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Apparently this is not the whole song! I'm sorry folks! Can you guys respond to this comment with a link to the complete version? I won't make a new video, but we can do something on stream with it if you guys want a full reaction! Cheers!
@Jorge Conceição The one with Dawkins recorded is better... he stumbles over his lines in the live appearance, which is a shame since that passage is his 'Pale Blue Dot' moment.
I think that link does include the rest of it. It'll be playback and narration, but it's worth watching for the message and atmosphere.
Hah, my though when the video was stopped too early "Man, this guy is gonna hear about this" :D That's ok, it happens!
Sergey, it's not overt messaging, it is a thought out and accurate scientific journey through the birth and evolution of this planet and life on it. Anyway, I sent you a mail with my interpretation of the lyrics.
Nice effort for a solution. Kudos.
Not really environmentalism but the entire history of the universe. The fireworks at the beginning were the big bang, those at the end were our destruction (and everything in between). Life, or more specifically human existence, is "the greatest show on earth"
@Matthew Eddy The beginning of the song is only ”Four point six” billion years ago so not a big bang but only the age of earth and its formation.
@@mantailuaa Correct. The fireworks are the bombardment phase of planetary accretion rather than the Big Bang which would have been more like 13.5.
"The Greatest Show on Earth" comes from a book by Richard Dawkins named "The Greatest Show on Earth: The evidence for evolution". Great read by the way. But the name of the song relates to evolution specifically. Human existence is just a footnote of that show and if we continue like we have it will stay as one. Hence the ratkind reference in lyrics. And in general the human existence part could not be much more negative in tone...
I have read somewhere that the explosion noises on the album and the fireworks represent the collisions of meteors and the Earth, bringing minerals, water and other star stuff ‘preparing’ the Earth for life. That makes more sense instead of the ‘Big Bang’.
@@mantailuaa ahh ok.
As a person studying astrophysics just love the song and accuracy. Love Tuomas creations, unlike other bands that just mash up a bunch of sciency words without any understanding.
P.S. This is a song that tells the story of Earth, from beginning to death.
Same here, as a biochemist. :)
@@stamasd8500 I’m a biochemist too 🤘🤘
@@aeldin131 wannabe marine biologist here!
@@gmurph that counts
AGDinCA 😂
The "message" is not specifically environmental. Its a narration of the history of our planet, its beauty and the fact that one day we will *not* be here.
Here is a little analysis of the song that I found from comments one day from one Nightwish fan : Finally!! Here it is this Masterpiece in "normal" english, lyrics are in " "
"Archaean horizon, The first sunrise"
Earth's history is divided into four principal Eons: the Hadean, the Archean, Proterozoic, and the Phanerozoic. The Hadean is the Eon during which the Earth and Moon formed; in the Archaean, primordial life appeared. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Earth)
"On a pristine gaea"
Gaia is the primordial Greek goddess of the Earth. More recently, the Gaia hypothesis is a recognition of the living and nonliving Earth systems which form an interdependent whole. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia)
"Opus perfectum, Somewhere there, us sleeping" Pristine perfection (of silence, of a blank page, of the very point from which the big bang itself sprung) implies a rich creative potential. Here Earth is painted in the same powerful way. Diversity awaits; unborn beings are sleeping the same sleep to which they will return at death. This interpretation is thematically linked with the album's opening track, "Shudder before the Beautiful," which includes the lyrics, "The music of this awe, Deep silence between the notes, Deafens me with endless love." Or as the furious hobbit screamed at the novice trumpeter, "An artist respects the silence, it serves as the foundation of creativity." (th-cam.com/video/9E62iA6KCIQ/w-d-xo.html)
[Part 2: Life]
"The cosmic law of gravity Pulled the newborns around a fire, A careless cold infinity in every vast direction. Lonely farer in the Goldilocks zone"
Gravity pulls the Earth and its inhabitants around the energizing Sun in an otherwise inhospitable universe. Earth is the only planet in our solar system's circumstellar habitable zone, orbiting at the "just right, not too hot, not too cold" distance from the Sun. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstellar_habitable_zone)
"She has a tale to tell, From the stellar nursery into a carbon feast, Enter LUCA"
In astronomy, stellar nurseries are the birthplaces of stars: they nurse stars (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_formation#Stellar_nurseries). Poetically, our solar system is another "stellar nursery," in which a star is the nurse, caring for and warming a planet of 'newborns,' early carbon-based life. "Feast" evokes the incorporation of plentiful chemical building blocks into rudimentary life forms. "LUCA" stands for "Last universal common ancestor," the one single organism from which all other presently existing life on Earth descended. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_ancestor)
"The tapestry of chemistry is a writing in the garden, Leading us to the mother of all"
The periodic table of elements does look like a sort of patchwork tapestry, but this can go further. The historical function of tapestries was as "nomadic murals," pictographical histories which moving people could pack up and revisit wherever they went. The "writing in the garden," in nature, is not only the stone murals left by dead animals in the form of fossils, but is also this chemical writing that encodes the relatively nomadic DNA molecule with the instructions for life. The scientific investigation of this information leads us back to LUCA, and further. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapestry#Function)
"We are one, We are a universe,"
This is the natural conclusion to draw from the fact that life shares common origin, that all life is built with the same blocks, and that all life on Earth is interdependent (gaia hypothesis). The multiplicity of beings on Earth are one, just as the cells in a body are one.
"Forebears of what will be Scions of the Devonian sea."
The Devonian geologic time period marked the first significant, rapid diversification of life (and the more well-known Cambrian explosion is another of these 'adaptive radiation' events). It was during the Devonian that the 'higher plants' appeared and blanketed the continents with forests. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devonian). The word "scion" refers to a shoot of a plant cut for grafting, and is also used to denote a descendent of a notable family. Both meanings apply.
"Aeons pass, Writing the tale of us all. A day-to-day new opening For the greatest show on Earth"
Evolutionary adaptation is written in the DNA and as fossils in the rocks, and is ongoing. Species die, diversifiy and delineate. Every day is different, every day something changes.
"Ion channels welcoming the outside world To the stuff of stars"
Ion channels are found in the membranes of all cells, controlling the flow of energy through the cells. The stuff of stars is all the physical matter we're made of. So it's the ion channels, guiding enery, which allow living bodies to interact with the rest of the world by exchanging energy with it. "Stuff of stars" is surely a Sagan reference: "The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff." (For fun: th-cam.com/video/XGK84Poeynk/w-d-xo.html)
"Bedding the tree of a biological holy, Enter life"
The bed of a tree is the nutrient-rich soil from which it grows, a soil made of dead things. The "tree of a biological holy" is probably the tree of life (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life). This line refers to the "holy" legendary tree of everlasting life but also means the conceptual, branching family tree of all life, whose bed consists of all deceased beings (in a more literal sense), or all extinct ancestral species (in a more abstract sense). This is thematically linked with the song "Alpenglow."
"We are here to care for the garden, The wonder of birth Of every form most beautiful"
"We" could be human beings tasked with acting as nature's stewards, garden of eden style, but that's not chronological -- human beings haven't quite appeared in the song yet. "We" could instead be all of life itself, in a gaia-philosophy sense, which posits that life creates environments ever more hospitable to more life. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_philosophy) Or maybe it's a combination of these two thoughts: life eventually creates an environment suitable for the development of consiously acting, thinking human stewards.
[Part 3: The Toolmaker]
"After a billion years, The show is still here. Not a single one of your fathers died young."
Every single one of a given person's ancestors, male and female, lived past puberty at least. But "fathers" evokes "forefathers," which has a nicer storytelling ring to it than "parents."
"The handy travelers Out of Africa Little Lucy of the Afar"
Handymen are good with tools; travelers posessing hands rather than forefeet walk upright. Hominids originated in Africa and spread to the rest of the world from there. Lucy is a particular specimen of the Australopithecus, one of many "missing links" between modern humans and nonhuman ancestors. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(Australopithecus))
"Gave birth to fantasy, To idolatry, To self-destructive weaponry. Enter the God of gaps Deep within the past. Atavistic dread of the hunted!"
The brain grows, consciousness and creativity along with it. Atavism is the tendency to revert to ancestral type, an evolutionary throwback. Fight-or-flight instincts that helped human ancestors survive have now been creatively projected onto the world to both explain it (origins, meaning, suffering) and gain security in it (bargaining through sacrifice). These are the roots of theism. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atavism)
"Enter Ionia, the cradle of thought, The architecture of understanding. The human lust to feel so exceptional, To rule the Earth"
Nomadic people develop agriculture and settle down into civilizations. The word "architecture" is at once both literal and figurative. The efficiency of civilization graces people with free time to do more than just feed themselves. They develop rich cultural traditions, arts and philosophies, much of which are deeply influenced by how different humans now are from all the rest of life.
"Hunger for shiny rocks, For giant mushroom clouds, The will to do as you'd be done by."
Shiny rocks are wealth: gold, precious stones, jewels, and later uranium which leads to the nuclear arms race. The golden rule -- "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" -- is a coin with a dark side: "an eye for an eye," revenge. This ensures the "MAD"ness of mutually assured destruction. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction)
"Enter history, the grand finale. Enter ratkind."
"Ratkind" comes from Richard Dawkins' book "The Ancestor's Tale." Dawkins imagines a post-apocalyptic world in which rodents feast on the remnants of humanity (and humanity's garbage). The rat population explodes, and then as they exhaust these resources they turn on one another for food. As a consequence of natural selection, the rats diverge into new carnivorous and herbivorous species, and perhaps, eventually, a specices of rodent whose intelligence rivals that of humans. This is "ratkind." (iberianature.com/wildworld/tag/ratkind/)
"Man, he took his time in the sun, Had a dream to understand A single grain of sand."
From William Blake: "To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour." ...And the story of the planet in 24 minutes. Not bad.
"He gave birth to poetry, But one day'll cease to be. Greet the last light of the library"
A bittersweet redundancy: poetry with library, the last light with ceasing to be. Reminiscent of Elan: "Be the first to greet the morn [...] Travel with great élan, dance a jig at the funeral."
"We were here!"
Who else is going to vote for this song's inclusion on the next Voyager golden record, if there'll ever be one?
I'm really surprised you didnt catch the "Enter Sandman" riff thrown in there
Yea, I did see the look.
And no one seems to catch Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in the beginning of that part
@@mr.marmaduke4781 Music Teacher Reacts did, check out his reaction of the song!
@@mr.marmaduke4781 Or the piano piece reminiscent of John Carpenter's "Halloween" theme.
@@mr.marmaduke4781 The Charismatic Voice did, too.
Great reaction, too bad it ended a tad too soon. There is a bit in the end that ties it together (Richard Dawkins, did the spoken word in the beginning of the song, comes back and finish it whooff)
funny when you look at the camera and say, I get it. When it dosnt look like you got it at all ha - excellent
It's not a big deal playing the song without the last few minutes the track. Nobody complains that they never play the last few minutes of Song of Myself. In both cases, gorgeous orchestral music worth the listen, but in a live setting? It's okay. We still had a damn good time.
This Show is not the Greatest Show on Earth - but this song TELLS about the greatest show on Earth - life.
"Greatest show" is evolution of the Earth and nature itself, changing and progressing, from before the Big Bang to the world we are living in right now. All captured in this mesmerising piece. You should really check the lyrics, maybe even the ones that have basic explanations to them, puts it all in much better perspective. I will forever be in awe of Tuomas' incredible mind
Not from Big Bang, starting with Earths birth ”Four point six” is the first parts name, 4,6 billion years is the appr. age of Earth.
Nightwish Army reporting for duty! Great choice!
Floor's parents were at that concert. She was also highlighted and filmed at that corcert for a Dutch tv show about the rock school she attended on her accomplishments. Parents were interviewed as well as many others. I wish that show was at least subtitled in English.
It is. Easy to find too.
Here it is: th-cam.com/video/B3NIfu0qvtg/w-d-xo.html
There was a bit more you missed at the end watch it in your own time .
You asked about the lyrics: It's of course about the evolving of a life in a nutshell (=greatest show on earth), history of human (and also music in few seconds), small glimpse of present, ending all the way to future
15:34 🤯 I just realised that's Bachs Menuet playing😍
It's the fugue from the Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565. :)
@@one42chrisp No, before that, the fainter one. :)
I like the Wembley and Buenos Aires versions due to Troy using the ebow at the beginning.
totally read ebow as elbow and had a Jim Carrey Dumb&Dumber moment like.. "No-wayyyy?!!!"
Very nice reaction. The first time I heard this song was on the album. When I heard them singing, "We Were Here", the first thing I thought was... mankind is dying. Becoming extinct. And these are the last few humans screaming out, We Were Here, in hopes of humanity always being remembered. The album version has a musical & sound effects ending that seems to introduce a new dominant species. Such a great song.
"We were here !" Textbook 101 lessons on how to drive a crowd crazy at the end of the show. l nearly cried on the third call.
You missed the great narration by Richard Dawkins in the end. The entire album ”Endless Forms Most Beautiful” is a concept album about evolution. Tuomas studied biology and his heroes are Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan and Charles Darwin. Their new album ”Human. :|: Nature.” is a sequel to Endless Forms and is about humanity and nature and is much more environmental.
Good reaction, but you missed the end of the song when Richard Dawkins speaks... Listen to that part. Keep Nightwish coming!
I have seen this one many many times and will watch it many more. I have it on DVD. Peace
Ah, that is sad, you ended it to early, there was more to this song. Or you somehow found a version where the ending is not included, but I don’t know how that could have happened. The song is approximately 4 minutes longer.
Yes, unfortunately some powerful words are missing that should us (humanity) remind of our precious life, since we won „the lottery“ of birth.
VR462002 indeed. But also more than just those words, an, in my opinion, important part of the music as well.
I think its this version. I've seen it end on other reactions before the credits.
J Peterson Photos Yes, but a lot of reactors also end the video prematurely because the pause between the two parts is so long and they are even already thanking the audience. I do not know if there are several videos of The Greatest Show on Earth at Tampere, but I did watch several reactors who finished the entire song. He did say it was 17 minutes before he even started the video though, which makes me think that this video really was only 17 minutes long and did not include the end of this song. I have no idea why someone would cut off the end of a song and then post it though.
@@sanderhoogeland9161 This specific version that starts with Marko's intro (+ subtitles) does end early. Seen this specific version on many react channels. It's unfortunate, but nothing that he could've done about it - send links when you request songs!
Troy Donockley on" flute-lookin' thing" LOL. :)
Nice reaction, at some point, in your own time of course, you may want to watch the rest of it :)
Great reaction man with or without the ending 🤘🤘
I Love how you notice that they do perform a lot of their songs in "movements" ! He definitely is a modern composer, and to decide to write a song description of basically the beginning of the Earth (universe?), Of Man's beginning and destruction and our possible END is no easy task. But I believe it is WELL done, indeed !!! The looks on your face are priceless. Yep !
The song is not about environmental awareness but the evolution of the earth...and never end it to soon ;) but thx for covering, always fun
It is funny you said very Children of Bodom in that one part :D CoB was actually co-staring there. It was an amazing set with Sonata Arctica, CoB and Nightwish. Enjoyed every bit of that evening!
I really like your comment about Children of Bodom. It is the first time I heard it, but for that particular section it is so true.
I was thinking the same, I never thought it but now I see it
Unfortunately, the imagery wasn't as obvious as you thought. The images showed the evolutionary history of animal-kind, in sequential order.
Those harmonies between Marco and Floor in their vocal parts ... the best here and of course the final scene ... and no more about it. You look at it for sure. They conveyed the feeling that the greatest show on earth came to be presented.
Ack! i wish i could say "Wait! There's more!" The music playing as they take their bows is part of the piece, and it includes some of the most profound words from Dawkins.
This is the video he watched. As you can see, it doesn't include the outro. :)
m.th-cam.com/video/hMaJtY0xG00/w-d-xo.html
True, true, true. I think that the holy trinity Ghost Love Score - Poet and the Pendulum - Greatest Show on Earth are mini musicals. You can notice how the story is developing from section to section.
At first glance it sounds like Thoumas wrote about the enviroment. However, when you listen carefully to the spoken parts that's the moment when you notice that it's talking about evolution.
Honestly, this song hits me hard. Especially nowadays with everything that it's happening. "We Were Here" those three words, man, they pound on my chest and pushes some tears from my eyes.
This song is the last song from the Endless Forms Most Beautiful album (2015), their first album with Floor.
The whole album is about evolution on our planet, inspired by Charles Darwin and professor Richard Dawkins (who is doing actual spoken parts in the album; he even toured together with NW for this album. There is a live version of TGSOE where he speaks from the stage). There is also song Weak Fantasy (that you heard already) talking about religion as a "Tribal poetry", "Lust for fantasy" and "Male necrocracy".
This particular piece of art is about the evolution of our planet, from the very beginning to the present days (and maybe beyond ["enter ratkind"]). This song has so many references (for ex. LUCA -- Last Universal Common Ancestor, Scions of the Devonian, Lucy of the Afar, etc.)
Video you saw is not complete, there are also two spoken parts by Richard Dawkins:
First one:
"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones
Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born
The potential people who could have been here in my place
But who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara
Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton
We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA
So massively exceeds the set of actual people
In the teeth of those stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here
We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds
How dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state
From which the vast majority have never stirred?"
Second one:
"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers
Having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one
And that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity
From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been
And are being, evolved."
Professor Dawkins didn't tour with Nightwish. He just joined them on the stage at end of this song at Wembley Arena concert in 2015. :)
According to Tuomas, Endless Forms Most Beautiful album is mainly about life and science. ^_^
Yes, maybe "tour" is not a particularly correct word in this case ))
4.6 billion years of evolution starting with the formation of the universe. Along comes earth and then the dreaded humans. The Greatest Show on Earth is Life itself. Did you notice at the beginning of the last section it started with the melody from Bach's "Toccata en Fugue in d minor" and ended with 2 riffs from Metallica's "Enter Sandman". The evolution of music!
Floor can sing anything!! Their new cd is amazing! Can't wait to hear them live again ❤
You cut short the ending of the video. It was the last song of the night & the band shared a beautiful ending to the night with the crowd. So glad you liked the video! Love listening to your reactions. I just found Nightwish last year & have been, for lack of a better word, obsessed with them ever since!
You definitely should do a relisten (on your own time, if you don't want to re-record it) with an understanding that this song is based on Earth's entire history, from the big bang to "we were here". There are a couple of neat musical easter eggs in this song. From Bach, to Metallica, to Dubstep. It's interesting that the spacing, is relative to their time within our own history.
I really enjoyed your reaction, so there's that. But then you ended the video too, so there's that. Also, the song is about the evolution of the world and humans and how lucky we are to actually be here on the earth. (There's that) ;-)
With Nightwish one never knows when the song ends, sadly even some people who reupload the song... you definitely should watch the Wembley version till the very end, so cool to see the huge crowd of metalheads go silent to listen to Dawkins in person.
Cool Shirt 😎👍. "Awesome, it Is ! Like it, I do ! Hmmmphh ! ". LOL! Yoda in my Tennessee accent ....
I think this song, more so with many other songs in other NW reactions, is really best listened to with the context of the whole album. I'd really reocmmend listening to the whole album, in order. In the same way as the song moves thorugh sections like a classical piece, so does the entire album, and a few of the last songs take compounding elements of the previous songs and build it up. On my first few listens, I really appreicated how longer songs towards the end, like 'Endless forms most beuatiful' had different sections, each denoting the songs/their themes throughout the album. This is also really apparent in the orchestral (no vocals) version of the album, which I also love- But definitely worth listening to the orignals first time round.
Erm.. not really environmentalism... it's about the evolutionary history of this planet with a "maybe" ending - also based on Richard Dawkins book of the same name... he's also the bloke you hear in the spoken lines.
Otherwise, love your reaction, and after all you're supposed to be able to interpret the song on your own, I'm just poisoned by 10 years of history studies on top of English language and culture studies, so meh I'm a lost cause for artistic interpretation - too much focused on semiotics ;) ^^.
However I love *your* reactions!
Best regards
Raoul G. Kunz
well, while environmentalism isnt the core of the song, there are some parts that have undertones that can be interpreted as environmentalism, because there are lines about the negativities of humankind too (
Hunger for shiny rocks/For giant mushroom clouds)
Hey , you need to check out High Hopes by Nightwish. It is a Pink Floyd cover song. With Marco on vocals Jukka on drums and Emppu on guitar really shines. Enjoy
Masterpiece
Tampere is in Finland (where I live) pronounced Tom + pair + eh (like the Canadians say). Roll the R =) Also, you should go back and listen to what is said while they are taking their bows, etc. Very deep quotes.
He has such oceans within...
I appreciate you not tracking it down while you were listening it.
Poor Troy to always be known as the player of "Wacky Instruments"
Perhaps someone has already said this, but now you might understand why the great Hans Zimmer has said that he recognizes Tuomas an equal as a composer.
I've never heard this! Is there a link to it? I'd love to show it off!
If you want to include the end of the song you could react to the "Live at Wembley" version - it has a special twist/surprise there. It lacks the fireworks though, obviously, because it´s indoors...
Great reaction as always, thank you :-)! Greetings from Germany
I know you are into the music part and not especially on the tellings of their songs. But one of the reasons to Nightwish's success is that their lyrics are deep and their ability to get the emotions, thoughts, soul and message out to the crowd. The lyrics are often just as complexed as the composition of the music. Often you can get new angles on the lyrics, if your mood changes.
Good reaction from you, and I believe you really enjoys the music
In your free time I recommend you checking out their Wembley arena performance of the same song. No fireworks but imo musically speaking superior version
Greetings from Finland & thanks for choosing the Tampere 2015 version. This might be an interesting read for those who want to know more about this song (in particular the album version): Why Nightwish’s “The Greatest Show on Earth” is also one of the greatest songs medium.com/option-x/why-nightwishs-the-greatest-show-on-earth-is-also-one-of-the-greatest-songs-dfc703f658a3
P.S. This song took 2½ weeks to mix in the studio for the album because they had 800 audio tracks to work with - not just all the instruments & vocals, but also animal sounds etc..
"didn't you get the memo, Peter?" kidddding
This song us about the 4.5 billion years of evolution. Starting from the big bang up to modern humans.
YES, and not about environmentalism. That's what the subtitles are for :D But thanks for reaction nevertheless :)
@david wright It is not starting from big bang, the first part is ”Four point six” which is appr. earths age, so it is propably meteorites hiting earth and its vulcanic period.
@@mantailuaa It might also be meteorites colliding and merging and eventually forming the Earth. :)
masterpiece..
5:14 music: a combination of sounds, with a view to beauty and expression of emotion.
understanding every single word is not so important.
The video is cut, after the "end" the band goes to salute the crowd and in the background the rest of the track is played, with more spoken words from Richard Dawkings (the one that speaks in the intro).
Also did you catch the Bach pieces and Enter Sandman riff in the instrumental part between the last choruses? That was intentional and it's like showing the "evolution" of the music through centuries, there is a dance/disco sort of beat as well, pretty cool.
Troy is playing the low whistle and then the uilleann pipes.
We were here
Floor: Enter LUCA
Marco: Enter Ionia
Emppu: Enter Sandman
I CANT believe no one suggested "7 Days to the Wolves - Live at Wembley". I strongly believe it could become a Top 3 for you... Check it please.
He reacted to it in one of his livestreams. I think it was when he watched the documentary called To Nightwish With Love. :)
Troy plays irish low whistle first in the beginning
Yessss!!!!!
So, I'm a huge fan of NW but haven't been aware of them throughout their career, (liked them yrs ago w/ Tarja, but fell out of touch w/ music for different reasons).. once I joined YT and started searching I eventually found NW & rekindled my love for them, esp. Tuomas...so, I'm probably not someone that would be considered part of the Army, but I'm going to give my opinion anyway... Overall, I liked your reaction. I don't think it's a _huge_ misstep if you missed the very end - (I've watched reactions to my fav. song, Poet & the Pendulum, who took off their headphones without pausing or rewinding the video & that have completely missed a couple of important moments because they weren't paying attention... to me, those are worse 'offenses' than missing the end or taking away a different meaning. Personally, as a lIfe-long activist for the earth & animals, if anyone takes a message from this that we need to wake up, care, or fight for the planet... you won't hear (read about) me complaining. (Although the 'bigger' meaning and the spoken parts are very cool, and worth a re-watch). ☺
Slaying the Dreamer... with Tarja
This version of the video actually does end too early, it's not his fault at all - remember to include links to the correct versions when you ask for reactions and it shouldn't happen! :)
The flute guy: Troy.
[EDIT] It's ridiculous how Troy's pipes fit in this song.
Like.. Greats... Go on
"7 Days to the Wolves" next, London, Wembley Arena)))
great reaction. listen to the end of the video which also part of the song. there is a quote from Richard Dawkins.
Ты увидел Троя в вокальном трио, красавчик, немногие его заметили.
Good reaction to totally missed the ending damn gonna have to do it again ....lol actually 88000 lol.
OK, hang on. LMAO....Seriously. This is GREAT.
You Picked up your coffee cup, talked into the microphone, and said, "I'm always afraid to take a drink because they'll do something SUPER dramatic."
While you're taking that drink, you miss about 1000 years of the History of music.
You pick up your cup just as the history of music allegory starts; Tuomas injected just under a minute after the first chorus in "the Toolmaker" section of the song...
The whole piece softens (you pick up your mug) you get a little touch of tribal rhythms, some throat singing advancing to a bit of simple flute music (You're talking about missing something) as the throat singing advances to chant similar to Gregorian, and ends, you get JUST a second then you hear a harpsichord VERY quietly playing Bach's Minuet in G, (you're talking about being afraid of spilling your coffee) followed by a single measure of a choral part I can't quite place, but I KNOW is familiar, (Ba-da-Da-DUm-DUM!) a bit of (you're laughing and putting your cup down) prepatory music (you're back listening, but probably not enough to notice that:) the entire band BLOWS back in with a METAL version of the main theme of Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D Minor, a few little themes until you CLEARLY hear Emppu drop the "Enter Sandman" riff,(your ears perk a little, but you werent' really ready for it, so you didn't really catch it) followed by (you have to be paying attention) JUST part of a measure (literally 2-and-3-and4-and) of EDM.
😀Dude., Listen to JUST that part again. PLEASE. You're a music nerd. That 56 second part is MADE for Music nerds.
It's about the evolution of the earth from the beginning of creation.. From the bangs at the beginning to early man, modern man.. and it has spots of spoken bits. quotes of Darwin...
Never stop the video before it actually ends....you lost the last bit...
Ty its about evolution of earth, play it to the end credits if you watch with your gf.
This song is not an environmentalist song as you seemed to believe it to be. It wasn't overt because it wasn't that. The song is about the miraculous ENTIRE history of the Earth. "The greatest show on Earth" is not an egotistical portrayal of their own song, but rather it is the show that is the entirety of the Earth.
The first part "4 point 6" (the Earth is 4.6 billion years old) which was mostly instrumental is the formation of the Earth itself from the proto-planetary disk, collapsing into itself and the early meteor bombardments, all sprinkling the planet with the elements and chemicals for what it needs for the next stage...
Part 2 "Life", which is the evolution of all forms, from the simple single cells to more and more complex forms. This is why you saw all those images of plants and animals, because that was the nature of the part, all life that has come and gone throughout the ages. Life continues to evolve until eventually...
Part 3 "The Toolmaker" = us (mankind). This part talks about both the wonders we've created, our great search for the truth, and also our destructive nature which will eventually lead to our end. Mankind forever hoping to leave it's mark, crying out "We were here!".
Parts 4 and 5 were the parts you skipped, but they are less dramatic. The band did their bows to a backing track for these final parts. Part 4 is essentially a spoken word epilogue to mankind, and part 5 is the sound of ocean waves on the shore, as the Earth continues without us.
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evolution not environment. from the big bang to end of it all last 4 mins is orchestral with richard dawkins speaking. worth watching last 4 mins .
Since previously you asked if they have any bad songs, you should ask viewers for the WORST Nightwish song suggestions and react to the one picked out the most. :)
If you listen to Album recording together with the lyrics , you will find much more....:-)
You did not watch to the end. It's about evolution. 'The greatest show on earth' is actually a book by Richard Dawkins and that's also why you hear his voice speaking. He speaks in the end again and basically explains.
Evolution my good man. The Big Bang theory. Richard Dawkins is the man who narrated. Huge Darwin person.
*Cue people outraged about the reactor, oblivious to the entire song since the whole point of reacting is not having a preconception, not knowing it wasn't the whole song.
If y'all didn't know it wasn't going to be the whole song when he said he had a 17-minute video, you're not here for the reaction.
If not outraged, then - *Cue dozens of people all saying the same thing about the song being truncated, but nicely. Always fascinates me that we do this.
Anyway, great observations to the atmosphere created by the song. My take is it's about life and its expansion, and how fortunate we all are to be a part of it....and how grateful we probably should be. You're right, NW isn't very subtle in their imagery. The show is unilateral in its quest of producing an immersive experience. It's one I hope to have someday. Keep up the good work.
with nightwish you should never stop the video until the end. just an advice... great reaction.
Uilleann pipes
It's not environmentalist, It is the story of the planet from birth to now.
Жаль, что не до конца досмотрел. Great reaction anyway!
This song is wonderful to listen to while doing other things. While it's one of my favorites, it's not a 100% banger. It's always seemed to me like the director's cut of a good movie, where a good editor could probably cut 5-7m of it to tighten it up, and that would make it more palatable to ye olde masses. There are a few songs from Nightwish which start out borderline ordinary before building and building until by the end you're convinced Tuomas is just doing that to flex like "I could've always done that but I just wanted to make you wait for it." Empuu occasionally gets large swaithes of time off (more or less) in Nightwish, as happens in this song. Very generally, I like the songs where he's more to the front of the sound. If you want a more distilled version of the big ending you should check out Nightwish doing "Alpenglow" from Wembley. The "We Are Here" is a reprise of that song. th-cam.com/video/FrJvKZNEh7g/w-d-xo.html
Tin pipes i believe
This is from Endless form most beautiful...2015
"Only" 26k people at the Ratina Stadion in Tampere, not 70k. ;)
7 DAYS TO THE WOLVES FROM WEMBLEY!!!!!!
He reacted to that song at end of his livestream of To Nightwish With Love. :)
Its more about telling the story of earth and evolution, more than enviromentalist message. Obviously those two themes go hand in hand somewhat since we are "pinnacle" of evolution and messing things up.
Actually you were spot off, but unless you are familiar with the lyrics, not a big deal. Hearing the end might have helped. The song is from the perspective of a scientist studying all the wonders of the universe and life, from beginning to present, which is the greatest show.
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This isn't really Environmentalism, it's the most classic of all Prog themes: "Shall Man Survive?"
Nooo, not you of all reactors... cut it short :(
I think it's the version he got. Either way, he pretty much missed the point. He thinks it is about environmentalism. Once he finally reads the lyrics, he'll get it.