Toto

Toto – Kingdom Of Desire (Remastered) (1992/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:09:28 minutes | 851 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Kingdom of Desire is the eighth studio album by Toto, released in 1992. Guitarist Steve Lukather assumed sole lead vocal duties. It is also the last album to feature drummer Jeff Porcaro, who died during rehearsals for the tour promoting this album; British drummer Simon Phillips filled in for him during the tour. The album was mixed by Bob Clearmountain.

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Toto – Isolation (Remastered) (1984/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:58 minutes | 1,59 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia

Isolation is the fifth studio album by Toto, released on October 18, 1984. This was the only album the band made with Fergie Frederiksen as the primary vocalist, as he was let go following the album’s world tour due to ongoing vocal problems. Isolation failed to achieve the popularity of its predecessor, Toto IV, although it achieved gold record status and gave the band their highest charting mainstream rock single “Stranger in Town” (No. 7).

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Toto – Hydra (Remastered) (1979/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:04 minutes | 1,55 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia

Hydra is the second studio album by American rock band Toto, released in 1979. It reached #37 on the Billboard Pop Albums. While most of the album’s singles failed to make any impact in the charts, “99”, a song inspired by the 1971 science fiction movie THX 1138, reached #26 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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Toto – Greatest Hits: 40 Trips Around The Sun (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:19:26 minutes | 960 MB | Genre: Melodic Rock, AOR
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

We’ve lost count of the number of Toto compilations, especially since they cover more or less the same selection each time. Since the album IV, a true hold-up from 1982, with two worldwide hits, “Rosanna” and “Africa”, and a torrent of awards (no less than six Grammy Awards), the band which gathered some of the most efficient studio sharks in the world has gone through many hardships without ever recreating this feat. But they didn’t prove unworthy, however, as evidenced by this Greatest Hits: 40 Trips Around The Sun, mostly destined to be released alongside a big new worldwide tour which will celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the release of their first album, Toto. If Toto’s creativity had really dried up 36 years ago, it probably still wouldn’t draw such huge crowds today. Other than “Rosanna”, it’s without surprise that you’ll find some of those first names ending with an “a” (pure coincidence, according to Lukather), with “Pamela” and “Lea” here (“Angela”, “Manuela Run”, “Holyanna” and “Mushanga” are missing).

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Toto – Fahrenheit (Remastered) (1986/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 43:58 minutes | 1,69 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia

After the ballad-deprived Isolation failed to meet the marketplace like its predecessor, Toto IV, Toto returned to making lush, mid-tempo tunes of romantic despair on Fahrenheit, enlisting their third lead singer, Joseph Williams, and calling in chips all over L.A. to score cameos from the likes of Michael McDonald, Don Henley, David Sanborn, and even Miles Davis, who had the closing track, “Don’t Stop Me Now,” pretty much to himself. Williams was a slightly grittier and more identifiable vocalist than Bobby Kimball or Fergie Frederiksen. But while the return to power ballads had the intended effect on the pop and adult contemporary charts (both “I’ll Be over You” and “Without Your Love” scored), the album had a relatively low chart peak and failed to go gold. That kind of disconnection always indicates that the radio audience is failing to identify the songs with the group that made them, and it always means a career in trouble. – William Ruhlmann

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Toto – 40 Tours Around The Sun (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:09:50 minutes | 3,02 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mercury Studios

When Hold The Line crashed into the charts all over the world in 1978 Toto had no idea how long their career would last. 40 years later Toto celebrate their career with this stunning concert at Amsterdam’s Ziggodome performing their monster hits Africa, Rosanna, Hold The Line, Stop Loving Youand many more. In addition 40 Tours Around The Sun features a Storytellers segment in which the band’s four key figures, David Paich, Steve Lukather, Steve Porcaro and Joseph Williams, plunder their back catalogue, describe the background behind their first demo and reveal the genesis of Michael Jackson’s Human Naturewritten by the band’s Steve Porcaro. In front of 17,000 fans this concert features songs from Toto’s first album to their latest release and includes rarely played gems such as the complex instrumental Jake To The Boneand the theme to David Lynch’s Dune.

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