Tormato vs. Then There Were Three

Huge fan of both groups but consider both albums as low points in their catalogues.

 

 

Read my signature. "Future Times/Rejoice" are my favorite Yes songs ever, for personal reasons. I want to believe that the future will be better and brighter some day, and these song let me enjoy in advance. "Don't kill the whale" has rythm and power, and the encore has always fascinated me. If you think this is a disco song, probably you've never heard Tavares, Gloria Gaynor or the Bee Gees. "Onward" has been chosen countless times as a wedding song for so many couples I've contacted through the web that it can only be justified for the sheer beauty of the melody, lyrics and arrangements. "Release release" is pure prog fun, and if you think it's a punk song, you should listen to the Sex Pistols and The Ramones and then come back to Release-Release. There is absolutely nothing in common. Technically it's complex and challenging, fast and happy.  I wouldn't change a single note played by Wakeman in the whole album. You don't like "Circus of Heaven"? skip it! It's a "song for children", just like the books of Antoine de Saint-Exupery or Lewis Carrol. you won't find anything there if you're unable to remember your chilhood. "Arriving UFO" is funny and interesting for readers of Isaac Asimov or Stanislaw Lem. "Madrigal" is tender and sweet, and "In the silent Wings of Freedom", well......what else can be said about it? A great song, with such a sense of liberty, improvization, like when you go for a walk just for the sake of looking around, or when you are really enjoying a good conversation in which you change topics because it's not the topic what matters, but the pleasure of talking....like lacking direction,......until everything wraps up into the last few minutes of the song to an amazing conclusion. I love it!

"And Then There Were 3" was the first album that I heard from Genesis, and it's one of my favorite, my 4th really, after "The Lamb", "Selling England" and "Trick". Not very close to Tormato.

 

 

Guess what I voted?

I like both albums a lot, but And Then There Were Three is one of my top favourite albums, and Tormato is very good, but not in my album top 25.

Tormato.

I find Tormato, a bit more of a memorable album for me; however, the splitting of Hacket on ATTW3 is quite memorable, I only look into the songs.

I found ATTW3 to be an okay album and it had some melodies and superb production, but I prefered the Tormato's raw sound. I think because I hoping Yes would return to that like they had in their early albums. Tormato didn't feel really wishy-washy and overproduced, like ATTW3 was, which I liked very much.

The songs on Tormato were also solid with some unifying and non-cryptic themes, that are easily memorable: like "Arriving UFO" for example.

And Then There Were Three.

I could never stomach Tormato.

...And then there were three whoops Tormato.  Tormato is the worst Yes album 69-83.

Tormato definitely, And Then There Were Three sucks.