TORMATO

I'm an old school punk who believes that great music is great music and YES were a great band....TORMATO is one of their most reviled albums but as far as I'm concerned it's an album with a kind of immediate groove that caught me because of its (dare I say it) pop overtones. Jon's voice on "Rejoice" is powerhouse and "Arriving UFO" is both ridiculous and catchy as hell. There are a few bummers (what else would one expect from YES in prog's twilight years) such as the embarrasingly pathetic "Circus Of Heaven". All in all however TORMATO is not the horror one expects.....