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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 16 2005 at 12:57
Originally posted by tuxon tuxon wrote:

Originally posted by Swinton MCR Swinton MCR wrote:

Tormato is possibly Yes's worse effort upto and including Drama (which is miles better IMO). It has the truly awful - Circus of Heaven and Arriving UFO - But has the Future Times opening track which isn't too bad !

Still this is a better album than DSOTM IMO

 

well everything is better than DSOTM

Surely we're not talking here about Dark Side Of The Moon  ? That Mt. Everest, Mona Lisa, Lance Armstrong of prog classics? Tell me you're joking please.

Talking about Lance, how are you doing in your internet bicycle game, Tux? I'm not very good in it  , though better than my one of my brothers who's also playing.
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Points: 703 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 16 2005 at 16:35

Originally posted by russellk russellk wrote:

Very nice record, some odd sounds by Wakeman
with his experimental birotron thingy, but the last
album on which Squire's bass reigns. Pity, that.

Have you heard Drama?
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Points: 454 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 16 2005 at 23:17
mediocre album with a couple of good songs
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Points: 623 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 17 2005 at 16:20

It's the worst Yes album of the 70s.

The only great songs are Silent Wings of Freedom, Madrigal and Release Release.
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Points: 10 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 17 2005 at 16:22

"Tormato" is a great album! It is not as good as "Fragile" or "The Yes album" but it is much better than both "Tales..." and "Relayer" imo. "Tales..." and "Relayer" were too serious and dark, no fun, no happy sounds... "Tormato" is fun and has very good songs on it. Wakeman's keyboards sound great too imo. I like almost all of the tracks on this very underated album.

BTW i'm new here and it's my first post so please don't kill me... 
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Points: 623 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 17 2005 at 16:26
Originally posted by Fragile Fragile wrote:

This album was the end of the great days.They (Yes) had peaked creativity wise.Yes as a whole gave us six gems in TYA,Fragile,CTTE,TFTO,Relayer and GFTO and Yes and Time and a Word were both very good too.But all great things really do come to an end and it did.

Fragile, no need to be so finite. Yes release a few excellent albums (Keys, 90125) and some reasonably good albums (Drama, ABWH, Talk, The Ladder) post GftO. Beats listening to anything on radio.
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Points: 130 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2005 at 09:19
I don't think Tormato is a bad album.
It is an "easy" album where I like all the songs without finding them outstanding.
I like it more or less as I like "the ladder" (ok, someone will crucify me at this point...), it soothes my thirst like a good drink, without beeing an old and precious wine...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2005 at 11:11

"Tormato" is a very underrated album, it's the "worst" Yes album from the 70's (which isn't a great one, I think all are very good - excellent), but I think it's still enjoyable and it's the last album with the original line-up! It's critizised, the same as with Genesis's "And Then There Were Three" from the same year. I still prefer Tormato. I will make a new poll: Tormato vs. And Then There Were Three
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Points: 2383 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 24 2005 at 05:20
Tormato IS the worst Yes album of the 70's but it's not bad at all! Some really good songs, and the keyboard solo in Don't Kill the Whale is divine!
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Points: 4828 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2005 at 07:15

This was my second YES cd I purchased after "Yesterdays" compil., so I couldn't compare it to their whole musical career. It was also my second prog album! Now when their career is more familiar to me, I must admit that I haven't listed it much since I got it about 15 years ago. But I don't listen to "Going for the one" album either. "Wonderous stories" is nice song, and "Turn of the century" is a good composition, but other positive gualities that it has seem invisible to me. I like "Drama" much more than these two LP's, though I like their work from years 1969 to 1976 most.
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