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A post showed up in the Hello! Project chat thread “Morning Coffee” on 5ch: “I like TOTO and Peter Cetera — got any other recommendations?” From there, suggestions kept pouring in: Tommy Shaw (Styx)’s “Ambition,” Journey’s ’80s albums, the Eagles’ “Hotel California,” Phil Collins’ “One More Night,” and the thread snowballed into a full-blown AOR/corporate-rock discussion. Someone pointed out that ’80s classics featuring TOTO members as session musicians are too numerous to list — Michael Jackson’s catalog alone would take forever — turning one simple question into a sprawling music debate.
What people said
Bobby Caldwell's too obvious a pick.
That said, Bill Champlin is almost too close to TOTO's own sound — but that's exactly why he's great.
Also, anything produced by David Foster ends up sounding pretty similar anyway, so take your pick.
The End (written here as 糸冬, a classic meme-style way of splitting the kanji for "end")
Every album from their golden '80s run is great.
Besides Michael (Jackson), what else is there?
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Thanks to their top-tier musicianship, TOTO’s members worked as session musicians on countless hit records throughout the 1980s, with Michael Jackson’s catalog cited as one example. That makes it genuinely hard to pin down what counts as a “TOTO-sounding song” — the thread even brought up material produced by David Foster, showing the fun of tracing music through personal connections rather than genre. Recommendations split into two camps: widely-loved classics like Journey and the Eagles versus more connoisseur-level picks like Paul Davis and Bill Champlin — making for an interesting look at how the same starting point (“I like TOTO”) can lead fans to very different places.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “I like TOTO and Peter Cetera.”
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