This week we have the 1993 release from Toto, titled "Kingdom Of Desire".
It's an album that slipped thru the cracks for me, and here's why: after ""IV" I was totally on the Toto bandwagon. Great album, even though it wasn't my "style" back then, so it was something of a guilty pleasure (couldn't admit to my metal brethren that I liked the album for fear of being shunned).
The next album, "Isolation" was a total letdown to me. I listened to it maybe once and that was it. No more Toto.
In 1988, while listening to a rock station in Omaha, I heard a mystery track where callers could vote if the song was a smash or trash. Even though it was a fantastic song, it was voted as trash. The DJ then let us know that the song played was "Stay Away" from Toto and I was hooked again. The next day I went out and bought the album, titled "The Seventh One". The album was pretty good, but I was expecting more songs along the lines of "Stay Away" (the song is hard rock for those that have never heard it, kind of a surprise to me since it was Toto and I was always under the impression that they had kind of turned into soft rock, cause that's what sold, at least for Toto).
After that album, I really didn't hear much from Toto. About 11 years later, I heard some rumblings about a new Toto album, titled "Mindfields" so I went ahead and searched it down. Not a bad album, but not a great album. However, I was hooked on finding Toto stuff so I started checking out their back catalogue, seeing what I had missed.
While doing the research thing, I was hearing a lot about "Kingdom Of Desire", how it was a total rock album, a heavier Toto. This I needed. This album was long out of print and the asking price was very high (100 bucks). So I waited and waited and finally found it for a reasonable price, around $15.
For once, the description of the album was dead on. This is not the "softer side of Toto". This is Toto that rocks. From the first song till the last, I was hooked. So hooked I went on a massive Toto buying spree and discovered that I actually like all their albums. But this album, along with their final (?) album ("Falling In Between") are tops on my list.
Kingdom Of Desire
1. Gypsy Train*
2. Don't Chain My Heart*
3. Never Enough
4. How Many Times*
5. 2 Hearts
6. Wings Of Time
7. She Knows The Devil*
8. The Other Side*
9. Only You
10. Kick Down The Walls
11. Kingdom Of Desire*
12. Jake To The Bone*
Availability: Around 3 dollars, highly recommended buy but you can listen to it first HERE.
MSoTW: Believe someone claims they know last week's song? Let us know! This week's is very easy, at least if you know this band. Basically, Rjhog will have no clue.
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Norma Jean Fox
(11/30/1945-9/7/2010)
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