"Love Has the Power"

"Love Has the Power"

Toto
Featured on Past to Present 1977-1990
Columbia
Album released May 6, 1990, song previously unreleased

Rock
CD (possibly original release)

B+

Welcome to the '90s, sort of.  This opening track was "present" then, and at the time and now (pluperfect?) it revised my image of a group I was fond of in my early adolescence.  It is strong as a tower, sounding somehow like three ages of Michael Jackson (including "no difference between black and white") but also a sum in toto of what this band was.