THE GREATEST BAND! NIGHTWISH - THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH LIVE║REACTION! 

Lucky! I saw them at Wembley when they played Poet and the Pendulum in 2015 :)

I'm more than slightly jealous

Can't blame you, I'd brag about it too! This and Wacken 2013 are the two concerts I really wish I could have attended

Floor's parents were there too. Lovely. Did you see the documentary? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zRqqma4kWIg.html

I had tickets to Rock Fest this year. And now it is cancelled. 😪

HHAHAHAHHAHAHAA PERFECT!

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and Marko is Gandalf 😂

The same when he walks behind her in Ghost Love Score, she has even higher heels and the angel makes him look even smaller, he barely reach her shoulder 😂

@@F1rstWorldNomaD As if height were the measure of a man.

The enter Sandman riff is also a pun to the "Single grain of sand" line in the lyric.

There's dubstep too, but it's clearer on the album.

@@F1rstWorldNomaD Thank you for that little nugget. I did not know this after watching this performance over and over again. :) (something new everyday)

If I'm not mistaken, there's a little bit of Led Zeppelin in there too, but I might be wrong :)

@@firebugjohnnypyro Youre welcome. 😁 Isnt it amazing that no matter how much you learn about this band there is always more to know? They have these seemingly endless intricacies to almost everything they do, I absolutly love it. 🥰

lossow1 Troy: Yes

The question should say: "Why are there people in this world who manage not to cry at the end of this song?" Seriously.

Because it reminds you that you "won the lottery of birth" and "WE WERE HERE." We are here, we have made our mark just by existing.

I cry every time, is inevitable

Same here 🙋‍♀️

@@Ilionej or maybe How come some people have never heard this song?

Ascension Energetics and in which other song? nightwish: yes

A last, desperate and/or resigned message to whoever may find it in the far future made by the last remnant of humanity, yes.

Very Norse - despite Raganarok we will leave a message for who- or what-ever comes after us.WE WERE HERE.... makes me think of the Voyager probes - all alone in the cosmos - perhaps even after we are gone they will still be travelling. This song should be on the next one!

It was celebratory in my mind, especially with that Dawkins text.

@@amazonwarlord Exactly right. We are the lucky ones that were born and that were here.

great!

that's an awesome concept, i'm not a musician so i wouldn't hear such things myself

I also think it's because it's less easy to catch it during a live performance as the instrumentals get drowned out by audience noise and stuff. To add, the whole sequence begins with tribal chanting then to Gregorian chanting from Dies Irae, to Bach, to Metallica then to the bassline (EDM-ish sounding beat) of Wish I Had An Angel.

I did!! 😁

I believe that was after firing Sami Vanska not after Tarja.

i love Tony. first time i saw Nightwish Live was in Seattle 2013 it was also the First time i had ever heard Sonata Arctica. they impressed me but i loved how in the middle of it Tony was going of on a rambling speech and said "Apparently Tony has nothing important left to say so if you would all please say shut the F up Tony" so we did then he claimed it was to chaotic so he guided us word by word then proclaimed "How Rude" before going straight into the next song.... they were so much fun

thank you for this information about the music, makes the song even more meaningful for me ( if that is possible)

After the Metallica riff you can hear a few seconds of also EDM, so that section is a tribute to music evolution in general. Fun fact: this song is the last on "Endless Forms", then the next album starts with "Music".

That’s not Toccata and Fugue in D minor, it’s Minuet in G. The rest of what you said is spot on, though. Truly the greatest band.

@@Mordred41407 no, h's correct. It's the beginning of the Fugue. See 0.40 from the french series 'Était une fois l'homme' ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sC4fnyAqOB0.html

or original (2.40) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ho9rZjlsyYY.html

I love the part where little Lucy of the Afar appears in the song, the background on fire. The animals running from the human destruction. They did a marvelous work including the images to make more vivid the feeling and emotion of each part of this masterpiece.

@@Amesthys yeah..even growls from floor to represent the first humas are great..everything well placed in every part of the song..

Hiawatha Goldstein man I read origin of species by charles darwin because of this song LMAO

Richard Dawkins teaches lies, not reason. There is no logic to his teaching. It is nonsense. The only logical answer to life is God, which is not superstition. It is a shame that Nightwish promote Dawkins. Their music is great but they are ignorant about the origins of life, just like many brainwashed people.

@@paulviggers9106 oof you really think evolution and gods can't be together? And yes gods I'm a Heathen or trying to be one, it's a lot of work and research. So you're a mythic literalist you're exactly why all theists get bundled together. At the end of the day that's what the stories about our gods are myths to be interpeted as metafores not reality. If you can't see that evolution could be a product of the gods what's the point? You really think your god created a perfect world from scratch? I think the gods created the beginnings of a world and that nature and evolution did the rest.

@@paulviggers9106 K.

@@paulviggers9106 wow. that takes some balls to call nonsense and brainwashing to sience instead to people which are believing in a mythological book like the bible as the true word of the only true god. which ist just that. a mythological book, a collection of books , randomly put together by a pope how he saw fit. A mythos same like the edda and many many other myths of the creation of earth and life, each culture and religion has their own. Why christians always thinking that they are something special? You are not. Just one religion and path of many other. Science is science. Religion has a completely different approach. Nothing wrong with that. i am a spiritual person myself. But I would never dare to say that science is just a way to brainwash people.

and Master, Passion Greed, honestly more Tarja then Poet and the pendulum

@@1982jeepcj8 probably But Floor is more powerful

@@erasmorappa4218 Why even bother comparing Floor and Tarja? They're both amazing!

As long as he brings the tissues

Oh oh 😂

Yes. He is ready for this...

@@chewie2648 Are you sure? He needs to buy a big box of tissues first.

@@ooO0VicariouS0Ooo I think we all need to buy a big box of tissues 😉 This song makes me cry every time I listen to it. Masterpiece ! 🖤 He is ready for this song👍

Indeed, Poet and the Pendulum really hits harder... in the best way possible.

That harpsichord gets me every time!

I know, right! That's so friggin great on so many levels 🤣

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Yes please

so overrated man 😂😅

OTE x OTE overrated?

@@otexote8954 every body has a different opinion and taste in music luckely. 😜. But if someone knows her vocal technique it is floor. When she sings emotions happening with a lot of us fans. I have that with no other artists. ❤️🤘

@@sanderhoogeland9161 Well, if you rate someone as the best female voice ever in history, I think 'overrated' is a fair interpretation. She's fantastic, super talented, has a nice tone to her voice, can switch well and perform in many styles and she's a humble person. But none of that makes her the best, that's so super subjective. There's women that go higher, that go lower, that have more grit, are even more angelic, more versed in opera or rap or vocal slides. Floor is just fantastic because she does all these things to a very high level. But she can't compete with people who do only 1 thing and studied and trained it to perfection. I doubt most opera singers could switch to growling though.

@@bararobberbaron859 I think that a lot of fans are a bit in love with Floor ( so am I and i am straight ) and you know what happens when someone is in love..... But it is a marvelous feeling so please let it be 😜

I've got a big question in my mind about this part, from the first time I heard this song. Maybe someone from Finland could help me. Before the Enter Sandman's riff, there is the Tuomas part which is From Bach "Toccata and Fugue in D minor". The fact is, when I was young there was a cartoon which explains the history of humanity, from the very beginning (from the big bang to now). The opening of this cartoon was the "Toccata and Fugue in D minor", but it was a french cartoon, I don't know if it was played in other countries, and if Tuomas used it as a tribute, or if it's just a coincidence, as the song is the story of the world. I'm gonna ask this in other "Greatest show on earth" reactions, because it's really something I want to know. This is the opening I speak about for curious people: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dfnLa4B-Pbg.html

@@ooO0VicariouS0Ooo I was going to mention that no one seems to catch the Toccata and Fugue part (one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written). I have no idea about the cartoon but it is probably just a coincidence...

It's sad no reactionist catches the Bach riff done in the most epic way possible. I don't think it's hommage to a french cartoon show though :) although i remember a similar show "es war einmal... der mensch" in germany (and other 'once upon a time..' cartoons). Don't remember any of the music they had.

@@ooO0VicariouS0Ooo first I thought you meant Fantasia (original, not 2000), but nope! I don't know what that cartoon is!

Tarja is really good also. i can get not liking Anette that much, but i like a few studio songs with her at least...

I'd like to call her Paradox, actually. Because somehow, she's always on the ceiling.

"There is Floor and there are ... aaaa??? ... " Irene.... ;)

Irene (Floors sister) is a great great singer as well. Check them both out on Ayreon.

Brindle Chase The greatest show on earth is life

he have no clue

😂😂😂😂😂

Jaaa!

Fugue D minor :)

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Crazy 😊

i saw 3rector who caught it but yeah from like 20+ not much lol

Come on, I had to 😁🤘🤘👌 Thank you.

I can't remember who it was, but someone actually picked out the banjo part. I was impressed.

You are welcome

Thank you 😊

yeeeees :)

Between T&F and Metallica , Empu plays two riffs of "Rock around the clock" ! And after Metallica. Kai is doing some Tecno drumming. The evolution of music.