It Bites

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It is the A to Z of rock with Matt and Brian, and that was Underneath Your Pillow from It Bites, the third album that It Bites recorded, and it was the last album to feature Francis Donnery on the guitar and the vocals.

After the tour, Francis left It Bites, and It Bites didn't get back together and record an album until 2008, when they recruited John Mitchell from Kino, and they produced the marvellous album, The Tall Ships.

But that was Underneath Your Pillow from It Bites.

And before that, Matthew...

Until Nine.

That's right.

Yes, in stark contrast.

And again, it's a newer lineup with Jeff Downs still in it.

And then you have John Mitchell from Frost, Lonely Robot, It Bites, and then um harry whitley who is the singer bass player who sounds you know just like just like john wetten and uh and then virgil nadi on drums who's a beast so it's a really cool lineup uh very cool stuff this is the last song on the album uh it's called echo of you and i'm gonna skip also again towards a little bit towards the end because this song takes a little bit to get going uh but also it's pretty cool stuff ¶¶

There's things I wish I'd never done, untruths that I wish were all gone But now it's you that's flown the nest of love we made for us You think that I don't care, that's wrong You think I wish I wasn't there But here we are, still sad and broken like a missing Amen.

It's the echo of you running round my head Every street I walk, every word I've said I could try to move on, I could try to be new But the rhythm of my heart still echoes for you It's the echo of you running round my head Every street I walk, every word I've said I could try to move on, I could try to be new There you go.

As Jeremy says, it sticks to the Asia formula.

I've got to say, for me, because it's so signature Asia sound, it's kind of reminiscent of the old stuff, and I don't actually love it, to be honest.

That's very surprising, because I would have thought this is right in your wheelhouse, kind of, it bites, you know.

John Mitchell is so perfectly fitting with Asia, because I think his stuff kind of is... uh from that tree kind of you know the poppy prog melodic stuff um yeah i'm surprised uh i i like it i like it i mean i don't the first single is better a bit more of a rocker right we kind of like that but yeah i mean this is uh this is a catchy tune i don't have an issue with it yeah um you know i mean and i i dig it i i look i've been i am an unapologetic asia fan especially of the first the first group, the first three albums.

Some achievement.

It is It Bites.

and fight for freedom.

You can hear the people screaming.

They're shooting up the town boys.

Shooting up the town, boys.

It's a theme show on Sound Radio playing It Bites and calling all the heroes.

Very,

As for the other albums I've ever been involved with with Arena, probably Contagion.

It Bites, Map of the Past.

We only did two records, but I definitely prefer the second one.

And of course, I'm going to say... one so