OK...who's going to bite first?
Jeff?
OK...who's going to bite first?
Jeff?
Wow.
Why?
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
Under rated album with some cool moments. Yeah, it's not one of their uber classics and yes there is some cheese on it but it's more like monterrey jack or cheddar than velveeta. However, for us fanboys it can scratch that certain itch every so often.
No mention of source on this one. I know HDtracks are well aware that many people want this info before purchasing, but I guess things just aren't to the point where they can consistently provide it.
Yeah, I actually appreciate it far more than when it was release released (sorry, couldn't help myself)- it's got moments and you can glimpse the Album That Could Have Been. That being said, I'm skeptical as to how much a pristine hi-res version is going to bring to the table. Who knows; it might put the whole endeavor in a new light!
Probably not, though.
[Probably not, though. ]
Yep. I might save my money for a Glass Hammer cd instead.
They should never let them produce this themselves. They were using more or less the same gear as Get the F&*$ Out but the sound is dreadful! Especially Wakey and that awful Polymoog, used too often, mixed WAY too high and tuned to only the most unappealing patches imaginable. I think that Eddy Offord could have at least made the album listenable (though I doubt he could have saved the songwriting gaffes, which were regrettably myriad).
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MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")
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I've always quite liked side one of this album as well as "Silent Wings". I don't think the album is as bad as many others do. The showy playing between Howe and Wakeman did some of the music a disservice, certainly, and the sound choices were a bit dodgy but there are some great tracks nonetheless. Not sure I care about some fancy new issue though.
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I like to take the Rhino reissue, swap out "Circle of Hell" and "Arriving Birotron" and program in "Some Are Born" and "Countryside" and voila-much better album, IMHO.
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I have an old CD, maybe a Japanese 18P2-2889 Forever Young thing, that sounds amazing.....
But bigger issue is that I've made a very conscious decision not to buy the same music twice, unless there's some pressing reason (like bonus tracks, remix, box, whatever etc). Most of the reissues I buy sit on the shelf and collect dust!
Now a remix of this album....
"Always ready with the ray of sunshine"
I have the Japanese SHM-CD version of this; it's better than the Rhino, but nothing to write home about. (I got a good deal on the disc on eBay, so that's why I took the plunge. Otherwise, I'd probably let things be)
"So...you seek understanding. Then listen to the music and not the song..." - Kosh
I've actually never heard the whole album.
Amazing how the sound quality of Yes releases dropped. But GFTO is the worst. Maybe it was the Hipgnosis cover curse that seems to have affected other acts as well.
I will not be getting this. I will have to say, the tour for this album was the best I'd ever seen Yes. They played Future Times in concert and when they hit the line "six the tears that separate" and went into that instrumental interlude, well, it was just great! I think this was the first concert "In the Round", too. Circus of Heaven has got to be the worst song Yes ever did. At the time, I thought the album was great. Over time, it's greatly diminished.
Yes, there was.
And I know the feeling because I remember feeling that I wasn't sure one existed.
My guess is that came out in the early 90s. Amazon lists it as 1991:
http://www.amazon.com/Tormato-Yes/dp...ds=yes+tormato
Yesshows, OTOH, didn't see a release outside Japan until the Gastwirt.
Last edited by JeffCarney; 03-22-2013 at 04:44 PM.
Yes's most under-rated album. It gets bashed all the time and it's actually a good album, but I'm not sure I care to buy another version. I have the original release and it sounds great to me.
Rick
I like the album too and would be glad to hear it in 24/192 even though I'm unfamiliar with that time signature
^ Ha, ha! The 192nd note gets one beat, of course!
But I think that 1991 disc is the US version of Tormato that was available all the way up until the Rhino version came out as part of the initial wave of Gastwirt/Marino Yes titles. They started putting those out piggybacking on the Union tour along with the YesYears box. I don't think there was anything else during those years except for those Japanese HDCDs around 2001.
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