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Free Music Review: Toto Supply The Music
Hit: 5 Stars
Toto began life with this ambitious recording that should have put the band into the great vanguard of a new musical direction. The group,made up of some of the finest session aces around were poised to pick up where bands like Steely Dan left off earlier in the decade,at least musically. The trouble is on a number songs such as "I'll Supply The Love","Rockmater" and "Hold The Line" the band are pretty intent on sounding like mainstream arena rock. But it's cleary wonderfully constructed fusion songs such as "Takin' It Back","Manuela Run" and the wonderous funky soul of "Georgy Porgy" that the bands best moments come when they apply their musical ability to soulful fusion but obviously the had to sell records so they chose to become known for their more pop/soft rock sound rather then the jazz-fusion and R&B/funk styles often explored on earlier recordings such as this. But the least one can say it the band got off to a great start.Free Music Review: Power pop/rock at it's best
Hit: 4 Stars
Buying this album for the rhythm section alone is worth it. Drummer Jeff Porcaro and basist David Hungate make this collection of pop/rock classics soar to heights other musicians can only dream about. Hold the Line has aged extraordinarily well and Georgy Porgy was the song Boz Scaggs wished he had written. A personal favourite is I'll Supply the Love, a perfect example of LA power pop/rock with Bobby Kimball soaring on lead vocals.Free Music Review: VERY NICE START
Hit: 4 Stars
boy oh boy, did most critics dump on these guys when this came out. Like some of the other reviewers said, ignore them. This is a very solid debut disc. The players in the band are all top shelf, including one of my favorite drummers, the late Jeff Porcaro. A groove master deluxe! Hold The Line, Georgy Porgy, Rockmaker, all solid songs. Nice productions as well. A nice addition to any collection.Free Music Review: decent start
Hit: 3 Stars
How about that- I was about ready to bash this album when all of a sudden side 2 came on, and things changed dramatically. Seriously, the second side of the album is when the good stuff arrives- you have a hit song, a fairly lengthy rocker to kick things off, and a beautiful ballad to end the thing called "Angela".
What about side 1, you ask? Well, the opening track is a really good melodic instrumental piece, but the rest of side 1 to me sounds like just a bunch of obnoxious tracks that don't really know if they want to be ballads or upbeat rockers. It ends up sounding like a big mess. Actually it sounds like inexperience, which probably explains why Toto's songwriting improved as the years went on.
Stick with it though, and you will be rewarded for the final 20 minutes of the album. So overall, it's an album where 55% of the album is memorable.
UPDATE June 13, 2007. I was WRONG! I gave this album another listen and the ENTIRE thing clicked! I now love every song. The songs I thought were originally average on the first side are now really good and melodic. What was I thinking? I now give this album 5 stars (too bad amazon won't let me change the rating).
Free Music Review: All Absolute Virtuoso Musicians - in the same band!
Hit: 5 Stars
Everybody likes Toto - even if they don't admit or even know it. Every member has played / performed / sung / written so many styles, with and for so many other artists. This debut is as stellar as any performer could hope for - very strong in writing, musicianship, creativity, production, arrangement. What I like on this debut is the precision - lost somewhat on their sophomore LP "Hydra" - when they were going for a more raw sound with producer Tom Knox. The same tight sound was not restored until they once again were in the producer's seat with the multi-grammy award winning "Toto IV". A most unfortunate thing for us Toto fans in the USA is that CBS has not remastered all of the original albums for CD. Available in Japan are the first 7 releases - remastered with superior sound with miniature LP covers and full inserts, plus the original graphics used on each record label, and miniature poster in "Turn Back" too. Toto's playing is perfect is every way - they are the musicians that musicians listen to.