Worst YES album cover

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??

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

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.

crimhead wrote: Is the story of the Tormato cover true? Did Wakeman really throw a tomato at the cover? Just curious.   I really don't dislike any of them. Roger Dean is a talented artist.

And now of course, I have to mention the album title and cover. Originally, the album was slated to be called Yestor, in honor of Yes Tor, a rocky hill "two-and-a-half miles from Okehampton, Devon in England. On a clear day, from the top, you can see far away places with strange sounding names" as the liner notes say. The original cover (by Hipgnosis, not Roger Dean) featured a man holding a dowsing rod, standing on said hill. The (by all accounts true) rumor says Rick Wakeman was so unimpressed by the cover art that he threw a tomato at it during a lunchtime meeting. The link between Tor and tomato was just too good to pass up, so they called the album Tormato instead. To make matters worse, they added a splattered tomato to the front and back cover photos as well. History does not record Hipgnosis' reaction to this, though they still have credit for the cover.
-Grzcyrgba

http://everything2.com/e2node/Tormato

crimhead wrote: peskypesky wrote: crimhead wrote: Is the story of the Tormato cover true? Did Wakeman really throw a tomato at the cover? Just curious.   I really don't dislike any of them. Roger Dean is a talented artist. And now of course, I have to mention the album title and cover. Originally, the album was slated to be called Yestor, in honor of Yes Tor, a rocky hill "two-and-a-half miles from Okehampton, Devon in England. On a clear day, from the top, you can see far away places with strange sounding names" as the liner notes say. The original cover (by Hipgnosis, not Roger Dean) featured a man holding a dowsing rod, standing on said hill. The (by all accounts true) rumor says Rick Wakeman was so unimpressed by the cover art that he threw a tomato at it during a lunchtime meeting. The link between Tor and tomato was just too good to pass up, so they called the album Tormato instead. To make matters worse, they added a splattered tomato to the front and back cover photos as well. History does not record Hipgnosis' reaction to this, though they still have credit for the cover. -Grzcyrgba http://everything2.com/e2node/Tormato   I did see that somewhere I was just wondering if it was the real deal or just an urban myth.

What??¡¡. This poll is stupid. Every single cover is art
My vote!!

Big Generator and Tormato are absolutely terrible. Seriously, the Big Generator cover is so bad it ranks among Manowar's album covers as the worst album covers ever...

Well, forget the claim I made earlier. I don't think Big Generator could go as low as this:

memowakeman wrote: FOR THIS ALBUMS THE WORST FOR ME IS GOING FOR THE ONE BUT... BIG GENERATOR IS THE WORST COVER...

 A huevo memo

King By-Tor wrote: 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??

Hey!? GFTO strange? Then Hemispheres too

Apologies to Mr. Banks, but the British cover of Yes is easily the worst.  Awards for the Best Non-Dean Cover go to the British version of Time and a Word.   The Best Dean Cover Award I hereby give to Keys to Ascension II, while the Worst Dean Cover Award goes to Drama (in a close race with Fragile.)