Asia-Alpha

Studio CD
1983
10 Tracks







1 Don't Cry
2 The Smile Has Left Your Eyes
3 Never in a Million Years
4 My Own Time (I'll Do What I Want)
5 The Heat Goes On
6 Eye to Eye
7 The Last to Know
8 True Colors
9 Midnight Sun
10 Open Your Eyes

Asia returned with a good second cd, that offered more of the same from the first cd, but with a more keyboard slant. The cd unlike, the first cd does have some songs that come across as filler. Every song on the first cd was top notch, but some on the second could have been b side singles, they were that poor. Never In A Million Years, My Own Time, Eye To Eye, are prime examples of this, just dull songs.

But, the cd does have some good songs that is on the level of the first cd, The Last To Know, True Colors, Midnight Sun. And Some songs that may actually be better than most of the fist cd, Don't Cry, The Smile Has Left Your Eyes, The Heat Goes On, and Open Your Eyes.

Wetton is still in good voice, and delivers with great passion, love is delivery on Last To Know. Downes is more prominent this time around and has some good work here. He really gets to shine on Open Your Eyes, Midnight Sun, Heat Goes On, just like the list of songs that he puts his touch on.

Never been a Palmer fan, and he does a good job, not as good as the first cd, but still one of his best cds. And Howe isn't in the fore front like he was on the first cd, which is a shame, he is a very good guitarist, and shouldn't be short changed.

Last cd till 2008 with this, the original line up.
B+