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Toto - Past to Present 1977-1990 Audio CD

A fair review of the Toto "Past to Present 1977-1990" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Toto reviews here, or go back to the Toto tabs.

Toto Band: Toto
Title: Past to Present 1977-1990
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Release Date: 2008-02-01
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Love Has the Power [#] 2: Africa 3: Hold the Line 4: Out of Love [#] 5: Georgy Porgy 6: I'll Be Over You 7: Can You Hear What I'm Saying [#] 8: Rosanna 9: I Won't Hold You Back 10: Stop Loving You 11: 99 12: Pamela 13: Animal [#]

Great CD - WEIRD Story...
I bought this CD and was excited because I honestly had thought about getting a Toto Greatest Hits for a Loooooong time. The CD itself is a great collection! I loved Toto when I was a baby and still do! So I've been a fan for about 27 years. When I opened the CD case up, the disc read "Suicidal Tendencies" and was an album by the same band. . . I decided to pop it in the CD player, and it turns out Toto was just mis-labeled. Did anyone else have this happen? It's weird, but freaking hysterical. That's the first time that's EVER happened to me.


Great collection, great band!!
The CD arrived in a timely manner, and the sound quality of the songs is excellent. Actually, I bought this album on CD to update my music collection from tape, so I was already familiar with the songs. As for the group, they had me with the famous "Pamela" video. That song, and a lot of the others here, are great car sing-along songs for a variety of moods, including rock-out, bluesy, mellow, reflective and love-struck. I highly recommend this CD.


SIMPLY TOTO!!
All of the songs are incredible!! from the very famous AFRICA, the great ballads I'LL BE OVER YOU, ROSSANA, the pure pop of 99, GEORGY PORKY, pure rock of HOLD THE LINE, PAMELA, and the newest songs included here LOVE HAS THE POWER, CAN YOU HEAR THAT I'M SAYING, this is the classic TOTO whom I knew when I was a child; brillant album, brillant songs, excellent sound!!.


Past to Present 1977-1990 by Toto
It's music from my teenage years. Love every minute of this cd. Favorite song is Africa. Would say anyone would enjoy this music.


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The only thing that's a bit generic about this is 1990's digital standard dogging down their tape masters. Calling this `generic corporate rock' is hilarious, if insulting to toto who put a lot of thought and effort into their music.
I'll be over you is an example of a toto song with good vocal, lyric, music and barrels of emotion. I think this is a truly beautiful track and once you develop enough to listen to these songs for what they are (love songs in the truest sense - could be about your dead mum!) you will see that toto are a great band on the whole. This cd is 1990 so obviously it suffers a bit from the digital of then. Ironically the songs like Rosanna that loads who buy this seem to love are the kind that suffer most compared to the vinyl releases which is only a credit to what decent tracks they are. Ones like I'll be over you translate perfectly to cd and remain as beautiful on this cd as they are on the 45 12' single.
I mean really though, generic? Of all things you could call toto how could you call them generic. Do you listen to the musicianship. The human energy put into the keyboarding, the drumming by the least generic and possibly best drummer to ever walk the face of earth. Solo's by lukather? I think you should listen again.

My thoughts on this disc are that its not perfect no, it is `artistic' as an album is and not designed/may not satisfy `best of' customers/ fast forward happy listeners (that's maybe why it's not called best of- or greatest hits.
While understandably 'past to present' means greatest hits to a lot of you, to other's it means a `vision' of what's gone on. A reflection on toto `from back then till now'
Get the essential toto if you are hoping to find a personal fav track you aren't sure is here, or if you are one of those hungry people, you like big big cd's that contain lots of avenues. This is album art. I think it is a great start and a great cd I highly recommend to anybody.
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