ALPHA

What a disappoitment after a superb first album... either this was a contractual obligation, or they just ran out of ideas, but there is a total lack of inpiration in the songwriting and a in lyrics which are so full of cliches and banalities like "We'll last forever", "I'll never leave you" etc, which is disrupting to the music, which itself is really just pop sprinkled with a few cheesy solos here and there. There are a couple of exceptions, like The Heat Goes On and Eye To Eye and True Colors, but these songs are hardly classics. So to sum up: THERE IS REALLY ONLY ONE GOOD ASIA ALBUM - THE FIRST ONE.