Toto poll

This is harder than I thought it would be. It's between, unsurprisingly, the two big hits -- Rosanna and Africa -- and, surprisingly, some lesser hits, Hold The Line, 99, and I Won't Hold You Back. I think it's 99, tho.

Bah. Rambling. It's 99.

Georgy Porgy by a huge mile

No Dune soundtrack?

xpost - although miles aren't ever bigger than others

africa

Did you find the things you never had?

that song is haunting...it seems sad in a way

Had to download "Rosanna" to remind myself how much I like it. I still like it. I voted "Rosanna."

Why download what you can watch and stream?

I like how the Sisters of Mercy used that video set later, but just added water.

"Hey now
Hey now now
Sing this Rosanna to me."

They look unbelievably dorky in this video, but 99 is still the winner.

My God the 80s was a bad decade for hair.

As I am going to be shortly blessing the rains down in Africa, I have had to choose that very song.

Oh my heavens. I haven't heard "I Won't Hold You Back" in about 17 billion years. I'd forgot about that one.

It's "Africa", really. "Rosanna" and "Georgy Porgy" are also gr8.

"Georgy Porgy"

Always loved "Africa."

The 80s was also a bad decade for glasses.

Rosanna, because it has everything.

Rock - check
Soul - check
Pop - check
Funk - check, kind of
Jazz - almost

What else do you need in one song?

"Hold The Line", easy. For a soft-rock song it's camp as tits. "I Won't Hold You Back" is no longer necessary thanks to Roger Sanchez, though I'd still say it's second.

"Africa" - good italo version by Key Of Dreams, good edit of same by Rune Lindbaek, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl6s2Q9BNO4";>MIMS vs Toto</a> is a guaranteed floorfiller. Saw the lead singer of Erase Errata belt it out at karaoke once, too.

"Hold The Line" & "Rosanna" also U&K.

"Rosanna," but "Africa" is 1a.

Etc., that link you posted leads to a YouTube error message (malformed video ID). Can you (or someone else) re-post it? In a weak moment of nostalgia, I'd really like to hear reimagined versions of Toto's hits.

"africa" for the arrangement/production.

Oh, right, BBCode.
This Is Why Africa Is Hot

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I'll Be Over You 1

Hello me.

99 was robbed.

wow, sorry I missed this thread. Africa deservedly won. Toto fucking suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

They split!

http://noted.blogs.com/westcoastmusic/2008/08/toto-split-up-c.html

Wow.

You all sure did like "Africa".

The top 3 here is really fair (could maybe switch "Hold the Line" and "Rosanna") - but "I'll Supply The Love" was robbed!

The top 3 here is really fair

The top 3 is actually a top 4. But "Georgy Porgy" deserves to be there too.

12/8

hydra really hittin the two-beer after-work spot right now

99 and i won't hold you back now seriously underrated ballads.

how can we make toto "happen" again--how has a band this good not been rediscovered--i ask you

maybe it's the name and the lame album covers. and surely it's still cheesy to some ears.

people! what are you going to do i guess

If you want to rediscover Toto, drop in on a karaoke bar.

(This is no slight on them, btw. I like them a lot.)

i just dont get why there arent a thousand toto-aping bands in w'burg or silver lake or whatever now?? like it seems as though they got completely bypassed??? i guess the dan and boz skaggs did too

WHERE IS THE TOTO OF 2010 I ASK YOU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZq6D6IjUlA

If you want to rediscover Toto, drop in on a karaoke bar.

Precisely. Jeff T and I made them happen again in karaoke the other night. (And yes it was "Africa.") So surely the rest must follow.

influential internet arbiter king boy pato is on it

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=79&threadid=83296

kbp always ahead of the curve

I do have a problem seeing Donkeyboy as particularly Toto-like, actually. They are more like 80s Fleetwood Mac with touches of Duran Duran and Jon Anderson on vocals.

I've been really really into "Rosanna" and "Waiting For Your Love" lately, what other songs and/or albums/collections should I check out based on my loving those songs?

well toto iv obviously. i think theres a two disc 'essentials' collection which is pretty good. their sound is pretty consistent, tbh, and from toto to toto iv you cant really go wrong. i dont know isolation or farenheit that well but they sound p good to my ears. my fave album is 'hydra'.

cool, thanks.

i watched Dune for the first time last week, was disappointed that i didn't notice any cool Toto pop jams.

apparently "Rosanna" was named after Rosanna Arquette? that's crazy.

I Won't Hold You Back didn't get any votes in that poll? At all? It's one of my favorite Toto singles and it was featured briefly in an American Dad episode. It's a perfectly cheesy 1980s power ballad.

this band has layers. "stranger in town" video, starring future grima wormtongue actor guy, i think, disturbed the hell out of me as a kid

"stranger in town" video, starring future grima wormtongue actor guy

I always thought that was their weird way of referencing the Dune work -- that album and single came out around the same time as the movie did, Brad Dourif's in the film as well, etc.

didn't know he was in dune too. guy is vying for science fantasy hall of fame induction
haven't seen the video in a looooong time. still gives me chills and bums me out he doesn't get away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NelbhjQ98i8

this songs brings back good memories, but everyone looks coked-up in this video, huh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq4ychrRkQA

kilimanjaro rises like olympus = a mountain rises like another mountain <-- coked-up lyric

that's such a horrible line. a totally failed metaphor and way too many syllables too. wtf

for a long time i used to sing "kilimanjaro rises like a lepress" without once thinking that this made no sense or even realizing that the word i was searching for was "leopardess." a quick google search has revealed that i'm not the only who had this problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnFw2HMu3dg&feature=related

Good god, there was a video for "99"? And it was...this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi6PY8AG5Ic

Well, I'm amazed.

Just saying again about that "99" video. Trust me.

I don't get Rosanna.

Who’s your favorite Toto vocalist?

The son of John Williams

I know he entered after their “classic” period, but he is the one with the best vocals imho.

His vocals also seem to hace actually gotten better with age which is usually the other way around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-bYuNOCMiI

Don’t know him at all, I have only heard up til IV

Whereas Kimball's rough living destroyed his to the point where the last time he toured with Toto, they piped in the CD during the chorus of Africa

Inspired to ask because Kimball is so over the top, it cracks me up every time when he gets going with his “oohs” etc

He was so nimble in his prime, hate that he basically can't sing anymore

Joseph Williams still sounds good