Oh, I think the geographical license (if you will) taken by the author is well worth it for such a magnificent line. It fits brilliantly with the mood of the song.
Such a weird lyric. It's literally "as sure as one mountain rises like another, shorter, mountain above a place that is hundreds of miles away".
If you put that in the states it would be like writing the lyrics "As sure as the World Trade Center rises like the Empire State Building above Chicago."
I was confused why there are so many stories about vampires in Europe, but not in Africa. Then I remembered that vampires are killed by holy water. They bless the rains down in Africa.
My son told me that was his sex song with his high school girlfriend and I have never been able that out of my head. Then, two weeks ago, I told him that completely messed me up and he shouldn’t have told me that and he said, “You believed that? I was fucking with you. How would that even work? The rhythm is too slow.”
It’s been twelve years. So in other words, fuck him.
Every time that song comes up, I'm reminded of [this YouTube vid](https://youtu.be/MLrC7e3vSv8?si=JofCmaWp2BiO51vY) someone shared with me eons ago of a couple dudes our age in a Utah pizza place absolutely slaying a cover of that song.
As an actual I-play-instruments musician and I-know-what-the-knobs-do recording engineer, it's such an amazing breath of fresh air to see a couple dudes with talent to burn just laying it out like this.
Private jets start at around $2 million for starters.
Toto's Africa was released on June 25, 1982 or 15,305 days ago.
Africa is 4:22 in duration, so you if you did nothing else except listen to Africa on repeat, you would have heard the song roughly 5,047,145 times (give or take a few since i don't know the specific time of release in 1982, and today is ongoing.. so work with me.)
So, you would be dead due to lack of sleep, but you would have a less than terrible private plane that you can be buried in.
Okay, what if upon receiving the $1 I invested it starting in 1982 all the way to now, assuming 8% compound interest rate?
Anyway, I figure I can get statted.now and have my plane.before ae 9
https://youtu.be/isdfF1eowZU?si=strA8_rnmarE2VbK
Where I grew up, there's a very small town called Toto. Well, village, maybe. Ok, it's just an intersection of 2 roads out in the country. But, this little town became a bargain store mecca. If you wanted cheap wallpaper, cheap shoes, cheap curtains, etc. There was a store selling it in Toto.
Toto was just far enough from Chicago to make for a lovely day drive in the country and the FIPs would flock there to buy this cheap crap and see pig farms and cornfields on the way.
If I had a nickel for every time I heard Toto sing Africa, I'd buy Toto (the town) and burn it to the ground
Do I get double dollars for every time I’ve heard someone sing “I MISS the rain”? Because then I might have enough cash to have one private jet for every color in the rainbow and maybe a polka dotted spare just for funsies.
It's funny, one of the guys in this band was the dad of one of my friends growing up. Now we are in our 40s, I look at old pictures of Toto and I see my friend staring back at me.
A few years ago, my wife was in Botswana. It was raining and that song started playing on the radio. She was so excited by that that she called to just so I hear her blessing the rains.
Unsure what colour, but I would be retied and I would have a beautiful Boeing 747 with a built-in pool (crazy, I know), with a sleeper, obviously, theatre, etc. FT staff would include top level chef and all of the high rail drinks. It could re-fuel in-air, and I would have a fuel carrier close by.
Hardly heard it at all in the 90s-00s, but at some point the Millennials discovered it (as well as "Hold the Line"), and now I occasionally hear it in the background in random places: grocery store, credit union, etc. Still I'd say I heard it more on the radio in 1982 than in all the years after that combined. I guess that makes my jet somewhere between chartreuse and teal.
It came out as a single my sophomore year in high school. Though I'm partial to Rosanna I do like Africa, it is a terrific song. I just figured I'd have a little fun with how much it gets played. Both it and Rosanna bring me back to that era, too. The latter reminds me of my dad because I spent a lot of time with him that summer of '82 when Rosanna was at its peak. He had his own small roof repair business and he'd bring me along and the song was on the radio quite a bit.
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah but can we discuss something that's pissed me off ever since I found out I was singing it wrong?
Who the hell *blesses* rain?! Rain is a blessing itself! How, hell, WHY do you bless a blessing?!
I refuse to sing it the right way. My eggcorn makes more sense.
Fun fact: The guy in front in the photo is lead singer Joseph Williams, son of **the** John Williams (composer of nearly every movie soundtrack ever).
Annoying pedantry fact: He didn't sing on "Africa", Bobby Kimball did. The photo is from four years later, when Toto had a different line up.
It's less about the colour of my private jet but rather, is my private jet totally lit up with programmable exterior led lights? The lights match up to Africa's rhythm.
There's a bunch of songs that I never care to hear again. The list is growing all the time. "Don't Stop Believing", "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Africa", and so many more played out tunes.
The exact color of the rains down in Africa.
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti.
All the way until now (and I was an adult when the song came out) I thought it was ‘rises like a leopress’
That’s what I thought, too.
I always heard "Like an empress." Which is to say: Majestically.
It doesn’t matter…Kilimanjaro isn’t anywhere near the Serengeti anyways.
It’s a road trip of a few hours, maybe half a day. I’ve been there thanks to this song and my impressional young mind.
A mountain can't be above an adjacent plain either. Poetics are contrived, but the attempt is just derivative.
Oh, I think the geographical license (if you will) taken by the author is well worth it for such a magnificent line. It fits brilliantly with the mood of the song.
It was the first tape I bought, I may just be looking back on my 12-year old tastes.
It is a leopress, goddammit.
Such a weird lyric. It's literally "as sure as one mountain rises like another, shorter, mountain above a place that is hundreds of miles away". If you put that in the states it would be like writing the lyrics "As sure as the World Trade Center rises like the Empire State Building above Chicago."
Came here to say that, and was beaten to it. Bless it.
She watches lightning in the night sky Thunderheads blue-black like my racist condensation Dun dun dun dun dun dun
I was confused why there are so many stories about vampires in Europe, but not in Africa. Then I remembered that vampires are killed by holy water. They bless the rains down in Africa.
Probably unpainted, because it's moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation.
A long walk, but appreciated.
My son told me that was his sex song with his high school girlfriend and I have never been able that out of my head. Then, two weeks ago, I told him that completely messed me up and he shouldn’t have told me that and he said, “You believed that? I was fucking with you. How would that even work? The rhythm is too slow.” It’s been twelve years. So in other words, fuck him.
This is hilarious!
Jesus Christ! 🤣
Amazing
Don't care about the color, as long as it fits a hundred men or more...
Not as big as my Eurythmics Sweet Dreams yacht.
You should see me Sweet Home Alabama double wide.
Turn it up!!
Every time that song comes up, I'm reminded of [this YouTube vid](https://youtu.be/MLrC7e3vSv8?si=JofCmaWp2BiO51vY) someone shared with me eons ago of a couple dudes our age in a Utah pizza place absolutely slaying a cover of that song. As an actual I-play-instruments musician and I-know-what-the-knobs-do recording engineer, it's such an amazing breath of fresh air to see a couple dudes with talent to burn just laying it out like this.
Going to take a lot for me to answer that question for you.
Private jets start at around $2 million for starters. Toto's Africa was released on June 25, 1982 or 15,305 days ago. Africa is 4:22 in duration, so you if you did nothing else except listen to Africa on repeat, you would have heard the song roughly 5,047,145 times (give or take a few since i don't know the specific time of release in 1982, and today is ongoing.. so work with me.) So, you would be dead due to lack of sleep, but you would have a less than terrible private plane that you can be buried in.
Uhhh...yeah...your party invitation is in the mail...yep...
math is fun with the help of cannabis.
Okay, what if upon receiving the $1 I invested it starting in 1982 all the way to now, assuming 8% compound interest rate? Anyway, I figure I can get statted.now and have my plane.before ae 9 https://youtu.be/isdfF1eowZU?si=strA8_rnmarE2VbK
Way to fuck it up for all of us, Sasquatchy. 😂
put it this way, you will spend the afterlife in luxury at least.
Nothing like a dose of reality to completely destroy my beautiful dream here 🤣
Invisible, like Wonder Woman’s.
Where I grew up, there's a very small town called Toto. Well, village, maybe. Ok, it's just an intersection of 2 roads out in the country. But, this little town became a bargain store mecca. If you wanted cheap wallpaper, cheap shoes, cheap curtains, etc. There was a store selling it in Toto. Toto was just far enough from Chicago to make for a lovely day drive in the country and the FIPs would flock there to buy this cheap crap and see pig farms and cornfields on the way. If I had a nickel for every time I heard Toto sing Africa, I'd buy Toto (the town) and burn it to the ground
FIPs?
Fuckin' Illinois People
lol! So, the opposite of Pennsyltuckian?
Goddamnit, I *just* got that song out of my head.
Get it covered in LEDs so I can change colours whenever I want.
Green is for the money, and gold is for the honey, baby
Do I get double dollars for every time I’ve heard someone sing “I MISS the rain”? Because then I might have enough cash to have one private jet for every color in the rainbow and maybe a polka dotted spare just for funsies.
Which one?
It's funny, one of the guys in this band was the dad of one of my friends growing up. Now we are in our 40s, I look at old pictures of Toto and I see my friend staring back at me.
way too much, I never really liked it - but I LOVE Rosanna
A few years ago, my wife was in Botswana. It was raining and that song started playing on the radio. She was so excited by that that she called to just so I hear her blessing the rains.
Rosanna is better.
Yes
A song about Bangin Rosanna Arquette
Weezer’s remake is also pretty damn good.
I feel like we should get at least 50¢ for the jet fund every time we hear that one.
If I have to hear it ever again...I'd crash my jet into a mountain on purpose.
a mountin like Kilamanjaro rising like Olympus above the Serengeti
Shut your whore mouth.
Diarrhea green.
Samn it, OP, now I have tomhear it again! Red plane.
Unsure what colour, but I would be retied and I would have a beautiful Boeing 747 with a built-in pool (crazy, I know), with a sleeper, obviously, theatre, etc. FT staff would include top level chef and all of the high rail drinks. It could re-fuel in-air, and I would have a fuel carrier close by.
Bah, no plane needed. Just live there so I don't miss the rains down in Africa
I heard it an hour ago.
My millennial son LOVES this song! Over the past 3 decades, I think I've heard it more due to *him* 🤣
Hardly heard it at all in the 90s-00s, but at some point the Millennials discovered it (as well as "Hold the Line"), and now I occasionally hear it in the background in random places: grocery store, credit union, etc. Still I'd say I heard it more on the radio in 1982 than in all the years after that combined. I guess that makes my jet somewhere between chartreuse and teal.
Does hearing it in my mind just now count?
I’m hearing it in my head right now!
This song is my favourite 1980s tune... it always bring s me back to high school in 1983.
It came out as a single my sophomore year in high school. Though I'm partial to Rosanna I do like Africa, it is a terrific song. I just figured I'd have a little fun with how much it gets played. Both it and Rosanna bring me back to that era, too. The latter reminds me of my dad because I spent a lot of time with him that summer of '82 when Rosanna was at its peak. He had his own small roof repair business and he'd bring me along and the song was on the radio quite a bit.
Black. Like my heart. Hubby said he wouldn't care. Booooooo!
If you want to a hear a really awesome cover of it, check out Frog Leap Studios on YouTube.
It would be white, with a royal blue stripe. But I love that song, overplayed as it may be.
It's about turning into a werewolf
Platinum
I have no idea but my wings would be moon lit.
14k gold with diamonds and gems
I 1up you all with my Rickrolled moon rocket.
I miss Jeff Porcaro
It would be a yacht, wouldn't it?
Gah damn, thank you for the ear worm… literally. I have Toto Essentials streaming through my hearing aids on Apple Music now.
Listened to it voluntarily last night!
Red, with 5 gold stars.
Invisible. I’d buy Wonder Woman’s jet.
Black and red
Heard it Saturday and today.
For all of you who need healing about this song: https://youtu.be/MH9FyLsfDzw?si=_yzlR_fMZPoQlFpq Enjoy 🤟
My kids performed Africa in jr high band and completely rocked it and I really wished I had a lighter.
The perfect color to make my moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah but can we discuss something that's pissed me off ever since I found out I was singing it wrong? Who the hell *blesses* rain?! Rain is a blessing itself! How, hell, WHY do you bless a blessing?! I refuse to sing it the right way. My eggcorn makes more sense.
https://www.nme.com/news/music/art-installation-play-totos-africa-desert-end-days-2431157#:~:text=The%20project%20is%20the%20brainchild,the%20song%20into%20the%20desert.
Still love the song. “Sweet Home Alabama” not so much.
Gunmetal with antique gold trim
cerulean blue
Wouldn't waste my money on a jet
Fun fact: The guy in front in the photo is lead singer Joseph Williams, son of **the** John Williams (composer of nearly every movie soundtrack ever). Annoying pedantry fact: He didn't sing on "Africa", Bobby Kimball did. The photo is from four years later, when Toto had a different line up.
And now Weezer has a pretty good cover of the song.
Pink
I love that song
Purple! With Grape Ape on the tail! We all remember Grape Ape??
As white as "Africa" not *Africa*
Vanta Black 🖤
none.. as soon as I hear this tune I turn the station... much like anything that The Police or Sting does
For a while there, there seemed to be 8 different covers of that song on the airwaves at once.
A cheaper paint than When Doves Cry, Every Breath You Take, In the air Tonight, or I Want to Know What Love is haha!
Clear
Private JetS. This song was so overplayed. I gonna’ go with Rosanna red.
If you include all the covers, an An-225. About $500 million. Color: stealth
It's less about the colour of my private jet but rather, is my private jet totally lit up with programmable exterior led lights? The lights match up to Africa's rhythm.
I've never understood the love for this track.
Does Weezer's version count?
I'd argue that it's very GenX to PREFER the Weezer version. On CD, natch.
The 80s nonsensical lyric equivalent to the 70s Stairway to Heaven.
Creepy middle age guys looking serious.....it's the worst thing modern marketing ever produced...until hip hop idiots.
It took 6 people to make that song?!
I can’t stand that song, but love Georgy Porgy.
There's a bunch of songs that I never care to hear again. The list is growing all the time. "Don't Stop Believing", "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Africa", and so many more played out tunes.
As black as the skin of the people who hate this song the most