Bottom Of Your Soul (Summer 2006) - Toto

Advantages: Fantastic if you want to sample TOTO's music
Disadvantages: The Byron songs...

...Sprinsteen and Elton John, and I am sure that if you look in their discography on the toto9.com website you' ll find that a member of TOTO has probably worked with your favourite artist either as a musician or vocal or as adviser. Obviously if you are fan of 18th century classical music there's no point in looking... ;o) Finally, if you listen to this album, you'll probably get lifted up by the phenomenal "Hold the Line", and the more groovy "Georgy Porgy", both from the first TOTO album ever made. Now is time to come to the Byron songs... At that time in the band's life, their last lead singer, Joseph Williams, had left the band. A world tour was on the way, and they had to find him a successor, someone to replace him especially in concerts. So the record company imposed Jean-Michel Byron to the band. They just had no choice. Personally I... Read review

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Advantages: Musical heaven for £4.99
Disadvantages: ONLY 10 songs long

...Winston Churchill once said : “The price of greatness is responsibility.” Much as I admire the great man, I feel that I must take issue with this. Because I found it for as little as £4.99 at Woolworths online. The greatness of which I speak is the album called Toto IV by the 70s/80s band Toto. It is very difficult to put into words the style of music Toto play, especially if I’m trying to describe it to the youth of today, but this wouldn’t be much of a review if I didn’t give it a shot. So, here goes. If you can imagine Bonjovi singing Barry Manilow’s Greatest Hits, whilst smoking a joint, you aren’t going to be far from the mark. For any of you approaching my advanced and crumbling years, try thinking of Fleetwood Mac, Supertramp and Chicago and you’ll get the gist. Mind you, if you’re even nearly as old as me, you’ll probably... Read review

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Advantages: Excelent Taste, Varied Tunes, Superb Fusion
Disadvantages: Makes you Chillout even if you don't want to

..."Days to Come", the third album of studio material from British musician 'Bonobo' was released on 2nd Oct. 2006 by Ninja Tune Records. The album was voted as the Album of the Year in the 2006 Worldwide Awards on Gilles Peterson's BBC Radio 1 show. The Bottom line is that "Days To Come" has the feeling of a classic all over - a big, brooding, emotional and uplifting record that you can dance to, do the dishes to, or sit and really study. Simon Green has always been expert at welding together music dripping with atmosphere, combining his own musical and technical talents in such a way as to make utterly organic-sounding machine music. This is not just a knob-twiddling producer but a multi-instrumentalist at work, who writes, plays and then manipulates almost every note of music he releases. And "Days To Come" shows a new structural... Read review

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