― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 28 March 2005 05:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 March 2005 06:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 28 March 2005 06:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave q (listerine), Monday, 28 March 2005 07:28 (nineteen years ago) link
"Rosanna," "I'll Be Over You," "99" and "I Won't Hold You Back" also get a fair amount of airplay in my household.
― John Fredland (jfredland), Monday, 28 March 2005 08:41 (nineteen years ago) link
that they manage to squeeze that whole 'Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus over the Serengeti' bit all into one line makes it an all-time classic.
― Lee F# (fsharp), Monday, 28 March 2005 10:35 (nineteen years ago) link
Why hasn't anyone sampled it yet?
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 28 March 2005 11:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 28 March 2005 11:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Will M. (Will M.), Monday, 28 March 2005 11:26 (nineteen years ago) link
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".
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 28 March 2005 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link
Never could understand the narrative of the video.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 28 March 2005 12:54 (nineteen years ago) link
>'Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus over the Serengeti'
Horrible lyric, and they DON'T manage to make that clunky line scan at all!
― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Monday, 28 March 2005 14:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 March 2005 14:08 (nineteen years ago) link
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.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 March 2005 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― steve hise, Monday, 28 March 2005 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 28 March 2005 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link
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...")
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 March 2005 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian in brooklyn, Monday, 28 March 2005 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas, Sunday, 22 April 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 22 April 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― 600, Sunday, 22 April 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Sunday, 22 April 2007 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mark Rich@rdson, Sunday, 22 April 2007 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― deej, Sunday, 22 April 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard, Monday, 23 April 2007 09:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― blueski, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― sw00ds, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― sw00ds, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:53 (seventeen 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7n6iYXiBb8
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 16 August 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzrToqsPmyw
bobby actually comments on this one complaining about the monitors lol
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 16 August 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
good rehersel imo
― niels, Thursday, 16 August 2018 21:12 (five years ago) link
wow there's a really sad biopic to be made here
― niels, Thursday, 16 August 2018 21:14 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jafRIOpxoc
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 August 2018 21:35 (five years ago) link
Name sounded familiar and turns out the author of this was in Hugo Largo.
http://www.realclearlife.com/music/weezers-africa-worst-pop-recording-time/
― timellison, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
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”
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link
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.
― Eliza D., Wednesday, 22 August 2018 14:05 (five years ago) link
v difficult karaoke song ime
― . (Michael B), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 14:31 (five years ago) link
“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.”
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 23:39 (five years ago) link
basically somebody needs to play michael the 11 minute version of "don't you know" by the jan hammer group
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 23:41 (five years ago) link
http://www.citypages.com/music/82-hit-songs-from-1982-wed-rather-hear-than-totos-africa/491395521
― Eliza D., Thursday, 23 August 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link
haha that might as well be the top 82 numbers between 1 and 82.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 August 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link
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.
― veronica moser, Thursday, 23 August 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link
jfc
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-45608054
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 22 September 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
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".
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 22 September 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
The local radio station plays this song once every day, so I feel like cumulatively I've listened to it for five hours already.
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Saturday, 22 September 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link
Lukather seems cool
― growing up in publix (morrisp), Saturday, 22 September 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
https://s3.amazonaws.com/allaboutjazz/media/large/1/0/b/a8d54fc8acb569fe079f7f1dbd22b.jpgchecks out
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 22 September 2018 21:34 (five 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