Better Toto Song: Africa or Rosanna? (1 Viewer)

[bigdaddysaints]

surprise no-one posted this yet..

 

[primadox]

Africa, hands down.

 

[vdubee]

Also, i‘ll submit that Toto’s I‘ll Be Over You is every bit the equal of Hold the Line.. though obviously very different songs, Ill be Over is as good a pop ballad as Hold the Line is a hard rocker.. Both are inferior to Rosanna and Africa.. and it’s extremely hard to believe that those 4 songs were all put out by the same band.

I'll be over you is my Toto fave too!

 

[melman]

I've been a big fan of the Toto crew since they were studio musicians. I pay attention to the drums of most songs and Jeff became one of my fav. I miss the album jackets where you could research all the musicians and recognize them on other tunes. Listen to Boz Scaggs Lido Shuffle and Lowdown (latter written by keyboardist ? Porcaro) you hear Toto at their finest. Saw them 3x in concert.

 

[nolaspe]

You sent me down an hours long rabbit hole.

That dude is great, funny, and talented AF, been watching his stuff for a bit...

 

[SystemShock]

that would just be the worst luck. You’re r a great song writer, you meet a very special girl and your like "I'm going to write her first song, it will be cherry" only to find out she had already been there with Toto 4 years prior.

Once bitten twice shy...

 

[Dago]

I like Toto because they're proof ugly dudes can be rock stars too

Dee Snyder says to hold his beer

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Dee Snyder says to hold his beer

Ric Ocasek invented this concept.

 

[HoustonGold]

No love for Pamela? Come on y'all!

 

[Poison]

You could do a whole list of Toto songs based only on female first names. Pamela is an absolute banger, to be sure.

In fact, I’m going to try ranking them right now.

1. Rosanna - Toto IV
2. Pamela - The Seventh One
3. Melanie - Mindfields
4. Mushanga - The Seventh One
5. Lea - Fahrenheit
6. Holyanna - Isolation
7. Anna - The Seventh One
8. Carmen - Isolation
9. Angela - Toto

I’m not counting any songs with more than a single name in the title (thus excluding Goodbye Elenore) or 99 and Georgy Porgy as I don’t understand either to be the name of a female.

 

[DCSaints_Fan]

Ric Ocasek invented this concept.

Ric Ocasek was tall. Some chicks find that hot in of itself.

 

[jboss]

Rosanna only because of MacGruber.

 

[COsaintsfan]

Africa. When it came out, it had really had a different sound.

And In your Eyes is awful. It sounded like microwaved Culture Club and still does.

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

And In your Eyes is awful. It sounded like microwaved Culture Club and still does.

I wonder if one’s perception of In Your Eyes would vary based on whether or not they saw ‘Say Anything...‘ in the year it was released, or shortly thereafter.. Did you? I did, and of course the song conjures up memories of that movie, but i think it also stands up well on its own.. However, it’s impossible to say if I’d feel the same way had i never seen that movie, or if i had watched it years later, as an adult.

 

[Brennan77]