Old Man REACTS | NIGHTWISH - The Greatest Show on Earth (with Richard Dawkins) (OFFICIAL LIVE)
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THE GREATEST BAND ON EARTH.
Please check the lyrics at some point! This song has everything, it is everything! Larger than life!
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The title of the issue is taken from a 2009 book by evolutionary biologist and atheist writer Richard Dawkins, about the evidence for biological evolution. Dawkins also contributes to the album. Holopainen explained to HMV in March 2015: "I wrote him a letter a little over a year ago and explained what ideas we had for this album, mainly about evolution. Since one of the songs goes straight to one of his books, it felt like a perfect match to try and recite him on the album. A few weeks later, he sent me an email accepting the invitation."
"Later in 2014, we recorded his parts at Hats Off Studios, Oxford. This is a huge honour for us, as Dawkins is one of our greatest heroes and his writings have been a huge inspiration for the album."
The greatest show on earth is Life. ... All life, not just humanity.
Tuomas explains 4.6 billion years in 21 min. He originally made this 45 min long but shortened it to fit on an album side. Check also Tampere live of this-- even more grand than this even though no Dawkins in the end. Troy plays whistles and pipes instead of guitar in that - more original. Do more NW - you can not miss hit at all. Start from year 1996 and do them -> 2024
A masterpiece from the greatest band on the planet
BunBun - you are allowed to cry - I can't watch this without crying - in fact, I can't watch much of Nightwish with Floor without tears. I'd be a wreck at a live gig. And if you do react to Poet and the Pendulum bring your box of tissues - you will need them......
There were 3 singers singing this song - Floor (lead vocals), Marko (bass guitar, vocals)) and Troy (guitar, Uilleann pipes, vocals).
You should watch Tampere also. There are instrumental and presentation differences that need to be seen in both versions.
BTW I think you may not be ready for my top NW song, Poet. Please read some of the background to the song before you react to it so that you know what is going on. I shall provide some reasonably detailed notes for you when you do it.
Band comments and the history:
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 immediately started wondering if we 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 remembered 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
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.
Notes:
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".
Note that the beginning of this section is not about death but the evolution of life on Earth.
"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
The Poet and the Pendulum is an emotional one for the Nightwish Army. You need to check out the background to this one.
Boing! Bounced here late but better late than never, hey? Not a bunny, maybe a kangaroo! Nightwish Army, Blue Mountains Corps, Australia. Both Tuomas and Floor considered becoming biologists before music hooked them - give them an honorary for this masterpiece!
"...and in the beginning, there was silence" ( Intro ), the solar system started evolving
then, live starts on the planet (underwater)
the siren started the hunter´s / prey era (first animals, air breathing life) ...early humanoids showed up... ( the early toolmaker era )
anthropocene - humans showed up, starting to fXck the planet entirely ( to the last light of the library )
we were here - not we "are" here ... "kabooom" ( a giant mushroom cloud ? )
...the endpart is named "the understanding" - no more words to add
Tuomas (keyboarder, main song writer/composer) wanted this "song" to have a runtime over 90 minutes ... i would give my left hand for the demo (he always records demos of his ideas)
waiting for more reactions from you, special Nightwish, Lorna Shore and Shadow of Intent ;)
great comment of this masterpiece put in a nutshell
Also check out this version from Tampere, Troy with a different instrument and there are also fireworks. Be sure to listen to the end. Tuomas is a real magician.🤟🏻🤟🏻🎶🎶
sometimes so haunting, makes you full of expectations and lets you wait in the beauty
The last two Nightwish albums, Tuomas took a lot of inspiration from biology, paleontology, science (Sagan, Shoemaker) and philosophy (Dawkins). I cannot wait hearing how the next album will be.
Very nice emotional reaction, thanks!
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Quite frankly at this point reactors on NW should read a short synopsis of what the song is about. & react to te music. I am kind of tired of people talking over the song totally lost. The creation of the universe wasn't skipping down the yellow brick road. Floor was the narrator as possibly Gia, represebtative of mother natuIre. I heard no anger, just evolvement, Complexity representing moving through Eras of time. Please RESEARCH the Poet & the Pendulm, one SHOULD UNDERSTAND what it is about so you can respond to the mastery, of a COMPLEX, emotional story.
Yes - he utterly misunderstood throughout from start to finish. He obviously enjoyed it despite being ignorant of the complexity and beauty of the work
Someones' dying, something terrible is happening...Lol
The only thing dying was any spark of comprehension
Music for adults