.

https://pitchfork.com/news/weezers-new-africa-video-stars-weird-al-watch/

Pitbull has released his own version of the song "Africa" by Toto from the #Aquaman soundtrack. pic.twitter.com/QeHaNwNhAv

— Lights, Camera, Pod (@LightsCameraPod) December 13, 2018

I would have never thought that Karl Wolf would have been ahead of the curve 10 years ago, but here we are.

I can't believe we're still not at peak Africa

PINK FLOYD RULES

Watching Weezer perform this on Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, as cheezy 20-somethings exhuberantly sing along.

I am literally standing in the middle of the Serengeti right now and I don't see Kilimanjaro anywhere. I call bs.

Definitely no snow either, but they did know it was Christmas.

We've passed peak Africa, with Pitbull as the shark-jump point. I played the LNTG remix out numerous times in 2018, and the one-ecstatic reaction to it is now on the wane. I'm probably going to retire it in 2019.

("once-ecstatic", duh)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRLfGwQ7Nsw

Africa by Toto to play on eternal loop down in the coastal Namib Desert

"Mr Siedentopf tells the BBC it is set to play forever, with solar batteries "to keep Toto going for all eternity"."

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my favourite genre of video is 'bobby kimball from toto trying to perform africa now' pic.twitter.com/WOxzjQg4xY

— ▀▀▀▀▀▀ (@immolations) July 10, 2019

I forgot I'd remixed this

https://www.instagram.com/p/B3rp3s2nBlK/

https://youtu.be/unN7QvSWSTo

ECCOJAMZ

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Lol at Steve’s wristbands in the video

wristband close up