Asia is bad? Can’t be!

Well I like Asia and own several of their albums. I would not say they are progressive rock - more like 80's power rock with a bend towards commercialism in a very big way.

My favourite album is "Aqua" - easy listening with some v nice guitar work from Steve Howe. Not as hateful as everyone assumes, but each to our own ...

That's what happens when four musicians think they're so great anything the do will be amazing.

 

Whats wrong with making obscene money.....that's the Tory party for you.

The problem of Asia is that their stuff is not bad, only weak, but for that level of artists weak is bad. If any 80's POP band would have done this stuff everybody would consider it good, but for this guys is simply not enough.

So now, I can't imagine these guys being bad. You have been owned.

• GTR: Hackett & Howe together, any prog' fan dream, but it was a nightmare
• Three: Keith Emerson, Robert Berry and Carl Palmer, the three are great musicians but the album is terrible.
• Yes Union: Anderson, Wakeman, Bruford, Howe, Squire, Rabin, Kaye and White, almost all trascendental Yes members (except Moraz) together, but the result couldn't be worst.
• Kino:  Arena, It Bites, Marillion and Porcupine Tree members together, but again not the expected.

So, Asia is not the only case in which supergroups don't work.

Iván

Tiresias wrote: If you blend Crimson, Yes and ELP alumni, but make them play pop, they are gonna suck

Actually...that’s not the problem. The line-up certainly had the ability to make good pop music. But they chose not to, or rather, didn’t care to. It’s the difference between Genesis’ Duke and Genesis’ Invisible Touch. Prog snobs who pretend anything vaguely poppy is crap will tell you there is no difference, but that’s not true.

The problem with Asia was that their hearts weren’t in it. They didn’t make the music they made because they enjoyed it. They made it because they were thinking, “this will put another Rolls Royce in the garage.”

The sad thing is, they were absolutely right. There’s nothing wrong with music that just happens to be commercially successful/viable if the people making it genuinely enjoy the music they’re making; that will communicate itself to the listener. It’s when someone makes commercial pop music purely as a moneymaking venture that it becomes tragic.

To be honest, I REALLY like Asia...but they're not Prog. I don't mind - I like to let my hair down once in a while.

Edited by Rob The Good

As an AOR band, Asia is great, one of the best bands. As prog-rock, they are probably the greatest deception of all time.

Love the first two albums. It's not prog but is good 80's Rock.

ASIA SUCKS!!!!!

there's nothing much to say about this, becasue everything that needs to be said is said. Just make a brief search in the forum. There are several threads on this, and one colloborator had even given some historic facts about how the hell Asia was formed, and what happened since then (with record companies, etc...)

I suggest freakmeeko to keep the hell out of Asia! Not knowing this awful band is far better than knowing it and hating the individual members for this crappy project, despite the great work they put forward before!

Bilek wrote: ASIA SUCKS!!!!! there's nothing much to say about this, becasue everything that needs to be said is said. Just make a brief search in the forum. There are several threads on this, and one colloborator had even given some historic facts about how the hell Asia was formed, and what happened since then (with record companies, etc...) I suggest freakmeeko to keep the hell out of Asia! Not knowing this awful band is far better than knowing it and hating the individual members for this crappy project, despite the great work they put forward before!

Yup.  And so gimicky!  Let's start the name of every album with "A," whether it's a good name or not!

Like I said, the album name should have been "Alimony," cause I'm sure that's why the album was made!