Title: The "Heat of the Moment" Explains Why This Album Was a Hit
Review: Asia was one of the first supergroups to achieve massive chart success, as this album topped the US Album charts for 7 straight weeks. Listening to the album now, it's hard to imagine how a thing like that happened. The album opens strong with the one-two punch of the singles "Heat of the Moment" and "Only Time Will Tell". And the rest of the album actually holds up fairly well, but as a whole the songs are so bombastic that it overwhelms what would have been an otherwise good album. In other words, even though everything on the album is actually quite good, it adds up to less than the sum of its parts. Cool cover, though.Worth noting: Six of the nine songs on this album can also be found on their Greatest Hits collection, so if you're looking for your first Asia album, you might want to pick that up instead.
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