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I bought this album cheap used expecting something along the lines of their first album. That's not what I got... This album features John Payne on vocals not John Wetton not to mention that Steve Howe and Carl Palmer also both left before this album was recorded. The only good song on this album (and the reason for the second star) is "Ginger", which actually has Howe in it. It is a two minute instrumental. On the back cover Asia says that this is just a bunch of tapes they had never intended to put on any album, which sums up what the rest of the album sounds like.