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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Tied for the best Toto CD, April 1, 2003
By A Customer
IV and VII are my favorite Toto CDs. On VII, everything falls into place, creating a strong CD without a weak song. Joseph Williams is my favorite LEAD singer, but Lukather is still the defining voice of Toto, seen especially on the song "Anna". In fact, after Bobby left, Steve's songs were always the "hit" songs. How do I know? Well, I still have the original LPs with shrinkwrap and every alblum after IV has a sticker on it with the name of the hit song on that alblum - and every hit song is sung by Lukather. But, VII was the last excellent alblum by this band. In came the '90s and teens preferred the talentless grunge groups to gifted musicians like the ones in Toto. So, if you are a Toto fan you cannot be without this CD.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Best TOTO CD you never heard of, February 16, 2000
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!
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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
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.
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