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{{a|toto|{{africapics}}}}{{quote|''“You ever seen the dudes in the band [[Toto]]? Those dudes shouldn’t be singing about [[Africa]].”''
:—Mike Tyson}}


<youtube>https://youtu.be/FTQbiNvZqaY?t=118</youtube>}}{{quote|''“You ever seen the dudes in the band [[Toto]]? Those dudes shouldn’t be singing about [[Africa]].”''
Is this line, from [[Toto]]’s monster 1981 hit, ''[[Africa]]'', the ''worst'' lyric in all of rock ’n’ roll history? Or the ''best''? It has, after all, an Ed Woodesque quality to it: it is so bad it’s good. No mere mortal could massacre the principles of metre, cadence and basic common sense as systematically as this:{{totoafrica}}
:—Mike Tyson}}


Is this line, from [[Toto]]’s monster 1981 hit, ''[[Africa]]'', the ''worst'' lyric in all of rock ’n’ roll history? Or the ''best''? It has, after all, an [[Ed Wood]]esque quality to it: it is so bad it’s good. No mere mortal could massacre the principles of metre, cadence and basic common sense as systematically as this:{{totoafrica}}
{{toto analysis}}
{{olympus}}
{{sa}}
*[[Kilimanjaro]]
*[[Serengeti]]
*[[Tsavo]]
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