If you like my content and you want to help me support the channel, check out my wishlist here (even a small donation)👇🏿 www.buymeacoffee.com/trainingvo9/wishlist www.paypal.com/paypalme/trainingvoice
Wonderful reaction. I saw the joy on your face at the bits that rely appealed to you. I am an old man and a Nightwish fan, they appeal to all ages of music lovers.
"We were here" is such a powerful message, from the first cave paintings to the golden disks on the Voyager Space Probes, we humans have a inate need to leave a mark of our presence in this universe.
Just for the record - this song consist of over 600 soundtracks mixed together - and originally it was 30 minutes .... And your reaction are outstanding 👍👌
It was a pleasure to watch this with you. Because I am a biologist by training this particular song of Nightwish has always been fascinating to me. I read Dawkins' book some time ago. Nightwish's creativity in putting this together is insane. Great reaction. Ciao. ☮
The universe is love. We may not get it right down here but when we leave it is all welcoming and all encompassing. We are all saved from our mistakes. One died for that right. We should be gratefull for that.
Archaean horizon ♫ ♫ The first sunrise On a pristine Gaea ♪ ♪ Opus perfectum ♪ Somewhere there, us sleeping ♫♪ Floor's voice here always bring tears in my eyes 😢 Thanks for your reaction ! Vivi l'italia! Ciao dalla Francia 🤘
This is a great song, and this performance is really the greatest show on Earth! I am so sorry for what happened in Italy (the natural disaster) as neighbours (I come from Malta) my prayers go for those who lost loved ones and possessions. I look forward to your analysis of this master piece. Thanks again so sorry for your loss.
Take your time, there is a lot to digest here 😊 Another wonderful reaction my friend! I think that you are starting to understand why Nightwish has their own army 😁
Hello everyone! I'm a 40-hour old amoeba and I thoroughly enjoyed this reaction. I love Nightwish, and I plan on listening to this song on repeat until I undergo fission, then there's going to be two of us listening, then four, and hopefully by the end of the year we'll fill up a small venue. Maybe Nightwish will be there. This song is very inspirational to our DNA programming, and it will certainly help us endless organisms most formless evolve into something more beautiful. See you all when I've grown eyes. Ciao!🤘
Before premiere: So, you listened to the song, then off camera listened 10 times or more and then you walk us through the song again? Just did the math: that is 4 hours and 48 minutes of Nightwish! You must have had a great day! (the greatest day on earth?)
Ciao Vogel, this will be only a reaction because it would be a very long video! Today I start to record the analysis and it will be online for the next week as I say on the video😀
Hi Ilaria, I'm glad to see you're going to analyse this song thoroughly soon. This is a song that was composed specifically to showcase the versatility of Floor's voice and it truly shows.
Thanks! Unfortunately I missed the premiere, but I enjoyed your initial comments and look forward to your next video with your more comprehensive analysis.
Ciao Marco e Fabrizio, mi spiace di non aver compreso sul momento tutto il discorso finale, ma ne ho compreso il senso, soprattutto in questi momenti difficili dobbiamo essere grati alla "ruota della fortuna" per essere qui e poterlo raccontare, è una cosa in realtà a cui spesso penso, il compositore è stato davvero un genio a creare questa meraviglia!
As promised, some notes on the song and the album. Comnents from band and crew... Troy: At some point we ended up watching Richard Dawkins lectures on the internet. After a while I suggested, half in jest, that maybe we should ask Dawkins to be our special guest on the new album. Tuomas: It was an amazing idea, and I immedia\tely started wondering if could really make it happen. Jukka: We were naturally a bit sceptical, too - we had to try and ask him of course, but it was better not to have such high hopes. Dawkins had pretty much shied away from popular culture apart from one episode of The Simpsons. Troy: I enthusiastically assured them that I can make this work, like "You'll see, guys". Well the next morning I wasn't feeling so confident any more and I rtemembered Tuomas and Jukka going "Told you so" TUOMAS: Still, there was no way we could let it drop without at least trying. So we started thinking about a proper manner to approach Dawkins. We decided our best option would be to send him a hand-written, polite letter, where we would tell him about the band, the scientific themes on the forthcoming album and the fact that he had been a great inspiration TROY: We got no reply, so we sent another letter. In the end, I guess we had a bit of luck, because it turned out Dawkins personal assistant knew the band and actually liked Nightwish. He suggested that Dawkins should take our inquiry seriously TUOMAS: I was in Paris doing interviews for the Scrooge album. When I got back to the hotel in the evening. I noticed there was an email from Dawkins, something like, "1 went to the internet and browsed your band, and what I heard l liked very much. So I'd be happy to co-operate. FLOOR: Tuomas sent us a triumphant message: "You won't believe what just M happened: Dawkins said yes!" TROY: It was obvious from the start that Dawkins' appearance would attract a lot of attention - both positive and negative. His book God Delusion had created a worldwide controversy. after all. JUKKA: We didn't invite Dawkins to be on our album to criticize religion but to speak as a scientist: an evolutionary biologist. Of course neither the fans nor anybody else outside the band knew it at that point. TUOMAS: There has been a lot of unreasonable criticism hurled at him for all kinds of reasons. A lot of people seem to ignore the fact that Dawkins is also happy to listen to contrary opinions and is always open for new ideas. In that sense, he's like Esko Valtaoja, with whom we had the honour to work on Showtime, Storytime DVD. I had endless possibilities in my hands for "The Greatest Show on Earth" What is the sound of crumpling continental plates that mountains are made of? Or the disintegration of radioactive components? Or the sound of space particles bombarding the earth? And how would I refer to immortal works of music composed by man? Well, I included shades of "Dies Irae" by Thomas Celano, "Toccata" and "Fuga" by Johann Sebastian Bach, banjo music from Western movies, "Rock around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets, and "Enter Sandman" by Metallica. I was also thinking about borrowing "Sandstorm" by Darude, but in the end, we just went for an unrecognizable techno loop. Also Petzold and Bach. Recording - and Jukka Resigning: MARCO: Kaitsu handled the drum parts admirably, so we could continue with the other instruments right away, This time we tried to concentrate on one song at a time and kept on working on it till we felt there was nothing more we could add. TROY: And we didn't even have thunder. Rauhala does not have the best sound proofing in the world, so it would have been pretty challenging to mike the instruments if there had been rain and thunderclaps. TUOMAS: I actually got off easier than I expected, because a lot of the demo keyboards from Hämeenlinna were good enough to be included on the album. The stuff in "Sea-Worn Driftwood", part five of "The Greatest Show on Earth", for example, was salvaged straight off the demo. In Hämeenlinna, I had explained to Tero that this passage would be about "whales singing and rats taking over the world". I had just come up with that improvised stuff, and it made it on the album MARCO: Recording the vocals was teamwork in the best possible sense, no matter who was behind the mike. We kicked around suggestions and tried out all kinds of last minute ideas. Like, "Hey Floor, throw in some of that sweet upper octave of yours in the second verse... Yeah, that's a nice touch!" FLOOR: Marco kept on surprising us. He might just suddenly say, "Wait, I have an idea!" Then he'd pull out his bass and introduce an excellent harmony MARCO: It was great fun recording the vocals. I've never had the chance to impersonate a troglodyte in front of a microphone before, so creating gorilla sounds for "The Greatest Show on Earth" was pretty hilarious. I didn't want to undermine the majesty of the song in any way, but I didn't exactly do it with a straight face, either! TROY: I recorded my own ape grunts at home. To get in character, I took off my shirt, banged my chest with my fists, and pretended I was an ancient Homo Erectus. I think my wife was a bit worried MARCO: I cut my bass parts pretty quickly in about one and a half days. I even got a bit lazy towards the evening of the first day - if I had really pushed it, I might have been able to complete them in a single day. The first part, "Four Point Six", is a reference to the age of our planet -in billions of years. The journey starts with a simple but persistent keyboard theme, interrupted by massive thunder claps - the origin of life that despite the murderous bombardment by asteroids, sprouts time and again and finally manages to grow permanent roots. The word "archaean" in the lyrics refers to the Archean Eon, the first of the geological eons of the world (Gaea). The second part of the song chronicles the birth and the first on Earth. "Enter Luca" is a reference to an early life form, an acronym for the Last Universal Common Ancestor. We can make assumptions about the characteristics of Luca and other early life forms by reading the DNA of current organisms: "There's a writing in the garden, leading us to the mother of all." Right from the beginning, one of the key characteristics of living cells has been the ability to sense their environment and react to their perceptions: "Ion channels welcoming the outside world." In the third part, chronicling the age of man, there's a fascinating reminder: All of us current organisms are descendants of an unbroken lineage of winners. "Not a single one of your fathers died young". "Little Lucy of the Afar" refers to the famous fossil of Australopithecus Afarensis that was found in Afari, Ethiopia, a hominin that might have been the ancestor of man (genus Homo). In the long run, all species have the tendency to become extinct, and a fitting vision of the future of mankind is presented in the song, "One day'Il cease to be" On the other hand, man had earlier had "a dream to understand" and "[given] birth to poetry" . He wanted to leave his mark stating "We were here!" In the fourth part, man strives to understand it all, and Richard Dawkins takes up the story once again with a surprising claim:"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. The explanation folows shortly."Most people are never going die, because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been herein my place, but who will in fact never see the light of day, outnumber the sand grains of Sahara." In the fifth and final part, Dawkins recites the concuding words of The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: "From so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." FLOOR: I felt real good after the final rehearsals [for EFMB] in a New York studio. There were obviously many challenging parts in the set - I'd have to be extra careful in the beginning of "The Greatest Show on Earth", for example because some of the phones rise from the back of the throat but "operatic vocals are produced in the front of the mouth
" I was also thinking about borrowing "Sandstorm" by Darude, but in the end, we just went for an unrecognizable techno loop" FFS Tuomas, that is so bad! Sandstorm would have been perfect!
@@TrainingVoiceilaria You're welcome. I think that set of interviews is very useful in understanding the work. It's not for everybody of course because the music works on all sorts of levels, but if you want to understand what is in the minds of the writers and performers you get so much more out of it. Particularly with Nightwish.
I'm really looking forward to it, I've been lucky enough to hear the song live three times now. It's a rollercoaster of emotions every time and with a few happy tears at the end. Have fun watching, Ilaria
Ciao :) Live is certainly another experience, even more engaging, I was only able to breathe a small part of this great work and I was so taken by understanding the music, the lyrics, the words, the style... (I didn't look for information before, I wanted it to be a surprise) to analyze it takes some time :)
@@TrainingVoiceilaria Like you said, live is more intense. Even without Marko, the feelings were no different. Too bad Nightwish is taking a break from touring, but I'm lucky enough to see them play Human :II: Nature live one more time. By the way, I have another suggestion for you. A metal song with harp, would like to know what you think about the two voices. The link th-cam.com/video/Ww3eqbTSajw/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=NapalmRecords Greetings from Germany.
You should also do the Wembley version its just as good and has different musical arrangements.. Sending positive thoughts and energy to those who are in distress in the flood areas..
Hi, sorry for the losses to people, nature, houses and infrastructure in Emilio Romana. It was devastating, we hear in the Netherlands. Thank you, I hope the empowerment from this song may enhearten you for at least a little bit! Love from here.
You have to be sober and Straight to pull this off live. F-----k the buzz, the show is the most important. Be sober AND ON THE MARK! That is what impresses the audience most. Clean and sober wins the day. That is the final and lasting impression. If you fuck up once in front of thousands, it hurts you in the long run.
Floors parents being at this show….How proud they must be to see the positive and joyous effect their amazing daughter and this amazing band has on thousands of people must be almost overwhelming for them. Sensory overload… Nightwish style. The band that can call it “The Greatest Show on Earth” and deliver on all points…incredible
Floor sings. Marco sings. Troy sings (the one who plays various instruments). When the animal growling occurs, it's Marco first, then Troy, then Floor.
This song now also brings to mind the threat of nuclear war, which, due to the brutal war started by Russia in Ukraine, has once again risen to consciousness and is a danger to all of humanity.
Ottimo commento. Bello sentire qualcuno che potrebbe parlare in italiano volendo. Purtroppo nel ns. bellissimo paese manca la passione (o forse la conoscenza) dei generi quali Hard Rock, Heavy metal e simili.
Ciao Fabio io vengo dal pop ma mi piace mantenere la menta aperta a tutti i generi musicali, senza pregiudizio e devo dire che i Nightwish sono stata un'ottima scoperta
Glad you enjoyed this performance but if you intend to listen a few times you might like to listen to the Wembley 2015 version with closed captions as well.
The odds of you ever being born are astromical, so don`t waste it. Your existance is quadrillions to one that you even existed. MAKE THE MOST OF IT AND BE THANKFULL THAT YOU EVER EXISTED AT ALL. Most will never exist because of the odds. Don`t hate it, be glad you had this even if your reality is crap .You can change this. You have endless power you just don`t believe it. You are a GOD. AN EARTHLY POWER. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEEN YOUR POWER you just didn`t know. now you know. You can rise above this!!!
🤩👌💥💯🎼 *OPUS PERFECTUM* Touchy reaction mi lady... Wishing all the best there is for every one who suffered at in any ways in that natural phenomena. Grazie mille... Warm greetings from Finland. 🤘😎 🇫🇮 💙
Hi Liaria 🖐😝 this is my favourite version of THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH 😝👍 Even though i do enjoy all versions as they both have special moments ! Thank You for Watching & Giving you thoughts & insight to this masterpiece ☺️💋 Love from Queensland Australia 🇦🇺🏄♂️🍹
For your musical analysis: - There are so many “hidden gems” that Tuomas included in the lyrics & the music. 17:43 - 18:43 The musical tributes start with some African tribal drumming, then through the Gregorian chant in Dies Irae (Mozart), Bach’s Minuet in G Major followed by his famous Fugue in D Minor, followed by American banjo music, Metallica’s Enter Sandman riff (!!!), finally ending in Rap/Hip-Hop and 90s dance music. Pretty Good isn’t it?!!
As a touring musician I can say that this band works harder than most. This show requires a big commitment from the artist. Many weeks of planning took place to make this work. I for one would not be able to pull this off because of the sober time required to do this. Most metal bands are drunk and stoned most of the time. This requires a sober and determined band to pull this off. Metal is mostly getting drunk and getting high. That attitude needs to change. A good show pays the bills better than a drunk show ever will. So any band out there who thinks stupid is ok, just check this out.
Whilst I do not subscribe to the "Theory of Evolution" I wholeheartedly subscribe to the musical genius of Nightwish. Thank you for a wonderful reaction to this masterpiece. 🙏😊👍❤️
I can fully understand why you decided to not go into the details of this song just yet, and instead decided you need to listen again. (and again and again... hehehe) It is too big a song to fully grasp the first few times, the story is huge and the narration is very deep, and the song even comes with a few little Easter-eggs as well ;) Can't wait to see your analysis on the song.
Of course, at 9:00 min that "labiale" - "bellissimo" for bagpipe parts must be... Her "siren" singing, Marko's voice, nice melody + '80 synth vibes + Bach "Minuetto" + Mozart + Metallica "Enter Sandman" What else is missing? Possibly enough for me. Regards! Ciao bella! ...and Your 25:01 "Mannaggia" is obviously justifiable 🤣🤣🤣
Ciao Marco e Fabrizio, mi spiace di non aver compreso sul momento tutto il discorso finale, ma ne ho compreso il senso, soprattutto in questi momenti difficili dobbiamo essere grati alla "ruota della fortuna" per essere qui e poterlo raccontare, è una cosa in realtà a cui spesso penso, il compositore è stato davvero un genio a creare questa meraviglia! (anche solo a pensarla...figuriamoci a realizzarla!!!)
Ciao, ti scrivo in italiano... il mio inglese scritto è claudicante tanto quanto la tua pronuncia per cui pari e patta e palla in mezzo. Nightwish... cosa significa? Significa uno dei pochi compositori geniali dell'ultimo trentennio! Tuomas secondo me ha due grandi talenti: saper scrivere gran bella musica e sapersi circondare di interpreti e musicisti superlativi. Perchè prima è andata Tarja e, nonostante l'intermezzo nefasto di Annette- pessima l'esperienza Nightwish ma la ragazza ci sa fare e "Shine", il suo primo album solista lo dimostra!- l'approdo a Floor è stato un nuovo Eden... Poi ha lasciato Jukka e l'arrivo di Kai lo ha fatto rimpiangere quanto basta per abituare l'orecchio ad un diverso modo di intendere la batteria. Ma quanto manchi Marko Hietala al gruppo mi sembra piuttosto evidente! Ok sto divagando... Il mio commento riguarda tutt'altro... "The Greatest Show on Earth" è una composizione magniloquente, ricca di colpi di scena e di citazioni, pregna di romanticismo e di eleganza, gravida di Bach e di Metallica... ma che mi si venga a dire che il discorso finale di Richard Dawkins- tra l'altro, io "L'illusione di Dio" e il libro da cui prende spunto Tuomas per questo pezzo li ho letti, e voi?- sia profondo, addirittura profetico... no, dai: è filosofia di oltre 2000 anni fa! Tanto per dirne una: che significa che tra i "non nati" ci sono molti Newton e Keats? Ci saranno anche molti Dahmer e Hitler allora. Ma perchè incasinarsi la vita con quello che potrebbe essere: non è già abbastanza complicato e interessante quello che è? Per esempio quello che Dawkins dice e che "ruba" a Charles Darwin- così, tanto per gradire "L'origine delle Specie": io l'ho letto, e voi?- è la base dell'evoluzione, roba da prima media, mica da mani giunte e invocazioni metafisiche. Anzi, forse il problema in Italia è proprio questo: le mani giunte... vabbé è un'altra storia... Comunque sia... a mio parere i Nightwish sono una delle ultime realtà musicali innovative capaci di piacere alle masse... insomma dei fighi istruiti e con idee mica male, per farla spiccia. E io li amo! Amo un po' di meno Richard Dawkins ma nessuno è perfetto, no?
Next reaction VOB "SABOTAGE -Beastie BOYS cover VOB BAND ROCK TRIO HIJABERS from 🇮🇩 VOB LIVE at TAIWAN. PASIWALI FESTIVAL 2022👍 VOB AMAZING spektakuler 🤟
It's so sad that this band broke up. I Love(d) them! At least we still have Floor sharing her talent with us, up to this day, in many ways. Whatever she does, Revamp, Northward, home recorded covers, solo, Beste zangers/sing meine song. It's all amazing!! And then there's still,l of course, Nightwish.
No, I always put the maximum attention on the listening, also because it's not my native language, otherwise I wouldn't continue making Reaction&Analysis on Nightwish, no one forces me to do it, I continue because I like their music😉
Hello Ilaria, Thanks for doing this super long but great song. I just subscribed and will be looking forward to more of your videos. Take care. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦🥂🥂🤘🤘🤘🤘
If you like my content and you want to help me support the channel, check out my wishlist here (even a small donation)👇🏿
www.buymeacoffee.com/trainingvo9/wishlist
www.paypal.com/paypalme/trainingvoice
Was working on stage crew in this magical night. My hometown 🔥❤️🤘🇫🇮
Wonderful reaction. I saw the joy on your face at the bits that rely appealed to you. I am an old man and a Nightwish fan, they appeal to all ages of music lovers.
"We were here" is such a powerful message, from the first cave paintings to the golden disks on the Voyager Space Probes, we humans have a inate need to leave a mark of our presence in this universe.
You're right 😊
A bella de casaaaaa! ❤🇮🇹 La prima volta che ho ascoltato questa canzone ho pianto. Grazie per aver fatto la reaction 😊 Floorgasm is in my vein❤
It's one thing to experience "The Greatest Show on Earth" live. Don't know when I'll be able to see them again. Hopefully back in the U.S.
ok habla muy bien de ti, gracias por la reaccion hermosa dama
Membro della #NightwishArmy dal 2004 e fa sempre piacere accogliere più gente nel regno della nostra Regina, la Dea Valchiria. #FloorGasm
Ciaoooo, benvenuto qui sul mio canale :)
Just for the record - this song consist of over 600 soundtracks mixed together - and originally it was 30 minutes ....
And your reaction are outstanding 👍👌
Grazie mille 🤗
It was a pleasure to watch this with you. Because I am a biologist by training this particular song of Nightwish has always been fascinating to me. I read Dawkins' book some time ago. Nightwish's creativity in putting this together is insane. Great reaction. Ciao. ☮
The universe is love. We may not get it right down here but when we leave it is all welcoming and all encompassing. We are all saved from our mistakes. One died for that right. We should be gratefull for that.
great song and happy memorial day
Archaean horizon ♫
♫ The first sunrise
On a pristine Gaea ♪
♪ Opus perfectum
♪ Somewhere there, us sleeping ♫♪
Floor's voice here always bring tears in my eyes 😢
Thanks for your reaction ! Vivi l'italia! Ciao dalla Francia 🤘
Greetings from Italy
@@TrainingVoiceilaria ☺👌
A pleasure and an honor to be able to share this music with you, Training Voice. I hope you liked this great and sublime masterpiece!
I am sorry your friend lost so much my thoughts and pray are with you all in Italy and thanks for your beautiful reaction
Thank ypu😍🇫🇮!
This is a great song, and this performance is really the greatest show on Earth! I am so sorry for what happened in Italy (the natural disaster) as neighbours (I come from Malta) my prayers go for those who lost loved ones and possessions. I look forward to your analysis of this master piece. Thanks again so sorry for your loss.
Beautiful reaction. Thankyou so much for sharing it with us.
Thank you for being here, welcome on board :)
I'm spent and exhausted everytime I watch them on stage .😊 I can only imagine what it would have been like being there ❤❤❤
Very nice reaction. Hope that things will be better soon in Italy. Best wishes from Sweden.❤️👍
Take your time, there is a lot to digest here 😊 Another wonderful reaction my friend! I think that you are starting to understand why Nightwish has their own army 😁
Hello everyone! I'm a 40-hour old amoeba and I thoroughly enjoyed this reaction. I love Nightwish, and I plan on listening to this song on repeat until I undergo fission, then there's going to be two of us listening, then four, and hopefully by the end of the year we'll fill up a small venue. Maybe Nightwish will be there. This song is very inspirational to our DNA programming, and it will certainly help us endless organisms most formless evolve into something more beautiful. See you all when I've grown eyes. Ciao!🤘
😂 pls don't undergo fission, loved the comment!
@@Peter_Pan_71 Why settle for one if you can have two funny amoeba's?
Ah it's the funny amoeba routine again eh? Who says you're not some evil mycoplasma, preying on innocent & gullible eukaryotes?
@@BrendonChase_2015 Mother Gaia said I'm g00d.😇
But I'm not that evolved yet to be self-aware enough to know for sure.🙃
Bravo Ilaria, very good as always! I can't wait for your analysis! Grazie mille! 🤘
Just love your total emotive reaction to this masterpiece. The GSOE is up there with the greats like Stairway to Heaven and Bohemian Rhapsody
It was my first song with Nightwish/Floor. 🎉
Blew me away.😅.
Hug from Sweden
Greetings from Italy 🤗🤗🤗
Before premiere: So, you listened to the song, then off camera listened 10 times or more and then you walk us through the song again? Just did the math: that is 4 hours and 48 minutes of Nightwish! You must have had a great day! (the greatest day on earth?)
Ciao Vogel, this will be only a reaction because it would be a very long video! Today I start to record the analysis and it will be online for the next week as I say on the video😀
@Vogel, u are right... Tough day
💓💓
Hi Ilaria, I'm glad to see you're going to analyse this song thoroughly soon. This is a song that was composed specifically to showcase the versatility of Floor's voice and it truly shows.
Nice! Always love seeing new people being introduced to the epiciness of NW
Welcome here :)
@@TrainingVoiceilaria thanks, welcome to the NW army, and floorgasm’s. Now to lol into Tarja also
This is the best show to see this song. Musicaly I like the Wembley versison better.
very good reaction, thanks from Colorado
Greetings from Italy
Sorry to hear about the flooding. This song is a lot to unpack. Take your time.
Thanks! Unfortunately I missed the premiere, but I enjoyed your initial comments and look forward to your next video with your more comprehensive analysis.
Quite an epic song to go through with the detail that you do. It's really appreciated!
finalmente un italiana a fare le reazioni complimenti e benvenuta nel mondo Nightwish....
Ciao benvenuto a bordo 😉 non faccio distinzione di genere musicale, quando la musica è bella e ha qualcosa da raccontare merita di essere ascoltata
Fantastic job, looking forward to your upcoming analysis.
Ottima scelta: canzone meravigliosa!
Ciao Marco e Fabrizio, mi spiace di non aver compreso sul momento tutto il discorso finale, ma ne ho compreso il senso, soprattutto in questi momenti difficili dobbiamo essere grati alla "ruota della fortuna" per essere qui e poterlo raccontare, è una cosa in realtà a cui spesso penso, il compositore è stato davvero un genio a creare questa meraviglia!
@@TrainingVoiceilaria Tuomas grandissimo compositore e poeta: musiche sempre coinvolgenti ed emozionanti che accompagnano testi che sono vere poesie
As promised, some notes on the song and the album. Comnents from band and crew...
Troy: At some point we ended up watching Richard Dawkins lectures on the internet. After a while I suggested, half in jest, that maybe we should ask Dawkins to be our special guest on the new album.
Tuomas: It was an amazing idea, and I immedia\tely started wondering if could really make it happen.
Jukka: We were naturally a bit sceptical, too - we had to try and ask him of course, but it was better not to have such high hopes. Dawkins had pretty much shied away from popular culture apart from one episode of The Simpsons.
Troy: I enthusiastically assured them that I can make this work, like "You'll see, guys". Well the next morning I wasn't feeling so confident any more and I rtemembered Tuomas and Jukka going "Told you so"
TUOMAS: Still, there was no way we could let it drop without at least trying. So we started thinking about a proper manner to approach Dawkins. We decided our best option would be to send him a hand-written, polite letter, where we would tell him about the band, the scientific themes on the forthcoming album and the fact that he had been a great inspiration
TROY: We got no reply, so we sent another letter. In the end, I guess we had a bit of luck, because it turned out Dawkins personal assistant knew the band and actually liked Nightwish. He suggested that Dawkins should take our inquiry seriously
TUOMAS: I was in Paris doing interviews for the Scrooge album. When I got back to the hotel in the evening. I noticed there was an email from Dawkins, something like, "1 went to the internet and browsed your band, and what I heard l liked very much. So I'd be happy to co-operate.
FLOOR: Tuomas sent us a triumphant message: "You won't believe what just
M happened: Dawkins said yes!"
TROY: It was obvious from the start that Dawkins' appearance would attract a lot of attention - both positive and negative. His book God Delusion had created a worldwide controversy. after all.
JUKKA: We didn't invite Dawkins to be on our album to criticize religion but to speak as a scientist: an evolutionary biologist. Of course neither the fans nor anybody else outside the band knew it at that point.
TUOMAS: There has been a lot of unreasonable criticism hurled at him for all kinds of reasons. A lot of people seem to ignore the fact that Dawkins is also happy to listen to contrary opinions and is always open for new ideas. In that sense, he's like Esko Valtaoja, with whom we had the honour to work on Showtime, Storytime DVD.
I had endless possibilities in my hands for "The Greatest Show on Earth" What is the sound of crumpling continental plates that mountains are made of? Or the disintegration of radioactive components? Or the sound of space particles bombarding the earth? And how would I refer to immortal works of music composed by man? Well, I included shades of "Dies Irae" by Thomas Celano, "Toccata" and "Fuga" by Johann Sebastian Bach, banjo music from Western movies, "Rock around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets, and "Enter Sandman" by Metallica. I was also thinking about borrowing "Sandstorm" by Darude, but in the end, we just went for an unrecognizable techno loop.
Also Petzold and Bach.
Recording - and Jukka Resigning:
MARCO: Kaitsu handled the drum parts admirably, so we could continue with the other instruments right away, This time we tried to concentrate on one song at a
time and kept on working on it till we felt there was nothing more we could add.
TROY: And we didn't even have thunder. Rauhala does not have the best sound proofing in the world, so it would have been pretty challenging to mike the instruments if there had been rain and thunderclaps.
TUOMAS: I actually got off easier than I expected, because a lot of the demo keyboards from Hämeenlinna were good enough to be included on the album. The stuff in "Sea-Worn Driftwood", part five of "The Greatest Show on Earth", for example, was salvaged straight off the demo. In Hämeenlinna, I had explained to Tero that this passage would be about "whales singing and rats taking over the world". I had just come up with that improvised stuff, and it made it on the album
MARCO: Recording the vocals was teamwork in the best possible sense, no matter who was behind the mike. We kicked around suggestions and tried out all kinds of last minute ideas. Like, "Hey Floor, throw in some of that sweet upper octave of yours in the second verse...
Yeah, that's a nice touch!"
FLOOR: Marco kept on surprising us. He might just suddenly say, "Wait, I have an idea!" Then he'd pull out his bass and introduce an excellent harmony
MARCO: It was great fun recording the vocals. I've never had the chance to impersonate a troglodyte in front of a microphone before, so creating gorilla sounds for "The Greatest Show on Earth" was pretty hilarious. I didn't want to undermine the majesty of the song in any way, but I didn't exactly do it with a straight face, either!
TROY: I recorded my own ape grunts at home. To get in character, I took off my shirt, banged my chest with my fists, and pretended I was an ancient Homo Erectus. I think my wife was a bit worried
MARCO: I cut my bass parts pretty quickly in about one and a half days. I even got a bit lazy towards the evening of the first day - if I had really pushed it, I might have been able to complete them in a single day.
The first part, "Four Point Six", is a reference to the age of our planet -in billions of years. The journey starts with a simple but persistent keyboard theme, interrupted by massive thunder claps - the origin of life that despite the murderous bombardment by asteroids, sprouts time and again and finally manages to grow permanent roots. The word "archaean" in the lyrics refers to the Archean Eon, the first of the geological eons of the world (Gaea).
The second part of the song chronicles the birth and the first on Earth. "Enter Luca" is a reference to an early life form, an acronym for the Last Universal Common Ancestor. We can make assumptions about the characteristics of Luca and other early life forms by reading the DNA of current organisms: "There's a writing in the garden, leading us to the mother of all."
Right from the beginning, one of the key characteristics of living cells has been the ability to sense their environment and react to their perceptions: "Ion channels welcoming the outside world."
In the third part, chronicling the age of man, there's a fascinating reminder: All of us current organisms are descendants of an
unbroken lineage of winners. "Not a single one of your fathers died young".
"Little Lucy of the Afar" refers to the famous fossil of Australopithecus Afarensis that was found in Afari, Ethiopia, a hominin that might have been the ancestor of man (genus Homo). In the long run, all species have the tendency to become extinct, and a fitting vision of the future of mankind is presented in the song, "One day'Il cease to be" On the other hand, man had earlier had "a dream to understand" and "[given] birth to poetry" . He wanted to leave his mark stating "We were here!" In the fourth part, man strives to understand it all, and Richard Dawkins takes up the story once again with a surprising claim:"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. The explanation folows shortly."Most people are never going die, because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been herein my place, but who will in fact never see the light of day, outnumber the sand grains of Sahara."
In the fifth and final part, Dawkins recites the concuding words of The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: "From so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
FLOOR: I felt real good after the final rehearsals [for EFMB] in a New York studio. There were obviously many challenging parts in the set - I'd have to be extra careful in the beginning of "The Greatest Show on Earth", for example because some of the phones rise from the back of the throat but "operatic vocals are produced in the front of the mouth
" I was also thinking about borrowing "Sandstorm" by Darude, but in the end, we just went for an unrecognizable techno loop"
FFS Tuomas, that is so bad! Sandstorm would have been perfect!
@@ValtteL Tuomas is quite humorous when he chooses isn't he?
@@NickBR57 Definitely.
Thank you so much
@@TrainingVoiceilaria You're welcome. I think that set of interviews is very useful in understanding the work. It's not for everybody of course because the music works on all sorts of levels, but if you want to understand what is in the minds of the writers and performers you get so much more out of it. Particularly with Nightwish.
It was wonderful Ilana. No worries. So sorry to hear about the torrential rainfall and flooding in Emilia-Romagna. 🙏🙏
Grazie mille 💜
I'm really looking forward to it, I've been lucky enough to hear the song live three times now. It's a rollercoaster of emotions every time and with a few happy tears at the end. Have fun watching, Ilaria
Ciao :) Live is certainly another experience, even more engaging, I was only able to breathe a small part of this great work and I was so taken by understanding the music, the lyrics, the words, the style... (I didn't look for information before, I wanted it to be a surprise) to analyze it takes some time :)
@@TrainingVoiceilaria Like you said, live is more intense. Even without Marko, the feelings were no different. Too bad Nightwish is taking a break from touring, but I'm lucky enough to see them play Human :II: Nature live one more time. By the way, I have another suggestion for you. A metal song with harp, would like to know what you think about the two voices. The link th-cam.com/video/Ww3eqbTSajw/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=NapalmRecords
Greetings from Germany.
Wow
You should also do the Wembley version its just as good and has different musical arrangements.. Sending positive thoughts and energy to those who are in distress in the flood areas..
Grazie mille 💜
Hi, sorry for the losses to people, nature, houses and infrastructure in Emilio Romana. It was devastating, we hear in the Netherlands. Thank you, I hope the empowerment from this song may enhearten you for at least a little bit! Love from here.
Grazie mille 💜
Ciao, bellissima reazione, saluti dalla Polonia
Greetings from Italy🤗
🤗🍒🤘🏻😘 well done girl
You have to be sober and Straight to pull this off live. F-----k the buzz, the show is the most important. Be sober AND ON THE MARK! That is what impresses the audience most. Clean and sober wins the day. That is the final and lasting impression. If you fuck up once in front of thousands, it hurts you in the long run.
Floors parents being at this show….How proud they must be to see the positive and joyous effect their amazing daughter and this amazing band has on thousands of people must be almost overwhelming for them.
Sensory overload… Nightwish style.
The band that can call it “The Greatest Show on Earth” and deliver on all points…incredible
Floor sings. Marco sings. Troy sings (the one who plays various instruments). When the animal growling occurs, it's Marco first, then Troy, then Floor.
This song now also brings to mind the threat of nuclear war, which, due to the brutal war started by Russia in Ukraine, has once again risen to consciousness and is a danger to all of humanity.
Ottimo commento. Bello sentire qualcuno che potrebbe parlare in italiano volendo. Purtroppo nel ns. bellissimo paese manca la passione (o forse la conoscenza) dei generi quali Hard Rock, Heavy metal e simili.
Ciao Fabio io vengo dal pop ma mi piace mantenere la menta aperta a tutti i generi musicali, senza pregiudizio e devo dire che i Nightwish sono stata un'ottima scoperta
Glad you enjoyed this performance but if you intend to listen a few times you might like to listen to the Wembley 2015 version with closed captions as well.
The odds of you ever being born are astromical, so don`t waste it. Your existance is quadrillions to one that you even existed. MAKE THE MOST OF IT AND BE THANKFULL THAT YOU EVER EXISTED AT ALL. Most will never exist because of the odds. Don`t hate it, be glad you had this even if your reality is crap .You can change this. You have endless power you just don`t believe it. You are a GOD. AN EARTHLY POWER. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEEN YOUR POWER you just didn`t know. now you know. You can rise above this!!!
Pass along our condolences...
🤩👌💥💯🎼
*OPUS PERFECTUM*
Touchy reaction mi lady...
Wishing all the best there is for every one who suffered at in any ways in that natural phenomena.
Grazie mille...
Warm greetings from Finland.
🤘😎 🇫🇮 💙
Ciao Jaska, grazie 💜
@@TrainingVoiceilaria 💙💙💙🎶🎶🎶
Hi Liaria 🖐😝 this is my favourite version of THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH 😝👍 Even though i do enjoy all versions as they both have special moments ! Thank You for Watching & Giving you thoughts & insight to this masterpiece ☺️💋 Love from Queensland Australia 🇦🇺🏄♂️🍹
Ciao Steve, Grazie mille!
For your musical analysis:
- There are so many “hidden gems” that Tuomas included in the lyrics & the music.
17:43 - 18:43 The musical tributes start with some African tribal drumming, then through the Gregorian chant in Dies Irae (Mozart), Bach’s Minuet in G Major followed by his famous Fugue in D Minor, followed by American banjo music, Metallica’s Enter Sandman riff (!!!), finally ending in Rap/Hip-Hop and 90s dance music.
Pretty Good isn’t it?!!
Minuet in G has been wrongly attributed to Bach. It is now consensus it is written by Christian Petzold.
Thank you so much!!!
As a touring musician I can say that this band works harder than most. This show requires a big commitment from the artist. Many weeks of planning took place to make this work. I for one would not be able to pull this off because of the sober time required to do this. Most metal bands are drunk and stoned most of the time. This requires a sober and determined band to pull this off. Metal is mostly getting drunk and getting high. That attitude needs to change. A good show pays the bills better than a drunk show ever will. So any band out there who thinks stupid is ok, just check this out.
Whilst I do not subscribe to the "Theory of Evolution" I wholeheartedly subscribe to the musical genius of Nightwish. Thank you for a wonderful reaction to this masterpiece. 🙏😊👍❤️
Next reaction VOB "THE ENEMY Of EARTH IS YOU MV &" PMS ". VOB BAND ROCK TRIO HIJABERS from 🇮🇩 VOB AMAZING super talented 🤟
🤘NIGHTWISH❤🔥🤘NIGHTWISH❤🔥🤘NIGHTWISH❤🔥🤘NIGHTWISH❤🔥🤘NIGHTWISH❤🔥🤘NIGHTWISH❤🔥🤘NIGHTWISH❤🔥🤘NIGHTWISH❤🔥
I can fully understand why you decided to not go into the details of this song just yet, and instead decided you need to listen again. (and again and again... hehehe)
It is too big a song to fully grasp the first few times, the story is huge and the narration is very deep, and the song even comes with a few little Easter-eggs as well ;)
Can't wait to see your analysis on the song.
Sooo many beautiful elements🤩
@@TrainingVoiceilaria for sure :D
Of course, at 9:00 min that "labiale" - "bellissimo" for bagpipe parts must be... Her "siren" singing, Marko's voice, nice melody + '80 synth vibes + Bach "Minuetto" + Mozart + Metallica "Enter Sandman"
What else is missing? Possibly enough for me.
Regards! Ciao bella!
...and Your 25:01 "Mannaggia" is obviously justifiable 🤣🤣🤣
Ehehehe
Floor's parents were here...
High hopes-nightwish !!!!
Vedrai, sarà un altro giro sulle montagne russe ;-)
Ciao Marco e Fabrizio, mi spiace di non aver compreso sul momento tutto il discorso finale, ma ne ho compreso il senso, soprattutto in questi momenti difficili dobbiamo essere grati alla "ruota della fortuna" per essere qui e poterlo raccontare, è una cosa in realtà a cui spesso penso, il compositore è stato davvero un genio a creare questa meraviglia! (anche solo a pensarla...figuriamoci a realizzarla!!!)
And oh, believe you can’t go too long/esoteric when it comes to NW, they always demand more, but never ask for it, their skills.
Ciao, ti scrivo in italiano... il mio inglese scritto è claudicante tanto quanto la tua pronuncia per cui pari e patta e palla in mezzo.
Nightwish... cosa significa?
Significa uno dei pochi compositori geniali dell'ultimo trentennio!
Tuomas secondo me ha due grandi talenti: saper scrivere gran bella musica e sapersi circondare di interpreti e musicisti superlativi.
Perchè prima è andata Tarja e, nonostante l'intermezzo nefasto di Annette- pessima l'esperienza Nightwish ma la ragazza ci sa fare e "Shine", il suo primo album solista lo dimostra!- l'approdo a Floor è stato un nuovo Eden...
Poi ha lasciato Jukka e l'arrivo di Kai lo ha fatto rimpiangere quanto basta per abituare l'orecchio ad un diverso modo di intendere la batteria.
Ma quanto manchi Marko Hietala al gruppo mi sembra piuttosto evidente!
Ok sto divagando... Il mio commento riguarda tutt'altro...
"The Greatest Show on Earth" è una composizione magniloquente, ricca di colpi di scena e di citazioni, pregna di romanticismo e di eleganza, gravida di Bach e di Metallica... ma che mi si venga a dire che il discorso finale di Richard Dawkins- tra l'altro, io "L'illusione di Dio" e il libro da cui prende spunto Tuomas per questo pezzo li ho letti, e voi?- sia profondo, addirittura profetico... no, dai: è filosofia di oltre 2000 anni fa!
Tanto per dirne una: che significa che tra i "non nati" ci sono molti Newton e Keats? Ci saranno anche molti Dahmer e Hitler allora.
Ma perchè incasinarsi la vita con quello che potrebbe essere: non è già abbastanza complicato e interessante quello che è?
Per esempio quello che Dawkins dice e che "ruba" a Charles Darwin- così, tanto per gradire "L'origine delle Specie": io l'ho letto, e voi?- è la base dell'evoluzione, roba da prima media, mica da mani giunte e invocazioni metafisiche. Anzi, forse il problema in Italia è proprio questo: le mani giunte... vabbé è un'altra storia...
Comunque sia... a mio parere i Nightwish sono una delle ultime realtà musicali innovative capaci di piacere alle masse... insomma dei fighi istruiti e con idee mica male, per farla spiccia.
E io li amo!
Amo un po' di meno Richard Dawkins ma nessuno è perfetto, no?
How Dare we whine.
Yes, the disaster. So bad, I hope the rebuilding will go swiftly
Next reaction VOB "SABOTAGE -Beastie BOYS cover VOB BAND ROCK TRIO HIJABERS from 🇮🇩 VOB LIVE at TAIWAN. PASIWALI FESTIVAL 2022👍 VOB AMAZING spektakuler 🤟
🇫🇮😁🇫🇮💙🪄🎼✨💯🤘
It's so sad that this band broke up. I Love(d) them! At least we still have Floor sharing her talent with us, up to this day, in many ways. Whatever she does, Revamp, Northward, home recorded covers, solo, Beste zangers/sing meine song. It's all amazing!! And then there's still,l of course, Nightwish.
the composer is Tuomas Holopainen no tuomas no nighwish no nightwish no floor
Yesss
foney but floors count down in the end sounds to mi like don in danise en to tre fire fire
After you have watched this. There is no point in watched Wembley version. Because it’s doesn’t compare.
Sawn 4 clips of you/// missing a lot from a vocalist- yourself voice is cery thin- for childhood- kindergarten its o.k.
She seems throughly bored with the whole thing.
She sure did.
No, I always put the maximum attention on the listening, also because it's not my native language, otherwise I wouldn't continue making Reaction&Analysis on Nightwish, no one forces me to do it, I continue because I like their music😉
There is Music/ there is Art! You missed almost everything!
odds of being born 4 trillion to 1
🇬🇧 Norfolk strapped in for the history of life 😊Floor in her DNA double helix dress and unicorn heels what’s not to like about this masterpiece ❤
Hello Ilaria, Thanks for doing this super long but great song. I just subscribed and will be looking forward to more of your videos. Take care. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦🥂🥂🤘🤘🤘🤘