How Much Money Would It Take For You To Listen To All These Asia Albums?

Track listing
Disc 1:
1. Opening
2. Your Wildest Dreams
3. Sole Survivor
4. Don't Cry
5. Voice of America
6. Downes-solo/Cutting It Fine
7. Video Killed The Radio Star
8. Majesty
9. Time Again
10. Praying for a Miracle
11. Only Time Will Tell
12. Rendez-vous
13. Book of Saturday

Disc 2:
1. The Smile Has Left Your Eyes
2. Days Like These
3. The Heat Goes On/Palmer solo
4. Go
5. Heat of the Moment
6. Open Your Eyes

That's what I was referring to!

!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought only shitty pop-punk bands were allowed to cover that song. I would like to hear this.

Er, well, to tendentiously explain my reference: Geoff Downes, keyboardist for the band, was the other guy in Buggles besides Trevor Horn.

Woops. Wrong thread.

Although, curiously, it's a young Hans Zimmer who cameos as a third Buggle at the end of the VKTRS video (he's the slightly uncomfortable-looking guy standing in front of their huge modular synthesizer).

Hahahahahaha! One of my former roommates is originally from Moscow... popular music over there is curious to say the least. (He once told me that he liked Metallica because their lyrics were "thoughtful.")

I'll contribute to this cause.

I'll contribute $40 to this. Who wants to set up the PayPal account?

____________ (insert album title here)

Side One:
1. crap
2. Crap
3. Big Stinky Crap
4. Oh is this crap
5. really bad

Side Two:
1. Embarassing Crap
2. Twiddly bits infused with crap
3. Massive pile of Crap
4. Crap
5. Promising start and then right into crap.

so, anyway, add Phoenix, Omega, and the double-live Fantasia: Live In Tokyo to the list.

May 7 - Bochum, Germany - Zeche Prinz-Regent-Strasse 50-60
May 8 - Osnabruck, Germany - Rosenhof Rosenplatz 23

are these private homes?

that is a splendid press release

Haven't been around in awhile...I was thinking KickStarter would be a good funding model for the Dave Q track-by-track analysis...

I didn't realize until just now that at some point this band completely split in two with one version (Asia Featuring John Payne) having little-to-no connection to the actual band (I guess John Payne wound up owning part of the name because he stuck around with Downes on about a dozen of the listed albums no-one ever bought)

anyway now I'm listening to tracks from Phoenix and they're ok, you know, for Asia. Probably better than anything since the debut.

oh I was going to revive this to say exactly what I guess I said 3 months ago. never mind.

Asia, forever.

Mentioned on another Asia thread how much I liked "Finger on the Trigger" from the last album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdawHdJKmWM

I can't tell, but are there any original members in that band?

no, but when you have john payne, you don't need any

Haha.

JOhn and Asia will always be united... It is an unbeliveable gift that Geoff and John met and that we have too versions of Asia... As I really do have to say it s great with Steve How I would rather have Payne and Downes.. than no Payne ...and Norlander is great..!! but we all miss Geoff as well...

Asia fans keep rocking because its just starting again again and again
Richf7755 1 year ago

From Wiki:

Asia featuring John Payne

Payne, Govan and Schellen continued working together after Downes' departure for the aforementioned reunion. This included continuing work on what had been planned as the next Asia album, Architect of Time. They began to work under the name GPS with Ryo Okumoto of Spock's Beard on keys. Their debut release, Window to the Soul (2006), included material developed for Architect of Time.[11]

In May 2007, Payne, Govan and Schellen announced the new band name, "Asia featuring John Payne", adding Erik Norlander on keys. The name had been contractually agreed between Payne, Downes, Wetton, Howe and Palmer on the 9th of May 2006.[12] The first release under this name at the end of 2007 was a live recording of the late 2005 Asia line-up of Downes, Payne, Govan and Schellen, entitled Extended Versions in the US and Scandinavia in the UK.

In June 2008, the band has announced the release of an EP entitled "Military Man" with royalties being donated to the USO.[13] The band are also planning to release a completed Architect of Time,[14] with all songs written by Payne and Norlander. The band are touring in 2009 under the Asia Featuring John Payne name, and currently playing festivals and small venues, performing songs from the entire history of Asia, including "Heat of the Moment".[6] Govan was replaced by Mitch Perry and North American touring has continued through 2010 (Govan remains a part of side-project GPS). Perry is a seasoned session musician with over two decades experience touring with major acts including Cher and Michael Schenker.[12] Meanwhile, Payne, Govan, and Schellen are also continuing work as GPS, while Schellen is also recording with Circa.[15]

In late 2008 they signed a three album deal with Sony Music Japan in said country and a deal in the States and elsewhere will be announced soon.[16] A studio album, originally called Architect of Time (the name ultimately used for a Payne side project instead) and now Americana [17] is underway and expected for release later in 2011. A live album, Extended Versions or Scandinavia by Asia Featuring John Payne, was released in fall 2007, drawn from a December 2005 show in Finland with Downes, Schellen, Payne and Govan.

I'm still confused. I guess these guys were in the last progression of the Asia name before Downes reunited with all the o.g. members? John Payne must be a complete narcissist to go around with a band named "Asia featuring John Payne".

Oh, I guess I didn't realize he'd been the singer since Wetton left in 1992. I guess the band's as much his as anyone's at this point, but still...Asia featuring John Payne isn't Asia at all.

The name had been contractually agreed between Payne, Downes, Wetton, Howe and Palmer on the 9th of May 2006.

this event is up there with The Treaty of Tordesillas imo

Live in South Florida!
Posted on May 13, 2011 by AFJP-admin

We’re pleased to announce a new live show-

ASIA Featuring John Payne LIVE
August 12, 2011, 10pm

Seminole Casino Coconut Creek
5550 NW 40th Street
Coconut Creek, FL 33073

these guys are pretty sad looking, they look way too hard rock to be playing the, frankly, soft AOR sounds of Asia to me.

Asia should be playing Amway conventions

I want to defend them even though I don't know their catalog that well. A power quartet based around John Wetton writing pop-rock songs with Geoff Downes and STEVE HOWE AND CARL PALMER ROUNDING OUT THE LINEUP? Just as a prospect, that is awesome.

And like I said, really liked that feature track from the last album. It is classic Asia.

the first album is good. the last album is good. I'm not sure anything in between warrants existing

Reformed original lineup has two studio albums out now (Phoenix and Omega).

You're leaving now, it's in your eyes

I actually like all three of the 80s records (Alpha the least), but I haven't heard a bit of anything that's been recorded under the name since...though, the reunion albums are really the only ones I'd be interested in anyway.

Omega is probably the worst thing Roger Dean has ever designed btw.

the new Yes cover is pretty terrible, as are most of his Yes work after ABWH. He is sleepwalking through crap these days, looks like he throws this shit together before eating his lunch and calls it done.

The new Yes cover is a billion times better than Omega, but its still pretty awful.

The first two were not at all bad, but generally, all those live albums would be rather uninteresting, and in fact, most of the stuff they did after the original lineup fell apart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr6JDq6XX3o

Id do this for a twenty tbrr

if i could spread it out

there's probably someone who would do it on fiverr

This...well...oh dear. aerosmith found it and shared with us and we cried

http://musicenthusiastmag.com/top-10-post-steve-howe-asia-songs/

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I think Asia, in a way, might not have been served well by their name and by the Roger Dean covers. Both of those things are actually quite charming, but it creates an impression that maybe differs from the reality of Wetton/Downes as songwriters. Their songs strike me as being very kind of human. Down to earth.

The songs from Astra on this list sound really nice. Geoff Downes is seemingly always delightful to hear.

That's not to say that branding themselves as something more human and down to earth would have worked better. There IS something "Asia" and Roger Dean about their music.

to answer the original thread question: no money, just one free production job from Trevor Horn!