Definitely Deichbrand - although Hellfest was wonderful, Deichbrand wasn't a metal Festival and I think Nightwish made many new fans that evening. A lot of people seem to think the audio and picture quality are very good 😊
Now that's how you pay tribute to a great scientist, Eugene Shoemaker. I admit hat the first time I heard it I got all kinds of choked up at the ending.
I was staggered when I heard this on the album. Floor’s operatic ending brought a tear to my eye. Then I thought they will never be able to do this live. But, I heard Floor sing this live and she killed it! These guys never cease to amaze me.
I told you! This song has a Shakespeare quote and, I believe, the vocal gymnastics are due to a rhythmic device used by Shakespeare called iambic pentameter. Just some nerdy stuff that shows how magnificent Tuomas is as a composer. Eugene Shoemaker and David Levy jointly discovered a comet called Shoemaker/Levy that broke apart and ploughed onto Jupiter in 1994. The world watched on as it happened. He was a geologist and is known as the father of planetary science. A portion of his ashes was sent to the moon in an urn enscribed with the Shakespeare quote used in the song. This is one of the most beautiful songs Tuomas has written, and I get shivers as soon as I hear the intro. I break into tears as soon as Floor starts the operatic section. Just magic. 🤘😎🤘 PS. Astronomy is my hobby, and I knew of the Shoemakers back in the 80's
This is one of the reasons Tuomas wanted Floor in Nightwish since they toured together in the early 2000's. Floor came to the resque in 2012 to save the tour, after a severe burnout, and she never left. When Floor asked Tuomas how the fuck she should sing these lyrics over this melody he just said you'll figure it out.
Abt the "you'll figure it out" part. That's what I sort of figured when I heard this bizarre combo of vocal lines & lyrics for the 1st time. Didn't know it was actually true tho. All I've read is that Tuomas wanted to challenge Floor vocally. Is this info from an article or interview? Would be great to see it. Cheers!
@@BrendonChase_2015 From a Finnish interview from 2020: Tuomas: "We had interesting discussions last summer in Röskö, where we did the pre-production of the album. I remember when the singers brought up that the fact that the vocal melodies and lyrics of the songs are made by a person who can't really sing at all and that adds a special spice to Nightwish's sound. I often hear in my head exactly how these melodies go, in which voice they are sung and how the lyrics unfold. Then when I present them to the singers, they tell me that you can't sing that way! There are too many syllables, too many "s" letters and so on. Up to a certain limit, I always try to challenge them to at least try. Floor is capable of everything from ballad pop singing through opera to growl. Marko, on the other hand, is equally capable of minimalistic interpretations through stark heavy vocals to the most aggressive screams. But the fact that such an arsenal is in use does not mean that you should use the whole repertoire over and over in every song. The end of the Shoemaker song, which features Floor's soprano vocals, is at least for me, such an amazing moment on that album that If you overused it, it would eat away its magical power (kinda tricky to translate. basically because they don't use it all the time, it's really special when it comes). Floor: "Shoemaker's verses seemed impossible at first and it took me a lot of time to get them right, while the chorus is a lot more relaxed." Tuomas also said in other interview that "vocal acrobatics were insane here and there on the album, but Floor really loved the challenge and did an amazing job."
@@BrendonChase_2015 If I remember correct it was somewhere in the docu part of the recording/rehearsal of "Human Nature. Maybe this will help you to understand; th-cam.com/video/8bD7et2A_Wk/w-d-xo.html
@@ValtteL This (as usual) is absolutely stellar info, Valtte. Thanks a bunch! You know what's so funny? I was always kinda annoyed by the 'unnatural' and forced flow of the 1st part of Shoemaker. I remember having commented more than once that this might have something to do with Tuomas not being much of a vocalist (a thing he joyfully admitted on many occasions) who probably banked on Floor's near infinite vocal flexibility to get away with it. Now I love Floor's live intro to this song even better, when she sarcastically refers to the first part as a great "sing along" 😂 Cheers man & thnx again!
Simply stunning. Been in music my entire life and the first time I heard it I thought no way she does this every show- insanely difficult vocal. Floor said the same in an interview. THEN of course she proceeds to knock it out of the park night after night.
I'm glad you saw this video first and pursued the back story. When they perform it live, it's a 'game-over' show-stopping Floor moment as huge metal crowds are stunned and silenced. Hellfest 2022 is a great version, as is their performance from Deichbrand in 2022. Thanks!
Great reaction! One of my top 5 Nightwish songs. It is a tribute to Eugene Shoemaker, one of the founders of planetary science. He was a world renowned expert on impact craters on the earth and the moon. After he died in a car crash in Australia, NASA included a portion of his ashes in an urn on the Lunar Prospector mission and placed them in the crater on the moon named for him. So the lyrics aren't about a shoemaker going on a trip but a description of Shoemaker's final resting place on the Moon (eternal Earthrise because you watch the Earth rise on the moon, although the moons rotation is perfectly matched to it's orbit around the earth so there is no Earthrise but I like the poetic license). I also feel like the lyrics are also expressing our human desire to explore the universe, to "want to go with you" into space. So Nightwish is not only honoring Mr. Shoemaker but also encouraging us to do the hard work to explore beyond our planet. I spent 15 years working for NASA in manned space flight and hope this song continues to inspire generations to keep up that work. Love this lyric video for that epic ending of the Earth and the Sun disappearing behind the horizon of the moon.
I was once told that people either love Opera, or they hate it. But with Shoemaker, and this lyric video, if you don't feel something in your soul approaching awe or shock, you aren't human, and have no soul. Floor's vocals and Tuomas' composition is that much a masterpiece. Edit: I don't know who wrote that interpretation of Shoemaker, but the song is about Eugene Shoemaker, an astrophysicist and astronomer who was the father of bodily collisions involving asteroids and meteors. He, along with a colleague Dr. Levy, and his wife, also discovered the comet Shoemaker-Levy-9 in the 1990s, before it crashed into Jupiter. Because of Addison's Disease, Dr. Shoemaker was unable to travel into space during the Apollo missions in the 1970s, or the later space shuttle missions in the 1980s. In 1997, Dr. Shoemaker was sadly killed in a car accident in Australia. To commemorate his life, after being cremated, his ashes were put into an urn with the passage from Romeo and Juliet seen in this video, and was fired at the south pole of the moon, where a crater named for Dr. Shoemaker does indeed exist. Dr. Shoemaker remains the only person to be buried on an extra-terrestrial body not Earth, as others who have been buried in space are not located on any one body, such as James Doohan, who played the engineer "Scotty" on the original Star Trek series.
Floor said this one would be trick y live. But then they did it for one of the virtual gigs and the rest is history. Yet another magic Nightwish moment for anyone seeing this live!
I love Floor’s portamentos at the end, they just have some kind of effect on me. Portamento = sliding from one note to another, in this case from high to low.
when i heard that "Laudato Si" the first time, all waters breaking loose like the niagarafalls ...and it still gets me today... and THAT is a good thing !
I like the Hellfest version better, because of the dramatic footage in the evening sun of Floor close up singing on the top of her ability. And it sounds better than the album too (as per usual with Nightwish).
Why oh why oh why has Tuomas never received some sort of official recognition for his incredible compositions, while second rate but "popular" songwriters are often praised by the 'musical media' for their simplistic, prosaic, ten-a-penny songs, that will be forgotten within five years? I despair.
Love this video. I take it you know the story of Eugene Shoemaker, co-discoverer of the Levi-Shoemaker comet and the only man to date whose ashes have been placed on the moon? [Edit: you got there...] You liked this you should also watch Ad Astra at Hellfest - forget a minute of black screen, when Floor steps up to the mic after the bows, I literally had to hold on to my chair arms to avoid falling off my chair. The best live version of Ad Astra. Note also, one of the regular commenter in the Army took his screen name from Shoemaker - shout out Laudato si ad Astra. Until this song, Ever Dream was Floor's most difficult song but because it is long sustained high notes. This one because the intervals are awkward and it doesn't scan easily. The second singer is Troy.
Hi Daniel. "Here I came to be, your reach into the stars......" etc is a three-part harmony involving singing an alto line, Marko on the tenor line and Troy singing the tune. His voice is higher in the mix. Great reaction as ever, Cheers
Shoemaker live ....has to be done!....when Floor opens those arms and embraces her audience the whole metal assembly embraces her with awe!.....you gotta do it!
This entire album is a masterpiece. Tuomas is growing and improving with each album and it shows. Shoemaker made me gasp the first time I heard it. My other favorite from this album is Endlessness. IMO, there is a reason it ends the first CD in the album.
The Hellfest live version is so-so, registration wise (managed to keep Troy's part entirely out of the picture), but more importantly: ARTE s.cks re: copyright strikes of late. I happily join the Deichbrand choir. Cheers from Amsterdam! 🤘 L!nk tt entire show (timestamps in descr.): th-cam.com/video/fHaBDZYOP0I/w-d-xo.html
Fun fact: That insanely operatic ending - Floor made it in her homestudio!! When she and Tuomas first had finished the ending in the Nightwish studio - Floor went home to Sweden, but she didn't have the right gut feeling. So she powered up her homestudio - rehearsed - added the chorus - and then gave full Floor Mode. Sent it to Tuomas - and that's the ending you hear !!!
Tuomas had his doubts if this one could be done live as they struggled during the rehearsals to get everything right. Floor convinced him however that she could do it after tinkering with it in her home studio and adding the choir at the end. And of course she nailed it at the various performances since. Eugene Shoemaker is a very interesting person. Just google him to get all the details. He was involved with the Apollo Project to travel to the moon as a researcher of meteor craters, but was disqualified due to Eddison's desease. He died in a car accident in Australia on his way to investigate a crater there. Part of his ashes were transported to the moon by the Lunar Prospector Mission to a crater with his name to get an eternal Earthrise.
Hola desde Argentina!!! Tuve el inmenso honor de poder escuchar a Floor en persona el año pasado, aquí en Argentina... Es impresionante poder estar frente a ella y escuchar su espectacular voz cantando "Laudato... Ad Astra".. lloré como niña! (Tengo 54 años) es imposible plasmarlo en palabras... Tengo el vídeo que filmé yo en el recital y cada vez que lo miro lloro!!! Un gran abrazo a la distancia!😊
I think Tuomas Holopainen is one of the best composers of our modern world. The gravitas he creates with music and words pulls you in fast because of his relatable content. He knows what's up
Glad that you noticed how difficult to sing is this song, even for Floor. The complex and fast melody, difficult vocabulary and almost no room to breath. When Floor first tried to sing it, she thought it was impossible and asked Tuomas “When can I breath?” Same with the song “Music”. Looking forward to watching your reaction to the live version in Hellfest. I always get goosebumps in the operatic part. The lightning, the angle of the camera (from below) and Floor (in a goddess mode) opening her arms… it looks like she is floating and she’s going to fly over the stage. Amazing!
Eugen Shoemaker, a brilliant and dedicated astronomer, made significant contributions to our understanding of the cosmos. With a profound fascination for comets and asteroids, he immersed himself in the study of these celestial bodies, unearthing their secrets and shedding light on their impact on our universe. Throughout his life, Shoemaker exhibited an unwavering passion for the night sky, embarking on a cosmic journey that took him to the far reaches of space. His relentless curiosity drove him to explore the depths of the heavens, leaving no stone unturned in his quest for knowledge. "Shoemaker" not only celebrates his scientific accomplishments but also delves into the emotional aspects of his life. It captures the sense of wonder and awe he experienced while gazing at the stars, feeling an intimate connection to the vastness of the cosmos. By dedicating this heartfelt song to Eugen Shoemaker, Nightwish ensures that his legacy lives on in the hearts of those who listen. The song's melodic storytelling encourages us to continue exploring the wonders of the universe with the same childlike curiosity and boundless empathy that Shoemaker exemplified throughout his extraordinary life. You will understand and love the epic after watching this video several times. 🏆‼️
Eugene Shoemaker was a geologist, and he trained Apollo astronauts to recognize all kinds of minerals and rocks. He had hoped to travel himself to the moon, but his health did not allow for that to come true. In fact he may have been the first planetary geologist. It was a real homage to this scientist that his remains have been laid at rest in the crater named after him, and this song is a brilliant homage as well.
Ad Astra, your have more floorgamse,s like evrebady ❤seen Show Dichkbrand 2022 show live one the end,lote of people crying one the end fore this song .Butiyful song 😊
I was lucky enough to watch this performed live at Wembley Arena, London last year. At the point Floor goes into the operatic part she was backlit, and the seeing her in silhoette performing this was probably the highlight of the whole concert for me, it was just absolutely stunning. I have to admit, it bought a tear to my eye. Your reactions are great, and I'm enjoying so much being on this journey with you. Regards from London, UK.
Im a cold war veteran and this song still brings the water works, even two years on from the album release. Troy is featured in Harvest from this same album.
Yes, it's Eugene Shoemaker that it refers to - the Shakespeare quote, spoken by Tuomas' wife Johanna, is inscribed on the capsule containing his ashes.
I prefer this. Floor's voice, and the subtleties generally, are off the charts here. The live version is great, but nothing captures Floor's flawlessness as much as this studio recording, especially her beautiful soprano 'Laudato Is, Ad Astra'. it is perfection.
Try Deichbrand concert version (Hellfest is on scorching daylight, Deichbrand is almost as good as Wacken), better atmosphere (pun intended) than Hellfest. I heard this song live in Wien concert last year, tears and I started shaking, which destroyed my video from it, lol
I do like this because the singing is so good on it, you wouldn't have heard some bits with the live one which I know is unusual😊🇬🇧 Troy singing more too he was doing the harmonies.
Watching this first was a good idea, now you need the live (be careful of copyright) one and yes Floor pulls the ending of like a boss! This song is beautiful.
Nightwish live versions are obviously really fun but you should definitely check out more the album versions as well. In them you can focus more on the composition itself and what original idea was. Also their catalogue is so huge that there is so many hidden gems to find. I recommend listening to their song Procession from their latest album. There is a nice official lyric video.
They should use that operatic section as the new Captcha test to prove "I'm not a robot", because only robots would be able to not feel anything listening to that 🔥
Song is about Eugene Shoemaker, NASA scientist whose ashes (at leat some of them) were sent to rest for eternity on the moon. So he gets to see the Earth-rise from the moons horizon for eternal, and is on the Stella sea as the moon moves around the earth......yes Thomas is that much of a genius. So many great songs by Nightwish, but you might want to try going back to the early stuff too, and see just how far they’ve come in terms of production of their music.
I love this song. And the vocal harmonies in the choruses...... ✨Here I came to be Your reach into the far On the stellar sea Cut in little stars✨ Are one of the album highlights 💫 Incredible song, I love the buildup and explosion at the end. Just wonderful 🌌
This track and most of this album has Troy's vocals on it. With this being Marko's final album with Nightwish, he wasn't used as much except on the last song, Endlessness, which was amazing as well.
Very fitting day to react to Schemaker on July 20, 2023. July 20, 1969 the Lunar Module Eagle landed on the surface of our moon with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin aboard. Armstrong took his first step 6 hours later. "Houston. The Eagle has landed." Michael Collins orbited above our moon in the Command Module Columbia. Buzz Aldrin is still with us and is a randy dude.
I remember when Human Nature album was freshly released, Floor was asked in a interview if NW would do this song live, she replied it wasnt really a live song, but if the fans asked for it, they would get it, and they did so, ever since it have been in every setlist i belive, i think Floor was a bit tricked by doing this endpart live i think, and that was why she replied this way back then..lol.. its a great live song Floor, you know it..
When I heard the album Human II Nature for the first time, I was very surprised and didn't really like it ... however, it has become one of my favorite albums ever. What makes this album so special is that there were no videos from Nightwish for CD2 - that's why Nightwish fans sat down and produced one themselves, which has since been thankfully taken over by Nightwish.
I was the same and thought this is not the Nightwish I love but like you I went more in-depth with the lyrics and masterful composition and then it hits you 😊
This is another spectacular lyric video from this album. How's the heart lyric video next! . There is one Iive video that you can see Tuomas look at Troy and say Wow after Floor finished this. .
This is indeed one of the Nightwish songs that require some homework before listening to it, but in the end you found out the meaning, great job! The finale of this song is majestic: Floor's soprano accompanying an amazing view from the crater named after him (and where his urn with the Romeo and Juliet inscription hit the moon surface): An earthset followed by a sunset.
When you where so important as scientist, researching craters and meteors on earth and the moon, that NASA sends your ashes with a rocket to your own Shoemaker crater on the moon. On his urn is written the poem of Shakespear. Eugine Shoemaker was a big scienstist, who unfortunatly died in a carcrash. This whole last album is beautiful and with lots of messages. Live Floor is slaying this song too. The opera part is longer live. People wrote it and it is really true. In an interview with Floor , they asked her HOW she managed to sing this complex text. It was what Tuomas wanted and he said indeed 'ah, you will figure it out'' 😂 Thank you sir, and I hope Hellfest will not be blocked.
All three singers are singing in those harmonies. If you really have good headset you hear left and right channels with the middle. All different voices.
Still best to do the Human II Nature songs from the lyric videos because the is still no serious pro recording of the live performances of this album - Plus this way you get Marko on bass and vocals as well.
Greetings and Love from Germany again 💚.. Father Ted: "Dougal, have you heard..Shoemaker ?" Dougal: "What, Ted? Oh no, he's dead, isnt he.? Just last week i brought him a pair of boots for repair..what am i gonna do now, Ted?" 😅😂 Great reaction as always, buddy...stay safe
So, Eugene Merle Shoemaker (April 28, 1928 - July 18, 1997) was an American geologist. He co-discovered Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn S. Shoemaker and David H. Levy. This comet hit Jupiter in July 1994: the impact was televised around the world. Shoemaker also studied terrestrial craters, such as Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, and along with Edward Chao provided the first conclusive evidence of its origin as an impact crater. He was also the first director of the United States Geological Survey's Astrogeology Research Program. He was killed in a car accident while visiting an impact crater site in Australia. After his death, some of his ashes were carried to the Moon with the Lunar Prospector mission. The spoken word in this is done by Tuomas Holopainen's Wife Johanna Kurkela ( a section from Romeo And Juliet is also carved Eugene's urn ). "Shoemaker" has become a favorite song of NASA's scientific community. Tuomas has a deep inclination towards science and this is reflected in many of his plays. This ensured the entry of Nightwish into the history books of science, several discoveries in the field being named after them. These new discoveries include: Alpenglow Rockshelter: Archaeological site named after Nightwish Song. Tanidromites Nightwishorun: New Crab species. Sciophila Holopaineni: New species of Mosquito found in Finland. Ophiomitrella Floorae: New species of Cretaceous brittle star named after Floor Jansen. Tmesisternus floorjansenae: new species of beetle named after Floor. AND, This song Live will Blow you away (As it did to me and my son). Song from Human. :II: Nature and it is a Masterful Album !!!! AND Yes, harmonies is done by Floor and Troy . NWSU/FloorFan 🤘😎🤘.
This is from my favorite Nightwish album to date (Human :||: Nature). (I have only bought albums since Floor joined, to be fair.) This is my second favorite cut and made me weep a little again after seeing it more timmes than I can count. The only live videos I've seen of Nightwish since COVID have not measured up to those before (especially Wacken 2013). The lyric videos help follow the words fully, and also contribute to the story being told, especially on Shoemaker. Further, the new bassist (have not learned their name) doesn't sing, so this is the last album to hear Marko sing and supply bass guitar (and he, arguably, made the last track, Endlessness, the devastation it is). Cheers, ,y'all, for another fine reaction. (I started following you when you started following Nightwish, by the way.)
Oh yeah. When you hear mostly a male voice, it's Troy, singing as the voice of Shoemaker himself ("Here I came to be, your reach into the far...."), then Floor sings as all of thinking, questing mankind ("We want to come with you").
"Laudato si ad astra" is "Praise be to the stars" in Latin. Just a thought but when we talk about the beauty of the lyrics composed by Tuomas, just remember that English is not his native language.
The Lyric videos are really great. This was written in honor of the scientist Shoemaker. The quote from Romeo and Juliette is what was written on his Urn that was sent to the moon. He is tucked in there watching the Earthrise everyday instead of sun or moon rises. Do checkout Shoemakers wiki. He was extremely important and always wanted to go to the moon. I would watch doubles, doing lyric vids first, then the lives. :) They did 3-part harmonies on this album with Floor, Marko, and Troy. Troy takes the lead in one song as well, and Markos lead one is Epic! Film makers are dropping the ball so hard not using Nightwish music. Only the Cave I think has. So EPIC.
Youre right the song is about a scientist - Eugene Shoemaker - who has a crater on the moon named after him, and is the only person to be buried on a celestial body (the moon) outside of Earth, and his ashes were carried to the moon in a capsule that had the Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare quote inscribed on it. The person reading the quote in the song was Johanna, Tuomas' wife who you heard sing 'A lifetime of adventure' Its Troy who is harmonising with Floor....he has a song on the Human :ii: Nature album called Harvest, which you should definitely check out!!
This song is a MASTER PIECE, in the Hellfest is powerful❤ LAUDATO SI..AD ASTRA (ALABADO SEAS HASTA LAS ESTRELLAS) in latin , is poem of San Francisco de Asis...is a pryer of Creation of God...Tuomas is a Geniuos composer and spiritual men.
Greeting from the UK. It was Troy harmonising with Floor.. As far as lyrics are concerned Tuomas is a genius. Just take into account that in addition to his composing abilities he is als writing in what to him is a foreign language The subject of this song I Eugene Shoemaker who was an interplanetary scientist killed in a road crash in Australia, part of his ashes were taken to the moon by NASA and buried there
Yes, it's Troy providing the male vocals. As well as this song being an ode to the moon, this also celebrates the contribution to science of astronomer, Eugene Shoemaker, who died prematurely in a car crash, and had his ashes scattered on the moon's surface.
A true story about the only man buried on the moon, brought there by NASA ..... google that ;-) Thuomas wife Johanna Kurkela is doing the spoken part. Greetings from nwAse Sweden
I suggest that you don't do _Shoemaker_ from Hellfest - they've been handing out copyright strikes on that one.
Maybe from Deichbrand 2022❤
I guessed i dodged a bulket then! Thank God!
Funny, because that’s the best recent live version.
Definitely Deichbrand - although Hellfest was wonderful, Deichbrand wasn't a metal Festival and I think Nightwish made many new fans that evening. A lot of people seem to think the audio and picture quality are very good 😊
Go watch it for the experience, we dont need to see you react, we already know you will be in awe...
That ending Operatic part by Floor is BREATH TAKING!!!!!
Now that's how you pay tribute to a great scientist, Eugene Shoemaker. I admit hat the first time I heard it I got all kinds of choked up at the ending.
I was staggered when I heard this on the album. Floor’s operatic ending brought a tear to my eye. Then I thought they will never be able to do this live. But, I heard Floor sing this live and she killed it! These guys never cease to amaze me.
I told you!
This song has a Shakespeare quote and, I believe, the vocal gymnastics are due to a rhythmic device used by Shakespeare called iambic pentameter.
Just some nerdy stuff that shows how magnificent Tuomas is as a composer.
Eugene Shoemaker and David Levy jointly discovered a comet called Shoemaker/Levy that broke apart and ploughed onto Jupiter in 1994. The world watched on as it happened.
He was a geologist and is known as the father of planetary science. A portion of his ashes was sent to the moon in an urn enscribed with the Shakespeare quote used in the song.
This is one of the most beautiful songs Tuomas has written, and I get shivers as soon as I hear the intro. I break into tears as soon as Floor starts the operatic section.
Just magic.
🤘😎🤘
PS. Astronomy is my hobby, and I knew of the Shoemakers back in the 80's
This is one of the reasons Tuomas wanted Floor in Nightwish since they toured together in the early 2000's.
Floor came to the resque in 2012 to save the tour, after a severe burnout, and she never left.
When Floor asked Tuomas how the fuck she should sing these lyrics over this melody he just said you'll figure it out.
Abt the "you'll figure it out" part. That's what I sort of figured when I heard this bizarre combo of vocal lines & lyrics for the 1st time. Didn't know it was actually true tho. All I've read is that Tuomas wanted to challenge Floor vocally. Is this info from an article or interview? Would be great to see it. Cheers!
@@BrendonChase_2015 From a Finnish interview from 2020:
Tuomas: "We had interesting discussions last summer in Röskö, where we did the pre-production of the album. I remember when the singers brought up that the fact that the vocal melodies and lyrics of the songs are made by a person who can't really sing at all and that adds a special spice to Nightwish's sound. I often hear in my head exactly how these melodies go, in which voice they are sung and how the lyrics unfold. Then when I present them to the singers, they tell me that you can't sing that way! There are too many syllables, too many "s" letters and so on. Up to a certain limit, I always try to challenge them to at least try.
Floor is capable of everything from ballad pop singing through opera to growl. Marko, on the other hand, is equally capable of minimalistic interpretations through stark heavy vocals to the most aggressive screams. But the fact that such an arsenal is in use does not mean that you should use the whole repertoire over and over in every song. The end of the Shoemaker song, which features Floor's soprano vocals, is at least for me, such an amazing moment on that album that If you overused it, it would eat away its magical power (kinda tricky to translate. basically because they don't use it all the time, it's really special when it comes).
Floor: "Shoemaker's verses seemed impossible at first and it took me a lot of time to get them right, while the chorus is a lot more relaxed."
Tuomas also said in other interview that "vocal acrobatics were insane here and there on the album, but Floor really loved the challenge and did an amazing job."
@@BrendonChase_2015 If I remember correct it was somewhere in the docu part of the recording/rehearsal of "Human Nature.
Maybe this will help you to understand; th-cam.com/video/8bD7et2A_Wk/w-d-xo.html
@@ValtteL This (as usual) is absolutely stellar info, Valtte. Thanks a bunch! You know what's so funny? I was always kinda annoyed by the 'unnatural' and forced flow of the 1st part of Shoemaker. I remember having commented more than once that this might have something to do with Tuomas not being much of a vocalist (a thing he joyfully admitted on many occasions) who probably banked on Floor's near infinite vocal flexibility to get away with it. Now I love Floor's live intro to this song even better, when she sarcastically refers to the first part as a great "sing along" 😂 Cheers man & thnx again!
@@markschattefor6997 👍
The Shakespeare quote is actually etched into the urn that contains Shoemaker’s ashes and was read by Tuomas’ wife
Johanna Kurkela
Simply stunning. Been in music my entire life and the first time I heard it I thought no way she does this every show- insanely difficult vocal. Floor said the same in an interview. THEN of course she proceeds to knock it out of the park night after night.
I'm glad you saw this video first and pursued the back story. When they perform it live, it's a 'game-over' show-stopping Floor moment as huge metal crowds are stunned and silenced. Hellfest 2022 is a great version, as is their performance from Deichbrand in 2022. Thanks!
Tuomas is challenging Floor, through the whole album Human and Nature
He did and ... challenge accepted! He brings out the best in her and she brings out the best in him. What a glorious pairing.
Floor won.
@@chadbennett7873 🤗yes Music, Shoemaker, Pan are ,how Floor say, they are tricky to sing.
Great reaction! One of my top 5 Nightwish songs. It is a tribute to Eugene Shoemaker, one of the founders of planetary science. He was a world renowned expert on impact craters on the earth and the moon. After he died in a car crash in Australia, NASA included a portion of his ashes in an urn on the Lunar Prospector mission and placed them in the crater on the moon named for him. So the lyrics aren't about a shoemaker going on a trip but a description of Shoemaker's final resting place on the Moon (eternal Earthrise because you watch the Earth rise on the moon, although the moons rotation is perfectly matched to it's orbit around the earth so there is no Earthrise but I like the poetic license). I also feel like the lyrics are also expressing our human desire to explore the universe, to "want to go with you" into space. So Nightwish is not only honoring Mr. Shoemaker but also encouraging us to do the hard work to explore beyond our planet. I spent 15 years working for NASA in manned space flight and hope this song continues to inspire generations to keep up that work. Love this lyric video for that epic ending of the Earth and the Sun disappearing behind the horizon of the moon.
"... and at the eighth day he created Floor🌷and burst to tears, for he had created perfection."
I was once told that people either love Opera, or they hate it.
But with Shoemaker, and this lyric video, if you don't feel something in your soul approaching awe or shock, you aren't human, and have no soul.
Floor's vocals and Tuomas' composition is that much a masterpiece.
Edit: I don't know who wrote that interpretation of Shoemaker, but the song is about Eugene Shoemaker, an astrophysicist and astronomer who was the father of bodily collisions involving asteroids and meteors. He, along with a colleague Dr. Levy, and his wife, also discovered the comet Shoemaker-Levy-9 in the 1990s, before it crashed into Jupiter.
Because of Addison's Disease, Dr. Shoemaker was unable to travel into space during the Apollo missions in the 1970s, or the later space shuttle missions in the 1980s. In 1997, Dr. Shoemaker was sadly killed in a car accident in Australia. To commemorate his life, after being cremated, his ashes were put into an urn with the passage from Romeo and Juliet seen in this video, and was fired at the south pole of the moon, where a crater named for Dr. Shoemaker does indeed exist. Dr. Shoemaker remains the only person to be buried on an extra-terrestrial body not Earth, as others who have been buried in space are not located on any one body, such as James Doohan, who played the engineer "Scotty" on the original Star Trek series.
Floor said this one would be trick y live. But then they did it for one of the virtual gigs and the rest is history. Yet another magic Nightwish moment for anyone seeing this live!
That was Troy. My boy. Please do Auri and "Desert Flower". (Toumas and his wife and Troy. Two albums of great music,)
I love Floor’s portamentos at the end, they just have some kind of effect on me.
Portamento = sliding from one note to another, in this case from high to low.
when i heard that "Laudato Si" the first time, all waters breaking loose like the niagarafalls
...and it still gets me today...
and THAT is a good thing !
Check "Pan" from this album. Also because Emppu told that guitar part is very difficult for an old man like him.
I like the Hellfest version better, because of the dramatic footage in the evening sun of Floor close up singing on the top of her ability. And it sounds better than the album too (as per usual with Nightwish).
100% agree with you 🤘
Why oh why oh why has Tuomas never received some sort of official recognition for his incredible compositions, while second rate but "popular" songwriters are often praised by the 'musical media' for their simplistic, prosaic, ten-a-penny songs, that will be forgotten within five years? I despair.
Love this video.
I take it you know the story of Eugene Shoemaker, co-discoverer of the Levi-Shoemaker comet and the only man to date whose ashes have been placed on the moon?
[Edit: you got there...]
You liked this you should also watch Ad Astra at Hellfest - forget a minute of black screen, when Floor steps up to the mic after the bows, I literally had to hold on to my chair arms to avoid falling off my chair. The best live version of Ad Astra.
Note also, one of the regular commenter in the Army took his screen name from Shoemaker - shout out Laudato si ad Astra.
Until this song, Ever Dream was Floor's most difficult song but because it is long sustained high notes.
This one because the intervals are awkward and it doesn't scan easily.
The second singer is Troy.
Hi Daniel. "Here I came to be, your reach into the stars......" etc is a three-part harmony involving singing an alto line, Marko on the tenor line and Troy singing the tune. His voice is higher in the mix. Great reaction as ever, Cheers
Shoemaker live ....has to be done!....when Floor opens those arms and embraces her audience the whole metal assembly embraces her with awe!.....you gotta do it!
It is beyond me that she can sing this live 🤷🏼♀️, but she does it flawlessly ❣️
This entire album is a masterpiece. Tuomas is growing and improving with each album and it shows. Shoemaker made me gasp the first time I heard it. My other favorite from this album is Endlessness. IMO, there is a reason it ends the first CD in the album.
My two favorites from the album.
I concur
I agree on Shoemaker, but my second favorite is the polar opposite of this one, Tribal.
I concur
Im a cold war veteran and this song still brings the water works, even two years on from the album release.
The Hellfest live version is so-so, registration wise (managed to keep Troy's part entirely out of the picture), but more importantly: ARTE s.cks re: copyright strikes of late. I happily join the Deichbrand choir. Cheers from Amsterdam! 🤘
L!nk tt entire show (timestamps in descr.): th-cam.com/video/fHaBDZYOP0I/w-d-xo.html
Plus this show is at Night, the pyro adds more to the show, i do love Hellfest too
'Noise' and 'Tribal' from Masters of Rock 2022 - double play you will enjoy. 'Shoemaker' is just gorgeous, nice job.
First time I heard this I teared up at the ending when the guitar hits. Only this band gives me the feels so consistently.
Fun fact:
That insanely operatic ending - Floor made it in her homestudio!! When she and Tuomas first had finished the ending in the Nightwish studio - Floor went home to Sweden, but she didn't have the right gut feeling. So she powered up her homestudio - rehearsed - added the chorus - and then gave full Floor Mode.
Sent it to Tuomas - and that's the ending you hear !!!
Tuomas had his doubts if this one could be done live as they struggled during the rehearsals to get everything right. Floor convinced him however that she could do it after tinkering with it in her home studio and adding the choir at the end. And of course she nailed it at the various performances since. Eugene Shoemaker is a very interesting person. Just google him to get all the details. He was involved with the Apollo Project to travel to the moon as a researcher of meteor craters, but was disqualified due to Eddison's desease. He died in a car accident in Australia on his way to investigate a crater there. Part of his ashes were transported to the moon by the Lunar Prospector Mission to a crater with his name to get an eternal Earthrise.
Hola desde Argentina!!! Tuve el inmenso honor de poder escuchar a Floor en persona el año pasado, aquí en Argentina... Es impresionante poder estar frente a ella y escuchar su espectacular voz cantando "Laudato... Ad Astra".. lloré como niña! (Tengo 54 años) es imposible plasmarlo en palabras... Tengo el vídeo que filmé yo en el recital y cada vez que lo miro lloro!!! Un gran abrazo a la distancia!😊
I think Tuomas Holopainen is one of the best composers of our modern world. The gravitas he creates with music and words pulls you in fast because of his relatable content. He knows what's up
The harmony vocals are Troy (dominant, centre), Marko (panned left, low in the mix), Floor (soft, panned right).
Glad that you noticed how difficult to sing is this song, even for Floor. The complex and fast melody, difficult vocabulary and almost no room to breath. When Floor first tried to sing it, she thought it was impossible and asked Tuomas “When can I breath?” Same with the song “Music”. Looking forward to watching your reaction to the live version in Hellfest. I always get goosebumps in the operatic part. The lightning, the angle of the camera (from below) and Floor (in a goddess mode) opening her arms… it looks like she is floating and she’s going to fly over the stage. Amazing!
That's Troy with Floor in the chorus. Tuomas's wife Johanna speaks the Shakespeare bit.
and a bit of Marko
Eugen Shoemaker, a brilliant and dedicated astronomer, made significant contributions to our understanding of the cosmos. With a profound fascination for comets and asteroids, he immersed himself in the study of these celestial bodies, unearthing their secrets and shedding light on their impact on our universe.
Throughout his life, Shoemaker exhibited an unwavering passion for the night sky, embarking on a cosmic journey that took him to the far reaches of space. His relentless curiosity drove him to explore the depths of the heavens, leaving no stone unturned in his quest for knowledge.
"Shoemaker" not only celebrates his scientific accomplishments but also delves into the emotional aspects of his life. It captures the sense of wonder and awe he experienced while gazing at the stars, feeling an intimate connection to the vastness of the cosmos.
By dedicating this heartfelt song to Eugen Shoemaker, Nightwish ensures that his legacy lives on in the hearts of those who listen. The song's melodic storytelling encourages us to continue exploring the wonders of the universe with the same childlike curiosity and boundless empathy that Shoemaker exemplified throughout his extraordinary life.
You will understand and love the epic after watching this video several times. 🏆‼️
Lyrics... Genius
Eugene Shoemaker was a geologist, and he trained Apollo astronauts to recognize all kinds of minerals and rocks. He had hoped to travel himself to the moon, but his health did not allow for that to come true. In fact he may have been the first planetary geologist. It was a real homage to this scientist that his remains have been laid at rest in the crater named after him, and this song is a brilliant homage as well.
Ad Astra, your have more floorgamse,s like evrebady ❤seen Show Dichkbrand 2022 show live one the end,lote of people crying one the end fore this song .Butiyful song 😊
I was lucky enough to watch this performed live at Wembley Arena, London last year. At the point Floor goes into the operatic part she was backlit, and the seeing her in silhoette performing this was probably the highlight of the whole concert for me, it was just absolutely stunning. I have to admit, it bought a tear to my eye. Your reactions are great, and I'm enjoying so much being on this journey with you. Regards from London, UK.
Floor is singing with Marco and Troy. There is tree voices you can hear 🤩🥰. Thx again amasing reaction ❤️
Im a cold war veteran and this song still brings the water works, even two years on from the album release.
Troy is featured in Harvest from this same album.
Seeing this song live was an experience I will never forget.
Yes, it's Eugene Shoemaker that it refers to - the Shakespeare quote, spoken by Tuomas' wife Johanna, is inscribed on the capsule containing his ashes.
Nightwish ( tuomas) never writes do nothing songs that floor can do it live is a
miracle God bless
Daily fix of nightwish....yay
I prefer this. Floor's voice, and the subtleties generally, are off the charts here. The live version is great, but nothing captures Floor's flawlessness as much as this studio recording, especially her beautiful soprano 'Laudato Is, Ad Astra'. it is perfection.
To hear Johanna Kurkela, " Auri Night 13", is great, very touching video also. Auri trio, Tuomas, Johanna and Troy.
Got to be honest, things brings a tear to my eye - in the Hellfest performance of this there are several people in full on tears at the end part 🤘
Try Deichbrand concert version (Hellfest is on scorching daylight, Deichbrand is almost as good as Wacken), better atmosphere (pun intended) than Hellfest.
I heard this song live in Wien concert last year, tears and I started shaking, which destroyed my video from it, lol
Hello, wait for the live Performance. Hellfest or Deichbrand. 🤘🤗
I do like this because the singing is so good on it, you wouldn't have heard some bits with the live one which I know is unusual😊🇬🇧 Troy singing more too he was doing the harmonies.
Watching this first was a good idea, now you need the live (be careful of copyright) one and yes Floor pulls the ending of like a boss! This song is beautiful.
Nightwish live versions are obviously really fun but you should definitely check out more the album versions as well. In them you can focus more on the composition itself and what original idea was. Also their catalogue is so huge that there is so many hidden gems to find. I recommend listening to their song Procession from their latest album. There is a nice official lyric video.
They should use that operatic section as the new Captcha test to prove "I'm not a robot", because only robots would be able to not feel anything listening to that 🔥
So true 🙏😊❤️👍
Song is about Eugene Shoemaker, NASA scientist whose ashes (at leat some of them) were sent to rest for eternity on the moon. So he gets to see the Earth-rise from the moons horizon for eternal, and is on the Stella sea as the moon moves around the earth......yes Thomas is that much of a genius. So many great songs by Nightwish, but you might want to try going back to the early stuff too, and see just how far they’ve come in terms of production of their music.
Tuomas threw her the challenge and she delivered it beautifully
Its the best that you do both the studio and the Hellfest version. Its two very different experiences. Keep up the great Nightwish reactions
So beautiful. You must see her do this live
Loving your journey with Nightwish,👍🎶🤘
I love this song.
And the vocal harmonies in the choruses......
✨Here I came to be
Your reach into the far
On the stellar sea
Cut in little stars✨
Are one of the album highlights 💫
Incredible song, I love the buildup and explosion at the end.
Just wonderful 🌌
This track and most of this album has Troy's vocals on it. With this being Marko's final album with Nightwish, he wasn't used as much except on the last song, Endlessness, which was amazing as well.
Very fitting day to react to Schemaker on July 20, 2023.
July 20, 1969 the Lunar Module Eagle landed on the surface of our moon with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin aboard. Armstrong took his first step 6 hours later. "Houston. The Eagle has landed."
Michael Collins orbited above our moon in the Command Module Columbia.
Buzz Aldrin is still with us and is a randy dude.
Watch nightwish shomaker hellfest 2022, the end is insane.
I remember when Human Nature album was freshly released, Floor was asked in a interview if NW would do this song live, she replied it wasnt really a live song, but if the fans asked for it, they would get it, and they did so, ever since it have been in every setlist i belive, i think Floor was a bit tricked by doing this endpart live i think, and that was why she replied this way back then..lol.. its a great live song Floor, you know it..
When I heard the album Human II Nature for the first time, I was very surprised and didn't really like it ... however, it has become one of my favorite albums ever.
What makes this album so special is that there were no videos from Nightwish for CD2 - that's why Nightwish fans sat down and produced one themselves, which has since been thankfully taken over by Nightwish.
I was the same and thought this is not the Nightwish I love but like you I went more in-depth with the lyrics and masterful composition and then it hits you 😊
This ending at Hellfest is hard to hold back the tears.
Thank you for this one; don’t forget the rest of this amazing album😀
This is another spectacular lyric video from this album. How's the heart lyric video next! . There is one Iive video that you can see Tuomas look at Troy and say Wow after Floor finished this. .
The “wow” was after the Toronto performance.
@@annemarieevans1991 Thanks so much!!!
This is indeed one of the Nightwish songs that require some homework before listening to it, but in the end you found out the meaning, great job!
The finale of this song is majestic: Floor's soprano accompanying an amazing view from the crater named after him (and where his urn with the Romeo and Juliet inscription hit the moon surface):
An earthset followed by a sunset.
When you where so important as scientist, researching craters and meteors on earth and the moon, that NASA sends your ashes with a rocket to your own Shoemaker crater on the moon. On his urn is written the poem of Shakespear. Eugine Shoemaker was a big scienstist, who unfortunatly died in a carcrash.
This whole last album is beautiful and with lots of messages. Live Floor is slaying this song too. The opera part is longer live. People wrote it and it is really true. In an interview with Floor , they asked her HOW she managed to sing this complex text. It was what Tuomas wanted and he said indeed 'ah, you will figure it out'' 😂
Thank you sir, and I hope Hellfest will not be blocked.
Glad you liked this version and I'm sure you'll love the Hellfest version when you hear and see Floor. 😊
and the Deichbrand Festival version
th-cam.com/video/fHaBDZYOP0I/w-d-xo.html&pp=ygUZbmlnaHR3aXNoIGRlaWNoYnJhbmQgMjAyMg%3D%3D
Ohh im waiting for your reaction for Pan and Tribial
All three singers are singing in those harmonies. If you really have good headset you hear left and right channels with the middle. All different voices.
Still best to do the Human II Nature songs from the lyric videos because the is still no serious pro recording of the live performances of this album - Plus this way you get Marko on bass and vocals as well.
Totally concur!
The cover by Nevski and the Prospects is pretty good.
@@KristiinaBerg - haha! Still need a proper recording though to match the 2013 and 2015 tours
I concur and i think with this album its really worth doing in album order
Greetings and Love from Germany again 💚..
Father Ted: "Dougal, have you heard..Shoemaker ?"
Dougal: "What, Ted? Oh no, he's dead, isnt he.? Just last week i brought him a pair of boots for repair..what am i gonna do now, Ted?"
😅😂
Great reaction as always, buddy...stay safe
How beautiful is this song. It is a masterpiece. Thanks for your reaction, until the next one, bye!!
So, Eugene Merle Shoemaker (April 28, 1928 - July 18, 1997) was an American geologist. He co-discovered Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn S. Shoemaker and David H. Levy. This comet hit Jupiter in July 1994: the impact was televised around the world. Shoemaker also studied terrestrial craters, such as Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, and along with Edward Chao provided the first conclusive evidence of its origin as an impact crater. He was also the first director of the United States Geological Survey's Astrogeology Research Program.
He was killed in a car accident while visiting an impact crater site in Australia. After his death, some of his ashes were carried to the Moon with the Lunar Prospector mission.
The spoken word in this is done by Tuomas Holopainen's Wife Johanna Kurkela ( a section from Romeo And Juliet is also carved Eugene's urn ).
"Shoemaker" has become a favorite song of NASA's scientific community. Tuomas has a deep inclination towards science and this is reflected in many of his plays. This ensured the entry of Nightwish into the history books of science, several discoveries in the field being named after them. These new discoveries include: Alpenglow Rockshelter: Archaeological site named after Nightwish Song. Tanidromites Nightwishorun: New Crab species. Sciophila Holopaineni: New species of Mosquito found in Finland. Ophiomitrella Floorae: New species of Cretaceous brittle star named after Floor Jansen. Tmesisternus floorjansenae: new species of beetle named after Floor.
AND, This song Live will Blow you away (As it did to me and my son).
Song from Human. :II: Nature and it is a Masterful Album !!!!
AND Yes, harmonies is done by Floor and Troy .
NWSU/FloorFan 🤘😎🤘.
This is from my favorite Nightwish album to date (Human :||: Nature). (I have only bought albums since Floor joined, to be fair.) This is my second favorite cut and made me weep a little again after seeing it more timmes than I can count. The only live videos I've seen of Nightwish since COVID have not measured up to those before (especially Wacken 2013). The lyric videos help follow the words fully, and also contribute to the story being told, especially on Shoemaker. Further, the new bassist (have not learned their name) doesn't sing, so this is the last album to hear Marko sing and supply bass guitar (and he, arguably, made the last track, Endlessness, the devastation it is). Cheers, ,y'all, for another fine reaction. (I started following you when you started following Nightwish, by the way.)
Oh yeah. When you hear mostly a male voice, it's Troy, singing as the voice of Shoemaker himself ("Here I came to be, your reach into the far...."), then Floor sings as all of thinking, questing mankind ("We want to come with you").
"Laudato si ad astra" is "Praise be to the stars" in Latin. Just a thought but when we talk about the beauty of the lyrics composed by Tuomas, just remember that English is not his native language.
And then you thought you heard it al from Floor😁 thnx mate great reaction, live its Great too, but NW live is always great
The Lyric videos are really great.
This was written in honor of the scientist Shoemaker.
The quote from Romeo and Juliette is what was written on his Urn that was sent to the moon. He is tucked in there watching the Earthrise everyday instead of sun or moon rises.
Do checkout Shoemakers wiki. He was extremely important and always wanted to go to the moon.
I would watch doubles, doing lyric vids first, then the lives. :)
They did 3-part harmonies on this album with Floor, Marko, and Troy.
Troy takes the lead in one song as well, and Markos lead one is Epic!
Film makers are dropping the ball so hard not using Nightwish music. Only the Cave I think has. So EPIC.
This song is based on true events. 🤘🎸
Youre right the song is about a scientist - Eugene Shoemaker - who has a crater on the moon named after him, and is the only person to be buried on a celestial body (the moon) outside of Earth, and his ashes were carried to the moon in a capsule that had the Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare quote inscribed on it. The person reading the quote in the song was Johanna, Tuomas' wife who you heard sing 'A lifetime of adventure' Its Troy who is harmonising with Floor....he has a song on the Human :ii: Nature album called Harvest, which you should definitely check out!!
This is the only NW video that is better as the lyric vid. Not because the live versions aren't good , but because this is soooooo good.
This song is a MASTER PIECE, in the Hellfest is powerful❤ LAUDATO SI..AD ASTRA (ALABADO SEAS HASTA LAS ESTRELLAS) in latin , is poem of San Francisco de Asis...is a pryer of Creation of God...Tuomas is a Geniuos composer and spiritual men.
Yes, that is Troy singing with Floor.
It was Marko and Troy harmonising with Floor 🤘
Greeting from the UK. It was Troy harmonising with Floor.. As far as lyrics are concerned Tuomas is a genius. Just take into account that in addition to his composing abilities he is als writing in what to him is a foreign language The subject of this song I Eugene Shoemaker who was an interplanetary scientist killed in a road crash in Australia, part of his ashes were taken to the moon by NASA and buried there
I would check this album first through these lyric videos
And you may never hear Endlessness live, because that is kinda Marko's "swansong" with Nightwish
Nice
This whole album is epic and diffrent😊
Yes, it's Troy providing the male vocals. As well as this song being an ode to the moon, this also celebrates the contribution to science of astronomer, Eugene Shoemaker, who died prematurely in a car crash, and had his ashes scattered on the moon's surface.
Shoemaker, a song that probably can’t be performed live. Floor, ‘hold my beer’. Laudato, possibly the highlight of recent years’ concerts.
Been waiting for this. For something different try Harvest from the same cd. It features Troy and has a Celtic vibe to it.
I concur
watch the hellfest version.amazing live
Finally!!!
A true story about the only man buried on the moon, brought there by NASA ..... google that ;-) Thuomas wife Johanna Kurkela is doing the spoken part. Greetings from nwAse Sweden
Or read the wiki on Shoemaker. His name is in the title of the song for a reason.
Finally 😂😂😂😂greetings from The Netherlands 🙋🏽♀️🇳🇱
I hear Floor, Troy and the very soft voice is Marko