Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/06/19/africa-by-toto-performed-e.html
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Dalek mating rituals are the best!
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This one’s much better IMO:
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This thing gives the FloppyTron a run for its money.
Nothing like a few million volts to throw the competition for a loop.
More more more!!!
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“Africa” as played by Daleks - they really exterminated it.
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That was … striking?
(But these Tesla coil tunes will prove to be just a flash in the pan.)
When it comes to Daleks, Missy should know!
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Africa: the song that absolutely and positively refuses to die. Dammit!
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Electrons, is there anything they can’t do?
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Touch one another 
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Are they in quarantine as well? 
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They can if they’re spin paired in love. If by “touch” you mean merge in a complex whirling yet motionless dance where the dancers cannot be distinguished one from the other e.g.
Though if you extend the analogy to the electrons in lightning, it’s more like a dexedrine-fuelled seventies suburban key party at the speed of light
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When I finally get around to taking over the world, my robot army will use tesla coils instead of speakers to address my subjects. That should do nicely…
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As someone who had to put up with them when their stuff was nigh-unavoidable on the radio, I’m well and fully done with the various recent attempts to pretend that Toto didn’t suck.
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Singing bug zappers!
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It looks even better in person and sounds almost the same, just without the beat / percussion backing track.
So why add a needless percussion backing track to the video to muddle the actual tesla coil sound?
I didn’t realize the rains down in Africa came with so much lightning.
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spdf!!!
prefer this Africa version: https://youtu.be/jRLfGwQ7Nsw
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Now that IS a wonderful thing! Thanks.
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I wonder if he’s covered anything from Smashing Pumpkins’ Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
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