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Poll Question: Do you find Asia perfect or disappointing?
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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2008 at 16:28
The first album is one of my top favourite albums. I find the later albums that I  heard very disappointing.
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Originally posted by Aeternus Aeternus wrote:

In 1981, Yes, King Crimson, ELP, Uriah Heep, Hold the Ladder, UK, and The Buggles sons decided to form a band together. Did they do great, or they betrayed prog rock?

I personally love them. I have a great sympathy for arena rock, and I think that Asia mixed it with prog very well.


HAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

betray prog?

and miss seeing Carl cut through dense undergrowth with his drumsticks.. .and ...yes... Steve Howe making out.. .and  SET ON  FIRE!!!   hahhahah YES!!!!!!!!

perfect... 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUVlubs8G2k


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There's just no excuse for this sort of thing.
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Points: 8052 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2008 at 17:39
I've loved their first album from the first listen, and apart from One Step Closer, I think it's just about all masterpiece. I'm less sure about Alpha, though.

@Micky, best video ever.
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Points: 46833 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2008 at 18:34
Originally posted by TGM: Orb TGM: Orb wrote:



@Micky, best video ever.


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Points: 174 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2008 at 13:57
It was disapointing realy...Too much technique and less spirit.I guess it was just a supergroup that did not know were to go...Very talented musicians but the team could not pull it up together, but anways not everything must be perfect.
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RP... a hell of a lot of people liked those albums... check the sales on those....  if people don't like what they are hearing ...they don't buy it.    They knew where to go... it's just that people stuck in the 70's didn't want them to go there... those who appreciate an album based on it's own merits loved it.. and ate the albums up. 
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Points: 10387 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2008 at 19:13
let's put it like this: they were perfectly disappointing


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Heat of the Moment is all I know. And I think it's in the top 5 best non-prog songs of the 80s, and in the best 10 non prog songs ever likely.
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Points: 7910 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2008 at 20:13
Good, but not perfect by any stretch.

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I never liked ASIA, but they didn’t betray anybody, they were playing the music they wanted to play, they were not desecrating the name of any of the bands they were part of (as Genesis did).

 

For me it's one of the worst AOR albums I ever heard because they tried to sell the image of Proggers to the Prog fans and of Pop icons to the general public, and at the end they were neither of both.

 

They had to decide what path to take, if POP or Prog, not create a bland hybrid as they did, they were capable of releasing excellent POP or Prog albums if they wanted to.

 

They disappointed me, because knowing their capacity I expected much more, probably closer to UK, but they did the music they wanted to.

 

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Points: 17493 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2008 at 01:54
Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

let's put it like this: they were perfectly disappointing
 
I was going to say the same...Clap...
 
Elevator-prog made by first-rate proggers can't be anything else that a perfect dissapointment...
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Points: 7971 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2008 at 19:33
just seeing how much potential they got its a tremendous disappointment to progressive rock =/
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Points: 19535 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2008 at 21:11
It's like if someone told me "Hey there is a band with Steve Hackett and Steve Howe" (my two favorite guitar players in Prog) and I hear something terribly boring and lack of imagination............I would be totally disappointed because I expect a lot of them.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ooops it already happened...GTR. Censored
 
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Points: 24429 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 31 2008 at 02:57
Pity there isn't a fourth option... I voted for 'disappointing', but not for the usual reasons put forward by prog fans. They disappointed me not because they 'betrayed' prog (as if prog was a country, a friend or a partner...), but simply because I don't like the kind of music they made. 
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Points: 10 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 31 2008 at 03:38
Great, but not perfect.

Great, because the involved musicians are great.

Disappointing because... See Ghost Rider post!
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Points: 7971 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 02 2008 at 01:09
Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

It's like if someone told me "Hey there is a band with Steve Hackett and Steve Howe" (my two favorite guitar players in Prog) and I hear something terribly boring and lack of imagination............I would be totally disappointed because I expect a lot of them.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ooops it already happened...GTR. Censored
 
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THAT is exactly what i am talking about Iván, its just not supposed to asia to go that bad in such a short amount of time. OuchDeadConfusedCry
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