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Title: Some of the tracks are good, but CD is boring as a whole
Review: I remember when "Toto IV" was one of those albums everybody had to get, or at least was familiar with because of the radio play. So it was a favorite at the dances. "Rosanna" still resonates as perhaps the group's best song on any disc, and "Africa" was a lot of fun, too, for a while. Otherwise, what is there? Overall, this is a collection of unremarkable songs that start out OK, but become repetitive after about the first minute or so. "Afraid of Love" is the only other song that stands repeated listening. Tracks 3 and 7 work if you're in the right mood to put up with the lyrics, but that's about it. "Hydra" still stands as the group's most interesting album, in my opinion, even though it's pretty much overlooked and gets mixed reviews. It only produced one Top 40 single but, where "Toto IV" fails to be anything memorable after the first song ends, "Hydra" succeeds as an entire CD worth listening to repeatedly.
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