The first half of the album consists of songs from the band's first two albums, Asia and Alpha. While I find these albums good but non-essential three stars , they have here, not surprisingly, managed to pick some of the very worst songs from those albums. The whole thing is ended by the worst song from the weak Astra album, Voice Of America. This song features one of the most boring choruses I have ever heard; "Voice of America, Oh, Oh, Oh, America" Do yourself and the band too a favour and don't let this compilation be your introduction to Asia.
Not even fans of the band will need this compilation unless they are completionists. As bad as the songs from the first two albums are, the newer songs are even worse. A lot of the music here sounds like a poppier Loverboy or a more rockin' Air Supply.
This collection turned me off this band completely. In these guys forced an American band called Asia to "retire". What a-holes. These guys were clearly in it for the money. To quote Wetton: "You gotta have hits". Up yours. Howe's solo stuff might be an exception I've only heard his first two. I like the part at the end of "Heat Of The Moment" where they sound like a group of teenagers in a garage trying to play a Henry Cow song.
Maybe their only interesting musical moment. I will never know because I have no intention of listening to any of their albums. A shining example of everything wrong with mainstream rock music in the s. So as you can imagine, this album features some of the best known songs a.
For a progressive rock fan it should be a pleasure to listen a band with Wetton, Palmer and Downes together along with Howe, of course but this might be disappointing. Songs that reached popular charts, songs that are well composed but have a truly catchy and poppy tendency, songs for a completely different audience.
Enjoy it! I try to avoid accusing record labels of "money grabbing" when they release music in inconvenient or expensive packages intended to milk fans of their hard-earned money. After all, record labels are profit-driven and they generally don't consider ethics; certainly in the s, record companies were milking consumers at every turn. The "mini-album" wasn't as commonplace as it had been in the early s in the US market, anyway , but the CD "maxi-single" was emerging.
It seems likely that Geffen Records could've made a profit from this material without combining it with half of a greatest-hits package.
Another possibility is that, as an obscure song from a relatively poorly selling album, "Voice of America" might've snuck under the proverbial radar, appearing to be a new song. Besides "Voice of America," the other four songs on the Now side were new recordings. The album's single, "Days Like These," was contributed by an outside songwriter - - a sign, perhaps, that Asia was hoping to target the same market as Bon Jovi or Aerosmith. Also credited as a writer: Shifrin's then-husband, David Cassidy.
Now don't get me wrong: there's nothing wrong, in my book, with outside songwriters or with trying to write hit songs. But I'm pointing out that Asia was changing direction - - a direction for which the band was ill-suited. Interestingly, when Asia had a 4 pop hit in - - from the number-one pop album of the year - - they'd done it completely on their own.
Pop fans came to them, not the other way around. With questions about the band's line-up, and with no additional new material on the horizon from the band, Geffen appears to have cut their losses by releasing this dud before dropping Asia from the label. To summarize: it's a full-priced album whose four new songs would only appeal to people who already own the other six. And not only is the album a bona-fide money-grab, the 17 minutes of new material is of low quality. This is not "The Best Of Asia With new songs" but a sort of new start for Asia.
The new version of Asia is the same original Asia without an axeman. So the axeman changes in almost every new song Now side but the first side then is the more Prog side. All the songs with Howe are good at The old songs come from the debut 3 , "Alpha" 2 and "Astra" 1. It's quite a representative set, but all albums have better songs included.
So better stick with those. The four new songs are typical Wetton-Asia, which means you'll mo A compilation of songs from the first three albums with the addition of four new songs.
Only interesting if you don't own a copy of those first three albums Add "Wildest In the the Asia returned and This LP contains the "Best Of It not the temporal gap hears itself and I should say that this is almost the definitive LP of this group.
Perhaps they exaggerate with the AOR in the new pieces very commercial Bad songs, nothing to do with the past albums. Connect to Spotify. A new version of Last. Do you know any background info about this album?
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