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The Collection

Toto - The Collection Audio CD

A fair review of the Toto "The Collection" 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.

Band: Toto
Title: The Collection
Rating:

Release Date: 2008-05-27
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Child's Anthem 2: I'll Supply the Love 3: Georgy Porgy 4: Manuela Run 5: You Are the Flower 6: Girl Goodbye 7: Takin' It Back 8: Rockmaker 9: Hold the Line 10: Angela 11: Hydra 12: St. George and the Dragon 13: 99 14: Lorraine 15: All Us Boys 16: Mama 17: White Sister 18: Secret Love 19: Gift with a Golden Gun 20: English Eyes 21: Live for Today 22: Million Miles Away 23: Goodbye Elenore 24: I Think I Could Stand You Forever 25: Turn Back 26: If It's the Last Night 27: Rosanna 28: Make Believe 29: I Won't Hold You Back 30: Good for You 31: It's a Feeling 32: Afraid of Love 33: Lovers in the Night 34: We Made It 35: Waiting for Your Love 36: Africa 37: Carmen 38: Lion 39: Stranger in Town 40: Angel Don't Cry 41: How Does It Feel 42: Endless 43: Isolation 44: Mr. Friendly 45: Change of Heart 46: Holyanna 47: Till the End 48: We Can Make It Tonight 49: Without Your Love 50: Can't Stand It Any Longer 51: I'll Be Over You 52: Fahrenheit 53: Somewhere Tonight 54: Could This Be Love 55: Lea 56: Don't Stop Me Now 57: Pamela 58: You Got Me 59: Anna 60: Stop Loving You 61: Mushanga 62: Stay Away 63: Straight for the Heart 64: Only the Children 65: Thousand Years 66: These Chains 67: Home of the Brave 68: Intro (Child's Anthem) [DVD] 69: Africa [DVD] 70: Georgy Porgy [DVD] 71: I'll Be Over You [DVD] 72: David Paich Solo Spot [DVD] 73: I Won't Hold You Back [DVD] 74: Little Wing [DVD] 75: Without Your Love [DVD] 76: English Eyes [DVD] 77: Rosanna [DVD] 78: Afraid of Love [DVD] 79: Hold the Line [DVD] 80: Bonus Materials [DVD][*]

Very gOOd !!!

Nice package and with DVD Live in Paris. For TOTO fans but also for all great music lovers.

Highly recommended!.

Great!!
Thank you so much it's awesome!!!!!

I love it, I've lent it to some friends and they loved it too

Mistro.

Bare bones/lack of respect for a ToTo collection in the US

I do not own this collection, but I know exactly what he is talking about. I would just like to comment on what the previous reviewer stated. And for a band that is so tight and clean. you would think they earned a delux set, not just a bare boned transfer that Sony has done here. I own the 2005 DSD remastered Japan editions. These are much more worthy of you hard earned dollar. All artwork is clean and sharp. The colors are fresh and clean. Not like the US CD issues. As mention in the previous post. The US editions are flat interms of sound and a faded looking cover art.

But when you play the japenese editions you hear the HUGE difference in sound. The volume level just alone, and you do get that warm sound feel on the 7th one CD+ a bonus Track called the 7th one, which is a kinda jam session. That song is only available on the Japenese editon.
It seems like Japan does everything right, great remastering, bonus tracks, sometimes extra booklets. Anyway not to get to much off the subject. It would be nice here in America TOTO would get the delux treatment of there 1st 7 albums. Including some bonus tracks and demos.

If anyone is interested in getting there ToTo collection started with Japenese DSD Mastered editons, I have 2 extra copies of the 1st album and Isolation album in that form for sale. I know this series is out of print, but is for sale on ebay from different sellers. Usualy about 20. 00 to 37. 00 per + shipping. Depends on the which one you want. If you want to buy one of 2 I have for sale shot me an e-mail mikesippie@yahoo. com. Maybe one day SONY will get it right. . . . . We alwys have to pay top dollar for the imports Mike S.
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Not Remastered
But I've been wanting to get the old Toto records for a while now, and when I saw this I thought it was perfect, because I didn't have any of them on CD as of yet and thought it would be a great space saving solution (as was the Queensryche "Revolution Calling" box set). It's really unusual for me to buy a box set that has just been released, as I usually wait until I see it used and then buy it. The drummer in my swing band is a Jeff Procaro fan, so we split the cost so she could download all the tracks and listen to Jeff and I could have the little baby Toto collection.

Having just received it in the mail, I really would only recommend it for people who are in my situation and are either looking to save space and/or don't own these albums yet. Here's an overview:

--Not remastered. They sound OK for what I'm needing but I can hear the lack of bass and slightly tinny sound of a late 80's digital mastering job. I remember "Mushanga" being a lot warmer sounding on vinyl, for example.
--Crappy artwork on the mini-sleeves. The cover of "Hydra" and the painting on "Farenheit" have that infamous diamond-textured look that you'll get if you don't scan something correctly. The "Toto IV" front cover is BLOCKY with a capital "B"! It looks like they took it off a 72 psi scan made for the Internet (no kidding!)--it really looks awful. A couple of times (as in "Toto IV" and "The Seventh One") they try to approximate the vinyl packaging (with inferior scans of course), but many times, as with "Hydra", it looks like they are looking off the old CD's rather than the vinyl. It's a pretty amateur-looking hack job that I could do myself with Photoshop (with the possible exception of "Turn Back" which looks pretty good). Makes me wish I had kept my Toto vinyl for the artwork.
--The DVD of "Greatest Hits Live and More" (formerly "Toto Live" on VHS). The concert is well-edited and was recorded at Le Zenith in Paris on October of 1990. This DVD comes with a couple of interesting extras. One extra is an interview with the band that Jeff Procaro dominates that was shot in Holland in 1988 and is interspersed with clips of their old music videos. The other is a Behind the Scenes promo for the "Tambu" album from 1995, which is fun. This DVD is available separately, as all of you Toto fans know. It's a fun disc, but everything looks like it's taken from VHS masters.
--A flimsy, bare bones 12-page booklet with credits for the songs and some short recollections from David Paich on each of the albums. Interesting, but nothing to kill for, as it fills one page with gaps to spare.

I hope this helps all you Toto fans who are wondering what's in this box. Don't rebuy everything if you don't have to. If you like having the Mini LP sleeves, don't buy it for that either because they look really bad. Only buy it if you do not have the albums already, as was my situation.

--David Gasten.

Remastered?
But the marketing info available so far is completely silent about that particular detail) Anyone?. Are these CD's remastered/upgraded from the versions that were originally issued on CD? (It would make sense, since the sound quality varied so greatly among Toto's CD releases. . . . . hello?.

You can see a complete list of all Toto discography, or go back to the Toto tabs. There is also a good guide on how to read guitar tabs here.