Art Direction – Jim Hagopian, Tony Lane and Jeff Porcaro.Engineered and Mixed by Tom Knox and Dana Latham.Produced by Tom Knox, Reggie Fisher and Toto.Roger Linn – assistant synthesizer programming.Michael Boddicker – synthesizer samples.David Paich – piano, keyboards, lead and backing vocals.Steve Porcaro – synthesizers, electronics, synthesizer programming.Steve Lukather – guitars, lead and backing vocals.Bobby Kimball – lead and backing vocals.AllMusic's retrospective review made little judgment on the quality (noting only as an aside that the songs were "well-played"), instead discussing why it had failed to match the commercial success of their debut. Ĭritical response to the album was mixed. They also speculated that most listeners were not familiar with the film (namely, THX 1138) on which the song "99" was based, and thus found the lyrics hopelessly cryptic, preventing the single from becoming as big a hit as it might have been. AllMusic suggested this was due to Toto's failure to establish a distinctive, recognizable sound on either Hydra or their debut, which would have allowed listeners to immediately identify Toto's major hits with the band themselves. Though a commercial success, Hydra was a far less popular album than the band's top-selling debut. Reception Professional ratings Review scores We were following our own rules and we didn't want to listen to anybody. Who are these cats? Do they think we have amnesia? We were just following our muses, man. And here's some irony for you - Rolling Stone beat up on the first album, and then when they reviewed Hydra, the opening line of the review is something like, "It doesn’t have the magic of the first album." We're immediately pissing ourselves on the floor with laughter. So we tried something a little different with Hydra, and it sold well, although it might have been a little bit rushed for us. You get successful with something, it’s always the whole thing where you don’t want to repeat it. In 2013, Toto's guitarist Steve Lukather said of the album: While most of the album's singles failed to make any impact in the charts, " 99", a song inspired by the 1971 science fiction movie THX 1138, reached #26 on the Billboard Hot 100. It reached #37 on the Billboard Pop Albums. Hydra is the second studio album by American rock band Toto, released in 1979.
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