History YMMV / Asia

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The intro to "Countdown To Zero" is similar to the theme music used for THX in the theaters.

* ExecutiveMeddling: "Heat of the Moment" arguably only exists because of this. At first, the band wanted "Only Time Will Tell" to be the debut album's lead single, but the label was hesitant and basically asked them "Do you have anything else?" In response, John Wetton and Geoff Downes came up with "Heat" in just a few hours the following morning, and the rest is history.

** “Are You Big Enough?” has a strong resemblence to Alice Cooper’s “Hey Stoopid”, particularly the chorus.

* LyricalDissonance: "Ghost in the Mirror" sounds upbeat musically, but lyrically it's downright harrowing.
* ScrewedByTheLawyers: 1997's ''Anthology'' was meant to be Asia's first compilation album with both Wetton and Payne era songs on it together. But because of a lawsuit filed by John Wetton himself, the band was forced to re-record five of his songs from scratch with John Payne on vocals. This may be the reason why no official Asia compilation has contained material from both eras since.

* The Determinator: They didn't get called "The band that wouldn't die" for nothing. The fact that the band even made it to the 90s at all is a sign of this. Vanishing record sales, rifts between band members, world tours being reduced to a handful of club dates, and the inability to even find a new record label for a few years would've been enough to break many other bands apart for good. But through it all, Geoff Downes led the charge and kept Asia alive at all costs. He and the various lineups around him still gave it their all on every release to make what they believed in, mainstream success be damned.

* Determinator: The fact that the band even made it to the 90s at all is a sign of this. Vanishing record sales, rifts between band members, world tours being reduced to a handful of club dates, and the inability to even find a new record label for a few years would've been enough to break many other bands apart for good. But through it all, Geoff Downes led the charge and kept Asia alive at all costs. He and the various lineups around him still gave it their all on every release to make what they believed in, mainstream success be damned.

* ArchivePanic: Asia has 13 studio albums plus the ''Archiva'' duology, but it can be difficult to go much deeper than that. There's a multitude of B-sides and bonus tracks from various albums, acoustic versions, radio edits and alternate mixes of songs only available on obscure CD singles, and the non-album tracks "Kari-Anne" and "Gypsy Soul". The hardest of all to obtain would be the trilogy of ''Armada'' fan club [=CDs=], which are so obscure that even pirates won't have much luck getting them. On top of all that, this band has somehow managed to release over '''thirty''' live albums up to this point, all with varying degrees of availability. It's also not easy to build up a collection of Asia albums through modern means, given that the John Payne albums, such as ''Aria'', ''Arena'', and ''Aura'', have [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes have yet to be released on modern streaming services]].

* ArchivePanic: Asia has 13 studio albums plus the ''Archiva'' duology, but it can be difficult to go much deeper than that. There's a multitude of B-sides and bonus tracks from various albums, acoustic versions, radio edits and alternate mixes of songs only available on obscure CD singles, and the non-album tracks "Kari-Anne" and "Gypsy Soul". The hardest of all to obtain would be the trilogy of ''Armada'' fan club [=CDs=], which are so obscure that even pirates won't have much luck getting them. On top of all that, this band has somehow managed to release over '''thirty''' live albums up to this point, all with varying degrees of availability. It's also not easy to build up a collection of Asia albums through modern means, given that the John Payne albums, such as ''Aria'', ''Arena'', and ''Aura'',have [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes have yet to be released on modern streaming services]].

* ArchivePanic: Asia has 13 studio albums plus the ''Archiva'' duology, but it can be difficult to go much deeper than that. There's a multitude of B-sides and bonus tracks from various albums, acoustic versions, radio edits and alternate mixes of songs only available on obscure CD singles, and the non-album tracks "Kari-Anne" and "Gypsy Soul". The hardest of all to obtain would be the trilogy of ''Armada'' fan club [=CDs=], which are so obscure that even pirates won't have much luck getting them. On top of all that, this band has somehow managed to release over '''thirty''' live albums up to this point, all with varying degrees of availability. It's also not easy to build up a collection of Asia albums through modern means, given that albums such as ''Aqua'' have [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes have yet to be released on modern streaming services]].

* ArchivePanic: Asia has 13 studio albums plus the ''Archiva'' duology, but it can be difficult to go much deeper than that. There's a multitude of B-sides and bonus tracks from various albums, acoustic versions, radio edits and alternate mixes of songs only available on obscure CD singles, and the non-album tracks "Kari-Anne" and "Gypsy Soul". The hardest of all to obtain would be the trilogy of ''Armada'' fan club [=CDs=], which are so obscure that even pirates won't have much luck getting them. On top of all that, this band has somehow managed to release over '''thirty''' live albums up to this point, all with varying degrees of availability.

* Determinator: The fact that the band even made it to the 90s at all is a sign of this. Vanishing record sales, rifts between band members, world tours being reduced to a handful of club dates, and the inability to even find a record label for a few years would've been enough to break many other bands apart for good. But through it all, Geoff Downes led the charge and kept Asia alive at all costs. He and the various lineups around him still gave it their all on every release to make what they believed in, mainstream success be damned.