Toto "Africa" Appreciation Thread

[The Nature Boy]

What a fucking song this is!!! I know it's a bit fagged out, but come on, this thing never gets old! 20 years or so, but I absolutely flip for this song! Tell me I'm not alone on the "Africa" bandwagon here! And don't try to talk some smack that "Rosanna" was better, even if it was about Rosanna Arquette!


I hear the drums echoing tonight
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
She's coming in 12:30 flight
The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation
I stopped an old man along the way,
Hoping to find some long forgotten words or ancinet melodies
He turned to me as if to say, "Hurry boy, it's waiting there for you"
CHORUS:
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had
The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what's right
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serangetti
I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that I've become
CHORUS
(Instrumental break)
Hurry boy, she's waiting there for you
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa, I passed some rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa, I passed some rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had




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[reeshy]

That's one of those songs that always catches my ear when I hear it. It's not so much the song but the memories it evokes. I've always liked that song-good choice!!

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[A.J.]

I prefer "Hold The Line".

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A Skidmark production.

[DarkHippie]

Just re-reading the lyrics gave me chills

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[KC2OSO]

Debarge "Who's Johnny" blows "Africa" away any day.

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[jafter]

What a fucking song this is!!! I know it's a bit fagged out, but come on, this thing never gets old! 20 years or so, but I absolutely flip for this song! Tell me I'm not alone on the "Africa" bandwagon here! And don't try to talk some smack that "Rosanna" was better, even if it was about Rosanna Arquette!


When I hear that song I wish I was deaf.

We need everyone to keep spreading the word about Ron and Fez. Get you friends, coworkers, hell anyone you talk to get them to listen.

[pinkyfloyd]

I think "Africa" is the better song, but "Rosanna" was the better video. Remember Rosanna Arquette dancing against that wire fence? Toto was the shiznit.

Oh, by the way, which one's pinky?

Suck it, Giguere.

[ag]

Africa , one of the greatest 80's songs out there

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