Toto - Kingdom of Desire
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Artist: TotoEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2003-09-15
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Gypsy Train
- Don't Chain My Heart
- Never Enough
- How Many Times
- Hearts
- Wing Of Time
- She Knows The Devil
- Other Side
- Only You
- Knigdom Of Desire
- Jake To The Bone
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Free Music Review: The end of an era; the beginning of another...
Hit: 4 Stars
'Kingdom of Desire' is the album that got me seriously listening to Toto for the first time. Previously I'd always seen them as a smooth light pop rock group of great musos who only occasionally stretched out. A friend bought me the album and told me to listen to the last track, 'Jake to the bone'. I put on the CD, listened, was shocked, grabbed the cover to ensure that it was indeed a Toto album and since then have been an avid Toto fan.
This album rocks; has edge, yet still has the high production qualities, tight harmonies and soaring lead breaks that was typical of the best of their earlier albums.
That first track I listened to,'Jake to the bone', is a blistering, lengthy rock fusion instrumental that sounds more like Dream Theater. This was Jeff Porcaro showing that not only was he the groovemeister but could thrash out in odd time signatures as well. How tragic that this final track was also to be his last with Toto. After hearing the track a few times I started to listen to the album from the beginning.
I was blown away - 'Gypsy Train' sounds like a Van Halen flatout boogie. The drum sound is enormous, but most of all you get to hear a side of Steve Lukather that certainly was not evident on any previous Toto studio album. Whammy bar and flurries of tapping, he rocks with the best of them. I'd always heard that he was awesome live but at that time had not had the pleasure of seeing him play. I was stunned. And that is probably why many of the previous generations of Toto fans were disappointed as this was too in your face, too Toto ala Los Lobotomys - the Garfield, Lukather, Colaiuta ad-hoc band. That's not to say that their expected ballads and funkier songs don't appear on this album - it's just that even on the most ordinary of songs there are always delightful segues to Luke solos unlike anything on all previous albums, plus Luke as the main vocalist!
The penultimate track, 'Kingdom of Desire' starts with an overwhelming sense that something special is brewing. There is space and the gentle plucking of an overdriven electric guitar and the crisp hi-hat beat. Each time I hear the beginning of this track I still get chills. Crank your amplifier to not only hear but feel this powerful anthem. This song typifies what I believe started with this album and that was Toto giving up on what the music industry expected and instead decided to play what they liked and how they wanted to.
Sadly the album was the end of the Porcaro era, but already the harder more extended Toto approach to compositions had been set. This landmark Toto album was the beginning of a new, exciting direction for Toto that has seen a resurgence of wonderful world tours and a spate of their best live recordings including their outstanding 25 year anniversary live DVD.
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