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| | YES Tormato reviews and MP3 |
 | | "Tormato" has quite a promising start, don't expect any epics on this album, as this album has some rather disapointing shorter tracks which aren't as proggy or as atmospheric as all their albums between 1971's "The Yes Album" and 1974's "Relayer". | | | It’s obvious Tormato is one of Yes’ weakest albums from the seventies and hard to believe it was the same band who did “Going for the one”, which is one of my all-time favorite albums by the way, a year earlier. | | | Tormato for me was the most defining album of Yes moving away from the ostentatious, yet always awesome, super orchestrated albums to a more compact digestable material. |
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http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=1832
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| | Yesfans.com: Founded 4/01 - I added TORMATO to my Yes-collection!!! |
| | But it IS Tormato, and Release Release/Future Times... | | | Tormato is a very good and fine album, GFTO is even better (listen to the studio version of Awaken)! | | | It's always struck me as strange that Tormato was a good album and the Tormato tour was an excellent tour (as far as I can tell from the bootlegs that I have), but when Yes went into the studio to follow it up, the band fell apart about as totally as a band can. |
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http://www.yesfans.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2724
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| | firegoat.com : Reviews (Yes) |
| | "Tormato" has been sacrificed as an album where all sort of wicked words are spoken from mouths of fans, music journalists and even band himself. | | | "Tormato" is critically underrated album written and composed by band's golden era line up. | | | With "Tormato" people are losing too much energy over discussions how should it sound and how band should compose material for this special record. |
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http://www.firegoat.com/eng?id=5&d=209
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| | Rock Ahead CD Album Review - Yes - reissues - progressive rock |
| | By the time of the bands 1978 album Tormato the band were on a high. | | | In closing I personally find Tormato to be more listenable than I did in 1978 and the album certainly is far more consistent than I had previously given it credit for. | | | The Paris sessions were the sessions that followed the Tormato album and tour. |
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http://www.themusicindex.com/rockahead/reviews/yes8.htm
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| | 1978 Tormato Show Reviewed |
| | Since Tormato is one of my Favorite Yes albums and is often underrated. | | | I've stated repeatedly my belief Tormato was a much better album than it usually gets credit for being because its studio production was poor and because it was recorded hastily. | | | Tormato wasn't out yet, making its introduction more exciting for band and audience alike [no Internet spoilers either]. |
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http://www.talkaboutthemusic.com/group/alt.music.yes/messages/483633.html
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| | Yes in the Press: Review: Tormato - The Yes Chronicles |
| | The other notable moment on Tormato is Squire's beautiful love song "Onward." The musical landscape is very simple, relaxed, and uncluttered, with a sparse orchestral arrangement that does what the orchestra on Time and a Word was mostly unable to do--augment the music rather than ruin it. | | | Tormato, after all, suggested a band that lacked focus and didn't know which way to go next, in light of increasing record-company pressures, a changing musical climate, and critical backlash. | | | Chris Squire takes a bit of a stylistic turn on Tormato as well, with the addition of a "harmonized" sound (that's what the liner notes call it) that gives his Rickenbacker bass a sort of underwater wah-wah tone. |
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http://yesinthepress.com/yes_chronicles/tormato.html
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| | Amazon.com: Tormato: Music: Yes |
| | Tormato is far from the best Yes album, but the indisputable power of "Release, Release" where the band goofingly state "Rock is the medium of our generation" is worth the price of admission alone. | | | Anderson's lyrics on "Tormato" lack the self-effacing humour of "Going for the One" or the lyrical majesty of "Awaken" (both from "Going for the One"), while Wakeman's playing consists mostly of rote scales and arpeggios, played with increasingly shrill keyboard sounds. | | | Someone who buys "Tormato" as their first Yes album instead of "Close to the Edge" is a lot less likely to ever buy another Yes album. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002J1I?v=glance
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| | Ground and Sky review - Yes - Tormato |
| | When I first started collecting the band's music, Tormato was unavailable — the vinyl was long out of print and it hadn't been released on CD yet. | | | Musically, the opening track, with its quitar fanfare, uplifting beat and urgent vocals, are a good begining, but somehow not classic Yes, and it pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the album. | | | The material, even at its highest points, generally lacks the spark that fired the previous albums, and is, frankly speaking, often lame. |
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http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/display.php?rev=yes-tor
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| | Reviews |
| | Tormato is not an essential Yes album, but it does have a few things worth listening to. | | | Tormato's bonus material make an album that is otherwise unessential a worthwhile pick-up. | | | One of the negatives with Tormato is that it has several tracks that are ordinary. |
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http://www.thebestofwebsite.com/Bands/Yes/Yes_Reviews.htm
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| | Tormato Tour - Tour Dates |
| | The TORMATO tour was in 1978; in 1979 Yes toured with the same show with no album to support (I think the live album was the ultimate reason). | | | They were used for the Tormato and Drama tours. | | | The popularity of prog rock seemed to be waning at this time as punk and new wave became hip. |
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http://forgottenyesterdays.com/tour_listing.asp?can=1&s=5&tname=9&SortBy=tDate&so=asc
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| | YES Album discussion volume 3: Tormato |
| | Aside from the first Yes Album and Keys 1 disc 2, Tormato is the only album from YEs that features songs which I feel are unlistenable. | | | And if you listen to the bonus tracks on the re-remaster you hear where they were headed and it was not good. | | | Someone mentioned the production....if I'm not mistaken Tormato is the ONLY Yes album to be produced solely by the band without an outside producer. |
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http://www.mikeportnoy.com/forum/printable.aspx?m=817764
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| | Hexapedia - Yes |
| | After the Tormato album (1978), the band split, with Anderson and Wakeman leaving. | | | The album, along with 1978's Tormato, was successful in spite of being released at the height of the punk rock era in Britain, by which time Yes were being held up by adherents of punk and New Wave as epitomising the most bloated excesses of early Seventies dinosaur rock. | | | In a bold attempt to reinvent themselves, and to the great surprise of most fans (and the dismay of some), Squire recruited studio pop duo Geoff Downes and Trevor Horn, best known by their pseudonym The Buggles, who had an early New Wave hit with Video Killed The Radio Star. |
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http://www.hexafind.com/encyclopedia/Yes
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| | MSJ - Yes-Tormato |
| | An album that is rather maligned in fan circles, Tormato is a bit pop oriented, but really has some wonderous moments. | | | The bass sound on this one is a bit experimental, having a very processed approach, and although the majority of the songs are more accessible, there is a spirit of prog rock jamming that creates an openness and spirit of virtuosity throughout. | | | This is a triumphant sounding bouncy number with somje strong guitar work. |
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| | The Official Greg Lake Website - WWW.GREGLAKE.COM |
| | She feel in love with the song and used it as the song she got married to. | | | Posted - 01/24/2005 : 5:00:33 PM At the moment, i am listening to Onward from the Tormato album for the....oh ive lost count....how nice is this song!!! | | | Posted - 01/25/2005 : 08:18:22 AM I really think that Tormato by Yes is an underrated album. |
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| | '.r~S~s s~g~~"~ak~'a ~8a~BB~B~B~B~B~B~B~B~ B There are basically thrqe types of music included on Tormato: typical "beatless" Yessongs, mellow songs, and, a welcome.iversion from their previous albums, songs with steady rock type beats. | | | Their last album Goingfor the One and now Tormato rate highly among their other-releases. | | | Actually these songs have very solid "beats" which are well hidden ap~ only appear after thle song becomes more familiar. |
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http://www-tech.mit.edu/archives/VOL_098/TECH_V098_S0488_P007.txt
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| | CD reviews: Expanded and Remastered reissues of "Tormato," "Drama" and "90125" |
| | "Tormato," originally issued in 1978, was probably the least-liked album from Yes' classic period after "Drama." It was dark, even by Yes' prog-rock standards, and didn't have any radio-friendly hits on it. | | | The Expanded and Remastered version might not do anything to make fans like the original release any better, but it does contain nine bonus tracks, including several songs not before available. | | | Still, if you're looking to replace your vinyl copy with a digital version, might as well get the additional tracks. |
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| | MSJ-Yes-Open Your Eyes |
| | I find that a lot of the album reminds me of Tormato and Drama, two Yes albums which have always held a cherished place in my heart. | | | My favorite track on this album, this one begins with a beautiful acoustic guitar section. | | | Yes said that this album would be more "radio friendly". |
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| | Tired Vegans Record Rotten LP: Tormato |
| | The last song on Tormato is also well played. | | | The disappointment of fans — and the wrath of critics — would mar Tormato, however, as the band descended into a near-complete abandonment of their greatest strengths. | | | Whether that was to promote the band or signal its demise is unclear. |
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| | I had been wanting a good recording of a Tormato show for a while, and here it is! On And You And I, in The Preacher The Teacher section, they have the harmonica sound, like in the live version from the '88 tour on the boxed set. | | | I just got a wonderful 2-CD recording from the Tormato tour, and it caused me to really want to know the answer to a question I've had for a while. | | | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- TORMATO AND DRAMA RARITIES ========================== From: IN%"ronc@cogs.susx.ac.uk" I have a CD of the Digital Reels Tormato demos, which seem to be the same ones as those in the Yesoteric tapes (not the Golden Age Paris stuff). |
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| | Review: "Yes: Tormato/Drama (remasters)" - Sea of Tranquility - The Web Destination for Progressive Music! |
| | Even more maligned than Tormato is Drama--a love it or hate it collection that holds the unenviable distinction of being the only Yes album without Jon Anderson. | | | Known as the album that broke up Yes, Tormato gets a somewhat undeservedly bad rep. If you're interested in Yes, you know all the "whys" (or you can read them in the great new liner notes by Brian Ives). | | | Included on Drama are 3 tracks from the ill-fated 1979 Paris sessions with producer Roy Thomas Baker which all but predicated the break up of the band (and after you hear them, you'll know why). |
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http://www.seaoftranquility.org/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=1239
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| | Notes From the Edge - #287 |
| | On TORMATO are offered several rescued outtakes that in my opinion would have made an almost-great Yes album a great one, had they been included originally. | | | These bands went through the trouble of deciding how to begin and end their albums (not to mention the side change, which gets lost in listening to the CD version). | | | Even in Rhino's case we're forced to purchase redundancy in whole albums already owned, and the newly released acoustic numbers on one box set are intriguing if not outstanding. |
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| | PROGRESSIVEWORLD.NET: REVIEWS BY TOM KARR |
| | I heard a bootleg of a show from the Tormato tour, and I guessed Rick would be leaving the band soon after. | | | Let me tell you what’s good about Tormato: it’s the last time Yes, the classic line-up of Yes, made a progressive rock album. | | | That leaves "On The Silent Wings Of Freedom." At a bit less than eight minutes, it is the longest track on Tormato, and the most meandering. |
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| | Yes - Tormato: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more Music.com |
| | Yes - Tormato: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more | | | Yes - Tormato: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more | | | Portions of Content provided by All Music Guide ®, a trademark of All Media Guide, LLC. |
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| | Yes in the Press: Review: YES Tormato - Sounds Magazine U.K. |
| | Yes SF is the theme at the start of the second side, the band's response to the inspiring fantasy of 'Close Encounters', it would seem. | | | 'Arriving UFO' bleeps out into 'Circus of Heaven', which is the one more or less dud track on 'Tormato'. | | | Yes in the Press: Review: YES Tormato - Sounds Magazine U.K. Source: Sounds Magazine U.K. Contributed by Simon Gilman |
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| | Notes From the Edge - #246 |
| | On TORMATO there’s a piece called “Release, Release” that was described by no less an authority than Chris Squire as “Yes-punk”. | | | I’ll say only that this song is worth more than the price of the album -- which is fortunate, because TORMATO is a mixed bag. | | | Hi - I'm looking for a Press Kit, photos, promo items, etc from the TORMATO album or Tourmato tours of 1978 -79. |
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| | PROGRESSIVEWORLD.NET: REVIEWS BY JOHN "BOBO" BOLLENBERG |
| | The acoustic "Picasso" is one of those songs which clearly is a pure Anderson solo piece, which became an alternative Yes track due to the inclusion of authentic Howe gimmicks. | | | It strikes me how most of these bonus tracks are solo compositions, most of which come from the talent of Jon Anderson. | | | In total, seven of these bonus tracks have so far never been released, making this revamped Tormato a sure must have for Yes fans. |
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| | Though all band members are off for the holidays Alan advised Notes that it is very likely that immediately afterward they will be reassembling to record more new tracks for what will be their first all-studio album with this lineup since TORMATO. | | | And, interestingly, the Trooper era was really over with the release of TORMATO, if not with the release of GFTO. | | | And it looks like the band is on a roll. |
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| | Tormato: 1/15/04 |
| | It would be heartening to think that Tormato was just a momentary stumble, that a better Yes album lay just around the corner if these guys had just stuck it out. | | | Interestingly, it's the two Yes-men who would depart after the failed sessions that followed this album and tour -- singer Jon Anderson and keyboardist Rick Wakeman -- who fare the worst here. | | | The lyric is evocative and sung to good effect by Anderson; even a dose of too-chirpy synths from Wakeman can't spoil this party. |
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| | Drama (Yes album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Reportedly Anderson and Wakeman were the most enthusiastic about creating a new album, and the rest of the band was lukewarm over the idea, given the relative failure of the last album. | | | In early 1980, after rehearsing music for the follow-up to the tepidly-received Tormato, both Anderson and Rick Wakeman departed the band over creative and financial differences. |
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| | Songsearch: Buy Tormato Music CDs |
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| | GEMM: The World's Largest Marketplace |
| | Description: cd lp - YES - Tormato 8 tracks - - - label and other information: Atlantic 18P2-2889/Japan/stock... | | | Description: Tormato - 1978 With Lyric inner sleeve, UK pressing. | | | TORMATO - 1978 WITH LYRIC INNER SLEEVE,UK PRESSING. |
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| | Blender :: guide |
| | Metaphorically, punk rock had spat all over Yes’s satin tour jackets by 1978. | | | But that didn’t stop the band from wearing them for Tormato’s back cover photo. | | | It’s a hollow gesture, though, as this overcooked stew of keening pop and sci-fi rock screams “career crossroads!” Within a year, singer Jon Anderson and keyboard wizard Rick Wakemen had bailed, replaced by Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes, previously of zany pop duo the Buggles. |
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http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=2109
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| | Yes - ateaseweb.com mb |
| | By the way, the story about why there is a tomato splattered over the cover is that when the band was shown the proposed album cover (a picture of someone in front of a landscape with tors) one of them (I think it was Steve Howe, a vegetarian) threw a tomato at it in disgust. | | | If there's one album you MUST NOT miss but definitely DOWNLOAD, it's gotta be TORMATO | | | I believe that when Tormato came out it was generally considered a disappointment by long-time Yes fans of that time. |
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| | Tormato: Review |
| | The album does have a couple of standout tracks, namely the catchy "Don't Kill the Whale", and "Future Times", but the majority of the album is tiresome cosmic warbling. | | | The follow-up to Yes' brilliant Going for the One, Tormato appears to be remaining out takes. |
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| | The 120 Days of Shameless Bids for Publicity! |
| | the reason yes etc lost the "punk wars" of 1978 wasn't poor quality material but shocked self-doubt: they killed off tormato themselves, by backing nervously away from it | | | BTW, if you want a CD that's REALLY outside the canon, check out 'Tormato' by Yes. | | | To-day I have been on thee VERTIGO PROG binge (IE I have listened to "Cressida - Asylum" and "Gracious!") Perhaps it is me who belongs in thee asylum, but the k-k3wl harpsichord on "Gracious" does rule. |
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