YES - "Owner of a Lonely Heart" vs Asia - "Heat of the Moment".

[Aceman]

90125 might be the best rock album in the 80s. It is solid from beginning to end. Great tunes and production (with some amazing guitar sounds on there).

I don't know about "Rock" albums but it is a great album. Style is not really important here, IMO - it's great songs that are listenable, technical, and interesting. But I think of it as sort of a Pop-Prog-Rock blend.

Asai is really a more straight forward Album Oriented Rock album (AOR), IMO...but also awesome.

 

[Clint 55]

Neither..

Lol!

 

[Artie]

Neither..

Lol!

I like that album, but if you're talking about the song I think you are, I'm burnt out on it due to Clark Howard using it as his intro. :crazy:

 

[Clint 55]

I just think the distortion intro is epicly funny.

 

[Artie]

Are you talking about "She Drives Me Crazy"?

 

[NegativeEase]

Are we talking qualitatively the individual guitar sound -or the production mix result? because the Asia track is a wall of guitars -not really a fair fight.

 

[Demanic]

Are we talking qualitatively the individual guitar sound -or the production mix result? because the Asia track is a wall of guitars -not really a fair fight.

I think that Trevor Rabin's guitar tones in "Owner of a Lonely Heart" are definitive of great 80's production.
Howe's wall of guitars was good, but closer to Jimmy Page's work on "In Through the Out Door", which to me was the end of the 70's style rock.
Rabin's sound was much more stripped down.

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[NegativeEase]

I think that Trevor Rabin's guitar tones in "Owner of a Lonely Heart" are definitive of great 80's production.
Howe's wall of guitars was good, but closer to Jimmy Page's work on "In Through the Out Door", which to me was the end of the 70's style rock.
Rabin's sound was much more stripped down.

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agreed.

 

[Securb]

Though I like the Asia disk a lot more Rabin's tone is the best of both disks.

 

[Mincer]

I always liked Rabin's solo tone, and his super compressed acoustic tone, that didn't really sound like an acoustic at all. His style is strange, too. I can tell he listened to a lot of Di Meola with the way he structures his fast playing, But there is a good bit of post-VH playing in there too.