CD-Charts Position 101
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Live at Budokan

by: Asia

Release Date December 15, 2007
Historically, this is an interesting piece. A "big deal" of an Asia concert, during the brief period during which Greg Lake took John Wetton's place. Unfortunately, the results weren't really worth waiting this long for. Or buying at all, for that matter.

The sound quality, as mentioned in other reviews, is atrocious. There are many moments when it sounds like the recording was taken from a tape left in somebody's car parked in direct sunlight. The pitch will go completely off for moments here and there. Geoff Downes's synth patches sound weird and tinny. Not sure if he made poor sound choices or if it's just the source tape.

Deserving of some blame for pitch issues, however, is Greg Lake. He certainly did a good job ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 102
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Real Niggaz/16 Bars of Death

by: Planet Asia, Ghostface

Release Date March 29, 2005
Historically, this is an interesting piece. A "big deal" of an Asia concert, during the brief period during which Greg Lake took John Wetton's place. Unfortunately, the results weren't really worth waiting this long for. Or buying at all, for that matter.

The sound quality, as mentioned in other reviews, is atrocious. There are many moments when it sounds like the recording was taken from a tape left in somebody's car parked in direct sunlight. The pitch will go completely off for moments here and there. Geoff Downes's synth patches sound weird and tinny. Not sure if he made poor sound choices or if it's just the source tape.

Deserving of some blame for pitch issues, however, is Greg Lake. He certainly did a good job ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 103
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Arena [Remaster]

by: Asia

Release Date
Historically, this is an interesting piece. A "big deal" of an Asia concert, during the brief period during which Greg Lake took John Wetton's place. Unfortunately, the results weren't really worth waiting this long for. Or buying at all, for that matter.

The sound quality, as mentioned in other reviews, is atrocious. There are many moments when it sounds like the recording was taken from a tape left in somebody's car parked in direct sunlight. The pitch will go completely off for moments here and there. Geoff Downes's synth patches sound weird and tinny. Not sure if he made poor sound choices or if it's just the source tape.

Deserving of some blame for pitch issues, however, is Greg Lake. He certainly did a good job ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 104
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Live In Osaka [Reissue]

by: Asia

Release Date
Historically, this is an interesting piece. A "big deal" of an Asia concert, during the brief period during which Greg Lake took John Wetton's place. Unfortunately, the results weren't really worth waiting this long for. Or buying at all, for that matter.

The sound quality, as mentioned in other reviews, is atrocious. There are many moments when it sounds like the recording was taken from a tape left in somebody's car parked in direct sunlight. The pitch will go completely off for moments here and there. Geoff Downes's synth patches sound weird and tinny. Not sure if he made poor sound choices or if it's just the source tape.

Deserving of some blame for pitch issues, however, is Greg Lake. He certainly did a good job ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 105
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My Pain

by: Sha Asia

Release Date June 01, 2004
Historically, this is an interesting piece. A "big deal" of an Asia concert, during the brief period during which Greg Lake took John Wetton's place. Unfortunately, the results weren't really worth waiting this long for. Or buying at all, for that matter.

The sound quality, as mentioned in other reviews, is atrocious. There are many moments when it sounds like the recording was taken from a tape left in somebody's car parked in direct sunlight. The pitch will go completely off for moments here and there. Geoff Downes's synth patches sound weird and tinny. Not sure if he made poor sound choices or if it's just the source tape.

Deserving of some blame for pitch issues, however, is Greg Lake. He certainly did a good job ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 106
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Rock Legends

Release Date August 02, 2005
Historically, this is an interesting piece. A "big deal" of an Asia concert, during the brief period during which Greg Lake took John Wetton's place. Unfortunately, the results weren't really worth waiting this long for. Or buying at all, for that matter.

The sound quality, as mentioned in other reviews, is atrocious. There are many moments when it sounds like the recording was taken from a tape left in somebody's car parked in direct sunlight. The pitch will go completely off for moments here and there. Geoff Downes's synth patches sound weird and tinny. Not sure if he made poor sound choices or if it's just the source tape.

Deserving of some blame for pitch issues, however, is Greg Lake. He certainly did a good job ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 107
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Live in Tokyo 1990.09.29

from: 3D/W Label

Release Date March 13, 2007
Historically, this is an interesting piece. A "big deal" of an Asia concert, during the brief period during which Greg Lake took John Wetton's place. Unfortunately, the results weren't really worth waiting this long for. Or buying at all, for that matter.

The sound quality, as mentioned in other reviews, is atrocious. There are many moments when it sounds like the recording was taken from a tape left in somebody's car parked in direct sunlight. The pitch will go completely off for moments here and there. Geoff Downes's synth patches sound weird and tinny. Not sure if he made poor sound choices or if it's just the source tape.

Deserving of some blame for pitch issues, however, is Greg Lake. He certainly did a good job ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 108
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orion

Release Date December 04, 2007
Asia Engineer is a four-person hip hop group that debuted back in 1998 and signed with RhythmZone in 2005.

The group consists of four MC's: YOPPY, KZ, ZRO and SHUHEI which created the group for their love of hip-hop and just wanted to have fun and make inroads to Asia. Thus the name "Asia Engineer".

The group is known for their songs "Eternal Pose" which was used as an ending theme during a season for the popular anime series "One Piece" and have had other songs which appeared on several Japanese TV series.

Their ninth CD single "Orion" is a single that features a ballad and a very pleasant surprise with a new version of "Tokyo Boogie Woogie".

The first track "Orion" features a ballad with piano ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 109
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Archiva Volume 2

by: Asia

Release Date November 21, 1996
Asia Engineer is a four-person hip hop group that debuted back in 1998 and signed with RhythmZone in 2005.

The group consists of four MC's: YOPPY, KZ, ZRO and SHUHEI which created the group for their love of hip-hop and just wanted to have fun and make inroads to Asia. Thus the name "Asia Engineer".

The group is known for their songs "Eternal Pose" which was used as an ending theme during a season for the popular anime series "One Piece" and have had other songs which appeared on several Japanese TV series.

Their ninth CD single "Orion" is a single that features a ballad and a very pleasant surprise with a new version of "Tokyo Boogie Woogie".

The first track "Orion" features a ballad with piano ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 110
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Night of the Rising Sun

by: Asia

Release Date June 27, 2006
This is a bootleg quality recording of the MTV special "Asia in Asia". This reissue is slightly better than the Live at the Budokan initial issue. It is like a really bad soundboard recording. But, for fans of Asia it may be an essential recording to have. The reason for that is it is the only release with Greg Lake taking the place of John Wetton, shortly after the Alpha album was released. My understanding is that things went so well at this concert that Greg was asked to join permanently, but differences arose quickly as Greg wanted to write longer tracks and the real strength of the band was that they could write short, sophisticated pop-style songs and still be a factor in the changing music scene of the early 1980's, though their pedigree ... Read More: