It's 5:50 am and I'm not going to edit the time to match when I actually post. · 9:56am Sep 30th, 2018
I'm too tired for that shit.
So
Real quick. I love Toto's Africa, that's why I put it in the last chapter of Dazzling Sunset. That was, of course, well before the cover by Weezer was put out. I don't really like the cover. I feel like it sounds too much like the original and that's just a goddamn waste of a good song covered by a good band. I don't know why they didn't do something with the arrangement to make it their's.
I'll still mumble along as I'm driving or whatever, but that's because I liked the original.
Ok
Postmodern Jukebox did a good cover of it recently. Other than dancifying it, it's a hard song to cover well.
There's a guy popping up on Youtube a lot recently who does mediocre metal covers of classic songs. His version wasn't great either. This is his best one, for an example, the only one which isn't too bad, even if it lacks most of the impact of the original.
Have yet to hear a Toto cover that can come close to the Toto version of whichever song.