Toto - Falling in Between
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Free Music Review: Pure Toto Classic...
Hit: 5 Stars
To me this album is one of Toto's best since Toto IV and Fahrenheit. I love all their albuns and stuff they played in. Anyway, the album is awesome from top to bottom. I highly recommend this album.Free Music Review: One of their best
Hit: 5 Stars
This is one of the best Toto CD released to date. They are as tight and talented as ever. This is back to the R&R side of Toto. You'll enjoyFree Music Review: Falling Inbetween 4 and 5
Hit: 4 Stars
I have now owned this disc for some time (purchased it right after it was released). I would consider myself a "closet" Toto fan. Always felt like a group that I had to listen to "on my own". However, there is no hiding this one! Several of the songs on this one are easily the best songs Toto has ever delivered. And, I do not hesitate to say this is Toto's best album since at least Farhenheit, if not IV, which then makes it either their best or top 3.
The opener, the title track, is a fantastic piece of rock and roll. It is a very good summation of all that is good about Toto.
Dying on My Feet is an interesting song and goes in a couple of directions you really don't expect. I especially enjoy the "Chicago-esque" finish to the song. The wind section is totally unexpected and is never tiring, even after many repeated listens.
Bottom of Your Soul is one of four songs on this album that stand head and shoulders above ANYTHING Toto has ever done before. When I first bought this disc, my kids made me repeat this one over and over and sang along with the chorus everytime. Even today, when I play this, they will stop what they are doing (an accomplishment all by itself for teenagers) and sing along. I search for words to better describe this one, but they come up short. According tothe liner notes, this song was written in response to the tsunami disaster of a few years ago. Leave it to say, they deliver the music so well, I feel (just for a moment) that I had lost family members on that terrible day.
Both King of the World and Hooked are above average Toto songs. Enjoyable, but more on par with where they have been in the last 20 years or so.
Simple Life is the second of the "fantastic four" songs on this album. It is a simple, incredibly powerful love song. Period, end of statement. It is so good, in fact, that I find it highly frustrating because it is too short!!! It stops about when you are ready for another verse or a couple more repeats of the chorus. Even then, one of Toto's best, bar none!
Taint Your World is a not so subtle bow to Van Halen circa the 1984 album. Very good, very fun. However, for me, it is very distracting that they insist on dropping the "f***" bomb right in the middle, clear as day. Not needed, not additive, but there it is. Even after all these years, that distraction has not gone away and takes away from an otherwise great song.
The next two songs, Let It Go and Spritual Man, are the remaining two songs of the great 4. The underlying funk rhythm of Let It Go is amazing in both its twists and turns along with level of musicianship required to deliver this song effectively. This song, more than any other in Toto's long catalog, illustrates effectively and enjoyably just how good each of the muscisians really are without the song coming off as an instrumental or just a jam session. I thoroughly enjoy Greg's lyrics and vocals on this one.
Spiritual Man is written like a hymn in that it does not have a chorus but rather four versus, each one focused on a different view of a highly respected figure from history. It builds and develops with each passing verse and brings the listener's spirit along with it. Whether or not you agree with the teachings of each of the first three focal points of the song, Jesus, Buddha, and Mohammad, the song develops beautifully and powerfully to the point that it is a natural conclusion to connect the "muscial spirituality" of John Coltrain (subject of the fourth verse) with the first three.
No End in Sight is easly the low point of this album. Not a bad song musically (actually quite good). However, the political theme is so poorly developed, yet so insistantly delivered, that it becomes very off-putting. Obviously intended as Bush bashing thinnly dressed as an anti-war song, it is old, tiresome, mis-guided political tripe and was when it was released...
Reeferman is a short jazz piece and is approaching free-form jazz. If you are into that, you will probably enjoy this little ending. If not, it is not too long as to become bothersome.
Overall, this is an exceptional album. It is one of Toto's most consistent albums (along with IV). I would say it is a "return to form", but only two of their albums really even were close to being this consistent. So, it is more of a "return to ideal form" for the band.
Judging by comments made recently by Steve Lukather, this may also end up being Toto's swan song. While I hope that it is not, it is a good way to "go out" if it is.
Free Music Review: TOTO: Falling in between...... Toto is studioextragavanza with flair and creativity...
Hit: 4 Stars
Toto has very good musicans who can handle their instruments, and it shows on their latest Falling in Between. Track 1 Falling in between has a light touch of heavy metal goodness, with some "extraordinary jungle touch" over it`s soundpicture. It`s a great mix with heavymetal/studiosound and a master stroke vokal too. Light headbanging goodie,goodie, helps too. Track 2 Dying on my feet, is more into jazz/funky territory. Great heavy metal touch on this one too, but it`s the room inbetween,with the different instruments that make the breathing touch of magic. Awsome. Track 3 Bottom of your soul begins with a very moody drum beat which sparkles in your ears. It has also that nature`s own jungle touch over it`s moody atmosphere. Oh yes we are in classical "Toto Africa" mood on this one. Track 4 King of the World is more into classical "light heavy metal" Toto once again. An uplifting mood shines on this one alltrough.Track 5 Hooked, sparks away some blues mood, With the right stroke on the guitar strings to hold up the quality right trough. Track 6 Simple Life is the first "slow one tempo song". It`s a minor let down. It doesn`t take off in a way.Average i will say. Track 7 Taint your world is back in uptempo heavy metal mood once again. It`s fastback.hardtop,sprint, halleluja, alltrough. Track 8 Let it go is in the funky land of Toto. It swing`s funky happy alltrough. Track 9 Spiritual Man is so spiritual. A real modern Toto classic, which give you the shivers down your`e spinal cord. Very moving, With a religious touch which gives it the extravaganza heaven up above.Track 10. No end is in sight end`s up the Cd. Tickling gitar riffs, and a great vocal.Oh Yes, this one holds up the standard, and the vocal is great too. Toto is a group with quality studio extragavanza all over, and this Cd is not an exception.
Free Music Review: What a way to go out...
Hit: 4 Stars
Released: Feb 2006 Produced by: Steve MacMillan
Likely recorded swan song runs musical gamut and pulls out all stops. Taps prog rock (paint-peeling title track), tribal rhythms ("Bottom Of Your Soul"), stadium rock ("King of the World"), jazz-fusion ("Let It Go"), and R&B ("Spiritual Man")--all with aplomb. Only dog is whiny protest rocker "No End In Sight". Where Mindfields was stiff & Tambu droning, FIB sounds like a bunch of legacy-assured pros having a blast. Flat out Van Halen tribute "Taint Your World" makes things even looser, tho may raise eyebrows. Guest appearances abound, tying things up with a vocal by Joseph Williams, percussion by Lenny Castro, plus flute by Ian Anderson, backing vocals by Jason Scheff of Chicago, and coolest of all--Jimmy Pankow (founding Chicago member) pens and plays hellacious horn chart in "Dying On My Feet." Greg Phillinganes on keys and vocals is welcome addition. Even David Paich emerges from vocal exile to sing lead on 2 tracks. Notable as first album without band production or co-production credit. If this is it, what a way to go out. Highly recommended.