as some might have guest these are my two favourite bands, they are special to me, for different reasons

Of the only albums I have of each of them I prefer Crime over the Dune soundtrack.

I got it mail order.  I don't know if these guys ship to Norway:

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Dune Soundtrack CD Original Soundtrack  (2 Customer Reviews)

Dune was never going to be an easy film to score. Dense, overreaching, and confusing, David Lynch's interpretation of the canon of Frank Herbert surely didn't leave many stylistic decisions strolling in through the front door. Yet despite the soft rock pabulum of its past, Toto constructed a luxuriant and peculiar soundtrack that injects Dune with a barren majesty the film often failed to create on its own. The Vienna Symphony Orchestra lends these peculiar compositions a much-needed precision. Brian Eno helps out with the haunting synth hymns of "Prophecy Theme." Remarkably, Dune is perhaps the only Lynch film where one could not wish the discovery of Angelo Badalamenti to have come sooner. Equally prescient horror and throwback to Hollywood epics of old -- there is nothing else to imagine but the organic, spiritual futurism of the film itself. ~ Dean Carlson

Edited by Slartibartfast - October 10 2010 at 08:45

Dune is not very representative of Toto's music.

Supertramp all the way.  I used to be a big Toto fan in my younger years, and I still flirt with their first three albums on occasion (Hydra was their masterpiece, in my opinion), but Supertramp manage to sustain their respectability, whereas Toto went so completely pop that it's really difficult for me to connect their later to their earlier work.  Everything from Toto IV on was just dreck...in my humble opinion, of course.

lucas wrote: Lozlan wrote: Everything from Toto IV on was just dreck...in my humble opinion, of course.   Everything from Toto IV on was just dreck pure gold   Fixed  Have you listened to the seventh one, kingdom of desire, tambu, mindfields. Fahrenheit and Isolation are more 'pop' oriented, but they are nonetheless masterpieces of AOR.

I actually had their entire discography, including Kingdom of Desire (which was really difficult to find at the time!); it's all still burned into my iTunes, though I haven't wandered that way in quite a while.  I will confess to having a very soft spot for The Seventh One, but I always thought Tambu and Fahrenheit and Isolation etc. were kind of unlistenable.  Also, I know that Toto IV was their tremendous breakthrough, but I could never enjoy it.  FAR too slick.  I much preferred Turn Back, Hydra, and the impressive self-titled (sans Georgy Porgy!).

You know what?  It's time for a Toto listening party.  At the very least it'll be a blast from the past.

lucas wrote: Dune is not very representative of Toto's music. It's like chosing 'flash' in a discussion about Queen.

I would suspect as much, but it is the only Toto, I knowoh, other than the radio hits down in Africa....

Toto do not even feature IMHO :-) Awful awful stuff.

^ Purely subjective, I dislike their music, their sound, all sounds very 80's glam rock  to me, even the Dune soundtrack not my style. Lucas I realize this response will not suffice but if the early polls are any indicator there are zero Toto votes with almost 70% plugging The Tramp :-)

^ Hydra, Goodbye Elanore, White Sister, Carmen, Isolation, Kingdom of Desire, Jake to the Bone are not glossy pop songs