Through the Looking Glass (Album)
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| Studio album by Toto | ||||
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Publication |
November 5, 2002 |
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| Label (s) | CMC / Capitol Records | |||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
11 |
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running time |
55:36 |
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Toto |
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Studio (s) |
Coy Sound, ATS |
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Through the Looking Glass is the eleventh studio album by the American rock band Toto , released in 2002 . It is a cover album .
History of origin
According to guitarist Steve Lukather, Toto recorded the album as "an homage to those artists who influenced us". Therefore only cover versions of songs by other artists and groups are included.
The album was created in 2002 and was chosen by the band produces . Could You Be Loved was released as a single in advance.
Track list
- Could You Be Loved? ( Bob Marley ; original version recorded in 1980 by Bob Marley & The Wailers )
- Bodhisattva ( Walter Becker , Donald Fagen ; original version recorded in 1973 by Steely Dan )
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps ( George Harrison ; original version recorded by The Beatles in 1968 )
- I Can't get Next to You ( Barrett Strong , Norman Whitfield ; original version recorded by The Temptations in 1969 )
- Living for the City ( Stevie Wonder ; original version recorded by Stevie Wonder in 1973)
- Maiden Voyage / Butterfly ( Herbie Hancock ; original version recorded in 1965 ( Maiden Voyage ) or 1974 ( Butterfly ) by Herbie Hancock)
- Burn Down the Mission ( Elton John , Bernie Taupin ; original version recorded in 1970 by Elton John)
- Sunshine of Your Love ( Jack Bruce , Pete Brown , Eric Clapton ; original version recorded by Cream in 1967 )
- House of the Rising Sun ( Traditional ; original version recorded by The Animals in 1969 )
- Watching the Detectives ( Elvis Costello ; original version recorded by Elvis Costello in 1977)
- It Takes a lot to Laugh, it Takes a Train to Cry ( Bob Dylan ; original version recorded in 1965 by Bob Dylan)
reception
Through the Looking Glass reached number 22 on the German album charts .
Musikexpress wrote that in addition to a single “real failure” ( House of the Rising Sun ), the album offered “consistently very finely recycled and superbly produced songware that is sometimes more, sometimes less closely related to the old model”, but “always full of ideas Arrangements to score ”. The re-recording of Bob Marley's classic Could You Be Loved is a “killer remake”, it grooves the original over the pile, the “blues-rock version” of Al Green's I Can't Get Next to You benefits “massively by David Paich's organ and the constant brass broadsides, while Bodhisattva of Steely Dan becomes a boisterous rocker "," refined by Steve Lukather's exquisite guitar work, which even George Harrison's While My Guitar Gently Weeps leads to bitter, earthy beauty, and that entire album. Toto's very clever seven-quarter-eight-quarter mix makes Cream's Sunshine of Your Love from 1967 "look pretty old."
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Musikexpress, issue 11/2002, page 85
- ↑ Entry on charts.de