Songoftheday 4/28/12 - a look from you and I would fall from grace, and that would wipe the smile right off my face...

Asia - "Heat Of The Moment"

from the album Asia (1982)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #4 (three weeks)

weeks in top-40: 12

Today's song of the day is by the rock "supergroup" Asia. The band was made of 4 powerhouses of progressive rock: Geoff Downes and Steve Howe of Yes, drummer Carl "Emerson Lake & Palmer" Palmer, and singer John Wetton from King Crimson and Roxy Music. Their first self-titled album was one of the first cassettes I bought with my own money, and the second "rock" T-shirt I ever owned (after the Police's Zenyatta Mondatta shirt). Five of the nine tracks made the rock radio chart, and "Heat Of The Moment" remains their biggest hit.

Unabashedly pop for these guys, and well foretelling the Yes transformation that was to come a couple years later. And of course beside the band's mention in 40 Year Old Virgin (shh it's true), South Park's Cartman brought it to Congress...

As for the band, Asia has gone through a ton of personnel changes before reuniting the original lineup in 2006. Also, the song was sampled for a dance track by Steven Lee and Gaby Derhsin in 2010 that made the US dance charts.

Up Tomorrow: he met her in a cocktail bar.