Toto, “Never Enough” from Kingdom of Desire (1992): Toto Tuesdays
Reduced to the core quartet, there was nowhere else to go really: Toto had their backs against the wall, and they came out swinging.
Reduced to the core quartet, there was nowhere else to go really: Toto had their backs against the wall, and they came out swinging.
By opening 1992’s ‘Kingdom of Desire’ like this, Toto served notice to listeners that they were in for something completely different.
The combined performance of Toto and one-time frontman Jean-Michel Byron really sets this track apart from the other new ‘Past to Present’ tracks.
Sometimes, favorites jump out and grab you – and other times, as with Toto’s “These Chains,” they sneak up and catch you unaware.
Toto’s “Stay Away” would have been just another standard rocker on an album by any other AOR band.
There are some songs that simply take me away, and Toto’s “Anna” is one of them. It’s a master class.
Toto’s “I’ll Be Over You” isn’t the first Steve Lukather/Randy Goodrum collaboration, and certainly not the last, but it’s easily the most successful.
The soulful “Without Your Love” is a passing of the torch from David Paich, who handled most of the lead vocal duties on earlier Toto albums, to Steve Lukather.
“Isolation,” a catchy track with some clever musicianship, was an apt description of where Toto was in 1984.
I can almost picture one of Toto’s label execs saying, “The album is a bit too fast; we need a ballad in the middle.”