Talk:Asia (band)

message: Can we please take off the page that Asia is pop rock? They are clearly NOT pop rock, proven in part by the fact that none of the individual album pages claim to be pop rock. Asia is a progressive rock band, and progressive rock is a sub-genre of hard rock, so those two are the only ones that should be listed on the page. Woknam66 (talk) 05:35, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Progressive rock is hardly a sub-genre of hard rock, and many prog fans dislike Asia for having moved away from the band members' prog origins. But I don't want to get into an argument around musical genres: the approach here is to look at what reliable sources say. If there's cites calling Asia "pop rock", then we call them "pop rock". If there's cites calling Asia "progressive rock", then we call them "progressive rock". If both, then both. Bondegezou (talk) 10:37, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't really want to argue about whether or not it is hard rock, but it is certainly not pop. Allmusic says that it's Prog-rock, Album Rock, Art Rock, and Arena Rock . Please note, however, that what most people call a "genre", Allmusic calls a "Style". It does say that Asia is "Pop/Rock" under "Genre", but that's a very broad definition of "genre" (click on it). They also call DragonForce "Pop/Rock" under "Genre" , and I don't think anyone would claim that DragonForce is pop, so clearly we should go by what they call "Style". Woknam66 (talk) 17:30, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: If there's no more objections a week from now, I'm going to remove "pop" from the "Genres" section. Woknam66 (talk) 17:07, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: They are absolutely pop-rock. The only thing they have to do with prog-rock (which is in no way a sub-genre of hard-rock) is that their members came from prog bands. 2607:FEA8:4DE0:2A6:8548:827:9E47:D2C (talk) 01:32, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pop Rock?!?!? 

message: Pat Thrall is missing.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.205.13.211 (talk) 11:02, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Timeline is incomplete 

message: I am wondering if we should edit this quote by Howe:
"In fact, ‘XXX,’ I think is a fantastic record. Mike Stone did a brilliant job on it, helping us arrange and record that record in the most efficient and beautiful way".
It sounds as if Howe is giving Stone credit for XXX, but Stone had passed away in 2002, ten years before XXX was recorded. The quote obviously refers to the early days. Also, there's no resource reference to this particular quote. Philosopher2king (talk) 17:20, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Done. Bondegezou (talk) 17:37, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mike Stone 

message: The band is often stylised "ASIA" (in CAPS) (http://originalasia.com/, http://www.newdanceorchestra.com/, http://www.asiaworld.org/, http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/23p164/we_are_john_wetton_geoff_downes_for_the_british) - should we change this in the article, or at least draw attention to it?  I wrote it in before, but it got removed. SnoopingAsUsual (talk) 17:48, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: CAPS LOCK

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message: Basic information to add to this article: how did the band come up with the name "Asia" in the first place? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 22:30, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that was a Brian Lane suggestion, but will see if I can find a citation. Bondegezou (talk) 10:00, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  To add to article