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

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.

Does anyone here remember the huge MTV special with them in 1983 or so where Wetton left dramatically, like, a week before the thing was supposed to go on (in Japan, I think), and he was replaced by...Greg Lake?!?!! Looking really fat!!! Really, putting the "ass" in classic rock, these guys...

I'll own up to still having the t-shirt from the first Asia tour.

Remember it? I still have my VHS tape of it from when it was on TV originally.

Dave could set up an Amazon want list containing all the albums and people could purchase the album (or albums) of their choice and have it shipped to him automatically.

I don't admit this often.

I would be willing to listen to this at no charge.

reunion of original lineup means more of these live albums on the way(probably already a few on the market by now)

If you consider that each of those albums feels like it's seven hours long, that's one week of non-stop torment. I'd do it for $150 though.

re discussion above i always thought heat of the moment was pretty much just a straight rewrite of video killed etc. you can sing either verse and chorus over the other one.

and now we meet in an abandoned studio
and now you find yourself in '82

but funny how at the time, or to me anyway, "video killed" was New Wave and cool, but "heat of the moment" was embarrassing shit that only the choirboy synth player in my hs rock band was into.

ya know what else is cool about that live album with "Video" is that it also includes a version of the Wetton-sung King Crimson tune "Book Of Saturday". I'd listen to that for free!

For $1000 I'll do a track-by-track analysis

― dave q, Monday, May 17, 2004 12:59 PM

If only this had happened.

If we can raise money to keep ILX afloat in a few hours I think it could be raised in a few days. Similarly, if we had allowed the ILX to have a war chest then we would have done it already

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And what that band meeting must have been like.

ROCK N' ROLL!!

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One of my very favorite threads. If I was a millionaire, Dave Q would be $1000 richer by now.

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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!