ASIA

I refuse to be apologist for this appalling product of marketing manipulation. Don't patronize me, I know what good pop music sounds like, and it's not this. What this really was was a lot of talented musicians paying more attention to what their management, record companies and accountants were suggesting than following their own musicianly instincts. And opening most of the tracks with bombastic synth fanfares does not a prog album make. That Steve Howe was involved in this tripe hurts especially. (And then he left...to form GTR. Does the agony never end?) Horrid 80's corporate AOR, definitely not recommended.