Asia
By Jeff Huff
I asked for Asia because I thought it would be easy. You know, they were a one-hit, post-prog, quasi-supergroup wonder, rising from the ashes of Yes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer; and I could just sort of skip and hop and blather through it, and fan out my verbal tail feathers, and tell you that their goshawful, excruciatingly glossy and crass debut was a heartbreaking work of staggering genius and be done with it. But then I go to Wikipedia to dredge up whatever sort of details I’ll need (like, what was their album even called – I haven’t heard them since MTV in 1982), and I just deflate as I read: This flipping band is still together. It gets worse. As I write about rock bands, one... Read More
- Genre:
- Rock, Progressive
- City Of Origin:
- London, England
- Formed Date:
- 1981
