Worst YES album cover

This poll sucks because it's missing half of Yes's albums.

If it had all their albums, as it should, I'd vote for "Close Your Eyes" because it's so plain. The use of the classic Yes logo is always welcome, but there's really no design to speak of. The other bad album cover is the US version of "Time and A Word". Again, no design to speak of and it's just sort of ugly.

I really can't believe so many people are voting for the "Tormato" cover, which I really like. I think it's beautiful in terms of graphic design, with the rich blues and reds, and it has that cool, iconic, enigmatic 1970s Hipgnosis style that I love so much. And I also think it's funny that Yes knew they would get slammed for making a prog album in 1978, so they went ahead and smashed the tomatoes themselves, beating the critics to the punch.

Call me crazy, but I think it's one of Yes's better album covers, and is by far the least dated looking.

Basically I voted Tormato because Big Generator is so bad, it didn't even deserve to be on the poll.

Big Generator and 90125 are baaaad. Talk I kind of like... sort of post modern art, kind of fun. Someone complained about Open Your Eyes, and I have to disagree, it's a nice kind of minimalism and I've always liked that cover (although I don't own the album, haven't heard great things about it ), Tormato is stupid, but I don't mind it. It certainly made me turn my head the first time I saw it. Going For The One is strange, but I like it.

uhhh, Big Generator it is. Why did they have to make such crappy computer generated art??

Tormato. The story as I read in an interview at the time was that they were trying to get the band in a shot with Yes Tor( in Exmoor I think -Tor being a rocky outcrop - there are several and one is called Yes Tor) and one of the band thought the pictures were so bad, they threw a tomato at it (oooh, they were animals) and it stuck so to speak.

One of the worst album covers of all time. Actrually thinking about it Big Generator is probably worse....

All the covers that are mentioned in the list, are great. Only, what is that naked man doing on my Going For The One cd? Why did someone squash a tomato on my Tormato - album?

I don't like the cover for Big Generator. I don't really like the latest Roger Dean covers anymore. It becomes a bit boring.

CTTE - BORING!!!!!

Relayer is Classic!!

Come to think of it....when we saw the band live in August of 04, 3/5 of the personnel was fairly unattractive as well............

Edited by DEzerov

Had I looked at "Magnification" album cover before, I would definitely have put it on the list. It sure is ugly, and probably the title is even uglier, and pretentious too. "Big generator" cover is not that ugly, it´s only simple. The same could be said about "Three of a perfect pair" by King Crimson.

 "Time and a word" cover is as simple and unatractive as it gets. However it could not be called ugly and at least it shows the band very young. The one I really think is ugly is "Tormato´s". However, it is so ugly that seems like they had tried to make it ugly, so at the end it is just funny. The really true ugly and unatractive is "Tales´". So simple. Also, it is the presentation to something that was supposed to be great and huge (which is by the way, a flawed uninspired and imagineless waste of time). It was an album cover attempt after 5 not so good attempts, and was yet worse ¡¡¡¡

The absolutely worst Yes album cover -- and dare I say one of the all-time
worst covers ever done for any artist -- is Big Generator.

Tormato