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IV

June 25th, 2010 by aussieboy63

The fourth album produced by that great America band Toto, I don’t believe they bettered it, although next album Isolation gave it a run.

Toto was a band created by experienced session musicians, and anyone who listens to their music can’t help but be impressed by this quality. Over the years there were a number of changes in members but the Toto I loved had Steve Lukather, Dave Paich, Bobby Kimball, David Hungate and the Porcaro brothers, Jeff and Steve.  I still love hearing Jeff belting away on those drums, what a drummer.

Back to the album.  It hit the streets in Australia on the back of the first hit of the album “Rosanna”, and was number one for some time.   It won six Grammys including Record of the Year for “Rosanna”, Album of the Year and Producer of the Year.

The album also gave us that beautiful ballad “I Won’t hold You Back” which featured that beautiful voice of Eagles bass player Timothy B. Schmidt and of course the song everyone knows “Africa”.  Who can forget that great beat as Jeff Lukather drums away.  Great!

The whole album was packed with great songs though.  I especially liked “Good for You” a song that always sounded better when played with the volume on high.  “It’s a feeling” was also a great song, very slick in its sound and production, and perhaps this is why IV was such a big selling album.  It had ten great songs on it played by outstanding musos and produced to a quality that now still stands up against modern music even 20 years on.  It sold over 3,000,000 copies in the USA going platinum 3 times and dominated the world music charts.

This was the high point for the band and they struggled to reach this success again.  Perhaps like Fleetwood Mac and Rumours, Toto had achieved their perfection and could never reach those heights again.  Irrespective of that they left us this gem to continue to enjoy

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