Toto - Africa

[MooChild]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dt1fB62cGbo

Damn beat me to it

 

[Iam]

What's next, Boston's More Than A Feeling...?

 

[cesare]

Sounds fine and dandy to me! SCDC it is!

*makes mental note*

What's next, Boston's More Than A Feeling...?

Even on Sundays

 

[Iam]

It'll be Foreigner next...

 

[rekil]

What's next, Boston's More Than A Feeling...?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4n2TVI1Ij3E

 

[Wintermute]

Yeah... alright tune, masterfully ruined by, "Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti." I reckon there was a bet or something behind that lyric, there's no way they put that in on purpose.

 

[Orang Utan]

The phrasing of Serengeti is so awkward, but I think it only adds to the charm

 

[Iam]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4n2TVI1Ij3E

Cool.

(nicest comment about Nirvana from me, ever!)

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

i love a bit of Toto

 

[ViolentPanda]

Yeah... alright tune, masterfully ruined by, "Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti." I reckon there was a bet or something behind that lyric, there's no way they put that in on purpose.

Unless they'd been drinking Madeira laced with Laudanum, anyway.

 

[ViolentPanda]

i love a bit of Toto

We're not talking about Dorothy's dog, Bouncer!

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

'Africa' has been stuck in my head all day because of this thread!!!! It wont stop!! MY IMJ is stuck!

 

[Annierak]

I prefered Toto's 'Hold the line'

 

[rekil]

I prefered Toto's 'Hold the line'

They did Rosanna too. They outcunted Billy Joel with that one.

 

[Annierak]

They did Rosanna too. They outcunted Billy Joel with that one.

I only like 'Hold the line' by Toto. I do like early Billy Joel too

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

hmm i love africa

 

[Sweaty Betty]

i was in s africa when this was released in uk.......love it!!!!!!

 

[nubster]

now thats what I call Lift music 74

 

[Orang Utan]

the meaning of the lyrics are discussed hilariously here: http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/16545/2/ASC/#comment

 

[dodgepot]

what an awful, awful song.

 

[Orang Utan]

what an awful, awful song.

defriended

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Right up there on my "very worst songs of all time" list

 

[Orang Utan]

it is one of the very best

 

[foo]

i'm with dodge.

awful song.

and now it's stuck in my head, thanks OU

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

It's pretty cool. The spongey bass and period charm synth pipes fuse together to create a soothing aural bath of warm semolina while 'The Colbys' winds up and '321' comes on the telly in the next room.

 

[May Kasahara]

the meaning of the lyrics are discussed hilariously here: http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/16545/2/ASC/#comment

Leave Toto to people who know and give a shit about what life is

 

[strung out]

i quite like it

 

[Idris2002]

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I like the Thundermug version:

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Love Africa (ah-ah-ah)
Beautiful land (ah-ah-ah)
Hot is the sun, cold is the night
You're mine!

Thunder saw savanna
I can look out to the sea, look at me

Live off the land (ah-ah-ah)
Smoke mashmakhan (ah-ah-ah)
Forests so green, jungles so deep
Sublime!

Up the great Zambezi
Sail the Congo to the sea

You're my father, you're my mother
You're my sister and my brother
You're my friend

Soft rolling sand (ah-ah-ah)
Where life began (ah-ah-ah)
Song of the bird, roar of the beast
Sublime!

???? ???? ??? Turkana
Tanganyika call to me, call to me

------ kazoo solo ------

You're my father, you're my mother
You're my sister and my brother
You're my friend

Love Africa (ah-ah-ah)
Beautiful land (ah-ah-ah)
Love Africa (ah-ah-ah)
Sing coloured man (ah-ah-ah)

Love Africa (ah-ah-ah)
Beautiful land (ah-ah-ah)
Love Africa (ah-ah-ah)
Beautiful land (ah-ah-ah)
Love Africa (ah-ah-ah)
Beautiful land (ah-ah-ah)
Love Africa (ah-ah-ah)
Beautiful land (ah-ah-ah)
Love Africa