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.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link
my band covers this song
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 01:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:31 (nineteen years ago) link
i think an OB-Xa was used for the main saw wave page and a ARP synth for the bell.
― startrekman, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jeanne (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― frankie driscoll, Sunday, 22 April 2007 12:54 (sixteen years ago) link
― Tuomas, Sunday, 22 April 2007 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 22 April 2007 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link
― 600, Sunday, 22 April 2007 17:50 (sixteen years ago) link
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Sunday, 22 April 2007 17:55 (sixteen years ago) link
― Mark Rich@rdson, Sunday, 22 April 2007 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link
― deej, Sunday, 22 April 2007 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard, Monday, 23 April 2007 09:06 (sixteen years ago) link
― blueski, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:08 (sixteen years ago) link
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link
― sw00ds, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:44 (sixteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:50 (sixteen years ago) link
― sw00ds, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:53 (sixteen years ago) link
One of the ten best songs ever.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 20 December 2007 10:38 (sixteen years ago) link
It's true -- it's all about that chorus.
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:00 (sixteen years ago) link
(although saying it's one of the ten best songs ever is a bit over the top).
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― ledge, Thursday, 20 December 2007 15:14 (sixteen years ago) link
LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE>
― artdamages, Thursday, 20 December 2007 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link
this song has done more for africa than bono ever will
― artdamages, Thursday, 20 December 2007 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 20 December 2007 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link
ok, ill just go ahead and retract that. this thread shouldn't have to be tainted by bono.
― artdamages, Thursday, 20 December 2007 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link
(xpost)
wait, toto did the soundtrack to dune????
― artdamages, Thursday, 20 December 2007 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I still like "Roseanna" better.
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 20 December 2007 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Georgie porgy is one of the 10 best songs ever
― jaxon, Thursday, 20 December 2007 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
saying you like "Roseanna" better is indefensible
― artdamages, Thursday, 20 December 2007 18:09 (sixteen years ago) link
nuh uh, it's got that sick jeff porcaro beat!
― Jordan, Thursday, 20 December 2007 18:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, that is a bit of a mind-blower. Fuck was David Lynch thinking?
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 20 December 2007 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
can't believe such serious discourse over the band that proclaimed "you supply the night, I'll supply the love"...the cover of the Hydra LP pretty much says it all...bleh...
― henry s, Thursday, 20 December 2007 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I actually got temporarily excited when I recently found out Toto did the Dune score -- anticipating an extended Yamaha CS-80 workout. Sadly, it's entirely orchestrated but for a few demos they tacked on to a recent reissue of the record.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 20 December 2007 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
songwriting - classic productio - 80's dud
― Zeno, Thursday, 20 December 2007 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
i agree, pleasant plains, that that is indefensible. but tell me, are you familiar with the stray "turkey gobble" in "roseanna"? anyone know what i'm talking about? it fascinated me as a kid.
that rune lindbaek africa edit/rework thing is pretty hot.
― andrew m., Thursday, 20 December 2007 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link
that "africa" beat was wasted on jojo, jadakiss would've been perfect over that.
― pc user, Thursday, 20 December 2007 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
This song is amazing.
― HI DERE, Thursday, 20 December 2007 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I know nothing about this turkey gobble, andrew.
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 20 December 2007 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
turkey gobble: listen close during the quiet part before they bust out the big finale "meet you all the way!" bit. i think it appears after he quietly sings "now she's gone..."
― andrew m., Thursday, 20 December 2007 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm sure you have it handy. get back with us on that quicklike.
― andrew m., Thursday, 20 December 2007 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link
What the hell? Are you talking about the 3:34 mark? How did you even catch that?
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 20 December 2007 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link
PATRICK SWAYZE!!
― jaxon, Thursday, 20 December 2007 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
xp that's it! just latched onto it as a kid i guess.
― andrew m., Thursday, 20 December 2007 22:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Luke slays on beat it
― calstars, Saturday, 22 September 2018 21:44 (five years ago) link
Are you guys familiar with his guitar teacher?
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 22 September 2018 22:24 (five years ago) link
Luke is a bit of a rockist crybaby
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 23 September 2018 00:05 (five years ago) link
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
― President Keyes, Sunday, 23 September 2018 00:13 (five years ago) link
He met you all the way
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 23 September 2018 00:20 (five years ago) link
There was no reason for a cover of this song.
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 23 September 2018 00:24 (five years ago) link
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.
― I've moped on a moped and cooed with a coed (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 23 September 2018 00:40 (five years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/weezers-new-africa-video-stars-weird-al-watch/
― growing up in publix (morrisp), Monday, 24 September 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
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
― Number None, Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
I would have never thought that Karl Wolf would have been ahead of the curve 10 years ago, but here we are.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:28 (five years ago) link
I can't believe we're still not at peak Africa
― Vinnie, Friday, 14 December 2018 04:28 (five years ago) link
PINK FLOYD RULES
― No Smockin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 December 2018 04:35 (five years ago) link
Watching Weezer perform this on Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, as cheezy 20-somethings exhuberantly sing along.
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 05:23 (five years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 05:45 (five years ago) link
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.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 10:52 (five years ago) link
("once-ecstatic", duh)
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 10:53 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRLfGwQ7Nsw
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Monday, 7 January 2019 20:07 (five years ago) link
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"."
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 08:24 (five years ago) link
More Bobby Kimball content:
my favourite genre of video is 'bobby kimball from toto trying to perform africa now' pic.twitter.com/WOxzjQg4xY— ▀▀▀▀▀▀ (@immolations) July 10, 2019
― pplains, Saturday, 13 July 2019 02:19 (four years ago) link
I forgot I'd remixed this
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3rp3s2nBlK/
― S-, Sunday, 20 October 2019 03:05 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/unN7QvSWSTo
― calstars, Sunday, 20 October 2019 04:38 (four years ago) link
ECCOJAMZ
― calstars, Sunday, 20 October 2019 04:39 (four years ago) link
Original content
Lol at Steve’s wristbands in the video
― calstars, Thursday, 6 April 2023 22:56 (one year ago) link
wristband close up
― calstars, Thursday, 6 April 2023 22:57 (one year ago) link