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re: Is “Africa” by Toto a country song?
Posted on 2/15/20 at 9:52 am to Mr Personality
Posted on 2/15/20 at 9:52 am to Mr Personality
I wonder if they´ve heard of the New York Dolls in Nigeria? 
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Posted on 2/15/20 at 10:20 am to fr33manator
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Lyrics don’t always need to be some heartfelt soul-wrenching ordeal.
Songs with meaning are far more interesting than fluff songs.
Posted on 2/15/20 at 10:23 am to RogerTheShrubber
Some songs are just fun though. Think about “you never even called me by my name”
It doesn’t always have to have a deeper meaning. And some just tell a fun story. Like Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
It doesn’t always have to have a deeper meaning. And some just tell a fun story. Like Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
Posted on 2/15/20 at 10:29 am to fr33manator
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Some songs are just fun though.
Sure. Hair metal was "fun metal" but there's really no personal connection outside of association.
Lyrics provoke thought, fun music hits raw emotion. Some of our most revered troubadours are story tellers
Posted on 2/15/20 at 10:37 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Lyrics provoke thought, fun music hits raw emotion. Some of our most revered troubadours are story tellers
I think all music is storytelling in a way. Good stuff at least.
You might appreciate this The Ballad Of Killdozer
Posted on 2/15/20 at 10:43 am to fr33manator
Not bad. Get you some musicians to work with
This post was edited on 2/15/20 at 10:46 am
Posted on 2/15/20 at 7:53 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Get you some musicians to work with
That’s the current goal. Make new connections and also force myself to learn at least rudimentary guitar
Posted on 2/15/20 at 8:25 pm to Dandy Lion
The song sucks
country music sucks
therefore the song is country music.
Proved with mathematical precision.
country music sucks
therefore the song is country music.
Proved with mathematical precision.
Posted on 2/15/20 at 8:38 pm to Kafka
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"Writing music takes more talent, but writing lyrics takes more courage." -- Johnny Mercer
"Hey man, nobody said we were as good as Johnny Mercer." -- Bob Dylan
LINK
There was about 150 feet of very nice legs in that Lil Abner production.
and Jubilation T Cornpone was the best song
LINK
This post was edited on 2/15/20 at 8:40 pm
Posted on 2/15/20 at 8:39 pm to RidiculousHype
Can someone pinpoint the resurgence of Africa and Don’t Stop Believin’?
People think they’ve discovered something. I’m not criticizing the songs, I’m criticizing the lemmings.
Add Sweet Caroline to this.
People think they’ve discovered something. I’m not criticizing the songs, I’m criticizing the lemmings.
Add Sweet Caroline to this.
Posted on 2/15/20 at 8:45 pm to RidiculousHype
quote:no, but the cover by Weezer is.
Is “Africa” by Toto a country song?
Posted on 2/15/20 at 8:46 pm to texashorn
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Sweet Caroline
Johnny´s Hideaway closing song for aaaaaaaaaages. You´ve got people who party in Atlanta spreading the disease.
When I say ages, I mean, since the mid 1980´s.
Posted on 2/15/20 at 9:58 pm to tokenBoiler
Posted on 2/15/20 at 10:03 pm to RidiculousHype
It's the first song about a white woman getting bang out by an African savage.
Don't hate the messenger. She was kidnapped and taken and banged out by lounge cloth wearing spear chinking savages.
Watch the video.
Loved Toto back in the day though.
Don't hate the messenger. She was kidnapped and taken and banged out by lounge cloth wearing spear chinking savages.
Watch the video.
Loved Toto back in the day though.
Posted on 2/15/20 at 10:11 pm to tokenBoiler
quote:This is the song that prompted Jerry Garcia to learn how to play steel guitar
The song sucks
country music sucks
therefore the song is country music
Posted on 2/15/20 at 10:32 pm to scrooster
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It's the first song about a white woman getting bang out by an African savage. Don't hate the messenger. She was kidnapped and taken and banged out by lounge cloth wearing spear chinking savages.
Wow.
From David Paich, the songwriter: "At the beginning of the '80s I watched a late night doc about the terrible death and suffering of the people in Africa. It moved and appalled me, and the pictures just wouldn't leave my head. I tried to imagine how I'd feel if I was there."
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Watch the video.
The one where the white guy is crushing on the black librarian while he researches a symbol for Africa in the books?
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Loved Toto back in the day though.
Lies.
Posted on 2/15/20 at 11:29 pm to fr33manator
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He stopped loving her today
You gonna stone face tell me this sucks?
That's not country. That's Americana.
Posted on 2/15/20 at 11:49 pm to tokenBoiler
quote:In the '60s some country radio DJs thought Buck Owens' records were getting too close to rock, and threatened not to play him.quote:That's not country. That's Americana
He stopped loving her today
You gonna stone face tell me this sucks?
So Buck took out an ad in the country music trade paper vowing, "I will play no song that is not a country song."
Shortly afterward, Buck put out a cover of Chuck Berry's "Memphis"
When people accused him of breaking his promise with his latest record, Buck replied, "Oh that... That's not rock, that's rockabilly."
Posted on 2/16/20 at 8:06 am to brett408
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The guy who put it in the desert is stupid. It will be covered by sand in a few years
as sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti!
(that was my 6,000th post. I'm rather proud of it)
Posted on 2/16/20 at 8:06 am to RidiculousHype
Yacht rock
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