Toto - Through the Looking Glass
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Free Music Notes for Through the Looking Glass
Free Music Review: Delivers the goods with a solid respect to their influences
Hit: 4 Stars
Not just for Toto fans (of which I am a long time committed one)...I have played this CD in my office and had several people who wouldn't normally take Toto seriously, ask what the CD was and ended up getting a copy for themselves. Everyone's playing (as always) is EXCELLENT and the tribute-tip-of-the-hat to their influences and peers is very well done. The songs are great with the stand outs being the Steely Dan cover of 'Bodihisatva', Harrison's 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps', Marley's 'Could you be Loved', and Clapton/Cream's 'Sunshine of Your Love' (check out the slight modification in the mixed meter time signiture done seemlessly so that you won't notice unless you really pay atttention). Bottom line - GET IT! Ignore the critics, they have never like Toto and never will.Free Music Review: Great Album
Hit: 4 Stars
ToTo's latest offering is this cover album featuring a range of tracks from various artists. The hightlight for me is a truly wonderful version of George Harrison's 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'. Beatles fans may hate me for saying this but it s**ts all over the original. Other highlights are 'Burn Down The Mission', originally by Elton John and 'House of the Rising Sun'. Beutifully played, nicely produced. Definatly one of the better 'cover' albums out there!Free Music Review: Great CD!
Hit: 4 Stars
This CD is a lot of fun. I'm a big fan of the Beatles, Cream, Elton - basically "classic" rock - as well as a huge Toto fan. I LOVE the cover of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," and the rest of the covers do justice to the originals while giving them a little Toto-style tweak. If you're a Toto fan, you MUST get this. If you're not, you should get it anyway.Free Music Review: Throgh the Looking Glass
Hit: 4 Stars
I think this CD is excellent interpretations by TOTO especially taking in consideration are covers songs from theirs influences ,I love their music and was as always ,really impress by their power of interpretation and musicianship ,Steve and Bobby as the rest of the group ,Excellent!!!! Loved their show in Puerto Rico.Keep on!!!Free Music Review: A hit and miss affair of covers
Hit: 3 Stars
I was a bit disappointed when I heard that the album that Toto would be releasing at their 25-year anniversary was to be an album full of covers. After all, this band had put out three very-good-to-stellar albums past their popular prime in the 1990s. New material was much anticipated. That being said, I was more than willing to give it a listen--since Toto has long been one of my favorite bands. As the 13th album I have purchased by Toto, it is without a doubt their weakest. That being said, there are still some worthy tracks on here.The album does not get off to a stellar start in my opinion with the Bob Marley cover "Could You Be Loved". The track is reasonably catchy but kind of grates on my nerves after a while. It is a bit of an annoying track for Toto to cover. Much better are the next two tracks. The Steely Dan cover "Bodhisattva" is catchy and rocking, and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is made into a classic-sounding Steve Lukather ballad. Next, however, come two tracks that I am annoyed that Toto would cover. While "I Can't Get Next To You" and "Living for the City" are both decent songs, they simply sound a bit silly covered by Toto. While Toto has had a wide variety of great styles over the years, these songs seem too far out in left field even for them.
At the midpoint of the album is another different style, but this one I like much better. The cover of the instrumental "Maiden Voyage/Butterfly" is a relaxing musical delight. For those who think Toto has never gone in this direction before, guess again: remember the closing instrumental jazz track "Don't Stop Me Now" on 1986's "Fahrenheit" album? As with that original song, this cover is done very well.
Even better is the next track, Elton John's "Burn Down the Mission". Now THIS is what Toto should be covering! Excellent track from beginning to end, totally keeping the spirit of the original track. This is probably my favorite track on the album. A pretty good rendition is also done of the next track, "Sunshine For Your Love", but I honestly am sick to death of that song and have no need to hear it ever again. "House of the Rising Sun" follows and is another decent, catchy track. But then comes the last two tracks that have me scratching my head again.
Elvis Costello publicly stated he hated Toto way back when, so Toto decides to tweak him here by covering his song "Watching The Detectives". I totally appreciate their sense of humor and could live with the track if the rest were all stellar, but quite frankly this track is weak. The cover of the Bob Dylan-penned "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" also is hardly a song that I want to hear Toto sing. The style simply doesn't suit them.
So there you have it. For sure, this album isn't horrible overall, but I truly only really like four of the 11 tracks--a far cry from any other Toto album. Toto completists like me should get this album, but I don't see it holding interest for too many others. For sure, this is the only Toto album that I would rate under 4 stars.