Seventh One

Toto | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000026CM
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #203,438 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Pamela

2. You Got Me

3. Anna

4. Stop Loving You

5. Mushanga

6. Stay Away

7. Straight for the Heart

8. Only the Children

9. A Thousand Years

10. These Chains

11. Home of the Brave

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best TOTO CD you never heard of, February 16, 2000

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This review is from: Seventh One (Audio CD)

Most people who own something by Toto, have the Toto 4 cd, with it's #1 Africa, and five weeks at #2 Rosanna (which by the way was really a #1, but Olivia Newton Johns' "Physical" got there first and held on for ten weeks--- so someone had to be #2). Let me tell you, The Seventh One is the out growth of this album (Toto 4), and if you have that one, you really need to have this one too. This is the record that should have followed Toto 4 instead of Isolation, This is akin to Journey's Frontiers which followed Escape, a one two puch! but there was too much time gone by when this music came out and Rosanna and Africa had become too familiar. Songs like Pamela and Mushanga would have seemed like retreads to the casual listener, but they are actually "older, more developed forms" of the same voice. Pamela went to #22 and was the only real hit here, but if you have "4" then you gotta have this one too. Stuff like "Home of the Brave" and "Stay Away" are like some of their best rock out stuff and even go back to their first and second albums for reference, It's obvious they ripened on this album and the original concept of "TOTO" burst into full bloom here. It's a crying shame it wasn't given the attention it deserved. I'm a long time Toto fan, from "Hold the line" to "Mindfields" and this CD is the one not to miss... especially if you already have "4". Definitive "matured" Toto. And it's an hour long too!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Material that is as classic as Toto IV, October 26, 2001

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Brad (CT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Seventh One (Audio CD)

This album is the closest-sounding thing to the legendary pop/rock huge seller Toto IV that came out 3 albums and 6 years earlier. While the hits off of Toto IV are some of the best songs Toto has ever had, song for song this album as a whole is at least as good. "Pamela" was the only top 40 hit off this effort, however (Toto's last one ever). Numerous other songs could have been hits.

Take the sweet ballad "Anna", another great Steve Lukather-sung ballad. How about the catchy mid-tempo anthem "Stop Loving You"? "Straight For the Heart" and "Stay Away" are both catchy tracks that were released if I remember correctly, but they barely made a dent in the charts. "These Chains" is another sweet ballad that sounds like it should be a big hit as well. "Mushanga" has a drum beat that is as memorable as "Africa", and "Home of the Brave" is a remarkably uptempo ending to this terrific album.

This effort was truly the last hurrah for Toto as far as any commercial success in the United States goes. (They put out more fine albums in the 1990s that virtually no one payed attention to--which is a shame because they are still great.) For sure, it stands up musically with other Toto albums. It is a fantastic, variety-filled compilation of some of the highest quality melodic pop/rock you could ever hope to hear.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A CD for the ages, November 13, 2002

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Kevin Dunlap (Laurel, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Seventh One (Audio CD)

Every ten years or so an album comes along that reminds me of all things good in music. I bought this album in 1988. Only recently while going back through my CDs did I come across it again. In the 14 or so years that have past since this album hit the streets, many many bands have come and gone and tens of thousands of songs, good and bad, have been played but few albums that I have listened to over the years still give me goosebumps like The Seventh One still does. I'm not sure if it is hearing the brilliance of Jeff Porcaro on Mushanga or the impecable drive of Steve Lukather but what ever it is everyone needs to hear it.

If you can only buy one album this year, buy this one. If you have it already and haven't listened to it in a long time like me, pull it out and pop it in. Let the music take you back. You will be glad that you did.