Favourite song on ’Tormato’

Winter Wine wrote: micky wrote: Devil's Haircut wrote: I vote for 'Release, Release', I love the energy in the song, The guitar and drum parts are amazing!! so much energy that I believe I read that they dropped it from their setlist on the supporting tour for the album.... hmmm... oh well... great song. It's wierd, The track has a live feel to it in the first place!

the story is....

"When Alan White spoke at the Computers and MIDI discussion at Microsoft I asked him if the band had ever performed RELEASE RELEASE. His reply was that they did it only a couple of times on the east coast; a friend who attended one of those shows still has a newpaper clipping with a review of the concert and the reviewer raved specifically about that song. But Alan said they dropped it because the energy level was so extremely high, and Jon had to sing at such a high energy pitch, that the band was totally drained after performing it; the way Alan put it was that after they finished the song they'd look at each other as if to say, can't we stop, do we HAVE to continue the concert, the song was so exhausting!"

Devil's Haircut wrote: I vote for 'Release, Release', I love the energy in the song, The guitar and drum parts are amazing!!

so much energy that I believe I read that they dropped it from their setlist on the supporting tour for the album.... hmmm... oh well... great song.

Snow Dog wrote: yankeerose wrote: i did snow dud Well maybe you did now, but you hadn't previously.

You're a Snow Dog, remember, not a Watch Dog

Someone referred to my favourite Circus of Heaven as average...To some extent I agree! It is a simple, somewhat naive song, with no extreme intrumental passages. Yet there are some great guitarbits by Howe. 

What captures me most are the lyrics.  I´m usually not that fond of Andersons lyrics - there is to much sciencefiction/fantasy/religious mumbojumbo etc. But in this song in all fits in. What a intersting idea - what if the circus of heaven would come to town? The end with a somewhat disapointed Anderson Jr saying "Oh it was Ok, but there was no clowns..." just summons it up. It´s hard to impress the young ones!

dont kill the whale ........please

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

kill

lot of sharks thogh

 

 

corporate sharks!!!!

i did snow dud

NaturalScience wrote: I bought this album many years ago wanting to defy the critics.  After all, there were people who thought Tales was crap, so who cares what anybody thinks? The result was an album that was...OK.  But not up to par with previous work. For me, the outstanding gem was "On the Silent Wings of Freedom".  Absolutely love that intro.

  you summed up my feelings on it to a T

yankeerose wrote: going for the one & tormato are two of my favorites...   I vote arriving ufo...i

So vote for it then!

this is my 4th fave yes album behind TYA, Fragile and CTTE ;)

Edited by gentletull

Winter Wine wrote: micky wrote: Winter Wine wrote: micky wrote: yankeerose wrote: going for the one & tormato are two of my favorites...   I vote arriving ufo...i I do like listening to that song as well...  Release, Release is another fun song to listen to... I do feel Tormato's songs get more flack than they deserve.... the production was an absolute mess and Wakeman really wasn't up to snuff on the album, to say nothing of that ghasty sound he has.... Where was the Hammond Organ!!!???? hahahah.  All in all still a great album if you enjoy listening to virtuosos play over top of each other......otherwise still a fairly good album. When I bought the album recently I was expecting bad production. The production is fine though and some songs sound very orchestrated, The production gives some tracks like 'Arriving UFO' a kind of boost, Is it just because I have the latest remaster? Which is pretty great on all accounts. I really like the essay in the sleeve too Wakeman's God forsaking 'Birotron' isn't very nice I agree, He doesn't use it to too much extent though, Which is good, His playing (And songwriting) is on top form and he very often shines on the album. ahhh.... that's the beauty of music and not relying too much on what you read and judging the music on it's own merits.  From what I understand though.. the group felt differently about Wakeman's input.  You know the ol' Yes motto... if you don't measure up... they'll find someone who will. May well have been the seeds of the upcomming 'break-up'.  Wakeman had patched things up with Anderson.. now Squire and Howe were not happy with Wakeman. Production wise... I don't think it measure up to earlier albums... the lack of Offord in the studio hurt for sure... it's not bad I just don't think it measures up to the stellar standards they had not more than a few albums earlier. Howe and Wakeman both felt the other were encroaching upon their 'areas' and were playing over each other as one example.  It could have been a MUCH better album.. that seems to be the sentiment of the band.. and most fans.. That's odd, Howe called the Wakeman penned 'Madrigal', 'A beautiful moment'. As Wakeman said 'It could've been tremendous', To be honest I like the richness of Tormato, It has a peculiar unique sound I like! But I do see room for improvement.

take a looksie at page 5 in the liner notes to the Tormato remaster.... Howe and Wakeman disagreed on the arrangements of the guitar and keyboards.  Steve Howe, from stories I've heard over the years, is a perfectionist,  a bit high strung (why he turned to meditation), and prone to feel 'slights'. I tend to believe what I've heard about problems at the time between them. Anyway there is a great story I wish I had time to tell but I need to run.. that is indicutive of Howe's personality on the Symphonic Yes DVD.