Don't Kill The Whale (track)
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Don't Kill The Whale by Yes
Year: 1978
From the album Tormato (track #2)

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76/100 (from 39 votes)

     

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Don't Kill The Whale appears on the following album(s) by Yes:

• Tormato (track #2) (this album) (1978)
• Yesshows (track #5) (1980)
• Yesstory (track #18) (compilation) (1992)
• Yesyears (track #30) (compilation) (1991)
• The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection (track #15) (compilation) (2003)
• The Greatest Hits (track #13) (compilation) (2014)
• Live At Montreux 2003 (track #3) (2007)
• In A Word (track #27) (compilation) (2002)

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Rating	Date updated	Member	Track ratings	Avg. track rating
65/100	01/18/2026 09:46	Exist-en-ciel	91,103	71/100
85/100	09/26/2025 14:33	steve397	5,181	74/100
90/100	06/28/2025 18:30	ExTeaSea	12,714	85/100
55/100	02/16/2025 13:28	doombringer	13,793	74/100
65/100	01/15/2025 22:06	sunnydhamm	18,449	57/100

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This track has a Bayesian average rating of 76.3/100, a mean average of 74.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.3/100. The standard deviation for this track is 21.8.

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From Squonk007 01/07/2023 22:23 | #292601

A nice sentiment but it doesn't quite work. It sounds disjointed in its composition.

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From MetaKoopa99 07/29/2022 18:24 | #287948

Not sure why the low rating for this song, got a great groove and awesome guitar work.

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