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Posted: December 18 2007 at 17:22 |
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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.
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 17:24 |
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Well they aren't bad, but considering their potential I think you'd be hard pushed to find many who aren't disappointed.
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Would you like to watch TV, or get between the sheets, or contemplate the silent freeway, would you like something to eat?
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 17:25 |
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Perfectly disappointing.
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 17:34 |
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Once I got over the prog disappointment I found I could still enjoy them for what they are, as an mildy progressive classic rock band they are a class act really who have influence many modern prog bands indirectly .
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Posted: December 19 2007 at 01:36 |
For those of you too young to remember, the first Asia album was received with acclaim by everybody who wasn't expecting prog out of this line up. It was great rock, and it still stands up well today, although you don't experience it as the revolutionary work that it was anymore. The second album, which went about as prog as Asia ever went (not very), was highly anticipated but didn't catch the same attention.
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Posted: December 19 2007 at 12:08 |
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great but not perfect
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Posted: December 19 2007 at 14:17 |
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I said Great but is not great. I am with a fourth variant: good, but
not great. To perfection is a long distance, no change for that. Is
disappointing for those who expect something from Asia. Personally, I
don't expect nothing from any music, I try to hear what is heard.
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"You are free to do as we tell you."(Bill Hicks in Revelations)
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Posted: December 19 2007 at 14:21 |
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I've always found them a bit dull and felt with the talents on offer they were capable of much more.
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Posted: December 19 2007 at 14:25 |
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Elevator prog
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Posted: December 21 2007 at 17:19 |
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Perfectly disappointing...
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Posted: December 22 2007 at 06:37 |
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Agree - Great but not perfect. Silent Nation is really good though
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Posted: December 22 2007 at 22:43 |
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I'm growing to be a big fan of Asia. I love bands that mix melodic AOR/progressive rock really well. Asia is a perfect example of this blend (also: Journey, Rush, Styx, Toto, Triumph, Alan Parsons Project, and so on)
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Posted: December 23 2007 at 20:30 |
 Woodbridge wrote:
I'm growing to be a big fan of Asia. I love bands that mix melodic AOR/progressive rock really well. Asia is a perfect example of this blend (also: Journey, Rush, Styx, Toto, Triumph, Alan Parsons Project, and so on) |
And let's not forget the band that could be credited with starting the AOR/prog mix, Boston.
How sad that some people cannot see past their prejudices against AOR to stop blocking their inclusion here.
Edited by ghost_of_morphy - December 23 2007 at 20:30
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Posted: December 23 2007 at 23:07 |
ghost_of_morphy wrote:
Woodbridge wrote:
I'm growing to be a big fan of Asia. I love bands that mix melodic AOR/progressive rock really well. Asia is a perfect example of this blend (also: Journey, Rush, Styx, Toto, Triumph, Alan Parsons Project, and so on) |
And let's not forget the band that could be credited with starting the AOR/prog mix, Boston.
How sad that some people cannot see past their prejudices against AOR to stop blocking their inclusion here. |
I love Boston! Amazing, innovative band. May not be "prog" by the pure textbook definition but they progressed musical trends tenfold.
I really see no reason why Journey, Boston, and Toto shouldn't be included as "prog related" because if one listens to these bands' entire discographies, it's clear that there are many "prog" elements in their music and that they were influential in all realms of music, "prog" included...
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Posted: December 29 2007 at 03:16 |
of course Asia is great (music), but no perfect; but, any of the "supergroups", made to be something as "perfect" because the members from different great bands get started to play together in one band, something as, for example, national team in a basketball at the Olympic games, never were complete this "mission" - to be "perfect" and miles above better than the bands the members came from, that´s impossible stuff which never work out, imho.
Edited by zicIy - December 30 2007 at 01:54
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Posted: December 29 2007 at 04:40 |
If you look at the musicians (Carl Palmer, Steve Howe...), at least i expect something great.
Asia sounded terribly dissapointing to me.  |
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Posted: December 30 2007 at 01:47 |
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P.S. Rock music is not some kind of (awesome!) ECM production where, for example, Jan Garbarek can play and to make the great album(s) with Jarrett, and, also, to make another great stuff with David Torn, Dave Darling, etc.
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Posted: January 06 2008 at 07:27 |
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I bought the first Asia album when it came out and expected much more from it. Heat of the Moment is a great song (although not prog) but the rest is definitely a case of the whole being less than the sum of its parts.
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Posted: January 07 2008 at 15:18 |
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Prog pop for non prog fans. Nice album covers though..
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Posted: January 07 2008 at 15:59 |
^^ more or less...I quite liked the first two albums at the time, but everything else I have heard from them subsequently has been rather bland and disappointing....
...I saw them support Kansas in Hamburg back in 2001, and they were very ordinary then, too...
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