ALPHA

And cover looked so promisingly But then, Don't Cry and I knew, that this is arena rock. Or ARO (live version of AOR). Which offers nothing I like. The Smile Has Left Your Eyes offers at least melody, if nothing more. I know that these musicians should be skilled masters. But this is one of these rare moments, when you realize, that they have skills, or in the other words, they have power to play better, but they don't want to (I suppose) , thinking that normal listener will be satisfied with more mundane rock, absolutely nothing proggy at all. And that Heat Goes On is true, especially this heat from crazed audience, who's primary concern is to head-bang a little bit. I sometimes want it too, but because I've decided not only to rate how I like it (not much), but also how good album is, so I can say that guitar solos are too short, vocals average, keyboards good at times.

3(-) for an Asia album, which makes me quite confused.