This album was awesome. There were such high hopes and expectations from Asia but they ended too soon. Glad you enjoyed it.

Thank you so much, Daniel. I knew you'd finally get around to Asia. This was incredible. But they pull out all the stops in "Sole Survivor". At some point, please. You won't be disappointed. I've loved this band from day one.

The whole album is stellar! I was about your age when it first came out. Epic songs.

The other hit single from this same album worth checking out is”Heat of the Moment.” ✌️❤️🇨🇦

I dont know where to begin! I love this band. It starts out so triumphant. Such genius! Thank you for getting to this masterpiece Daniel :)You need to listen to more. In fact the whole debut album is fabulous!

I was so confused when I first heard this group on the radio. The guitarist from Yes... why is he playing with Carl Palmer ? Both of their styles are so distinctive it was unmistakable. PS Their live video concert: Asia in Asia was broadcast live on MTV on my 30th birthday from Japan. What a night. Another ASIA song? All of them.

You’re on fire 🔥 Daniel - and I’m here for it all! ✌🏼

He keeps crankin' 'em out, folks! A very 80s-like number that was very big at the time. Mahalo, Daniel.

Some songs on this album that lean to the more progressive side are "Time Again" and "Sole Survivor" ... but the whole album is a great 80s album IMO.

Great song and sound I love the heat of the moment too !

Man, I totally forgot about this band. This was fun!

Great album from start to finish. HUGE album back then...and for good reason.

It was a HUGE hit, even here in Brazil, in 1982.

Asia was one of favorite bands that band out of the 80s. When John Wetton left before their Asian tour, and was replaced by Greg Emerson of Emerson lake and Palmer, I thought the band was over. Wetton helped to write each song on the album, and his vocals were second to none. He was really what made the band for me But Wetton came back for the second album; Alpha, and we got such great songs as "Go" and "The Smile Has Left Your Eyes". Both album for me; where ones I could listen to from beginning to end; something only a few album did. Still do; actually. More often then not; I only like one or two songs from any artists an l albums. By the time Astra came out; guitarist Steve Howe left the band. John Wetton would do one more album; Now and Then, before leaving to go solo. Geoffrey Downes remained, and pushed the band forward, but never reached the success the original band did. John Wetton put out my favorite album from him; Battle Line, with the title track being the best song on the album. I want to go back to some find, the innocent days and I left behind. I still believe they're holding ground, behind the battle lines. If it takes a miles over land and see, gonna swim through the river of purity, I know they still run free... behind the Battle lines

Nice reaction! A great song. I believe Asia released this album a year before Yes released 90125. I loved both bands in the 80s. They just evolved and moved from prog rock into prog pop. I was just happy for their success in that period and the fact they attracted new fans who may not have heard of their earlier music before. Great musicians make great music.

This one is right up my alley! I don't know what we did to deserve all of these videos but thank you Daniel! :)

Your comments are spot on. The lyrics are tremendous with its share of hooks but there are several well-turned phrases ("the brightest ring around the moon / will darken when I die" for one example). But it's the incredible vocals that sell it.

I watched this reaction last night. So thrilled to see this on your channel! I remember Asia in heavy rotation in the 80's, on MTV. They were very popular. Thank you subscriber and thank you Daniel! ❤️❤️

Oh man...my middle school orchestra director had us learn this tune.

I remember when this first came out having seen a music video of them on a tv rock show and bought the album days later. Turned out the entire album is a classic. I have this on original vinyl still in my collection. Not played this in years. Wow ! Thankyou for this. Time I revisited the whole album.

Agree with everyone that this album is amazing! ❤️

It is such a brilliant album, start to finish. Definitely one to take a deeper dive into Daniel!

You can find a live version of this from 1982 with Greg Lake singing.....incredible!

I can listen to this song again and again and again and listen to it as an ensemble, or dissect it and study individual melodies. The opening keyboard riff is an epic sounding wail of loneliness and despair and pain. John Wetton bringing actual emotion to the lyrics, where you can feel how dismayed and angry and hurt he is. Steve Howe's repeated riffs sounding out "it's in your eyes" and "there's no disguising it." Carl Palmer's masterful drumming, including kettle drums. If you've ever been fucked over and dumped by someone you love, THIS is the song to play.

Hello, the first song I heard from this album when I was 13 years old was “Without you” and it blew me away! Greetings from Germany!

Thank you for doing this song. The entire album is incredible. I particularly like "Time Again" and "Cutting It Fine". The latter has an incredible synthesizer solo at the end. I personally loved all of the songs from their first two albums, which was with the original line-up. Mandy Meyer from Krokus replaced Steve Howe on the third album which resulted in a more metal type edge on a lot of songs.

Asia, very near to perfection in this song.Thank you for your reaction.

Great song and album!

When my hubby and I got divorced, he said that I could have any of the albums we had bought together. This was one of them! Thank you for that!

Great band live, saw them in 1979 with Jethro Tull. Eddie Jobson on electric violin was stellar.

A super super group. Radio friendly yes but they were just so good, the second album has some great tracks too. Wish they did more. Daniel many of these songs lately have been songs I (and others ) have suggested and I really appreciate you playing them. Thanks for this Amazing run of music reactions

IT'S ABOUT TIME! I've been saying from the moment you reacted to Yes that this should be an ALBUM reaction! Best song on the album, IMO, is "Here Comes the Feeling", followed by "Cutting it Fine". Geoff Downes' keyboard/piano solo at the end is beautiful.

Love ASIA. They are something special. While the band has created it's own sound, for me, it is actually a perfect combination of it's separate members. It's as if Jeff and Steve were just plucked straight from a YES song, John from King Crimson and Carl right from ELP, yet each part works with the others to create something new, but they are still seperate/ Go back to listen to each band they are from, you'll hear each member from ASIA clearly, as they are. It's remarkable.

Got to see them at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, so fun! Went to a record store beforehand and got them all to sign the album, have it somewhere!

RIP, John Wetton.

YES (Steve Howe), ELP (Carl Palmer) and UK (John Wetton) plus John Dowes in 1 ! band, was the last so-called "Superband" !

The songs had great hooks and no question they were amazing musicians, but this was a commercial venture from day 1 -- right down to the name starting wth an A so it would be at the front of the record bins. They produced some of the best

Its so refreshing to see someone as young as you react to this powerful track from 1982.

Daniel is so adorable looking into the camera as that electric guitar riff plays. He doesn't look 18, but he is. He is... I cannot make certain comments, so I'll just stop here. I grew up listening to ASIA in the 1980's . Yes Daniel they were epic. Enjoyed the reaction. 👍🎶🎶 Have an awesome day.

Sole Survivor....great drums and guitar, best on Asia's first album, IMHO. Red is King Crimson's 7th album...try Discipline for the most interesting songs.

One senses that the late great Mr. John Wetton felt more confident in this setting. Beautiful song and band. Glad you found it. It has been a long time.

Keep ‘em coming!!! Asia has an AMAZING sound. Soooooo epic. Heat of the Moment is epicker IMhO I was ten when this came out and as I listen now I have tears in my eyes for all the nights I listened to music like this lying on my bed. #iwannagoback

Thank you for this reaction. I think it’s one of the most perfect songs ever recorded.

Приятно видеть,как молодые люди реагируют на хорошую, настоящую музыку! Значит,в этом мире не все так плохо...

King Crimsons first..In the court of the Crimson king..only album with Greg Lake as their singer,,awsome

As Randy Gibson said in the comments below "The songs had great hooks and no question they were amazing musicians, but this was a commercial venture from day 1 -- right down to the name starting with an A so it would be at the front of the record bins. They produced some of the best

Hey DDR, Got it! Great album/CD. A good listen start to finish. Heat of the Moment, a classic great song, a must listen song. All the Best from Oregon, C

For me, a big ASIA fan since they first released their first album in '82, I equally like their first two albums. I am a HUGE fan of their song "My Own Time (I'll Do What I Want)" from Alpha. If you haven't heard it, give it a listen; it's a gem.

King Crimson is releasing tracks from recent tour. Red is good. Larks Tongue in Aspic a favorite too. You are cranking them out!

Carl Palmer on the same level of Neil Peart as far as drumming. Polls back in the day had them usually 1 and 2. Not to forget Bonzo!

Past members of Asia morphed into the band GTR and had the hit songs "When The Heart Rules The Mind' and "The Hunter" but without the popularity of Asia

Love this song

Asia had some great songs... Heat of the Moment Don't Cry Go Too Late. Singer John Wetton had one last great song before he passed away. Valkyrie.

名曲です🎉 ジョンウェットンのボーカルが1番良いですよね👍

Rumor has it that Asia could very well be the opening musical act for YES on their fall tour 2022.

Love this!!

Back in the 80’s this was main stream. But you nowadays you can’t get this good of song on the radio.

The Billboard number one album for 1982!

This line up were drawn together with a desire to ‘make more accessible music’ . I think Carl Palmer said that. They’d all made lots of money from their own prog bands, so it must have been a more ‘easy’ challenge? Who knows. But Wetton’s vox is spot on as is everything else. They did it, reached a huge more mainstream audience and enjoyed touring it. Experienced talent proves a point. I’m a fan of their original bands and hats off to them £££££££

That was probably their best song they have another hit called heat of the moment but this song is my favorite of theirs

Prog-Lite. Simple radio-friendly love songs, for the most part, with some excellent singing and musicianship. I always love hearing Howe's guitar in these songs driving around town, but at home I always opted to go directly to the well and spin me some Yes or Genesis. Filled a niche, I suppose, once the public had had it's fill of real prog.

Pedazo de canción ....excelente

Really enjoyed this reaction, I don't see that many people reacting to this one since it's mainly Heat of the Moment reactions.

Next song should be Midnight Sun from their next album

Love Asia best band

John Wetton did the best singing of his career on the first two Asia albums.

Honestly, your reactions are hilarious. Asia is truly one of the best bands ever. Second album was the best.

This song represents the initial raw emotion of being hurt by a harsh breakup.

It was a big hit. You should try some Dirty Loops.

This song should be played more often on the radio at least

Reaction to Asia - Heat Of The Moment , Sole Survivor.

I only know "Heat of the moment" to be honest. I think you would also enjoy some Manfred Mann's Earth Band

to me this song sort of explains where music was at , at that time. So many people wanted the old groups to put out the same old same old. But even these new groups were doing stuff differenly

Another lesson kid. Sometimes 'Supergroups' are musicians who's bands have hit low spots and they need money. This is a pretty poppy song from the likes of these musicians who I respect in their normal genres. Sometimes it is about money.

Any King Crimson album you do will be the right one : )

Now listen to ELO! greatest hits. I can't choose one you should listen to over another. They used a full orchestra in many of their songs!

They were criticized for not continuing on in the prog rock form and becoming "commercial" but the band members wanted a departure from that and do 4-5 minute songs in a hard rock form.

This is a very good album; I still have it on vinyl. Please react to "Time Again", also from this album. Steve Howe has some great riffs, and interesting interplay with Geoff Downes' keyboards on that song.

However I’m now going to look for your reaction to King Crimson, ELP Yes etc !!!!

Asia is one of the few "supergroups" that, with constant line-up changes and various brakes, have lasted for a very long time (until today?). I think I bought the first 3 albums back then. These are all musicians who "get it" and make rock-solid good music, but the bands rarely really develop their own character. That's why I didn't follow the development of Asia after that. Have I missed something?

Great album no bad songs

Wildest Dreams from the same lp is great. The whole lp rocks.

This was a "Super" group. A Dream team of sorts.

What can I say… this song is for me the epitone of a progressive song… I suggest check out Sole Survivor from them!!!!

The thing about certain songs that hook you right away is that the hook gets old real quick. Such was the case for a lot of Asia songs. Sounded good initially but rock radio ran them straight into the ground. They got old for me real fast, and I suspect a lot of other people as well. Also they were a little over the top dramatically in their songs. The whole style became a bit cliche in the end. Trapped forever in the '80s. Fun to revisit though. "Heat of the Moment" was another big one of theirs.

Great line up but i must say i prefer Jon Wetton's work with the band UK. Bill Bruford, John Wetton,Allan Holdsworth and Eddie Jobson that is a fantastic line up. When it comes to King Crimson it would be a good idea to react to In the court of the crimson King. Ian McDonald just past away and he was a big part of that album. If not the hole album, you can do Epitaph ❤

Hercule an effort here tonight....

Speaking of YES, time for another YES reaction?

10 levels down for Steve Howe but hey he made money…

i was always just a little disappointed as this wasnt up to YES standards. today it reminds me of a time and place when i was young

You nailed it, superb musicianship while still down to earth. Had they done some show off musicians song, it wouldn't have hit the charts. Only people who play music would have appreciated it. Those people bash this album for that very thing. I'm a drummer myself, but I understand WHY tales of topographic oceans type-stuff wasn't top 40. That type of stuff is too long and drawn out for casual music fans

MORE ASIA....that's all :)

If you have time you should react to Acid by Jockstrap I'm sure you will enjoy :)

It's a shame your generation has not talent musicians like them. I'm so sorry for you... Really. :(

They never had a bad album.

Great reaction, to bad you heard the abbreviated version of the song. This is why you were startled when the guitar solo abruptly came in that sounded out of place.

Everyone likes this It got lots of radio play but it was just too soupy/poppy for me. Nice composition, just not something I would seek to put on as an oh I need to listen to this now type song...

Asia, in my opinion, is one of the most musically disappointing "Super Groups". They could have and should have been so much more. It just seemed like a money grab, and they took it, all of it. Very tepid musically.