FIRST TIME HEARING Nightwish - Everdream REACTION  

Since you are all about music and psychology, there is an obvious choice for a Nightwish song for you to react to. The Poet and the Pendulum is a 14-minute epic journey through the mind of Tuomas and the anguish and depression he went through after having decided to part ways with their original singer, Tarja Turunen. It is an amazing piece of art musically and lyrically. Tuomas’s magnum opus in my opinion. It helps to understand the backstory, and history of the band first, as well as how the split happened and the backlash. You might even want to check out a song with Tarja (maybe Phantom of the Opera or Wish I Had and Angel, from End of an Era) first. The band fired her with a letter they gave her after that show, and also posted as an open letter online. May want to research it a bit. There is a lot to examine psychologically and emotionally. There was a backlash and negativity towards Tuomas after that, even though it was the band’s decision. He went into a depression. The Dark Passion Play album, and that song in particular, is about how he went through that time. It essentially represents a death of sorts, he felt he experienced. Floor does the ultimate version, in the live performance at Wembley. You may even want to consult with your RU-vid friend Brandon again. He gets it. Great reaction. Keep exploring Nightwish!

One of my favorites of theirs.

In the song "Élan," Tuomas encourages us to "write a lyric for the song only you can understand." As best I can tell, that's what he's doing with "Everdream." I love it, but I have never understood it. For me, the lyrics just seem to hover on the edge of meaning. They're beautiful and evocative, but of what, I don't know.

Rock and metal are as close as the moon is to the earth, there are endless bands that play metal and symphonic rock. The father of symphonic metal is Therion, but bands like Epica and Nightwish have been able to sell it very well. In fact, Nightwish has the song The Phantom of the Opera with the original vocalist. You should check it out, it's a great song with a great performance. You won't regret it!

This concert was in Wakken 2013 In my opinion one of the best I bought the DVD awesome 🤘🤘🤘

Hi beauty, this is one of my favourites. This is great also Tarja´s singing but Floor takes this to another level. Hope you continue your journey, there is so much to discover! Greetings from Finland

They simply don't have any bad songs, just varying degrees of brilliance 🤘

Another Nightwish favorite, and I especially love when Marko comes in and blows you away too, as if Floor's vocals alone weren't enough... For a real softer one try "Dead Boy's Poem". Also "The Islander" that showcases Marko. And while you're at it listen to Floor and Marko singing "Ave Maria" together, it's absolute magic. Cheers!

I can't understand why American radio stations won't give bands like Nightwish and Sabaton any air time. 😕

The last minute of Everdream, with the double bass drum and music intensity, is like a runaway steam train with Floor as the conductor and the guys stoking that boiler 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥 Definitely one of the Nighwish favouriyes and best songs. Floor just hits it out the park

Great reaction and commentary! If you want to hear more of Floor’s vocals with stripped down instrumentals, I highly recommend How’s the Heart - Planet Rock acoustic.

To me, Everdream is about dreaming to find your soul mate and wondering if someone is dreaming to find you.

Back in 1982 Marko and his brother started a band called Tarot (well they changed the name to Tarot in 1984). It is a metal band and Marko is the lead singer. So, yes, Marko can sing and sings very well... he's been a lead singer in a metal band since '82.

I'm glad that you're starting to understand that what keeps us together with Nightwish music is not something of the conjuncture. To talk about an ideal love as the subject of a metal piece, here is something out of the ordinary. For Nightwish it is something natural. It complete something in all of us. This is perhaps the closest to my heart from their entire repertoire, because an idealist hides in me too. Thanks.

Another Nightwish video where you have problems with your mouth. But that happens to others too. It's only going to get worse ;-) I can think of songs that top that. Because the announcement with the softer only refers to the start, two really slow songs (careful, as always, your mouth): A Tarja song that is also one of the first singles: NIGHTWISH. SLEEPING SUN. ( FLOOR JANSEN ) - 2016 From the Amsterdam solo concert, but that sounds like the original and is originally an Anette song: Floor Jansen - Slow, Love, Slow (Live)

Yes, Marko can really sing! Another song where he gets to shine with his voice is Phantom of the Opera, the live version from the End of an Era concert. Yes, I know, you wouldn't think that his voice could suit that but it really does. It is actually my favourite version of it. Another reason why I am recommending Phantom of the Opera, is that there you have the opportunity to see and hear Nightwish's original singer, Tarja Turunen. She helped to form the band and was with them until her dismissal in 2005. Also, Ever Dream was originally written for Tarja. If you are going to do the Poet and the Pendulum, it might be good to do at least one Tarja song before that. It might help you understand better the song and the meaning behind it, since it was written about all that stuff that Tuomas went through with Tarja's dismissal from the band.

Do yourself a favor and listen to the songs several times and listen for a different instrument every time. There are so many fantastic parts that disappears if you don't listen to them. All of the guys in the band are fantastic. Like it's easy to think that the drummer always drives the songs but if you listen for the bassist you see that they often switch the driving between themselves. There's so many layers in each song.

Floor has said that this song is one of the more challenging for her to sing. You really want to hear Marko's range? Check out the cover of Phantom of the Opera with him and Tarja, or the cover/tribute of Pink Floyd's High Hopes where he sings lead.

I'm so here for this! You will be blown away! Haha. This song is one of my favorites, and the one Floor said (at one point) was the hardest she sings live.

Tuomas is a great composer combined with great musicians an a top notch vocalist Floor, one of the best female vocalist and an vocal coach too!

Marco is a very accomplished all round artist in his own right, but together with Floor Janssen they created magic moments. That’s why so many Nightwish fans were feeling broken when the news came out about Marco leaving the band. Hè has since then released his own new album with some very beautiful songs. One especially Isäni ääni is so beautiful, especially the Finnish version. Even though I don’t speak Finnish I prefer it to the English version.

Hello! The video with Marko singing) In your Disturbed video sound of silence I mentioned Marko Hietala and his vocal solo of Pink Floyd cover High Hopes. Phantom of the opera with Tarja, while your lips are still red, Islander, ghost river and plus many more nightwish songs where he actively sings. Marko as a vocalist and performer deserves special attention) he is great.

Within temptation is another amazing symphonic metal band. I'd suggest starting with Angels.

Ever Dream is the rawest song when it comes to the emotion of love. Why? Because it is the idea that the other person hasn't chosen the person Floor is singing about. And when you get to the bridge, I've never heard a more emotional pairing than Jukka on drums, with Floor on vocals. His frantic drumming, coupled with her desperate vocals, is sheer emotional feeling. Because it is at that point that rejection is a real possibility -- and then BAM! Jukka shifts the drumming into another gear, and Ever Dream becomes almost out of control, as a song.

If you want to really be blown away go all the way back to her first band After Forever. Vocally it's more impressive than what she does now. Floor was 16 years old when they did their first album. 16!!!!! We are literally watching a legend!!!! Floor is The Valkyrie Queen!!!! Check out the short of A Young Floor High Notes Compilation.

Floor doesn't need Auto-tune... autotune, is calibrated by floors voice..... her live performances are just as incredible as the videos... I'm blown away.. thank you for covering Nightwish #nightwisharmy

Nightwish - High Hopes Marco sing this alone ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4oEDnVeYYyM.html

She stated this is one of her most difficult song to sing cuz of all the high notes at the end but it's one of my favorites love this song this is one of their older ones when tarja was with the band very uplifting

If you want to hear Marko more on his own try The Islander or While Your Lips Are Still Red.

Hi Rosalie, I want to recommend a band from Brazil, called Angra, to help reinforce this breaking of stereotypes with Heavy Metal, Angra mixes Heavy Metal, classical music, and Brazilian rhythms, making a spectacular and peculiar sound. I recommend you listen to the song "Carolina IV" from the album called "Holy Land", released in 1996. The band members met at the music college in the composition and conducting course, unfortunately the vocalist (André Matos), one of the best voices from Heavy Metal, died of a heart attack in 2019. This album is a masterpiece.

She is singing that way for 2h+! Look what she does when she is pored! Only doing 1song!!!❤

There were two other singers before Floor ... first was Tarja then Annette if you're going to start a journey with Nightwish you need to go back and give them a listen .... Marko sings a lot more on the End of an Era concert Tarja on vocals

Jukka is like a machinegun with those double bass kicks. Amazing!!

Great reaction! One of the songs where I enjoy the original performance with Tarja almost as much as Floor's performance here. One of the songs she said was the most difficult to sing until Shoemaker came along. Concur with others that the acoustic version of How's the Heart or Shallow from Beste Zangers are great showcases of her voice. Her version of Shallow from her Amsterdam solo concert is beautiful but more like Lada Gaga's original. The Beste Zangers performance is softer and more unique and really showcase her ability to imbue emotion into a song. My favorite Marko song is Nightwishes' While Your Lips are Still Red live from Wembley. It shows his beautiful vulnerable and emotionally charged voice.

I loved "Your beauty Cascaded on Me" when the flashes behind matched Floor's opening hands. Magical.

Fantastic reaction Thanks so much , It will keep getting better & better

Great to see you continuing on your Nightwish journey and letting us come along for the ride! Please keep going, and please just keep going on with Gabriels list. There is no reason to deviate. The list introduces various aspects of Nightwish in an orderly manner instead of throwing you in on the deep end.

After having heard this one with Marko singing as well, „Yours is an empty hope“ from Wembley would be a good next one. Different heaviness including a challenge to listen carefully to the different voices.

Well it's about love❤️😁 Please, please, please am begging you don't do 'poet and the pendulum' or the greatest show on earth' without research and some more songs to know them better. Have a great week! Greetings from Athens Greece

I don't know how many remember the original classical rocker or Bach and roller from Austria Yngwie J. Malmstein His video Icarus dream suite opus no. 4 with the Japanese Philharmonic was amazing. Not only did he write the sheet music for his guitar but for every single instrument of every song of a 2 hour concert.

I was heartbroken when Marko quit Nightwish. I've listened to them since about 2000, heared 3 different female lead singers. But Marko, in my opinion he is just irreplaceable. But Floor is still there and the is incredible. Now I suggest you to listen to The Phantom of the Opera with Nightwish, with their first lead singer Tarja Turunen

Ja der Bassist kann singen und wie . MARKO UND FLOOR ZUSAMMEN SIND NUR Epic

The smile....the wide eyes...the bobbing head...tells the story. Babe Ruth, Jim Brown, Michael Jordan, Usain Bolt.....Floor Jansen.

Love seeing your reactions. ❤❤❤❤Floor , Marco , Nightwish !!

Oh yes, he can sing. Examples: Marco solo - While Your Lips Are Still Red from Wembley; The Islander from Tampere and the ultimate is High Hopes from Hartwall Arena 2005. Also seek out Taikatalvi, I know its there on YT somewhere. Floor and Marco call and answer: Devil and the Deep Dark Ocean from Buenos Aires, Slaying the Dreamer from Buenos Aires. Marco backing like this: Song of Myself from Wacken.

Rosalie.....just your face.... worth al million! Greeting from Holland.

MARCO CAN SING. HIGH HOPES, PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, ISLANDER, WHILE YOUR LIPS ARE STILL RED ...

You should check out James Blunt's song called " Monsters ". Spoiler alert...have tissues handy because it's a tear jerker.

I can't wait for your reaction to "Yours an empty Hope". (Wembley version)

So,.... This song, believe it or not ,at that time, was the hardest song for Floor (vocally). But ,...THIS IS Floor Jansen Ladies and Gentlemen !!!! Also, Marko really showing off on this one 😁. And now, this song is on their set list forever (Floor does Marko parts now also). NWSU 🤘😎🤘.

If you like them singing together ,listen too " ghost river "

Marco is incredibly good! Check out high Hope's and the islander both the live versions. Very good

A couple years ago, Marko actually won the Finnish version of the Masked Singer.

I have never found anything to complain about with Nightwish, except the sound quality of some fan made concert videos.

Wacken 2013 was a big debut for Floor Jansen. So yes, this festival and the set really was aq showcase of what she can do, to get the fans on board

This was the first Nightwish song I heard and has resonated with me ever since. For me, this song is the story of hopeful love, seeking the other half of your soul. And the combination of Floor's vocals, Marko's driving bass line, with the totally awesome powerful drum work from Jukka makes this one of the most amazing ending of any song I have heard.

Hi Rosalie, Greetings from UK Another great reaction, thank you 😊

Hi, great reaction. A word about mixing a melodic vocal with hard rock/heavy metal: It's really about the contrast itself. As when a great chef creates a dish, he or she will mix different flavour profiles, as they say, which makes for a complex flavour that's far more interesting than a pile of random meat lumped on a plate (no matter how well that meat is cooked).

There is a metal festival every summer in Helsinki Finland called Tuska(agony), and it's the favorite festival of the Finnish police because it's the event with the least need for police action. There are no fights, no overdoses, no drunk idiots breaking stuff. Just people enjoying good music.

Hello, your reaction was very good and the respect and the individual point of view you approach the music and the band are remarkable.I will be very curious to see how you will receive and interpret it as a psychological specialist The poet and the pendulum...but until then, a long and magical journey awaits you in Nightwish and I hope in the Floor universe.Thank you for more success.😀

I love the way that Jukka plays the drums! 😎 Great reaction video btw.

Great reaction, try 'Bless the Child ' fantastic underrated song 😇😇😇👍 Hail Nightwish 🤘🤘🤘

" Ever Dream " is the sixth single by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish. Released as the first single from the band's fourth studio album, Century Child, it was the group's first single in two years, following " Deep Silent Complete " in 2000. The song is more operatic in nature than later works and the music itself is more on the heavy metal side. It is still played live since 2002 until today. "Ever Dream" was certified with Gold Disc in Finland two days after its release, with more than 5,000 copies sold, and later received Platinum Disc with more than 10,000 copies sold.

Really cool to see new fans finding Nightwish! Welcome to Nightwish family 🤗🥰 Greetings from Finland 🇫🇮

LOL, hearing the Valkyrie goddess saying "But for now, we're gonna start a little softer", is like the silence before a tsunami or a giant meteor strikes earth... 🤣🤣🤣

I know everybody talks about Floor’s voice which is always mind blowing but can we just talk about the band for a minute- speechless just speechless

Next I suggest "The Islander" live at Tampere. Marko is leading. Put subtitles on because Marko is talking (in finnish) with the audience in the beginning.

💙💙💙All Hail Floor !! 💙💙💙 Infantryman-Nightwish Army. US Regiment. Kentucky Battalion RIP Ann Waychoff-Commanding General-Nightwish Army

Marko is no joke, if I remember correctly he won the Masked Singer competition in Finland.

@Rosalie Reacts ... Floor said Everdream was the toughest song in the Wacken set, because it starts high and then goes higher and stays there. Check out Marco's solo in The Islander. Beautiful song. Also, Marco's Pink Floyd cover of High Hopes is spectacular.

I"m LOVING your Nightwish and Floor Jansen journey!!!! 😍😍😍

Nightwish - Gethsemane [Live Buenos Aires 2019] Best !!!

Floor says this is a very difficult song for her to sing because of all the high notes. But then she can sing anything.

They’re brilliant. I suggest you give a listen to a cover they did of Phantom of the Opera, an older performance from when they had a different singer, Tarja Turunen, it’s insanely good

Nightwish is a band that, thru the years have been bringing us beautiful songs and impressive voices with every single of their singers but Marko Hietala is that hidden gem they had in their hand and not often enough we had a chance to see shine in it's full glory and potential. I still like all the pieces he is singing and I am sorry that he will no longer be doing that. This song is a masterpiece where we can feel the power in his voice. Great artists, all of them.

thing that most overlook is the big big smile floor has when she sings this

Yes..I'm always thinking about His drumming.All can I say..those drums..is in best level, to keep this..but this drumset is beautiful...❤

And this was just one of her first big concert with the band!

If you want to really hear Marco's impressive range I would mostly recommend 2 songs: Phantom of the Opera(from End of an Era tour) and Islander(live at Tampere). I would really love to see your reaction to either of them :)

I don’t understand. Who’s recommending this? First time and….. you’re doing a version with floor instead of the original?

Dear Rosalie. This humble servant feels obligated to introduce you. Please meet Floor. First of Her Name, Queen of the Valkyries and the metal men, Lady of Nightwish and Protector of our Realm, 6foot 2 undisputed Mistress of the Amazons. Holder of our sacred vows. Nightwish army incoming in 5.... 4.... 3.... 2.... ;)

To me this song is a love letter to an absent, perhaps a long lost, close friend who doesn't realize the singer (or rather the song writer) has feelings for them. Now, don't go hating me for "being wrong", but in my "head canon" Tuomas was in love with or at least had a crush on the original vocalist Tarja Turunen, and that's where the yearning melancholy in this song comes from (she was still the vocalist of Nightwish when the song came out 2002). At least to me the song has this very meaning in real life, because of a person for whom I had feeling (and probably still have), but who didn't reciprocate; Just like Tarja didn't reciprocate Tuomas' feelings, if he ever even disclosed them.

Let me bring you another band. For sad reasons: for the the war, raging in the Ukraine, Rosalie: IGNEA from Ukraine.. Metal and orchestra, again. Performed in 2015, when Russia had ocupied the peninsula of Krim. In my book, rock music always also was political. In many songs. Starting with "Into the void" by Black Sabbath or "Slower than guns" by Iron Butterfly. Or maybe "Come away, Melinda" by Uriah Heep. Here in Europe, right now, we can buy goods from the Ukraine, free of tax. Pls listen to this band. If you like what you hear: buy as much as you can. I'm german. But I wanna say: slava ukraini ! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6KOXbzMRQHs.html

Marco’s voice - two cover songs with Nightwish. Phantom of the Opera with Tarja, 2005. High Hopes, Pink Floyd cover.

Hey Rosaly Wenn du Marco singen hören möchtest dann check mal Lips are still Red live at Wembley Show DVD 2015 The Islander Tempere Show DVD 2016 and High Hops End of an Era Show DVD 2005 by the way . On the End of an era Show DVD 2005 is the Phantom of the Opera . Rock on 🤘🤘😁

Once again,- welcome to the Nightwish Army. We are all sure that you have an American view of what is music... But metal THRIVES in northern Europe. You have your narrowminded background thoughts of viking-music. but here we are!

From Nightwish listen "The Islander" Live from Tampere. Also if you like to hear more Marko, check out he's own band Tarot or his solo album "Mustan Sydämen Rovio" (Pyre Of The Black Heart) The album can be found both in Finnish and in English

All these songs were written for Tarja and Anette. You should react to Marck singing While Your lips are still red. I really like 10th Man down from Buenos Aires 2018. High Hopes by Pink Floyd or Floor and Marco singing Ave Maria. Wings of Darkness from 1986 by Tarot before his throat surgery

If you want more of Marko's vocal check out The Islaner from the Tempere (I probably misspelled that) concert. Also interesting duet Floor/Marko on Yours Is An Empty Hope from the Wembley concert. Floor/Marko/Troy trio vocals on either My Walden or Alpenglow (maybe both songs for the trio I can't remember) both songs from Wembley.

I suffered for years when my first marriage failed. I was depressed and turned to alcohol for comfort, only it made my insides dark! Depression is very real and it can turn a big strong man on the outside into a small shell of what I was inside. Actually the only thing that made me happy was playing golf with my friends. I tried to mask the depression by playing golf as much as I could, as I worked in a Golf Pro shop. But, by myself...I was sad and lonely. I moved to New Orleans, and alcohol is easy to find, they have drive thru Daiquiri stands and no open container laws... In 1998 I met my soon to be wife of 23 years now. After our Honeymoon, I decided to follow the AA way to stop drinking, and 23 years, 3 months and 6 days ago I turned my life around. "Ever Dream" reminds me of how happy my wife made me because I didn't have to dream about her anymore! Oh...despite being an old college football player, offensive lineman... I am 6'6" and 320 lbs....my wife is even a bigger sports fanatic than I am! Her favorite RU-vid channel is the NFL Channel...she will watch games from the 1980's...and yell at the referees...cheer for TD's.

If you're interested in trying out different dject metal, check out Follow the Signs by Born of Osirus. Good message, the music will through you off first couple times you hear it. And don't forget TOOL Pneuma Danny Carry Drum Cam. Your next Night Wish song... hang the names on a wall, close your eyes, through a dart, that's a good song; you can't miss.

One more suitable for the Playlist of yours, isnt it:) Just watch your Speedometer in the Car, when Whindmilling to it:D. And ofc you hit it, its the Versatility of all Bandmembers paired with professional Skills and full Engagement to the Show, what many of us, normally not metalling all Day long, atrackts to Nightwish. Stay Healthy NWA Bavaria North

Heiligs Blechle:) just did surf along and rewatched your Reaction, still an great Watch:) STay Healthy! NWA Bavaria North

hey, i just found your channel and i like your reactions, watched a few videos so far, i wanna ask for a reaction, i saw you were fascinated from the crowd´s on metal conzerts so to my questin, can you please react to BLIND GUARDIAN - "The Bard's Song" & "Valhalla" live on wacken ? this would be amazing and you will love it, wish you a nice day and thanks for your videos :)

Welcome to Nightwish. Look into the leading composer of their music. Tomas Holopainen, the metal Mozart himself. He's on keyboards.

Ever dream is one of the songs that Floor sings with mixed feelings because she has to sing so high. The original was with Tarja, and it was much easier for her because she got a little higher.

He can sing? Check the "High Hops" song (tribute to Pink Floyd) from "End Of An Era" DVD! Marko is a great singer! Thank you, Rosalie! 🤘🏻

You’re very close to the meaning of this song. Yes, Marko (Hietala) can sing. Prior to NW he was also the vocalist, bassist and songwriter in the Finnish band Tarot. He has also played with the bands Sinergy, Northern Kings, Conquest and the cover band Metal Gods. He also performs a lot as a guest star in Ayreon, Delain etc. Watch him perform in NW “Ghost River” and “High Hopes” and solo in “The Voice of My Father”. Marko has been playing guitar and bass since he was twelve. He studied classical guitar, singing and music theory at a university of applied sciences for three years. Then he studied bass guitar and music theory at a conservatory for two more years.

The stars twinkle in the pitch-black North Karelia sky, raven forests, snowy fields, only lonely dilapidated barns, left behind, like me. Longing in my chest, tears in my eyes. Car radio play Ever Dream....

Great again. If you are interested in Marco‘s voice - try Islander (Tampere live 2015), While your lips are still red (Wembley live 2015)…