Tormato vs Big Generator

[RedSonja]

Tormato

all 70’s over all 80’s and beyond in summary.

[Davy]

I like both of them, but Future Times and Arriving UFO are two of my favorite Yes songs ever. I understand why Tormato was initially panned (with Circus of Heaven, and yes, Arriving UFO,) but to me it's their most underrated album. I'd rather listen to it now than most of the band's other albums.

[Ash Armstrong]

Tormato.
The only thing I like about Big Herniator is the mention of Soft Machine. Aside from the splendid band of the same name, quoting William Burroughs delivers brownie points. Overall, as an album, rather than an assemblage of tracks in a convenient pick 'n' mix package from which one might extract the strawberry flavoured sweeties and leave the green ones to congeal in their wrappers, it's not an album I feel drawn to listen to beyond once a year, at most. I just don't like it.

[madbear]

Maybe Cauliflower Elder will make an appearance on the next Yes album?

Plates of Delirium?

[Soundwaveseeker]

Which do you like better:

A. Cauliflower
B. The Bee Gees
C. Ford Focus
D. Automated Phone Answering systems
E. Stewed Tomatoes

Actually, i'd rather listen to a cauliflower

Maybe Cauliflower Elder will make an appearance on the next Yes album?

[Soundwaveseeker]

Oooh, tough one. I kinda like both of them equally. Today I'll say Tormato because this day I'm less in the mood to hear Big Gen than Tormato, but I'm not in the mood for that one either. I feel a Yessongs or a Tales listen comin' on, and I listened to The Quest today. So no Tormato or Big G for a while for me. But as others have said - same lineup as the prior album for each, considered letdowns from their respective previous albums, and both are the albums right before a big change. Big Generator was the first new album I bought, and Tormato was the last of the classic 70's albums I added to the collection, so both have equal appeal as "Ooh! More Yes!!". Both are albums I love, despite reputations of being lackluster/disappointing albums in the catalogue.

Future Times/Rejoice
Onward
Final Eyes
On The Silent Wings Of Freedom
Shoot High Aim Low
I'm Running

can't go wrong with these songs.

[madbear]

Which do you like better:

A. Cauliflower
B. The Bee Gees
C. Ford Focus
D. Automated Phone Answering systems
E. Stewed Tomatoes

Actually, i'd rather listen to a cauliflower

[madbear]

Sorry, they are both appalling albums. Silent Wings of Freedom worth a listen i guess, which would make Tormato better. But I have never got over the disappointment of taking the album home and listening for the first time...

[Mr. Holland]

Big Generator for me. To these ears it's a far more consistent album than Tormato is. And Big Generator is probably the Yes album that has grown the most on me in the last 15 years or so.

[Frumious B]

I can’t vote against my first Yes record so BG is my pick.

[Yesed]

For the sake of the poll I'll vote Tormato.

But comparing these two albums seems like an odd comparison:

Which do you like better:

A. Cauliflower
B. The Bee Gees
C. Ford Focus
D. Automated Phone Answering systems
E. Stewed Tomatoes

Thats actually almost as hard as the original query, lol.
But both albums are full of gems and add up quality wise so close, that its tough for me. I love BG, but I tend to be a trooper and Tormato ended classic Yes era in a classy way.

[Oldie on the Goldie]

A more interesting comparison would be BG vs. ABWH given that the latter was a reaction to the former.

[Oldie on the Goldie]

Kind of an apples vs, oranges comparison really. But if I could have only one of the two on a desert isle, I'd probably choose BG.

[Somis Sound]

I love both. BG was my first Yes album and Tormato my first 70's Yes album. And they both have 2 songs I skip. But gotta lean BG as I've been listening to it a lot lately...

[Gilly Goodness]

Which do you like better:

A. Cauliflower
B. The Bee Gees
C. Ford Focus
D. Automated Phone Answering systems
E. Stewed Tomatoes

A. Sadly a vegetable I was expected to eat as a child. My mother, God bless her soul, served it up with no cheese sauce. It stared up at me with it's cold white ghoulishness. Along with brussel sprouts, it was thrown behind the stove, when she wasn't lookin' and never seen again. Could I have pleaded to be spared this ghoulish veg? Probly not as mum grew up through the depression. You ate what was served up. She would've been 98 next year.

B. The lads from Manchester* who bronzed up downunder in Brisbane and took over the world. My fave song? Spirits Havin' Flown. The song Jon Anderson wishes he could've written.

C. Took a new Focus for a test drive around the lake on the freeway in Canberra. In 1981. Reached quite high speeds. Marvelous machine.

D. Gee whizz. These things are awful. The muzak. The wasted hours. No thankyou.

E. Well again Mum would make her own tommy sauce from Dad's garden. Boilin'them away. Sometimes pickles. Tinned tomatoes are fine. Quite tasty. Tomatoes are king. Fresh. Homegrown only. The shoppe ones have no taste. So. No. Stewed tomatoes don't boil my strawberries. As they say in Tasmania.

B. E. C. D. A. In descendin' order. Thanks for the opportunity to Express my feelin's. 🤣



* or Isle of Man if you want to be pedantic.