When Floor and Troy became permanent members (June 2013) their influence inspired Tuomas to change his view of writing, from the more personal and into the univesal perspective of the Evolution. Troy gave Tuomas some books of Richard Dawkins, to add another angel to Tuomas's fascination of Sagan and Darwin - and it worked! Both Tuomas, Floor and Troy wanted to be Biologists as grown ups - therefore the common interest and shared inspiration of the Nature and Evolution. Tuomas wrote this album - which is the first of a triologi about the Evolution / Humans / Nature - the second came in 2018 ( Human Nature), and the last one is coming this year / summer.) This is music for people that are open to what we humans essential are - our place in the Evolution of the Universe.. When you listen to 'The greatest show on Earth' again, you will find more details. It also includes the evolution of music (instruments, singing techniques, styles, from tribal drumming, classical and into Metallica's Enter Sandman) This story is in so many layers, that you can discover more every time - even the pictures are there for reasons. This is why Nightwish have an Army - and there is no doubt that you are a part of it, because Nightwish gives you somethings 👍💪 And great reaction and interpretation from you!
Sounds a bit like Kusturica's Arizona Dream ""Kusturica had obvious difficulties getting used to the American way of filmmaking. His first draft of a screenplay based on Atkins' text ran to 265 pages. Forced by the producers, he withdrew for a couple of weeks to shorten the text. After two weeks, he arrived at the producers with a 294-page script." 🤭 "The next problem was the length of the film. Kusturica's first cut was a modest nine hours! " 😂 -> "The original edit, as American Dreams, was four hours long. It was trimmed down to 2 hours 22 minutes for theatrical release as Arizona Dream." ("Originally released in Europe at 142 minutes. The USA version was cut down to 119 minutes.")
The book that inspired this is The Greatest Show On Earth - The Evidence For Evolution by Professor Richard Dawkins. It is him doing the spoken word parts.
@@kikadroid4260 exactly. And this once in a lifetime event makes Wembley 2015 the most epic TGSOE version ever. I like the intro better in the Wembley version as well. The fireworks are nice, but Wembley 2015 still rules
Great reaction! In a radio interview Tuomas talked about the five most essential songs in his career and this is what he said about The Greatest Show On Earth: Tuomas: "This particular song caused us to take a year-long sabbatical in 2017. I remember the moment when this song was finished and recorded. Then I listened to it on the record and I really got the feeling at the time that "This is it!? What comes to songwriting, at least for Nightwish, I have nothing left!?". Because this was such an ultimate thing for me. That now I was able to do what I had trained for years, what I could do. That was the feeling at that moment. Because of this moment, I had to agree with the band to take a break and see if there are still stories that we want to make songs about. A year-long break helped to find inspiration again. This song was a matter of personal pride for me."
Tuomas Holopainen, the keyboardist, is the brain behind this band. He is the composer who wrote 99% of the music and lyrics. They call him a metal Mozart. He has a band with his wife and also a solo album, which you should check out. I can't wait to see more of your reactions to their music.
Blue Marble, pre-cognition... Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist, his 2009 book: "The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution". Nightwish makes you look stuff up. We learn better that way. "On the Origin of Species", the epilogue: "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" (Charles Darwin), also the name of Floors 1st Nightwish album. Mrs Do-as-you-would-be-done-by, Charles Kingsley: "The Water Babies” a positive parody of “On the Origin of Species”!
Tampere i love you. I saw my very first daylight in this town back in 1958. I saw Nightwish there in 2022. Today i live in Sweden since many many years. .but my heart is still in Finland. Thank you for a great reaction to a great song and a great band. Cheers from a finn in Sweden.🎉
Hello Saeed. It's nice to see that you started to check Nightwish videos for the Lyrics and now you are starting to love the music also. You're stopping for the music and the song, on the first reactions you only stoped for the Lyrics. Welcome to the Nightwish ARMY. 🤘
UK Army popping in to say WE WERE THERE. Very insightful reaction. You missed the evolution of music in the middle but I will forgive that on a first listen
@@SaeedReacts.And if possible the Live version of Shoemaker from the Hellfest 2022 festival. I never thought they would play this complicated piece live, and boy they delivered.....
WE WERE HERE 🤘🤘🤘 Spoken words are from Sir Richard Dawkins. The costume of the GODDESS adequate ......blue and white.....the finnish colours and the applications remembering at the helix of the human DNA. But you didn`t get the Metallica-riff during the solo of Emppu 🤣🤣🤣 Reference to human artwork..... Rock On Man 🤘🤘🤘
The Greatest Show on Earth is the last song on the album Endless Forms Most Beautiful… and if you listen to it all the way to the end and then put on Human :II: Nature album, the first song Music, you will soon realize these two albums are connected. It’s like TGSOE continues. The third and last part of this trilogy will be the album which is relesed later this year.
The time has come my friend for this epic masterpiece. Only Nightwish can do these performances bro. You never gonna hear something like that like me. Thanks so much. Keep going dude.
💎 The quote " Diamonds are made under pressure " you are one of us Brother 🤘🏽you're reaction... My wife say's raw diamond this man/human is ! ( May God Bless You Exceedingly And Abundantly More 🙏🏽 Love and support from Italy 🇮🇹
Well done, Saeed! I'm glad to have moved this up in your queue, because I knew you'd really appreciate and enjoy this. And I enjoyed hearing your thoughts throughout. It's an amazing composition to begin with, but the way they brought it to life here is really special. They gave it the spectacle it deserves. There is another very popular version from Wembley Arena, in which Richard Dawkins (who did the spoken parts here) made a surprise appearance at the end, to deliver those last lines in person. It's just not quite the spectacle overall that this version is.
Funny how you mentioned Darwin's The Origin of Species at the first text spoken by Richard Dawkins, not knowing that at the very end the same Dawkins would quote the final paragraph of The Origin of Species. I assume you will like Nightwish songs like Sagan, Shoemaker and Stargazer 🙂
Be aware that at the Wembley concert they performed Ghost Love Score (10 mins), The Poet and the Pendulum (14 mins) and this one, The Greatest Show on Earth ( 21 mins) as well as several other new songs and some old favourites.
This is so great, I use to listen to the Tampere version because I'm Finnish. I also love the Wembley concert. I also feel a longing for Peace here☮💞❤💖
Yes. A tribute from the genius of Tuomas Holopainen to the legacy of this pale blue sphere and its current and former inhabitants. Such a beautiful and wonderful end to this fabulous concert in Finland. Simply amazing. And thank you for continuing to react to our beloved Nightwish.
Thank you for this reaction, subbed for more ❤. I've watched way too many reactions to this song and this was one the better ones. For once someone who understands what it's about early on, without knowing the subject of the song prior to listening. It's often frustrating to see the masterpiece going to waste when reactors don't even understand what they're listening to. I mean, the music itself is of course amazing and you can appreciate it as it is, but to get the full experience of this performance, it's important to know something about the subject. For me, as a science nerd, this is an emotional piece that gets me every time. I prefer the Wembley version because the technical quality is better but this one is great too.
Thank you for the kind words. Truly appreciate it. Its really a masterpiece. I do want to check out the Wembley version at some point. Have a great day!
What's really amazing about the lyrics is that they were written in a foreign language, though Tuomas is obviously fluent in English and his vocabulary exceeds that of most native speakers.
”We were here” illuminated text may be in perfect angle towards the sky and travelling thousend years through the galaxies as a light, and maybe we are already extinct at that time, but perhaps some being is interested of our planet. Watching us with some sophisticated method, zooming to Tampere Finland, my home city, for some reason, but this being don’t see our planet after 1000 years from now. This curious form of life see the image from 2015 Tampere, Ratina stadium …and the symbols ”We Were Here”. After deciphering the meaning, it has a proof that there were once life on the planet earth 👽👍🏻🌍
Always enjoy watching you . How you explain everything. And yes the greatest show on earth is a real masterpiece. Thanks for sharing it with us. And the man who is talking is Richard Dawkings
Knew you'd love this. Best song transitions ever! Professor Richard Dawkins wrote many books on supporting our evolutionary story and goes head to head with many people in religious debates. He has some great shows you can see here on YT. I think he is reading from The Greatest Show on Earth but I'm nor sure he wrote it. I have read and watched his series The God Delusion. Fascinating!
After finnishing the whole video, I must say, among the hunderds of reactions (being a massive Nightwish fan myself) this has been one the best. Like really, man, taking all those hints and involve your thoughts in the context, that's just great and valuable. Subscribed ofcourse! Thanks, have a nice one yourself 😎
Very nice job Saeed. Very deep song, I can't imagine how difficult it must be to react to first time listening, making coherent commentary, while being recorded. Much respect! I do love the message of hope that this song conveys at the end.
From the musical side i prefer Wembley version with Richard Dawkins live but my favorite version is from concert when i was last summer 2023,was magical
Hey bro!!! Good reaction!! Thanks. LUCA, last universal commun ancester. LUCY, the paleontologist who finded was hearing Lucy in the sky with diamonds from The Beatles. And this melody, in the middle, was Bach's Opsicord. Greettings from Argentina. Sorry for my English. Sorry, and the book is Richard Dawkins, "The greatest show on earth. If you check the Wembley performans, Dawkins in person says the final speak.
Its so wonderful. Do treat yourself to the Wembley version in England too. Some production differences, and a special guest instead of the voiceovers. ;)
Was at two concerts last year,Antwerp and Amsterdam,best concerts ever,believe me….please listen to more music,they are amazing,greetings from Holland✅
Enjoyed your reaction! All the spoken word sections except for the final one are from Richard Dawkins and he is the one speaking them. The final spoken words section is from Origin of Species. When I saw Nightwish live in Boston in 2022 they ended the show with Last Ride of the Day, Ghost Love Score, and The Greatest Show on Earth followed by the last movement of All the Works of Nature Which Adorn the World, Ad Astra during the outro while the band took their bows. All the Works of Nature is a beautiful 30 minute, 8 movement orchestral piece by Tuomas that comprises Disc 2 of Human Nature. Ad Astra features an extended spoken word section quoting Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot. Very impactful like Dawkins spoken word section here. I have never left a concert so inspired and uplifted to go out and live my best life. You should definitely checkout the fan made, band approved video that goes with All the Works of Nature Which Adorn the World. th-cam.com/video/RnOdQ5WNZJk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=KMQ0oOdXPCrxw6yw. A stunningly beautiful example of Tuomas compositional genius.
One of my favorites, and outside the music, I can very much appreciate Mr. Dawkins, especially him saying that when it comes to being born, we won the lottery. :)
Tampere 2015: th-cam.com/video/n3yYI2VWdC0/w-d-xo.html 1. Shudder Before the Beautiful, 2. Yours Is an Empty Hope, 3. Amaranth, 4. She is My Sin, 5. Dark Chest of Wonders, 6. My Walden 7. The Islander, 8.Élan, 9. Weak Fantasy, 10. Storytime, 11. Endless Forms Most Beatuful, 12. Alpenglow, 13. Stargazers 14. Sleeping sun, 15. Ghost Love Score, 16. The Greatest Show on Earth
Haha, "meatsack of a body"😂😂 Dude thanks for your elaborate analysis on this pearl of a performance! Loved every bit of it. But wow, I'm sure you had your weekly musical fulfilment with Work Sh*t Out, Schism and TGSOE one after another 😉😂 That's a lot to take in man! Thanks again 🤘
Glad you reacted to the Tampere version, but when you feel like it listen to the Wembley version as there are a couple of changes which are interesting, I do like the Tampere version though. As always thank you for you breakdown and analysis and your thoughts on it, I'm a life long atheist so it's my cup of tea, Tuomas is a genius isn't he and the band well what can you say but perfection, see you for the next one 🇬🇧
Hearing what you say about the fireworks and having powers. Many years ago, I was fooling around with a friend and we were giving it some banter. We were outdoors on a sunny Summer day, with a bit of heavy cloud above. After one comment, I said "Hah, say that again and feel my wrath!" Just then, there was a massive CRACK of thunder with lightning. You should have seen my friend's face! It couldn't have been timed better.
I really take my hat off to your intellect in deciphering this complex song, well done. Yes this is not a song but a beautiful composition in only Tuomas could bring to life and only Floor could deliver with her toolmaker buddies of course 💥💥💥💥💥
Yes Saeed, Tuomas uses Korg keyboards. Interesting sleep commentary. It was the finale of this tour. All of these spoken words are from Richard Dawkins and his books on evolution. You Saeed are a integral part of "The Greatest Show on Earth"! Evolution leading to life in all its forms.
Tuomas had to shorten this work so the band was physically able to play it live! Like someone else already said, I want to hear it in full! The gestures and the fireworks - magic! Jedi? Sorceror? Crazy old Wizard? ( I can say that, Tuomas and I have the same birthday!) This gig was special for Floor because her parents were in the audience. The start 13.8 billion years ago or 27.8 billion years ago - inconceivable..... and to think our sun probably has only 5 billion years of benevolent life left - still unimaginable. Except for maybe Tuomas..... unless we muck it all up sooner. edit: I hope ET finds this in the distant future, translates it and wonders what/who was where and when? and why?
What a ride!! Thank you again for another amazing reaction! if you like the start of life... also a great song of NW is, Music.... from their last album
This song was based on the book called (you guessed it) The Greatest Show in Earth, by Richard Dawkins. He even went ti perform the final part at the Wembley arena with them. Check it out!
The book is: "The greatest show on earth" from Richard Dokins. Greatings, because you are one of those people who understand the meaning of this song. Most reactors don´t do this. My point of view (the sad one) is directly before "We were Here" They used the past form for mankind. "Man, he TOOK his time in the sun, HAD a dream to understand......"That means, from their POV humans are not still here......! "We were here!!!" We left our footprints and then ..... gone.
Lucy is the most famous skeleton finding but older skeletons have been found after Lucy. Ardi who was found in Ethiopia is a really important find. The skeleton is 4.4 million years old. Human was for a long time defined as the tool maker and that was what separated us from other animals until Dr Jane Goodall found out that Chimpanzees made tools during her studies at Gombe. She was hired by the anthropologists Louis Leakey to do the study and he said the famous words "Now we must redefine tool, redefine man, or accept chimpanzees as human". 🤓🇸🇪
"We have evolved to sitting in the attic and talking to a camera, while others are looking at their phones and looking at that same dude talking". Love that, pretty much sums it all up 😂 Greets from Finland by the abnormally hairless chimp with a stick and a phone
I love you reaction! I really appreciate that you are analizing the text and all the parts of the song, because those who don't know what this song is aobut, loose a lot! This song has a great impact on me. This lyric is so powerful. Our human life is just a grain of sand in the Universe.. And we all should be greatful we were so lucky to be born in this world, as Prof Dawkins says.
@@SaeedReacts. It is so satisfying watching a reaction of someone who understands everything it is there! And I don't know if you caught manuet, bach and enter sandman 😉
This song perfectly arrange a theme describing deep time and I love it. About your thoughts around the thirty minute mark. If our civilisation dies in the near future (in the next hundred thousand years or so) then there needs to be archeologists as clever as humans hundred million years from now to suspect high tech society once lived on earth. The sediments that remain from our era would suggest some kind of industrialization because a few indicators all come together to suggest that in a centimeter of sediments of rocks, where some could be said to suggest natural global warming, but not all of the indicators. They wouldn't know what we looked like unless a very lucky fossil was found. The dinosaurs lived for over a hundred million years and humans for 200k years, a fragment of that time. We've not found that many fossils from those millions of years. It is unlikely they would find a fossil of us unless we live for a million years at least. These are the nutty speculations we can make, because we can grasp deep time. It is the universe that takes the divine space. Our atoms were forged in stars in the early universe and we will be forgotten very soon on that time scale. But we can admire and learn more of where we came from.
You totally seem to miss the point of "we were here", it's obvious it's a line of gratefulness of being born at all, and having the opportunity to experience what our world was, is and is becoming.
The book the quotes are from (except the last which is from The Origin of Species) Richard Dawkins book "The Greatest Show on Earth." And yes, it's Dawkins reading the quotes. The biggest lyrical line I can’t get over is “Atavistic dread of the hunted.” The thing about that line is that it’s there because Tuomas is being extremely precise with his meaning - he is describing not just “terrible” fear, but the kind of primal, instinctual hair on the back of your neck dread you feel even when there is no specific reason for it - “relating to or characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral” - It’s the right word, but I gotta give Tuomas, whose first language is not English, a sesquipedalian tip of the cap for dropping that line. Later, “A single grain of sand” means “the world.” It’s a William Blake quote from “Auguries of Innocence.” 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 In other words, “to understand the entire world,” but said much more poetically. I’m pretty sure Tuomas is going for double meaning when he says “he gave birth to poetry,” it seems to me to say what it says literally, but also, it seems to reference all the wonders man accomplished as “poetic.” Based on his other songs where Tuomas regularly self-identifies as a “poet” rather than a “songwriter” or “composer” it’s a word he uses, I think, to describe the best of himself, and in this context, I think he means the best of mankind as well. I love the promise of “Greet the last light of the library.” Here he has man facing his extinction, but in that one line, Tuomas tells us that right up until the end we never stop seeking knowledge. Such a masterpiece!
Great reaction! You really understand what they are singing about. By the way when you watch this song at the concert Wembley 2015 there will be a surprise at the end (Richard Dawkins on stage speaking the last words of "Origin of Species").
We exist in the Avarar movie. We are still in the “prior state” and have been allowed to project conscious energy into a “meat suit technology” designed to interact in the holographic projection most call “reality.”
Here the Nightwish army Dutch Division..... you just entered the Nightwish rabbit hole! 😁👍 Also try Romanticide from Wacken (or do the whole concert) and watch "Yours is an empty hope" at Wembley (th-cam.com/video/GAMMYicjq-Y/w-d-xo.htmlsi=-ICpJlUGBoDdF-yJ). Then when you're ready for it read the story behind "The poet and the pendulum" and then watch the video 😢 also at Wembley.... th-cam.com/video/HStJNIX5qnY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Tht6hFHrv8Q9PQ09
Hello! I am now making my way through the setlist of Wacken 2013. I started jumping off the deep end. If you go to my Nightwish playlist you might see i started with The Poet and the Pendulum. Just off a subscribers recommendation. Had no idea what i was getting into. It was amazing. But i will revisit that song after i explore more Nightwish. Have a great weekend. Groetjes uit België.
According to Tank the Tech , Tuomas is definitely Korg exclusively, Marco Warwick Vamp, and Empuu EV1...Troy, of course, plays everything...the voiceover is Richard Dawkins, Evolutionary Biologist, (geneticist?), from his book from which this song is named
Humans... Yep. Maybe Gaia got tired of being knocked back by impact after impact, singled out a monkey and said: "I'm turning you loose to destroy a bunch of shit -- even each other -- til you have a club big enough to hit an asteroid. It's in your hands, monkeys. The penguins and the rhinos just aren't up to it. No thumbs, or brains between them -- couldn't put a PowerPoint presentation together if their lives depended on it." (-; ••• Sir! REAL!!!
The "single grain of sand" lyric I didn't get at first. But if we must consider the most minute details, such as quantum effects, then even the sand grain is beyond our understanding. The models we create of such things are only close approximations. Then, I guess it's referring to the limitations of humans.
WE WERE HERE. Gets me every time! The past tense...man.
We were here, man. We were here. ❤️
Only Nightwish would do the history of Earth, and the life on it, in one song. There's a lot to unpack in this one!
This is truly epic! Wow!
Don't forget the universe and music 🤘
Well done as always sir and now it's time to go Work Shit Out! LOL Cheers!@@SaeedReacts.
Funny, they closed one album with the history of Earth, and then opened the following album with the history of music. Tuomas doesn't mess around.
and the end of it as we know it. Existing of humans is nothing on earths timeline. We are here for a vey short time, enjoy it 100%
How nice to see a reactor who understands what it's all about. There are people who react to it and in the end have no idea what it's about.
Thanks for the kind words. Truly an epic song and performance.
When Floor and Troy became permanent members (June 2013) their influence inspired Tuomas to change his view of writing, from the more personal and into the univesal perspective of the Evolution.
Troy gave Tuomas some books of Richard Dawkins, to add another angel to Tuomas's fascination of Sagan and Darwin - and it worked! Both Tuomas, Floor and Troy wanted to be Biologists as grown ups - therefore the common interest and shared inspiration of the Nature and Evolution.
Tuomas wrote this album - which is the first of a triologi about the Evolution / Humans / Nature - the second came in 2018 ( Human Nature), and the last one is coming this year / summer.)
This is music for people that are open to what we humans essential are - our place in the Evolution of the Universe..
When you listen to 'The greatest show on Earth' again, you will find more details. It also includes the evolution of music (instruments, singing techniques, styles, from tribal drumming, classical and into Metallica's Enter Sandman)
This story is in so many layers, that you can discover more every time - even the pictures are there for reasons.
This is why Nightwish have an Army - and there is no doubt that you are a part of it, because Nightwish gives you somethings 👍💪
And great reaction and interpretation from you!
Thanks for sharing. So much to their storytelling and performance. Beautiful.
Tuomas once said, that the first written version of this was about 90 min long and I still want to hear it!
40 minutes
I concur! Come on Tuomas!
They released a special edition for fans, with instrumental and orchestral versions!
Director's cut!
no matter how long, wanna hear it, every second of it
Sounds a bit like Kusturica's Arizona Dream ""Kusturica had obvious difficulties getting used to the American way of filmmaking. His first draft of a screenplay based on Atkins' text ran to 265 pages. Forced by the producers, he withdrew for a couple of weeks to shorten the text. After two weeks, he arrived at the producers with a 294-page script." 🤭 "The next problem was the length of the film. Kusturica's first cut was a modest nine hours! " 😂
-> "The original edit, as American Dreams, was four hours long. It was trimmed down to 2 hours 22 minutes for theatrical release as Arizona Dream." ("Originally released in Europe at 142 minutes. The USA version was cut down to 119 minutes.")
The book that inspired this is The Greatest Show On Earth - The Evidence For Evolution by Professor Richard Dawkins. It is him doing the spoken word parts.
Thanks for letting me know. Will read the book.
And of course "The last light of the library" by Jenny Boyes
@@SaeedReacts.
You can listen to it😁. It's also an audio book.
🤓🇸🇪
And incase no one has mentioned it yet Richard Dawkins joins them on stage and delivers the final monologue live in the wembley 2015 concert😊
@@kikadroid4260 exactly. And this once in a lifetime event makes Wembley 2015 the most epic TGSOE version ever. I like the intro better in the Wembley version as well. The fireworks are nice, but Wembley 2015 still rules
Great reaction! In a radio interview Tuomas talked about the five most essential songs in his career and this is what he said about The Greatest Show On Earth:
Tuomas: "This particular song caused us to take a year-long sabbatical in 2017. I remember the moment when this song was finished and recorded. Then I listened to it on the record and I really got the feeling at the time that "This is it!? What comes to songwriting, at least for Nightwish, I have nothing left!?". Because this was such an ultimate thing for me. That now I was able to do what I had trained for years, what I could do. That was the feeling at that moment. Because of this moment, I had to agree with the band to take a break and see if there are still stories that we want to make songs about. A year-long break helped to find inspiration again. This song was a matter of personal pride for me."
Thanks for sharing! He wrote a masterpiece.
Tuomas Holopainen, the keyboardist, is the brain behind this band. He is the composer who wrote 99% of the music and lyrics. They call him a metal Mozart. He has a band with his wife and also a solo album, which you should check out. I can't wait to see more of your reactions to their music.
Amazing writer. Much respect.
Auri❤
I have seen a lot of comments and "unpacking" of this masterpiece but I have to say; yours was the most intelligent by far! Great job😊
Oh wow. Thank you!
This song makes you think when I listen to it for the first time it didn´t leave my thoughts for days . Great reaction thanks
Blue Marble, pre-cognition...
Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist, his 2009 book:
"The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution".
Nightwish makes you look stuff up.
We learn better that way.
"On the Origin of Species",
the epilogue: "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" (Charles Darwin),
also the name of Floors 1st Nightwish album.
Mrs Do-as-you-would-be-done-by, Charles Kingsley:
"The Water Babies” a positive parody of “On the Origin of Species”!
Definitely one that sticks around. Thanks for watching!
Tampere i love you. I saw my very first daylight in this town back in 1958. I saw Nightwish there in 2022. Today i live in Sweden since many many years. .but my heart is still in Finland. Thank you for a great reaction to a great song and a great band. Cheers from a finn in Sweden.🎉
Wow! Thanks for sharing.
Greetings from Tampere. I love this song.
Hello Saeed. It's nice to see that you started to check Nightwish videos for the Lyrics and now you are starting to love the music also. You're stopping for the music and the song, on the first reactions you only stoped for the Lyrics. Welcome to the Nightwish ARMY. 🤘
Thank you for sticking with me. Truly appreciate it. This song is epic in all senses of the word. All components executed to perfection.
UK Army popping in to say WE WERE THERE.
Very insightful reaction. You missed the evolution of music in the middle but I will forgive that on a first listen
Thanks for watching and also for the forgiveness 🙏🏽❤️ appreciate you being here!
Cherish your brief time in the sun! Good music like Nightwish is one of the many diamonds we can discover in live😃
100% agree!
And Floor gave birth a girl a few months ago, and named her Lucy...
Beautiful!
October last year
Little Lucy of the Afar!
Freya...
Just sayin
@@roblaw4554 Freya is their firstborn, the new addition to the family they have named Lucy.
Think Shoemaker from Nightwish will blow Your Mind.
and Enlessness, last song from Marko with Nigthwish
Definitely on my list!
@@SaeedReacts.And if possible the Live version of Shoemaker from the Hellfest 2022 festival. I never thought they would play this complicated piece live, and boy they delivered.....
WE WERE HERE 🤘🤘🤘
Spoken words are from Sir Richard Dawkins.
The costume of the GODDESS adequate ......blue and white.....the finnish colours and the applications remembering at the helix of the human DNA.
But you didn`t get the Metallica-riff during the solo of Emppu 🤣🤣🤣
Reference to human artwork.....
Rock On Man 🤘🤘🤘
Beautiful! Im way better with lyrics than music, but i am learning 😄. Will continue! Thanks for watching.
The Greatest Show on Earth is the last song on the album Endless Forms Most Beautiful… and if you listen to it all the way to the end and then put on Human :II: Nature album, the first song Music, you will soon realize these two albums are connected. It’s like TGSOE continues. The third and last part of this trilogy will be the album which is relesed later this year.
Awesome concept!
Goosebumbs every time I hear the piano solo at the start, no matter how many times I see this
Beautiful buildup.
The time has come my friend for this epic masterpiece. Only Nightwish can do these performances bro. You never gonna hear something like that like me. Thanks so much. Keep going dude.
What an amazing concept and the execution is flawless!
Clicked immediately, this is gonna be great
Epic! In every sense of the word.
💎 The quote " Diamonds are made under pressure " you are one of us Brother 🤘🏽you're reaction... My wife say's raw diamond this man/human is ! ( May God Bless You Exceedingly And Abundantly More 🙏🏽
Love and support from Italy 🇮🇹
Thanks for watching! Much love from Belgium.
The colors of her dress, finnish flag. The pattern on the dress and drums, DNA code. The greatest libary of Alexandria.
The blue color is to dark, the Finnish flag is much lighter in the color
I hadn't noticed the sparkly sequins before, as Floor came out on stage.
ive watched almost every reactor watch this show and will continue to do so.. one of my favorite videos.
Just epic! Thanks for watching.
The Wembley concert version of this song was how YT, in it's wisdom, decided to introduce me to Nightwish in all their glory. Totally entranced.
Well done, Saeed! I'm glad to have moved this up in your queue, because I knew you'd really appreciate and enjoy this. And I enjoyed hearing your thoughts throughout.
It's an amazing composition to begin with, but the way they brought it to life here is really special. They gave it the spectacle it deserves. There is another very popular version from Wembley Arena, in which Richard Dawkins (who did the spoken parts here) made a surprise appearance at the end, to deliver those last lines in person. It's just not quite the spectacle overall that this version is.
Thanks Emerson, Lake and Palmer!
Thanks for doing so. Truly epic storytelling! Appreciate the support! ❤️. Also want to read that book now 😅
Funny how you mentioned Darwin's The Origin of Species at the first text spoken by Richard Dawkins, not knowing that at the very end the same Dawkins would quote the final paragraph of The Origin of Species. I assume you will like Nightwish songs like Sagan, Shoemaker and Stargazer 🙂
This song instantly reminded me of that book. Will also read Richard Dawkins book. Looking forward to more Nightwish!
amazing reaction! you got it all right. It is refreshing to see someone immediately grasping the meaning of this masterpiece. Goed gedaan! :D
Thanks so much! Appreciate that! Fijne dag!
Nightwish' lyrics always hit different, so honest
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I love watching smart people react to smart music!
Really nice job dude.
Looking forward to more from you.
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Thanks. I appreciate that. Enjoy your weekend 🤘
@@SaeedReacts. so now all you have to do is be smart for other smart performances. no pressure...
I will observe!
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Be aware that at the Wembley concert they performed Ghost Love Score (10 mins), The Poet and the Pendulum (14 mins) and this one, The Greatest Show on Earth ( 21 mins) as well as several other new songs and some old favourites.
This is so great, I use to listen to the Tampere version because I'm Finnish. I also love the Wembley concert. I also feel a longing for Peace here☮💞❤💖
Have to watch that one as well. What an epic performance.
Yes. A tribute from the genius of Tuomas Holopainen to the legacy of this pale blue sphere and its current and former inhabitants. Such a beautiful and wonderful end to this fabulous concert in Finland. Simply amazing. And thank you for continuing to react to our beloved Nightwish.
Beautiful writing! Thanks for watching.
Wembley 2015 is my preferred live version of The GSOE
Thank you for this reaction, subbed for more ❤. I've watched way too many reactions to this song and this was one the better ones. For once someone who understands what it's about early on, without knowing the subject of the song prior to listening. It's often frustrating to see the masterpiece going to waste when reactors don't even understand what they're listening to. I mean, the music itself is of course amazing and you can appreciate it as it is, but to get the full experience of this performance, it's important to know something about the subject. For me, as a science nerd, this is an emotional piece that gets me every time. I prefer the Wembley version because the technical quality is better but this one is great too.
Thank you for the kind words. Truly appreciate it. Its really a masterpiece. I do want to check out the Wembley version at some point. Have a great day!
Yes, it's all about the Evolution, of course. Excellent reaction, thanks! ⛄👍
Awesome performance and song. Thanks for watching.
Talking about clever lyric writing 1st, then the way it is presented to the audience just great !!!! Saeed "Nightwish"👍👍👍 is more then a band.
What's really amazing about the lyrics is that they were written in a foreign language, though Tuomas is obviously fluent in English and his vocabulary exceeds that of most native speakers.
Epic composition and performance.
I waited for this ❤
The Book is „the greatest Show on Earth“ from Richard Dawkins- and the voice really is from Dawkins
Dawkins joins the band on stage for the final passage from The origin of the Species at the Wembley show.
Thanks for sticking with me! Will definitely read that book!
Hell yeah you just earned a new follower 🤭🤭🤭🥰
Loved your explanation
Thanks so much 🙏🏽❤️
Apt that this song is being performed by Floor Jansen, the litteral pinnacle of our species.
”We were here” illuminated text may be in perfect angle towards the sky and travelling thousend years through the galaxies as a light, and maybe we are already extinct at that time, but perhaps some being is interested of our planet. Watching us with some sophisticated method, zooming to Tampere Finland, my home city, for some reason, but this being don’t see our planet after 1000 years from now. This curious form of life see the image from 2015 Tampere, Ratina stadium …and the symbols ”We Were Here”. After deciphering the meaning, it has a proof that there were once life on the planet earth 👽👍🏻🌍
I was thinking something similar, but you said it way better!
Lucy; the earliest semi-complete fossil of a human , much debated though.
Lucy; the second daughter of Floor and Hannes.
Always enjoy watching you . How you explain everything. And yes the greatest show on earth is a real masterpiece. Thanks for sharing it with us. And the man who is talking is Richard Dawkings
Thanks for the kind words. Definitely want to read the book by Richard Dawkins. Have only read one of his so far.
Knew you'd love this. Best song transitions ever!
Professor Richard Dawkins wrote many books on supporting our evolutionary story and goes head to head with many people in religious debates. He has some great shows you can see here on YT. I think he is reading from The Greatest Show on Earth but I'm nor sure he wrote it. I have read and watched his series The God Delusion. Fascinating!
Never heard or seen anything like it. What a concept!
Nothing better than so perceptive poeple listening to one of the greatest piece of music I've ever heard. 👏🏻✌️💯
This truly is an epic masterpiece. 🔥 Have a great weekend!
After finnishing the whole video, I must say, among the hunderds of reactions (being a massive Nightwish fan myself) this has been one the best. Like really, man, taking all those hints and involve your thoughts in the context, that's just great and valuable. Subscribed ofcourse!
Thanks, have a nice one yourself 😎
Very nice job Saeed. Very deep song, I can't imagine how difficult it must be to react to first time listening, making coherent commentary, while being recorded. Much respect! I do love the message of hope that this song conveys at the end.
Thanks so much for watching. It truly is a titan of a song and performance.
Dude, this really is the perfect band for you, the more you discover from them the more you'll come yo see - you think very much like the band 🤘
Amazing band! The storytelling is just on another level. And this performance = EPIC
From the musical side i prefer Wembley version with Richard Dawkins live but my favorite version is from concert when i was last summer 2023,was magical
I concur 100% I've been in Athens last year, epic even with pregnant Floor
🤗🍒🤘🏻Yes Saeed this was most of Tuomas' work
Brilliant! The writing is just impeccable.
Korg is indeed a brand ;-)
Also a funfact; Floor's very best fans where there aswell, her parents ;-)
Like that u found the messages of this marvellous masterpiece
So good! Thanks for watching!
Hey bro!!! Good reaction!! Thanks. LUCA, last universal commun ancester. LUCY, the paleontologist who finded was hearing Lucy in the sky with diamonds from The Beatles. And this melody, in the middle, was Bach's Opsicord. Greettings from Argentina. Sorry for my English. Sorry, and the book is Richard Dawkins, "The greatest show on earth. If you check the Wembley performans, Dawkins in person says the final speak.
Thanks so much for watching and sharing this. I must read that book!
Thanks for reacting to this amazing performance and it was great to see your take on it as it happened.
Epic! Thanks for watching.
Epic masterpiece by Tuomas! This song ending moved me to tears the first time I saw it ❣️
Saw this live twice, lucky girl ❤️
Truly a masterpiece. 💯
Its so wonderful.
Do treat yourself to the Wembley version in England too. Some production differences, and a special guest instead of the voiceovers. ;)
Now thats a song,wow,my favorite of all time❤❤❤
Epic song and performance!
Was at two concerts last year,Antwerp and Amsterdam,best concerts ever,believe me….please listen to more music,they are amazing,greetings from Holland✅
Enjoyed your reaction! All the spoken word sections except for the final one are from Richard Dawkins and he is the one speaking them. The final spoken words section is from Origin of Species. When I saw Nightwish live in Boston in 2022 they ended the show with Last Ride of the Day, Ghost Love Score, and The Greatest Show on Earth followed by the last movement of All the Works of Nature Which Adorn the World, Ad Astra during the outro while the band took their bows. All the Works of Nature is a beautiful 30 minute, 8 movement orchestral piece by Tuomas that comprises Disc 2 of Human Nature. Ad Astra features an extended spoken word section quoting Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot. Very impactful like Dawkins spoken word section here. I have never left a concert so inspired and uplifted to go out and live my best life.
You should definitely checkout the fan made, band approved video that goes with All the Works of Nature Which Adorn the World. th-cam.com/video/RnOdQ5WNZJk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=KMQ0oOdXPCrxw6yw. A stunningly beautiful example of Tuomas compositional genius.
Thank you for sharing this. Appreciate it! ❤️
One of my favorites, and outside the music, I can very much appreciate Mr. Dawkins, especially him saying that when it comes to being born, we won the lottery. :)
100% What are the chances?
Tampere 2015: th-cam.com/video/n3yYI2VWdC0/w-d-xo.html
1. Shudder Before the Beautiful, 2. Yours Is an Empty Hope, 3. Amaranth, 4. She is My Sin, 5. Dark Chest of Wonders, 6. My Walden
7. The Islander, 8.Élan, 9. Weak Fantasy, 10. Storytime, 11. Endless Forms Most Beatuful, 12. Alpenglow, 13. Stargazers
14. Sleeping sun, 15. Ghost Love Score, 16. The Greatest Show on Earth
The dress of Floor with the sign of DNA in white ,the start of life
The book you search for is: "The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence for Evolution" by Richard Dawkins ;)
Thanks! That one is going on my TBR list!
And f you want to see the Sir himself, you can check Wembley version of this same song. Dawkins comes to the stage at the end. That is just epic!
Haha, "meatsack of a body"😂😂 Dude thanks for your elaborate analysis on this pearl of a performance! Loved every bit of it. But wow, I'm sure you had your weekly musical fulfilment with Work Sh*t Out, Schism and TGSOE one after another 😉😂 That's a lot to take in man! Thanks again 🤘
Thanks so much for watching my video's! Definitely a workout of the music muscle 😅. Take care, my friend!
Glad you reacted to the Tampere version, but when you feel like it listen to the Wembley version as there are a couple of changes which are interesting, I do like the Tampere version though. As always thank you for you breakdown and analysis and your thoughts on it, I'm a life long atheist so it's my cup of tea, Tuomas is a genius isn't he and the band well what can you say but perfection, see you for the next one 🇬🇧
The writing and storytelling are next level. And the whole performance, just wow!
Hearing what you say about the fireworks and having powers.
Many years ago, I was fooling around with a friend and we were giving it some banter. We were outdoors on a sunny Summer day, with a bit of heavy cloud above. After one comment, I said "Hah, say that again and feel my wrath!" Just then, there was a massive CRACK of thunder with lightning. You should have seen my friend's face! It couldn't have been timed better.
Awesome! Thank you for sharing that memory! That made me smile 😃
the long "intro" tuomas was playing reminds me of how long the earth was there.. before life..
Yes! So beautiful!
I really take my hat off to your intellect in deciphering this complex song, well done. Yes this is not a song but a beautiful composition in only Tuomas could bring to life and only Floor could deliver with her toolmaker buddies of course 💥💥💥💥💥
Thank you for the kind words. This is really is special, its unlike anything i have ever seen or heard. Beautiful! Have a wonderful day.
Now you have seen this and what amazing show!❤ i know at you love it so du i.
Amazing!
This is Tuomas’s masterpiece to date! I’m sure there may be more!🎸🤘
Thank you, that was a great reaction 🇸🇪🤟
Thanks so much! Have a great day!
Most bands have a songwriter.
Nightwish has a COMPOSER !!
Tuomas is a genius. And, no one else can come even close to Floor's vocal artistry......
Yes Saeed, Tuomas uses Korg keyboards. Interesting sleep commentary. It was the finale of this tour. All of these spoken words are from Richard Dawkins and his books on evolution. You Saeed are a integral part of "The Greatest Show on Earth"! Evolution leading to life in all its forms.
Thanks for watching and letting me know about the book. Have not read that one yet. Life finds a way!
Hey Saeed, I just wanted to let you know that the first set of fireworks, in the very beginning of the song, represent the BIG BANG theory.
Thanks for letting me know. So much detail in this performance. Much to unpack. Amazing!
That’s so cool!
Tuomas had to shorten this work so the band was physically able to play it live! Like someone else already said, I want to hear it in full! The gestures and the fireworks - magic! Jedi? Sorceror? Crazy old Wizard? ( I can say that, Tuomas and I have the same birthday!) This gig was special for Floor because her parents were in the audience. The start 13.8 billion years ago or 27.8 billion years ago - inconceivable..... and to think our sun probably has only 5 billion years of benevolent life left - still unimaginable. Except for maybe Tuomas..... unless we muck it all up sooner. edit: I hope ET finds this in the distant future, translates it and wonders what/who was where and when? and why?
Awesome! It all started so long ago just to have this epic performance! Thats the meaning of life right there 😄
What a ride!! Thank you again for another amazing reaction! if you like the start of life... also a great song of NW is, Music.... from their last album
Epic! Thanks for watching.
You´re right, it IS a KORG Synth.
Tuomas is endorsed by KORG since a long time.
Top top reaction. Thank you.
Thanks so much.
This song was based on the book called (you guessed it) The Greatest Show in Earth, by Richard Dawkins. He even went ti perform the final part at the Wembley arena with them. Check it out!
Definitely need to read that one. Thanks!
The book is: "The greatest show on earth" from Richard Dokins.
Greatings, because you are one of those people who understand the meaning of this song. Most reactors don´t do this.
My point of view (the sad one) is directly before "We were Here" They used the past form for mankind. "Man, he TOOK his time in the sun, HAD a dream to understand......"That means, from their POV humans are not still here......! "We were here!!!" We left our footprints and then ..... gone.
Definitely want to read that book.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this! Much appreciated.
Emppu playing Enter Sandman in this song is still my frav easter egg.
Lucy is the most famous skeleton finding but older skeletons have been found after Lucy. Ardi who was found in Ethiopia is a really important find. The skeleton is 4.4 million years old.
Human was for a long time defined as the tool maker and that was what separated us from other animals until Dr Jane Goodall found out that Chimpanzees made tools during her studies at Gombe. She was hired by the anthropologists Louis Leakey to do the study and he said the famous words "Now we must redefine tool, redefine man, or accept chimpanzees as human".
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NightwishArmy from Québec Canada 🇲🇶🇨🇦 a little late for the show😄 but i subscribe! 🤟 Tx for the react 🖐️
Happy you are here. Thank you! Greetings from Belgium.
listen this NIGHTWISH - The Greatest Show on Earth (with Richard Dawkins)
"We have evolved to sitting in the attic and talking to a camera, while others are looking at their phones and looking at that same dude talking". Love that, pretty much sums it all up 😂 Greets from Finland by the abnormally hairless chimp with a stick and a phone
:D That's evolution for ya :) Greetings from Belgium
I love you reaction! I really appreciate that you are analizing the text and all the parts of the song, because those who don't know what this song is aobut, loose a lot! This song has a great impact on me. This lyric is so powerful. Our human life is just a grain of sand in the Universe.. And we all should be greatful we were so lucky to be born in this world, as Prof Dawkins says.
Thank you so much! I feel the same way. Just the sheer number of things that have had to happen and align for us to be here is unbelievable.
@@SaeedReacts. It is so satisfying watching a reaction of someone who understands everything it is there! And I don't know if you caught manuet, bach and enter sandman 😉
Greetings from Tampere, Finland. Great reaction!
Awesome! You are there where history was written 😄. Thanks for watching and have a great weekend! Greetings from Belgium
I like the Wembley version, but that's because I am a fan of Richard Dawkins. Opus Perfectum means "Finished Work" Or maybe "The Work is Complete"
Thanks for letting me know! Epic song and performance.
This song perfectly arrange a theme describing deep time and I love it. About your thoughts around the thirty minute mark. If our civilisation dies in the near future (in the next hundred thousand years or so) then there needs to be archeologists as clever as humans hundred million years from now to suspect high tech society once lived on earth. The sediments that remain from our era would suggest some kind of industrialization because a few indicators all come together to suggest that in a centimeter of sediments of rocks, where some could be said to suggest natural global warming, but not all of the indicators. They wouldn't know what we looked like unless a very lucky fossil was found. The dinosaurs lived for over a hundred million years and humans for 200k years, a fragment of that time. We've not found that many fossils from those millions of years. It is unlikely they would find a fossil of us unless we live for a million years at least. These are the nutty speculations we can make, because we can grasp deep time. It is the universe that takes the divine space. Our atoms were forged in stars in the early universe and we will be forgotten very soon on that time scale. But we can admire and learn more of where we came from.
Great point! We are speculating ofcourse, but it is fun to do! While we are here, lets make the best of it 🫶
I am a flat earth believer but... what a great song !!! And a nightwish fan by heart😊
Epic song.
You totally seem to miss the point of "we were here", it's obvious it's a line of gratefulness of being born at all, and having the opportunity to experience what our world was, is and is becoming.
I caught that, but if i say everything it turns into a 2 hour video. And people already say i talk too much 😅
Bach, Beethoven, Metallica around 36mim
The book the quotes are from (except the last which is from The Origin of Species) Richard Dawkins book "The Greatest Show on Earth." And yes, it's Dawkins reading the quotes.
The biggest lyrical line I can’t get over is “Atavistic dread of the hunted.” The thing about that line is that it’s there because Tuomas is being extremely precise with his meaning - he is describing not just “terrible” fear, but the kind of primal, instinctual hair on the back of your neck dread you feel even when there is no specific reason for it - “relating to or characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral” - It’s the right word, but I gotta give Tuomas, whose first language is not English, a sesquipedalian tip of the cap for dropping that line.
Later, “A single grain of sand” means “the world.” It’s a William Blake quote from “Auguries of Innocence.”
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
In other words, “to understand the entire world,” but said much more poetically.
I’m pretty sure Tuomas is going for double meaning when he says “he gave birth to poetry,” it seems to me to say what it says literally, but also, it seems to reference all the wonders man accomplished as “poetic.” Based on his other songs where Tuomas regularly self-identifies as a “poet” rather than a “songwriter” or “composer” it’s a word he uses, I think, to describe the best of himself, and in this context, I think he means the best of mankind as well.
I love the promise of “Greet the last light of the library.” Here he has man facing his extinction, but in that one line, Tuomas tells us that right up until the end we never stop seeking knowledge.
Such a masterpiece!
Thank you for these insights. Appreciate that. So much to this song.
Great reaction! You really understand what they are singing about. By the way when you watch this song at the concert Wembley 2015 there will be a surprise at the end (Richard Dawkins on stage speaking the last words of "Origin of Species").
Thanks! What an epic performance! Definitely want to see that one as well.
We exist in the Avarar movie. We are still in the “prior state” and have been allowed to project conscious energy into a “meat suit technology” designed to interact in the holographic projection most call “reality.”
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Great reaction video.and especially for getting into the lyrics and content of them
Thanks so much! Appreciate it! I wish you a wonderful weekend!
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Here the Nightwish army Dutch Division..... you just entered the Nightwish rabbit hole! 😁👍
Also try Romanticide from Wacken (or do the whole concert) and watch "Yours is an empty hope" at Wembley (th-cam.com/video/GAMMYicjq-Y/w-d-xo.htmlsi=-ICpJlUGBoDdF-yJ).
Then when you're ready for it read the story behind "The poet and the pendulum" and then watch the video 😢 also at Wembley.... th-cam.com/video/HStJNIX5qnY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Tht6hFHrv8Q9PQ09
Hello! I am now making my way through the setlist of Wacken 2013. I started jumping off the deep end. If you go to my Nightwish playlist you might see i started with The Poet and the Pendulum. Just off a subscribers recommendation. Had no idea what i was getting into. It was amazing. But i will revisit that song after i explore more Nightwish. Have a great weekend. Groetjes uit België.
It's Richard Dawkins book. Great dude
Will read it.
According to Tank the Tech , Tuomas is definitely Korg exclusively, Marco Warwick Vamp, and Empuu EV1...Troy, of course, plays everything...the voiceover is Richard Dawkins, Evolutionary Biologist, (geneticist?), from his book from which this song is named
Thanks for letting me know!
Humans... Yep. Maybe Gaia got tired of being knocked back by impact after impact, singled out a monkey and said: "I'm turning you loose to destroy a bunch of shit -- even each other -- til you have a club big enough to hit an asteroid. It's in your hands, monkeys. The penguins and the rhinos just aren't up to it. No thumbs, or brains between them -- couldn't put a PowerPoint presentation together if their lives depended on it." (-; ••• Sir! REAL!!!
"To our age-old philosophical question - Why are we here?
Plastic - Assholes" - George Carlin.
The "single grain of sand" lyric I didn't get at first. But if we must consider the most minute details, such as quantum effects, then even the sand grain is beyond our understanding. The models we create of such things are only close approximations.
Then, I guess it's referring to the limitations of humans.