TOTO "africa" classic or dud

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"."

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

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