WE WERE HERE!! 🌎 Thanks for revisiting this masterpiece and checking out this version. Tuomas is a genius! Every member of the band killed it in this performance.
A multi-media exhibition of great art: the history of our planet in 20 minutes. The more you watch this, the more you love it (isn't that the definition of great art?).
Im happy your next Nightwish video reminded me to come back and watch/ mainly listen to this again when I can really hear it. A spectacle for the ears. I’ll come back again and watch. I wanted to read along with this time. What an amazing writer/composer he is. A masterpiece. My 2nd time through this tonight while just watching the very end talking, caused my brain to start trying to figure out what it reminded it of. After more than a bit of scrambling thoughts it finally came to me. Moody blues Days of future past. He starts talking in part “Cold hearted orb that rules the night…”Well that probably makes no sense to anyone but after such a brain fart into the past, it just needed to come out. If this should be read thanks for humoring a tired brain at 1:00 in the morning. Thank you and Hope all is well take care. 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you, I am so happy, keep reacting to Nightwish please!🙏 NWA Canada so love this creation by Tuomas and this version of it. Watching for your next one!
Hi guys! Wembley is my preference though Tampere is superb too. I probably gave you my notes way back when you did Tampere but in case I didn't... Some of this is comments on the creation of the song, some is notes. Troy: At some point we ended up watching Richard Dawkins lectures on the internet. After a while I suggested, half in jest, that maybe we should ask Dawkins to be our special guest on the new album. Tuomas: It was an amazing idea, and I immediately started wondering if we could really make it happen. Jukka: We were naturally a bit sceptical, too - we had to try and ask him of course, but it was better not to have such high hopes. Dawkins had pretty much shied away from popular culture apart from one episode of The Simpsons. Troy: I enthusiastically assured them that I can make this work, like "You'll see, guys". Well the next morning I wasn't feeling so confident any more and I remembered Tuomas and Jukka going "Told you so" TUOMAS: Still, there was no way we could let it drop without at least trying. So we started thinking about a proper manner to approach Dawkins. We decided our best option would be to send him a hand-written, polite letter, where we would tell him about the band, the scientific themes on the forthcoming album and the fact that he had been a great inspiration TROY: We got no reply, so we sent another letter. In the end, I guess we had a bit of luck, because it turned out Dawkins personal assistant knew the band and actually liked Nightwish. He suggested that Dawkins should take our inquiry seriously TUOMAS: I was in Paris doing interviews for the Scrooge album. When I got back to the hotel in the evening. I noticed there was an email from Dawkins, something like, "1 went to the internet and browsed your band, and what I heard l liked very much. So I'd be happy to co-operate. FLOOR: Tuomas sent us a triumphant message: "You won't believe what just happened: Dawkins said yes!" TROY: It was obvious from the start that Dawkins' appearance would attract a lot of attention - both positive and negative. His book God Delusion had created a worldwide controversy. after all. JUKKA: We didn't invite Dawkins to be on our album to criticize religion but to speak as a scientist: an evolutionary biologist. Of course neither the fans nor anybody else outside the band knew it at that point. TUOMAS: There has been a lot of unreasonable criticism hurled at him for all kinds of reasons. A lot of people seem to ignore the fact that Dawkins is also happy to listen to contrary opinions and is always open for new ideas. In that sense, he's like Esko Valtaoja, with whom we had the honour to work on Showtime, Storytime DVD. I had endless possibilities in my hands for "The Greatest Show on Earth" What is the sound of crumpling continental plates that mountains are made of? Or the disintegration of radioactive components? Or the sound of space particles bombarding the earth? And how would I refer to immortal works of music composed by man? Well, I included shades of "Dies Irae" by Thomas Celano, "Toccata" and "Fuga" by Johann Sebastian Bach, banjo music from Western movies, "Rock around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets, and "Enter Sandman" by Metallica. I was also thinking about borrowing "Sandstorm" by Darude, but in the end, we just went for an unrecognizable techno loop. Also Petzold and Bach. Recording - and Jukka Resigning: MARCO: Kaitsu handled the drum parts admirably, so we could continue with the other instruments right away, This time we tried to concentrate on one song at a time and kept on working on it till we felt there was nothing more we could add. TROY: And we didn't even have thunder. Rauhala does not have the best sound proofing in the world, so it would have been pretty challenging to mike the instruments if there had been rain and thunderclaps. TUOMAS: I actually got off easier than I expected, because a lot of the demo keyboards from Hämeenlinna were good enough to be included on the album. The stuff in "Sea-Worn Driftwood", part five of "The Greatest Show on Earth", for example, was salvaged straight off the demo. In Hämeenlinna, I had explained to Tero that this passage would be about "whales singing and rats taking over the world". I had just come up with that improvised stuff, and it made it on the album MARCO: Recording the vocals was teamwork in the best possible sense, no matter who was behind the mike. We kicked around suggestions and tried out all kinds of last minute ideas. Like, "Hey Floor, throw in some of that sweet upper octave of yours in the second verse... Yeah, that's a nice touch!" FLOOR: Marco kept on surprising us. He might just suddenly say, "Wait, I have an idea!" Then he'd pull out his bass and introduce an excellent harmony MARCO: It was great fun recording the vocals. I've never had the chance to impersonate a troglodyte in front of a microphone before, so creating gorilla sounds for "The Greatest Show on Earth" was pretty hilarious. I didn't want to undermine the majesty of the song in any way, but I didn't exactly do it with a straight face, either! TROY: I recorded my own ape grunts at home. To get in character, I took off my shirt, banged my chest with my fists, and pretended I was an ancient Homo Erectus. I think my wife was a bit worried MARCO: I cut my bass parts pretty quickly in about one and a half days. I even got a bit lazy towards the evening of the first day - if I had really pushed it, I might have been able to complete them in a single day. Notes: The first part, "Four Point Six", is a reference to the age of our planet -in billions of years. The journey starts with a simple but persistent keyboard theme, interrupted by massive thunder claps - the origin of life that despite the murderous bombardment by asteroids, sprouts time and again and finally manages to grow permanent roots. The word "archaean" in the lyrics refers to the Archean Eon, the first of the geological eons of the world (Gaea). Note that this piano intro is classic minimalism. It sounds repetitive but is in fact very slowly changing. In some ways it reminds me of Spiegel im Spiegel. The second part of the song chronicles the birth and the first on Earth. "Enter Luca" is a reference to an early life form, an acronym for the Last Universal Common Ancestor. We can make assumptions about the characteristics of Luca and other early life forms by reading the DNA of current organisms: "There's a writing in the garden, leading us to the mother of all." Right from the beginning, one of the key characteristics of living cells has been the ability to sense their environment and react to their perceptions: "Ion channels welcoming the outside world." In the third part, chronicling the age of man, there's a fascinating reminder: All of us current organisms are descendants of an unbroken lineage of winners. "Not a single one of your fathers died young". "Little Lucy of the Afar" refers to the famous fossil of Australopithecus Afarensis that was found in Afari, Ethiopia, a hominin that might have been the ancestor of man (genus Homo). In the long run, all species have the tendency to become extinct, and a fitting vision of the future of mankind is presented in the song, "One day'Il cease to be" On the other hand, man had earlier had "a dream to understand" and "[given] birth to poetry" . He wanted to leave his mark stating "We were here!" In the fourth part, man strives to understand it all, and Richard Dawkins takes up the story once again with a surprising claim:"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. The explanation folows shortly."Most people are never going die, because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been herein my place, but who will in fact never see the light of day, outnumber the sand grains of Sahara." In the fifth and final part, Dawkins recites the concuding words of The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: "From so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." FLOOR: I felt real good after the final rehearsals [for EFMB] in a New York studio. There were obviously many challenging parts in the set - I'd have to be extra careful in the beginning of "The Greatest Show on Earth", for example because some of the phones rise from the back of the throat but "operatic vocals are produced in the front of the mouth
Great reaction like always. Looking forward to my first live experience on 1st of June with Floor's tour in Eindhoven/NL If You never did, I would recommend 'slow Love Slow' live from Amsterdam Afas. Be prepaired to have a whisky with it :)) Love your reactions!
@@SueSueandthewolfman Hi, I still owe you a short report about that concert with Floor. I can tell you, it was so special and overwhelming that I have nearly no words. Although it was a bit stressy with all that driving and so on I would go again whenever it will be possible. You cannot imagine, what a very special personality Floor offers on stage. She truly is one of the most rare people that get you immidiately into her empathic way , right strikes your soul with her staging and her voice is out of this world. I still try to watch all of your reactions and always enjoy them. So far so good, Greetings from Germany!
Love it you reacted to this performance. This version is my favorite because Richard Dawkins is there on stage, quoting the final paragraph of Darwin's The Origin of Species.
I want that "I'm fine" tee! The orchestra (Orchestre de Grandeur) and choir (London Metro Voices and Children's Choir) are recorded on a backing track that plays throughout. The drummer Kai has a click track playing in his ear, which keeps him synced with the recording and the pyros. The rest of the band follows his lead. It works nicely, but there's little room for error on anybody's part. I often wonder if Emppu's riff from "Enter Sandman" was written by Tuomas, or it's something Emppu added later.
when 2 of my feel good Factors combine!Thx for that, simple Put:) was an very enjoyable 30 Minutes Ride with You! Esdpecially the Intro on the Hamroinica by Suesue...epic:)= Stay healthy! Alexander
I really love Nightwish's music and the depth of the lyrics, but some of the lyrics make me wonder... For example; who wrote those texts in the garden? ✨
Please try to hear Enigma beyond the invisible and watch the official video. It is so beautiful and I would love to hear your opinion. I know it might not be your style. it's just a song that means a lot to me and I'd love it if you guys would watch 
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the best of the best ever
History of Universe. History of Earth. History of Mankind. History of Music. All in one song
WE WERE HERE!! 🌎 Thanks for revisiting this masterpiece and checking out this version. Tuomas is a genius! Every member of the band killed it in this performance.
agurrrr
Love your reactions from both concerts ,you did of this masterpiece,❤️🤘🎶🎶
Thank you so much Edward!
@@SueSueandthewolfman thank you Sue and Wolfman,I always enjoy your company and music ,❤️
A multi-media exhibition of great art: the history of our planet in 20 minutes. The more you watch this, the more you love it (isn't that the definition of great art?).
yes! part of what makes them so special!
History of the universe, earth and music....❤
First I preferred the Tampere version because of the setting, effects and Floor's emotion... But her voice in Wembley, unsurpassed!😮
agreed! that's why we reacted to both. They are so special in their own way!
Wolfman falling asleep during Nightwish? No way! ❤
Only Wolfman is allowed to fall asleep during Nightwish 😗
Nice to see you again on the Nightwish train, greetings from the Netherlands
Greetings! Tervetuloa!
We were here - Nightwish Army Section Austria (keep in mind - not Australia! ;-) reporting. Love to watch your reactions! Thx! 🙂
🤗🍒🤘🏻Well done as always dear people
Thank you Mars 💜
Thank you wonderful people!❤❤ Cheers from a finn in Sweden.
Hälsingar !! Love the Finnish and the Swedes !! 💜💜
The best version
Tnx for your great command NWA holland. 🤘🤘🤘🤘
God bless you!💜
Hello, Nightwish Army Section Lievestuore, Finland reporting. Like your reaction, thank you ☠️❤️
Moi!💜
Im happy your next Nightwish video reminded me to come back and watch/ mainly listen to this again when I can really hear it. A spectacle for the ears. I’ll come back again and watch. I wanted to read along with this time. What an amazing writer/composer he is. A masterpiece. My 2nd time through this tonight while just watching the very end talking, caused my brain to start trying to figure out what it reminded it of. After more than a bit of scrambling thoughts it finally came to me. Moody blues Days of future past. He starts talking in part “Cold hearted orb that rules the night…”Well that probably makes no sense to anyone but after such a brain fart into the past, it just needed to come out. If this should be read thanks for humoring a tired brain at 1:00 in the morning. Thank you and Hope all is well take care.
🙏🙏🙏
I just wanted to say...
My heart allways gets warm when I see you have a new reaction out...
Love you guy's...
/ J
wow Jonny - that just warmed my heart. I guess we're even!💜
@@SueSueandthewolfman ❤👍
Thank you, I am so happy, keep reacting to Nightwish please!🙏 NWA Canada so love this creation by Tuomas and this version of it. Watching for your next one!
thank you!! Be blessed💜
Hi guys! Wembley is my preference though Tampere is superb too.
I probably gave you my notes way back when you did Tampere but in case I didn't...
Some of this is comments on the creation of the song, some is notes.
Troy: At some point we ended up watching Richard Dawkins lectures on the internet. After a while I suggested, half in jest, that maybe we should ask Dawkins to be our special guest on the new album.
Tuomas: It was an amazing idea, and I immediately started wondering if we could really make it happen.
Jukka: We were naturally a bit sceptical, too - we had to try and ask him of course, but it was better not to have such high hopes. Dawkins had pretty much shied away from popular culture apart from one episode of The Simpsons.
Troy: I enthusiastically assured them that I can make this work, like "You'll see, guys". Well the next morning I wasn't feeling so confident any more and I remembered Tuomas and Jukka going "Told you so"
TUOMAS: Still, there was no way we could let it drop without at least trying. So we started thinking about a proper manner to approach Dawkins. We decided our best option would be to send him a hand-written, polite letter, where we would tell him about the band, the scientific themes on the forthcoming album and the fact that he had been a great inspiration
TROY: We got no reply, so we sent another letter. In the end, I guess we had a bit of luck, because it turned out Dawkins personal assistant knew the band and actually liked Nightwish. He suggested that Dawkins should take our inquiry seriously
TUOMAS: I was in Paris doing interviews for the Scrooge album. When I got back to the hotel in the evening. I noticed there was an email from Dawkins, something like, "1 went to the internet and browsed your band, and what I heard l liked very much. So I'd be happy to co-operate.
FLOOR: Tuomas sent us a triumphant message: "You won't believe what just
happened: Dawkins said yes!"
TROY: It was obvious from the start that Dawkins' appearance would attract a lot of attention - both positive and negative. His book God Delusion had created a worldwide controversy. after all.
JUKKA: We didn't invite Dawkins to be on our album to criticize religion but to speak as a scientist: an evolutionary biologist. Of course neither the fans nor anybody else outside the band knew it at that point.
TUOMAS: There has been a lot of unreasonable criticism hurled at him for all kinds of reasons. A lot of people seem to ignore the fact that Dawkins is also happy to listen to contrary opinions and is always open for new ideas. In that sense, he's like Esko Valtaoja, with whom we had the honour to work on Showtime, Storytime DVD.
I had endless possibilities in my hands for "The Greatest Show on Earth" What is the sound of crumpling continental plates that mountains are made of? Or the disintegration of radioactive components? Or the sound of space particles bombarding the earth? And how would I refer to immortal works of music composed by man? Well, I included shades of "Dies Irae" by Thomas Celano, "Toccata" and "Fuga" by Johann Sebastian Bach, banjo music from Western movies, "Rock around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets, and "Enter Sandman" by Metallica. I was also thinking about borrowing "Sandstorm" by Darude, but in the end, we just went for an unrecognizable techno loop.
Also Petzold and Bach.
Recording - and Jukka Resigning:
MARCO: Kaitsu handled the drum parts admirably, so we could continue with the other instruments right away, This time we tried to concentrate on one song at a
time and kept on working on it till we felt there was nothing more we could add.
TROY: And we didn't even have thunder. Rauhala does not have the best sound proofing in the world, so it would have been pretty challenging to mike the instruments if there had been rain and thunderclaps.
TUOMAS: I actually got off easier than I expected, because a lot of the demo keyboards from Hämeenlinna were good enough to be included on the album. The stuff in "Sea-Worn Driftwood", part five of "The Greatest Show on Earth", for example, was salvaged straight off the demo. In Hämeenlinna, I had explained to Tero that this passage would be about "whales singing and rats taking over the world". I had just come up with that improvised stuff, and it made it on the album
MARCO: Recording the vocals was teamwork in the best possible sense, no matter who was behind the mike. We kicked around suggestions and tried out all kinds of last minute ideas. Like, "Hey Floor, throw in some of that sweet upper octave of yours in the second verse...
Yeah, that's a nice touch!"
FLOOR: Marco kept on surprising us. He might just suddenly say, "Wait, I have an idea!" Then he'd pull out his bass and introduce an excellent harmony
MARCO: It was great fun recording the vocals. I've never had the chance to impersonate a troglodyte in front of a microphone before, so creating gorilla sounds for "The Greatest Show on Earth" was pretty hilarious. I didn't want to undermine the majesty of the song in any way, but I didn't exactly do it with a straight face, either!
TROY: I recorded my own ape grunts at home. To get in character, I took off my shirt, banged my chest with my fists, and pretended I was an ancient Homo Erectus. I think my wife was a bit worried
MARCO: I cut my bass parts pretty quickly in about one and a half days. I even got a bit lazy towards the evening of the first day - if I had really pushed it, I might have been able to complete them in a single day.
Notes:
The first part, "Four Point Six", is a reference to the age of our planet -in billions of years. The journey starts with a simple but persistent keyboard theme, interrupted by massive thunder claps - the origin of life that despite the murderous bombardment by asteroids, sprouts time and again and finally manages to grow permanent roots. The word "archaean" in the lyrics refers to the Archean Eon, the first of the geological eons of the world (Gaea).
Note that this piano intro is classic minimalism. It sounds repetitive but is in fact very slowly changing.
In some ways it reminds me of Spiegel im Spiegel.
The second part of the song chronicles the birth and the first on Earth. "Enter Luca" is a reference to an early life form, an acronym for the Last Universal Common Ancestor. We can make assumptions about the characteristics of Luca and other early life forms by reading the DNA of current organisms: "There's a writing in the garden, leading us to the mother of all."
Right from the beginning, one of the key characteristics of living cells has been the ability to sense their environment and react to their perceptions: "Ion channels welcoming the outside world."
In the third part, chronicling the age of man, there's a fascinating reminder: All of us current organisms are descendants of an
unbroken lineage of winners. "Not a single one of your fathers died young".
"Little Lucy of the Afar" refers to the famous fossil of Australopithecus Afarensis that was found in Afari, Ethiopia, a hominin that might have been the ancestor of man (genus Homo). In the long run, all species have the tendency to become extinct, and a fitting vision of the future of mankind is presented in the song, "One day'Il cease to be" On the other hand, man had earlier had "a dream to understand" and "[given] birth to poetry" . He wanted to leave his mark stating "We were here!" In the fourth part, man strives to understand it all, and Richard Dawkins takes up the story once again with a surprising claim:"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. The explanation folows shortly."Most people are never going die, because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been herein my place, but who will in fact never see the light of day, outnumber the sand grains of Sahara."
In the fifth and final part, Dawkins recites the concuding words of The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: "From so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
FLOOR: I felt real good after the final rehearsals [for EFMB] in a New York studio. There were obviously many challenging parts in the set - I'd have to be extra careful in the beginning of "The Greatest Show on Earth", for example because some of the phones rise from the back of the throat but "operatic vocals are produced in the front of the mouth
Very informative; thanks for sharing.
Troy played the guitar in the beginning of the song the part with the e-bow, that was Troy not Empuu!
I kept looking for the cello the first several times I watched!
We all Love this. Thank you. Greetings from nwAse Sweden
Hejsan!
Great reaction like always. Looking forward to my first live experience on 1st of June with Floor's tour in Eindhoven/NL If You never did, I would recommend 'slow Love Slow' live from Amsterdam Afas. Be prepaired to have a whisky with it :)) Love your reactions!
I'm so excited for you! You will have to let us know how it was! My son was born June 1st - a special day!
Ok, I will message you after that!@@SueSueandthewolfman
@@SueSueandthewolfman Hi,
I still owe you a short report about that concert with Floor. I can tell you, it was so special and overwhelming that I have nearly no words. Although it was a bit stressy with all that driving and so on I would go again whenever it will be possible. You cannot imagine, what a very special personality Floor offers on stage. She truly is one of the most rare people that get you immidiately into her empathic way , right strikes your soul with her staging and her voice is out of this world.
I still try to watch all of your reactions and always enjoy them.
So far so good,
Greetings from Germany!
Love it you reacted to this performance. This version is my favorite because Richard Dawkins is there on stage, quoting the final paragraph of Darwin's The Origin of Species.
that makes it so special!
I want that "I'm fine" tee!
The orchestra (Orchestre de Grandeur) and choir (London Metro Voices and Children's Choir) are recorded on a backing track that plays throughout. The drummer Kai has a click track playing in his ear, which keeps him synced with the recording and the pyros. The rest of the band follows his lead. It works nicely, but there's little room for error on anybody's part.
I often wonder if Emppu's riff from "Enter Sandman" was written by Tuomas, or it's something Emppu added later.
when 2 of my feel good Factors combine!Thx for that, simple Put:) was an very enjoyable 30 Minutes Ride with You! Esdpecially the Intro on the Hamroinica by Suesue...epic:)=
Stay healthy!
Alexander
Glad you enjoyed it! Wolfman doesn't like my harmonica playing lol!
@@SueSueandthewolfman i am terrified of His brows since Ages, and He dont Shave, so, Suesue, you can play me anything, just dont Care:D
@@alexandersteinmetz6857 😂😂😂
Over 600 sound (voice) tracks in this song.
I really love Nightwish's music and the depth of the lyrics, but some of the lyrics make me wonder... For example; who wrote those texts in the garden? ✨
Both of you - the earphone cord goes on the left, otherwise you hear the stage reversed and it doesn't fit the visuals
live at Tampere would have been great... but this
Please search the solo warming-up video's from Nightwish, Kai Hatho. They are fantastic. He's amazing!!! As a drummer i think he is one of the best
agreed!
Title says all...
it really does!
Please try to hear Enigma beyond the invisible and watch the official video. It is so beautiful and I would love to hear your opinion.
I know it might not be your style. it's just a song that means a lot to me and I'd love it if you guys would watch

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How is your family? Not so good i see😂
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