Better Toto Song: Africa or Rosanna? (2 Viewers)

[saintmdterps]

Better to be kicked in the right or left nut?

I was always pretty meh on Toto. I'd rather listen to Steve Lukather and Jeff Porcaro on this Frampton song. Cool song, cool video

 

[The Nomad]

Africa

 

[Rickboy]

I like or love all of Toto’s songs, but Africa is where it is at for me.

 

[Bill]

It's the harmonies in Africa that does it for me...

 

[BigOdin504]

I thought Toto was a dog.

I thought I read somewhere that Toto has members who were originally in the band kansas
and there is some wizard of oz thing happening there
Not sure if that is true though

 

[SystemShock]

I hate Rosanna.

Come at me!

 

[superchuck500]

 

[Clarkey]

How 'bout the whole CD?

 

[Grumpy Old Manatee]

Rosanna just because of Jeff Porcaro's Purdie shuffle drumming part.

Beat me to it. Porcaro's shuffle is slightly different, but Bernard will still claim it is his.
Both songs are great in their own way.

 

[Grumpy Old Manatee]

Both of those songs are sort of fun, largely because they’re nostalgic and a bit because they’re well performed and fun to sing along with. Neither is particularly great or remarkable.

I think when it comes to 80s songs about Rosanna or Africa, “In Your Eyes” has them both beat.

You're bringing Peter Gabriel into this?

 

[Poison]

Toto are amazing. This is like asking me to pick a favourite child (I assume, I don’t have kids). Steve Lukather doesn’t get the recognition he deserves as one of the greatest guitarists ever. How many number one tracks has he played on? Then throw in, at various stages, David Paich, Bobby Kimball, Joseph Williams, Steve/Jeff/Mike Porcaro ... heck, I even liked Isolation with Fergie Fredriksen.

I was fortunate enough to get VIP tickets to meet Luke, Steve Porcaro and Joseph Williams for their show in Melbourne in January 2019 just before they called it a day for a second (and maybe last) time. They were great and they drew twice the crowd that turned out to see them when I went to the Falling in Between tour in 2008. You can’t understate the impact the Weezer cover of Africa had on their popularity either, particularly amongst the younger crowd. I strangely got into them as a teenager in the early 00s because my mate’s older brother is/was a guitar aficionado and put me on to a heap of 80s guitarists from Luke to Reb Beach to Nuno Bettencourt. But both of us would probably agree that Lukather and Toto are on our personal Mt Rushmore.

Here’s a picture of them playing at Falls Festival which is a New Years festival for a young crowd - 18 to 30 - at the turn of 2019


Coincidental timing with this thread - I’m bringing home a puppy in a few weeks. Her name? Rosanna (or Rosie for short). 100% named after the song.

Would have been Hokie, Reggie or Alvin for a boy but I digress.


Anyway, on that basis, I’ll lean Rosanna - just.

 

[superchuck500]

You're bringing Peter Gabriel into this?

Yes but only to sort of make a joke that with In Your Eyes, you get a song about Rosanna and Africa rolled into one.

 

[zeetes]

africa. love that song.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

You're bringing Peter Gabriel into this?

Completely unfair bringing peter Gabriel to a Toto fight

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Yes but only to sort of make a joke that with In Your Eyes, you get a song about Rosanna and Africa rolled into one.

I think Marty Graw was unaware that In Your Eyes and Rosanna were both written about Rosanna Arquette... To be fair, i was yesterday years old when i found out that In Your Eyes was written about her.

But i dont get the relation between In Your Eyes and Africa(?)