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	Arena by Asia CD
		Asia's 1996 release, ARENA, is, confusingly, a non-live studio album.
		ARENA boasts another fine set of songs in the pop/prog-rock mold, most notably the melodic airiness of "Heaven" and "Two Sides of the Moon," plus the fast-paced rocker "The Day Before the War." With ARENA, Asia showed that prog-rock was still alive and well in the fickle rock world of the 1990's
		The only original Asia member appearing here is keyboardist Geoff Downes, who is joined by drummer Michael Sturgis, main guitarist/singer/bassist John Payne, and a host of other guitarists including Elliot Randall, Tomoyasu Hotei, and Aziz Abraham.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/6900136/a/Arena.htm (153 words)

	Arena album down Asia lyrics
		Artist Asia Albums: Alpha, Anthology, Aqua, Archiva 1, Archiva 2, Archives, Arena, Aria, Asia, Astra, Aura, Then and Now.
		You can take it If you want it You can break it If you need it I'll never fight another day But you can take the flesh not the soul away They're call...
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	www.lyric.su /album_a_arena_asia.html (286 words)

	Axioms
		Of course, the best way to hear Asia is to get all three of their classic cd's (now available as a low-priced box set of "Aqua", "Aria" and the amazing "Arena"), but this is a terrific sampler.
		Over twenty minutes of music could have been put on each one, but then again, if all of the good 90's era Asia tracks were on this set, no one would buy the standard albums...
		While there are a few essential tracks missing, "Axioms" is still a marvelous compilation of the great Asia material of the '90's.
	www.httrader.com /Axioms-B00000IGP7.html (649 words)

	ASIA Axioms reviews and MP3
		— “Axioms” (note the lack of the usual “A” at the end of the title!) gathers together a large number of tracks from three Downes/Payne Asia albums, “Aqua” (1992), “Aria” (1994), and “Arena” (1996).
		Please use "one" and "five star" ratings very sparingly -- most albums you dislike will have at least some positive qualities, and not every album that you enjoy will be a perfect "masterpiece of prog".
		Consider aspects which will be of interest to the reader such as the style of music, notable influences, similar bands, best tracks (don’t just say "this album is brilliant", explain what you like about it), production quality, musicians involved, album history, We suggest you listen to an album several times before writing a review.
	www.progarchives.com /Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=4365 (952 words)

	Classic Rock - Arena - Asia free mp3 full albums download
		Arena is an interesting album in that the band seem to have been bitten by a latin bug, and Santana-ish rhythms are evident throughout the CD.
		An opening track is instrumental song, which tells you a lot of this album.
		...I can't listen to this album many times because there are so many awful songs.
	www.playtunes.net /album/66725.html (444 words)

	Desi MatchMaker - First Matrimonial Magazine for South Asians in USA
		The Bollywood Awards are the true pioneers and leaders of South Asian Awards ceremonies globally - the first Overseas Bollywood Awards, the first Bollywood Music Awards and the first Bollywood Fashion Awards anywhere in the world.
		The glamorous events, the Bollywood Fashion Awards and the Bollywood Movie Awards, are set to take place on Friday/Saturday, April 29th and 30th at "Xanadu" and the "Mark G. Etess" Arena respectively at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
		Strings, Pakistan’s hottest band whose hit song, "Najanay Kyun" from the album "Dhaani" was part of the blockbuster "Spiderman2" soundtrack, is all set to rock the Bollywood Awards with a spellbinding performance.
	www.bharatmatrimony.com /desimatch/magazine63f.html (945 words)

	RollingStone.com: 1984 : Van Halen : Review
		This album confirms what a lot of Van Halen fans have suspected for some time: this is no mere arena-rock band.
		Like "1984," "Jump" is not exactly the kind of song you'd expect from Van Halen: the main synthesizer figure uses suspended chords and a pedalpoint bass in a manner more suited to Asia.
		Every song hits harder than expected, until by album's end you're convinced that, despite all the bluster, Van Halen is one of the smartest, toughest bands in rock and roll.
	www.rollingstone.com /reviews/album/_/id/236834/vanhalen?pageid=rs.ArtistDiscography&pageregion=triple1 (389 words)

	Amazon.com: Arena: Music: Asia
		Arena is not only the best Asia album ever, it is possibly one of the best albums ever released by any progressive rock band.
		Arena, Two Sides Of The Moon, Heaven, Words, Falling, Day Before The Word, Tell Me Why, U Bring Me Down, Turn It Around are all songs with musical diversity, quality sound, craftsmanship, and feeling.
		It's a shame that the band can't capture the success of their first album in the US anymore (they seem to be really big in Japan), but it doesn't matter.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000003RSW?v=glance (1060 words)

	Asia Aura
		For the rest of Asia's career, Arena will be the mark against which I'll judge all of their albums.
		It was way worth the wait and is the logical step to take from the Arena album.
		Aura is a great album though-- certainly beating Aqua and Aria.
	www.walhello.info /asia+aura.html (1060 words)

	ProgPower USA - The Premier Metal Festival for North America
		After another pretty successful tour with Arena, the Scandinavians presented their third album The Perfect Element Part I, a concept album which marked the so far musical peak for the group, and whose follow-up album Remedy Lane (2002) was a worthy successor equal in quality.
		After Gildenlöws younger brother had joined the band on bass, Pain of Salvation released their remarkable debut album Entropia back in 1996, which was much celebrated especially in Asia.
		In the spring of 1998 they brought out the second work One Hour by the Concrete Lake, which was followed by an extensive European tour with Threshold (british progressive metal).
	www.progpowerusa.com /band-pos.php (360 words)

	Get Ready to ROCK! Review of CD album by Martin Darvill called The Greatest Show On Earth
		Guests include former Who drummer Kenny Jones, John Wetton (Asia/Uriah Heep), Al Stewart (remember `Year of the Cat'?), David Kilminster (John Wetton), Don Airey (Deep Purple/Rainbow), Clive Nolan (IQ/Arena), Mick Pointer (Marillion/Arena), Noel Redding (Jimi Hendrix) & more!
		It is Darvill's band, Moon, who form the musical backbone on this release.
	www.getreadytorock.com /reviews/martin_darvill1.htm (360 words)

	Atomic Kitten Now! The Unofficial Resource For Jenny, Liz And Tash!
		"Cradle" was originally recorded for the Kitten's "Right Now" album and when it was released as a single in SE Asia it went straight to the #1 spot.
		Atomic Kitten complete "chapter one" of their career with a final top 5 album, as "The Greatest Hits" debuts at #5 in the official UK album chart.
		Atomic Kitten's final release for a year is the fantastic new DVD featuring a full live concert from Wembley Arena, taken from their Greatest Hits tour in February 2004, as well as all of their videos, including "Cradle"!
	www.ukbritney.biz /atomickitten (1364 words)

	MSJ - UK-Night After Night
		After a dramatic prog introduction, this settles into a more straightforward rock style that feels like the middle ground between Wetton's latter era King Crimson and the pop/arena rock of his post UK band Asia.
		Although Bill Bruford had left the band after the first album, his presence is still felt in the composition of a few of these tracks, but Terry Bozzio brings in his own style as the replacement.
		The third, and final album by what was probably the first prog rock super-group (OK, other than ELP), this is a live album.
	www.musicstreetjournal.com /uknite.htm (752 words)

	Geoff Downes: Shadows & Reflections: CD Compact Disc: Skateboarding Music and more...
		If you are an Asia fan who is looking into Geoff's solo work for the first time, then this is a great place to start (you may even recognize a few of the distinctive synth sounds that have been heard on Asia's albums "Arena" and "Aura"!).
		Geoff is rightly considered to be the guiding light of Asia, and he has brilliantly lead the band from it's "pop supergroup" beginnings, to the more progressive/expansive sound that they have crafted more recently through Geoff's partnership with vocalist/bassist/songwriter John Payne.
		While Downes solo career has covered a wide variety of styles (instrumental new age, vocal pop, classic rock covers), the music represented on "Shadows and Reflections" finds him returning to the progressive/electronic style of his first solo album, "The Light Program".
	shop.skateboardmusic.com /cds/geoff-downes/shadows-reflections/listen394208.html (459 words)

	Westlife - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Westlife's fan base is international: they have had success all over the world, especially in Scandinavia and in South East Asia, but also in Europe, Canada, Latin America, South Africa, Australia and even in the newly emerging pop market in Iraq.
		Westlife have had sold-out indoors and outdoors arena tours and are one of the biggest pop acts to ever come out of Ireland.
		Their debut American album was also released in 2000, but they have not yet released another album in the USA.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Westlife (1700 words)

	Classic Rock E
		Emerson and Lake first discussed the possibility of collaborating at that point, but only after the Crimson line-up began disintegrating during their first U.S. tour did he finally opt to leave the group (after agreeing to sing on the forthcoming Crimson album).
		ELP split up in 1979: Lake embarked on a moderately successful solo career, Emerson took to composing film scores and recorded the occasional solo project, and after a stint with the band PM, Palmer joined the pop super-group Asia.
		Their flamboyance on record and in the studio echoed the best work of the heavy metal bands of the era, proving that classical rockers could compete for that arena-scale audience.
	www.homepagez.com /aytaca/ClassicRocke.htm (5182 words)

	Natasha Hamilton, Atomic Kitten
		This is the start of a busy time for the girls, as they have their new album release, two singles planned and a 10 arena tour as well as all their promotional work.
		Natasha is working on her first solo album after giving birth to second son Harry in January, “having two babies and starting up a solo career is hard,” she told local press “but Gavin has been a huge help.” Even so, she denies that she and boyfriend Gavin are to marry this year.
		Natasha is now with her band mates on a tour of South-East Asia, a statement issued on the singer's behalf said: "Atomic Kitten Natasha Hamilton has separated from fiance Fran Cosgrave.
	www.myvillage.com /pages/celebs-natashahamilton.htm (1475 words)

	Amazon.com: Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends: Music
		Welcome back by the great emerson lake and palmer is one of the best progressive rock albums i have heard.this contains gems like hoedown and jerusalem.get this with exit stage left a superb live album from rush.five stars.please ignore the one star reviewers and their moronic recommendations
		To see the massive speaker assembly on stage and the same on the opposite end of the arena was a sight for the eyes as well as the ears.
		And Carl Palmer, who ended up in Asia after ELP, I consider to be one of the fastest and most precise drummers there is, along with Phil Collins and Rush's Neil Pert.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000033P3?v=glance (1676 words)

	David Usher back in Morning Orbit
		Although Usher says he's writing "a lot," he confesses a desire to perhaps do some recording with his touring band, with whom he'll jet back to Europe and Asia once his present run of Canadian roadwork wraps up to support the album's release overseas.
		Morning Orbit, like 1998's surprisingly low-key Little Songs, a record composed of demos Usher recorded in dribs and drabs with friends in his kitchen in Montreal, makes a concerted effort to avoid the arena-ready melodrama that's won Moist as many detractors as fans.
		But months after its release last summer, Usher's second solo outing, Morning Orbit, seems, if anything, to be gathering momentum.
	members.shaw.ca /brycon/articles/star.html (1676 words)

	romanow05
		This problematic underlines the importance of music and its connection to ideas of nationhood, as well as emphasizing the pervasive presence of American and British rock music in the formerly colonized countries of Africa and Asia.
		In a recent article in The Music Magazine, which promotes itself as "India's first and finest music e-zine" (), the band Junoon is hailed as "one of the world's most significant bands" (1), a significance which is latter elaborated on: "Junoon's first international album...
		While the Subaltern Studies Group, as well as much postcolonial theory, have continued the investigation into the ways in which the subaltern's voice is silenced in the local and global arenas, little attention has been placed on the role of rock music in creating this arena of silence of the subaltern voice.
	clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu /clcweb05-2/romanow05.html (5147 words)

	John Wetton - Rock Of Faith (CD Album Review)
		And though it's a thrill that John's teamed up with his former (Asia) bandmate and writing partner Geoffrey Downes or that he's produced the album with Arena's Clive Nolan and Karl Groom; I think he could have pulled it off any way he'd have wanted to.
		I sincerely hope that this is the beginning of a new decennium of wonderful John Wetton recordings.
		The voice has aged a bit, the songs have matured, but / and the lyrics have gained a poetic aspect that was always in there but now finds its way to me, and hopefully many of you, as naturally as can be.
	www.rocknet.nl /newreleases/john_wetton_rock (484 words)

	John Wetton - Rock Of Faith (CD Album Review)
		And though it's a thrill that John's teamed up with his former (Asia) bandmate and writing partner Geoffrey Downes or that he's produced the album with Arena's Clive Nolan and Karl Groom; I think he could have pulled it off any way he'd have wanted to.
		He simply sounds inspired and back in shape.
		The voice has aged a bit, the songs have matured, but / and the lyrics have gained a poetic aspect that was always in there but now finds its way to me, and hopefully many of you, as naturally as can be.
	www.rocknet.nl /newreleases/john_wetton_rock (484 words)

	Allindie.com Bands Johnny Young
		Young is no rookie when it comes to arena rock.
		He toured as the lead singer and keyboardist in Mick Taylor’s (Rolling Stones) band at age 17/18 throughout Asia and the US.
		The production on the album highlights the incredible musicianship and song crafting skills of the group.
	www.allindie.com /bands/jyoung (189 words)

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