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"Urban Asia" is a dynamic YouTube channel celebrating R&B and hip-hop music within the Asian music scene. 🎵 With a devoted following, it showcases a diverse array of Asian artists fusing...
- Open Your Eyes
- The Smile Has Left Your Eyes
- Wildest Dreams
- Days Like These
- Go
- Don’T Cry
- Here Comes The Feeling
- Soul Survivor
- Only Time Will Tell
- Heat of The Moment
Compared to their debut, Asia’s second album, Alpha, is a more polished, radio-friendly affair, with less emphasis on prog and more on pop. It didn’t quite match up to the commercial success of its predecessor, but it still managed to reach the top ten of the Billboard 200 and sell enough copies to certify platinum. It also gave us the glorious Ope...
Asia’s second album may have come as something of an anti-climax after the huge promise of their debut, but if you prefer your prog to be of the more accessible, pop flavored kind, there’s a lot to enjoy about the album. One of its highlights is The Smile Has Left Your Eyes, a smooth ballad in which Geoff Downes’ majestic keyboard takes center stag...
Asia’s self-titled debut received a mixed reception on its release, with some critics praising its commercial, pop-oriented brand of prog rock and those of a more purist persuasion lambasting it for the exact same reason. But even its harshest critics would have to agree that it was a slick, stylish affair, with all the grandeur of prog but with en...
Recorded for the compilation album Then and Now and released as a single in August 1990, Days Like These found Asia in an unusually upbeat, optimistic mood, something which went down a storm on rock radio (the single charted at number 2 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart) and on MTV, but less well on the pop charts, where it managed to put in a...
After two successful albums, Asia’s fortunes took a turn with 1985’s Astra. The critical reception was mixed and the commercial reception was downright dismal, with the album scraping a pass into the Billboard 200 at number 67. But even though it might not be up to the standards of its predecessors, there are still plenty of enjoyable moments to be...
Commercially, it started to go downhill for the band from their third album on, but they still had a few more chart hits left in them at the time of their second album. Don’t Cry, an opulent power ballad that fuses grandiose prog rock with straightforward rock and roll, is a clever, compelling romp that even listeners who normally turn up their nos...
As Liveabout.com says, Here Comes the Feeling might have been a lesser single in comparison to Asia’s more well-known songs, but this epic guitar romp is still pretty glorious. John Wetton proves yet again why he’s considered one of the greatest voices in rock and roll, Downes and Howe are allowed the space to shine as only they know how, the arran...
As classicrockhistory.com says, Soul Survivor might not have enjoyed the same level of commercial success as Asia’s first couple of singles, but it’s still a transcendent moment of prog rock. Written by Geoffrey Downes and John Wetton, it was released as the final single from the band’s 1982 self-titled debut in October 1982. Although it didn’t man...
Explaining the background of Only Time Will Tell to rediscoverthe80s.com, John Wotton revealed, “It’s fairly self-explanatory. It’s my lyrics again; a very personal one about the end of a relationship, and it’s my verse, Geoff’s chorus (“Heat of the Moment” is the other way around). I had been stockpiling songs during the leadup to Asia, and a lot ...
In at number one on our list of the best Asia songs of all time is this captivating song from their debut album. Their first ever single, and, in most people’s eyes at least, their greatest, it features one of the most irresistible power chord riffs ever committed to tape, a water-tight performance from the band, and a clever narrative about the da...
Asia are an English rock supergroup formed in London in 1981. The most commercially successful lineup was its original, which consisted of four members of different progressive rock bands who had enjoyed great success in the 1970s: lead vocalist and bassist John Wetton (King Crimson, Uriah Heep and U.K.), guitarist Steve Howe (), keyboardist Geoff Downes (Yes and the Buggles) and drummer Carl ...
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Jun 18, 2021 · Now comes VIBE’s fourth installment, over as many years, a full assortment project from the Urban Asia series with b2 Music in Hong Kong – an album that boasts tracks from Taiwan, Hong Kong,...
Asia are an English progressive rock supergroup, founded in 1981 by lead vocalist and bassist John Wetton ( King Crimson and U.K. ), guitarist Steve Howe ( Yes ), keyboardist Geoff Downes (Yes and the Buggles) and drummer Carl Palmer ( Emerson, Lake & Palmer ). The bands current line up included Downes (a consistent member, save for a brief ...
Asia are a British progressive art rock supergroup formed by John Wetton of King Crimson with the help of his manager Brian Lane. The two recruited Yes guitarist Steve Howe, Geoff Downes of Yes/...
