VIKING REACTS | NIGHTWISH - "The Greatest Show on Earth"
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- Опубліковано 29 кві 2021
- And you said I was ready! What a beast of a song. Absolutely epic in every possible way! The Greatest Show on Earth by Nightwish first time reaction. Right here :)
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Nightwish live - The Greatest Show On Earth -TAMPERE, 2015 (lyrics)
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Floor: Enter LUCA
Marko: Enter Ionia
Emppu: Enter Sandman
Knew someone would post this 👍 Always makes me smile 😃
This is (or should be!) a required comment - someone has to post it. Well done!
@@phillee2814 And it's still good
@@phillee2814 If it bothers you that much, why take the time to comment on it?
You noticed stars in the background already in our Galaxy. The fireworks 💥 represent NOT the Big Bang but the nova and supernova (the death of stars and larger stars) which created all matter in our solar system.
Note how many notes Tuomas is playing repetitively: six (6). Which element has the atomic number of 6? Carbon. We (all life on earth) are all carbon based even though water 💧 H2O is major part of us along with iron.
The crowd FULL OF METALHEADS goes from cheering to sheer silence for Mr. Richard Dawkins. Thats RESPECT. That's admiration.
hey not all metalheads is stoopid!! lol
4.6 billion years narrowed down to 22 minutes. That's genius in it's self.
As geological time begins to slow down, the strobes start (night and day, going past quickly, in human terms).
Tuomas Holopainen truly is the Mozart of Metal, a musical genius of the highest form. And at nearly 78 years old, I proudly say that I rarely go one day without my Nightwish fix, and I never even knew I was a metalhead. In my opinion, all the members of Nightwish are true masters, as they are so much more than a band. They are my favorite musical group of all times, hands down.
I can’t get over the final scene. No matter how many times I see it I get choked up. Tuomas has some sort of universal direct line to people’s emotions.
I 100% agree.
Perfectly said. Agreed.
My hometown ❤️ I was here. I had honor to meet Floor’s parents in this gig. We were doin’ last preparation on stage and Floors was showing places to her parents. Very warmhearted people 😊❤️
Some Finnish basics - since it was in Tampere, Finland, and the band is Finnish, naturally they communicate a bit in Finnish.
Marko says in "We were here" part: "Yks, kaks, kol, nel" - stands for yksi, kaksi, kolme, neljä - means one, two, three, four. Counting to the audience to sing with them.
Marko, next verse: "Ja isolla" - means "and a big one". Asking them to shout with them.
Marko: "Viimeinen" - "the last one". The last line comes with "We were here".
Floor, at the end: "Kiitos" - "Thank you". Floor is a native Dutch, but she started learning Finnish at some point in her life. Of course, having been closed with Finnish band members also helps a bit to learn.
Imagine now Floor belting here after 2hs of masterful performance. Such a stamina, Power and love
The Goldilocks zone is the area that our planet sits in that allows water to be liquid, which in turn allows for life. Bach, Bach, Blue grass, Metallica. What you thought was Star wars....Toccata and Fugue.
@Diogo Macena on the album and the wembley version, you can hear Metallica followed up by heavy bass even representing later music
I’ve been listening for Toccata and Fugue forever. I never hear it.
Got it. Thanks.
A little banjo music between Bach and Metallica as well
"Is there anything above genius?" To that question, I can give a confident, single word answer: "Simplicity." That is the goal that most geniuses strive for, to make the complex become simple.
The whole song is a science lesson (I'd have listened to science more if it was taught this awesomely at school!)
Floor's dress is the double helix in DNA :)
This song is one of the most amazing pieces of work I've ever experienced in the way it bends time and makes 14 billion years feel like less than 10 minutes.
I was on that Tampere gig, the whole show was just amazing and this ending.. well you know.
I was there too :)
When you here that Bach sound, that was the beginning of the evolution of music. After that you hear a disco sound and beatbox sound during the Metalica Enter Sandman guitar 🎸 playing. Listen very well, it's really a hole masterpiece !!!
A lot of people hear the first harpsichord bit, and don't notice the toccata and fugue immediately after 🎶
Before that the "Mongolian" throat singing, changing to the "Gregorian chant" of a male choir, evolution of the human voice.
I know the way Floor smiles when she sings is partially because of singing technique, but it's just such a warm smile.
Love your analogy about Da Vinci and Mona Lisa...very apt. The more I watch epic performances like this, the more I realise what a massive void Marko has left. I really hope he returns, when he gets his head straight.
The growls are Floor, Marko and Troy
Just have to mention that at 28:20, Marko doesn't say "we made it". Instead he says "viimeinen" which is Finnish for "the last one" lol
Yeah.... last time for the chorus "WE WERE HERE"...
@@ssc00p Exactly
I thought it was '' united '' like Floor said just earlier so ty I finally know the truth after one year of watching!
Try to imagine Tuomas feeling on the bone, his own creation growing bigger on stage with such perfection.
Love your reaction and love for Nightwish ❤
Greetings from Kitee, Finland, the hometown of Nightwish 🤘🤘 (Yes, I'm a lucky girl 🤭)
The Goldilocks Zone is the right distance from a star that enables a planet revolving around it to sustain life. Thanks for the reaction
Your pronounciation of Tampere was perfect! At the end where they encouraged the audience to sing along, Marko first yelled "Ja isolla!", directly translated as "and with a big one". Where you heard "we made it", he said "ja viimeinen!", "and the last one!"
Yay :). I am always happy to say it like it should be said!
It was Marco Floor and Troy doing the growls. Tuomas loves Metallica. He was a an exchange student to the USA. I love how they love each other.
I've been waiting for someone to notice those twins :D
Me too. Been a while
Me too
ive only seen 1 other reactor comment on them :)
Thank You Sir for this great reaction. I`m a blackmetal head, but still a Nightwish fan;)
Master piece....Tuomas genious composer...Troy master musician,Emppu is prodigious guitarrist...Kai Jedi Drummer...Marco amazing powerful voice...Floor is out the world is the Queen...check please slepping sun in this show is so beautiful🤘👑🔥
...Ah man, that deep-gut belly laugh whenever Tuomas goes Saiyan just says so much bro, you're the best 🤘
I have been a massive Iron Maiden fan since the 80s and have always been in awe of the poetry and technical skill of songs like Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Nightwish, however, is at a level of mastery that is so far beyond anything else that it makes Rime of the Ancient Mariner look like an advertising jingle! This is pure brilliance in every shape and form - musically, lyrically, visually, emotionally, and everything else. Everyone on the planet needs to experience this song. Great reaction from Viking. Love your work.
Don't know if it's all true, but someone said the little hidden melody bits were some African tribal drumming, a medieval hymn (Dies Irae), Johan Sebastian Bach (Christian Petzold) - Minuet in G major and Toccata & Fugue in D minor, American banjo music, Metallica - Enter Sandman, the bassline from Nightwish - I Wish I Had An Angel and Megadeth - Symphony of Destruction. There should also be a rap song at the end and an electronic bit somewhere. All packed into a few moments to show the evolution of music in human history.
My friend Katie was at Tampere.
She said it was raining during Sonata Arctica's and Children of Bodom sets.
It stopped just before Nightwish came out.
She said she'd do it all again because it was a magical concert.
Quick note! I was in this concert!!! That fireworks-thing was amazing!!
Thank you. Seen hundreds of reaction to this song, and you are the first one to noticed the twins in the audience. Just a fun fact, the are most twins born in Finland in the whole world, and they don't know why that is. Emppu has a twin brother, and Matko has twin sons. But great reaction and very enjoyable to watch.
Maybe because there are not so many Finnish people in Finland, and nature intervenes 😜.🤘
@@runnerron1 if Nature is God then I think God is intervening...I go with that 🙂
Julia Nilon did mention the twins 2 years ago already. If you want original reactions, there's only @Alex Hefner and @Julia Nilon...
I don't know what it is, but the end of this video always mess me up and I end in tears. Greets from Germany!
greta reaction, and i love how you give Tuomas a little more foucs, i think he deserves it
i always feel special and humbled at the same time after hearing that song.
Enjoying this immensely. I think you are correct in noting the amount of detail Tuomas puts into his writing and is reflected in the production details. Few composers can deal with ideas as big as Tuomas routinely does. The glimpses of his world view as reflected in his compositions are just staggering. Few other people have examined our dust mote of a world in such detail and from such a wonderful perspective. One of the major pleasures I get in listening to Nightwish's music is delving into the underlying ideas and concepts and influences. Well, enough of my aging fanboy vibe! Your reactions rock. Thank you! Oh, if you watch the 3 singers during the chase scene when life emerges from the ocean. They are ALL at the microphones doing animalistic growls! Ciao!
The documentary "The Reunion" is at the time of this concert,
the reaction of the presenter when the show starts was priceless!
Floor said that she had to avoid eye contact with her parents, or she would have choked up.
The fireworks for this were awesome, a big thanks to Crewish, for the video wall, lighting, pyro, etc.!
They are really the hidden members of the band.
Ocean waves, roars of big Cats, screams of Chimpanzees...
I loved it when the lights change from red to green, the growling :)
I don't think that anyone can really prepare for this masterpiece.
Awesome reaction as always Mr Viking.
Sending love and light to you and the family from the UK 💜
It's a really awesome masterpiece. Our history. I cannot be emotional each time a see both shows, and more emotional when I see you people reacting to this.
That explosive cheer after the "we were here" at Tampere is breathtaking. So much joy!
Just for now, it is my duty to introduce you to some info about the lyrics.
Lyrics are in " "
[Part 1: Four point Six]
"Archaean horizon, The first sunrise"
Earth's history is divided into four principal Eons: the Hadean, the Archean, Proterozoic, and the Phanerozoic. The Hadean is the Eon during which the Earth and Moon formed; in the Archaean, primordial life appeared. Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Earth
"On a pristine gaea"
Gaia is the primordial Greek goddess of the Earth. More recently, the Gaia hypothesis is a recognition of the living and nonliving Earth systems which form an interdependent whole. Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia
"Opus perfectum, Somewhere there, us sleeping" Pristine perfection (of silence, of a blank page, of the very point from which the big bang itself sprung) implies a rich creative potential. Here Earth is painted in the same powerful way. Diversity awaits; unborn beings are sleeping the same sleep to which they will return at death. This interpretation is thematically linked with the album's opening track, "Shudder before the Beautiful," which includes the lyrics, "The music of this awe, Deep silence between the notes, Deafens me with endless love." Or as the furious hobbit screamed at the novice trumpeter, "An artist respects the silence, it serves as the foundation of creativity."
[Part 2: Life]
"The cosmic law of gravity Pulled the newborns around a fire, A careless cold infinity in every vast direction. Lonely farer in the Goldilocks zone"
Gravity pulls the Earth around the energizing Sun in an otherwise inhospitable universe. Earth is the only planet in our solar system's circumstellar habitable zone, orbiting at the "just right, not too hot, not too cold" distance from the Sun. Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstellar_habitable_zone
"She has a tale to tell, From the stellar nursery into a carbon feast, Enter LUCA"
In astronomy, stellar nurseries are the birthplaces of stars: they nurse stars Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_formation#Stellar_nurseries
Poetically, our solar system is another "stellar nursery," in which a star is the nurse, caring for and warming a planet of 'newborns,' early carbon-based life. "Feast" evokes the incorporation of plentiful chemical building blocks into rudimentary life forms. "LUCA" stands for "Last universal common ancestor," the one single organism from which all other presently existing life on Earth descended. Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_ancestor
"The tapestry of chemistry is a writing in the garden, Leading us to the mother of all"
The periodic table of elements does look like a sort of patchwork tapestry, but this can go further. The historical function of tapestries was as "nomadic murals," pictographical histories which moving people could pack up and revisit wherever they went. The "writing in the garden," in nature, is not only the stone murals left by dead animals in the form of fossils, but is also this chemical writing that encodes the relatively nomadic DNA molecule with the instructions for life. The scientific investigation of this information leads us back to LUCA, and further. Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapestry#Function
"We are one, We are a universe,"
This is the natural conclusion to draw from the fact that life shares common origin, that all life is built with the same blocks, and that all life on Earth is interdependent (gaia hypothesis). The multiplicity of beings on Earth are one, just as the cells in a body are one.
"Forebears of what will be Scions of the Devonian sea."
The Devonian geologic time period marked the first significant, rapid diversification of life (and the more well-known Cambrian explosion is another of these 'adaptive radiation' events). It was during the Devonian that the 'higher plants' appeared and blanketed the continents with forests. Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devonian
. The word "scion" refers to a shoot of a plant cut for grafting, and is also used to denote a descendent of a notable family. Both meanings apply.
"Aeons pass, Writing the tale of us all. A day-to-day new opening For the greatest show on Earth"
Evolutionary adaptation is written in the DNA and as fossils in the rocks, and is ongoing. Species die, diversifiy and delineate. Every day is different, every day something changes.
"Ion channels welcoming the outside world To the stuff of stars"
Ion channels are found in the membranes of all cells, controlling the flow of energy through the cells. The stuff of stars is all the physical matter we're made of. So it's the ion channels, guiding enery, which allow living bodies to interact with the rest of the world by exchanging energy with it. "Stuff of stars" is surely a Sagan reference: "The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff." For fun: ua-cam.com/video/XGK84Poeynk/v-deo.html
"Bedding the tree of a biological holy, Enter life"
The bed of a tree is the nutrient-rich soil from which it grows, a soil made of dead things. The "tree of a biological holy" is probably the tree of life en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life_(biology)
. This line refers to the "holy" legendary tree of everlasting life but also means the conceptual, branching family tree of all life, whose bed consists of all deceased beings (in a more literal sense), or all extinct ancestral species (in a more abstract sense). This is thematically linked with the song "Alpenglow."
"We are here to care for the garden, The wonder of birth Of every form most beautiful"
"We" could be human beings tasked with acting as nature's stewards, garden of eden style, but that's not chronological -- human beings haven't quite appeared in the song yet. "We" could instead be all of life itself, in a gaia-philosophy sense, which posits that life creates environments ever more hospitable to more life. Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_philosophy
Or maybe it's a combination of these two thoughts: life eventually creates an environment suitable for the development of consiously acting, thinking human stewards.
[Part 3: The Toolmaker]
"After a billion years, The show is still here. Not a single one of your fathers died young."
Every single one of a given person's ancestors, male and female, lived past puberty at least. But "fathers" evokes "forefathers," which has a nicer storytelling ring to it than "parents."
"The handy travelers Out of Africa Little Lucy of the Afar"
Handymen are good with tools; travelers posessing hands rather than forefeet walk upright. Hominids originated in Africa and spread to the rest of the world from there. Lucy is a particular specimen of the Australopithecus, one of many "missing links" between modern humans and nonhuman ancestors.
Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(Australopithecus)
"Gave birth to fantasy, To idolatry, To self-destructive weaponry. Enter the God of gaps Deep within the past. Atavistic dread of the hunted!"
The brain grows, consciousness and creativity along with it. Atavism is the tendency to revert to ancestral type, an evolutionary throwback. Fight-or-flight instincts that helped human ancestors survive have now been creatively projected onto the world to both explain it (origins, meaning, suffering) and gain security in it (bargaining through sacrifice). These are the roots of theism.
Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atavism
"Enter Ionia, the cradle of thought, The architecture of understanding. The human lust to feel so exceptional, To rule the Earth"
Nomadic people develop agriculture and settle down into civilizations. The word "architecture" is at once both literal and figurative. The efficiency of civilization graces people with free time to do more than just feed themselves. They develop rich cultural traditions, arts and philosophies, much of which are deeply influenced by how different humans now are from all the rest of life.
"Hunger for shiny rocks, For giant mushroom clouds, The will to do as you'd be done by."
Shiny rocks are wealth: gold, precious stones, jewels, and later uranium which leads to the nuclear arms race. The golden rule -- "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" -- is a coin with a dark side: "an eye for an eye," revenge. This ensures the "MAD"ness of mutually assured destruction. Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
"Enter history, the grand finale. Enter ratkind."
"Ratkind" comes from Richard Dawkins' book "The Ancestor's Tale." Dawkins imagines a post-apocalyptic world in which rodents feast on the remnants of humanity (and humanity's garbage). The rat population explodes, and then as they exhaust these resources they turn on one another for food. As a consequence of natural selection, the rats diverge into new carnivorous and herbivorous species, and perhaps, eventually, a specices of rodent whose intelligence rivals that of humans. This is "ratkind." Https://iberianature.com/wildworld/tag/ratkind/
"Man, he took his time in the sun, Had a dream to understand A single grain of sand."
From William Blake: "To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour." ...And the story of the planet in 24 minutes. Not bad.
"He gave birth to poetry, But one day'll cease to be. Greet the last light of the library"
A bittersweet redundancy: poetry with library, the last light with ceasing to be. Reminiscent of Elan: "Be the first to greet the morn [...] Travel with great élan, dance a jig at the funeral."
"We were here!"
Who else is going to vote for this song's inclusion on the next Voyager golden record, if there'll ever be one?
I want to beam this song into space forever.
Just.. wow. You really opened my eyes with this comment. Thank you
Thanks for this analysis. If I could, I'd upvote it 1000 times.
OMG you diserve an Oscar just writing all this down!
"paste & cooy" 😹
@@jaskau2462 Noooo, Copy first, Paste after
He is the creator!. Worlds greatest composer.
You may possibly be the first reactor I've seen that has noticed both Bach and Metallica. Some get one but most miss both. Good job, great reaction.
No matter how much passes, those three words, that battle cry makes me emotional. We were here, we left our footprints on the sand.
God this song gets me every time! It’s an absolute masterpiece. The ulliean pipes give me goosebumps every time they play.
The amount of respect those fans have for Dawkins is amazing!
That song gets me EVERY time. Thankyou
My first NW concert was this one! Amazing! 🤘
Just can’t get enough of this video. I am crying everytime i watch this. Pure emotion and pure genius!!
This is one example how grand music they (Tuomas and Marco) can write...and this performance is just awesome. In the album version there is also instrumental parts in the end which belong to this song.
the line "greet the last light of the library" is one of the most chilling, more existentially Horrorinducing things i have Ever heard
the idea of standing at the end of the collective human memory, the library of our entier species and see the light slowly burn down with no one else to light it
not only the death of us but the death of the Idea of us, the point where everything we ever did, every dream, every hope, every sacrifice becomes as dust in the wind and blows out into nothing, never to be remembered ever again
its one of the most effective lines i have ever seen in Anything and Toumas' absolute Genius just keeps calling attention to itself
This was awesome, I knew you would love it and you get it perfectly, you speaking of how Toumas is a master of his craft, he truly is!
It's as close to a perfect song as I think we can find, when people said 6 minutes was too long for Bohemian Rhapsody, they had no clue this song would come later, however, you start this song and it doesn't feel like 20 minutes have passed!
Skål
Now you can say with all right: We were here ! Whatever you do....you are never really prepared for Nightwish.....they keep on surprising. And that is the good thing. Your approach to this is great - You take that serious....And dont be scared - The Army will cover your back. For sure. As we are in Tampere already.....have you done "Weak Fantasy" already ??? If not.....this will bring a smile to your face....after these to big ones.....Keep it coming man - we like how you do this !
Nightwish Army Germany out - All Hail the Queen !
Dude! I feel you with this one, just the deep meaning, thoughts and passion of delivery get me every time! The part with sandman is a nod to music development, it starts I think with the little tune in the background on a harpsichord (Bach I think) then straight into another classic piece, you can then just make out banjos in the background, then sandman then drum and base beat on the back ground before the goddess that is floor starts belting again . The “we were here” is our human stamp on the planet 🌏 WE WERE HERE!!!! As when the universe ends, we wont be!!!! (Enter Ratkind after we have destroyed ourselves with giant mushroom clouds). What a masterpiece
Troy sings a lot more in the latest album. He even has his own song, harvest
Such a fantastic reaction. U got both, Bach and Metallica, so great. Greetings from Brasil.
Excellent reaction! I think the way you did the double ending is a perfect compromise. A couple of things you mentioned:
Yes, those are DNA strands on the drums…and also on Floor’s dress!
“Lonely farer in the Goldilocks zone” is the Earth. The Goldilocks zone refers to the perfect distance from the sun…not too hot, not too cold…that creates the perfect conditions for life to develop.
22:56 Floor smiling ,dancing , and the head weave 😂. She was so into this and having a blast. I am so looking forward to live shows again!
I was smiling the second I saw the thumbnail for this video and I kept smiling throughout. Thank you for sharing your reaction to this one ^_^
The greatest show with the greatest Band 🤘❣️
Tuomas told in one of his interviews that always when they come to that part "we were here", he closes his eyes and enjoys the ride.
I loved the way you picked up on so many little things that I never noticed even after having watched this performance at least a dozen times. Well done, sir.
This one lives up to his name. I love it. And don't worry, even after listening to it 10 times you will still have something to discover.. Because this is Nightwish. You still have more songs to discover. Stay safe 🤘😁🤘
Great analysis viking! I have probably already listened to this 100 times but with your comments it was again a great experience!
'The Goldilocks zone' is the area in a solar system that has the potential for life, relative to its sun.
The quality of your videos is so much more pristine than seen with others showing the same performances. Almost like watching the blu ray vs 480i. I wonder why.
Your words at the end made me cry too!😀❤️ Thx! Enjoyed your reaction as always! (and more!)
This is one of mosertTuomas' greatest masterpieces
Yes! One great reaction to a great show. Since you (like me) so dearly love Nightwish, and checked up Sabaton, A great swedish band because Floor is married to the drummer. You should definatly check up on Kai´s other band Wintersun and their songs Time and Sons of winter and stars. You will be totally BLOWN AWAY by this band. So talanted musicians... Oh my lord.
At this point, I have no idea on how many times I've watched this song being performed live, but I know that every single time, at the 'we were here' part, I cry a bit... every... single... time...
You should definitely react to Shoemaker! Would also recommend reading about him before, makes the song even more beautiful.
I have watched this song so many times and the ending always gets me the same as it did you. As soon as they start in with "We were here", that's when it gets a little overwhelming.
The crescendo of the orchestrals at the end is absolute emotion 🖤
Greetings from Slovakia. Great reaction man. Regarding your remarks about the DNA on the drums, look at Floors dress, it also represent the DNA double helix :-)
I'm the beginning, Tuomas' melody is a repetitive string of 6 notes. 6 is the atomic number for carbon..."carbon feast, enter LUCA" EH?...EH?
Great reaction mate, love from the UK 🇬🇧
We need to be thankful to be able to BE HERE... Make a difference people, to the better not the worst. You my friend, Mr Viking... Makes mine and so lot of peoples lives better.
I was here! 🤟
I am jealous!
@@VikingReacts Weren't you here as well? :)
Greatest Show indeed. And all of us get to be part of it. This was the first NW song I ever heard. I used to say that it blew me away. Actually it was the opposite. I was away -- far away and NW pulled me back to the center.
Oddly es ist the part where Floor sings "Little Lucy from the Afar" that gets me watery eyed as I can just imagine her tiny being still alive and walking the earth so many ages ago. I think she would feel honored.
I Love this Song, I Love this band and your nightwish reactions are outstanding. If I ever meet you on Street I will hug you :). Please go on with your nightwish journey. Love It!. I wish you all the best!
Haha, we "metalheads" are just a bunch of ordinary, decent, kind and intellectual people. Nothing to fear of (and don't cry, remember that you are a Viking). This is a Mammoth of a song. Great double ending reaction from you. Thanks and have a great First of May! ⛄👍
Here in Finland Troy is called Tapio and Floor is called Mielikki.
Floor and Tuomas and The Band is like Leonardo's "Virtuvian Man" QuintEssentia and Perfect !! In Music !!
I love this piece, and I ADORE the last part with different music/songs.
We were here! 🤩
This is without any doubt one of the best heartfelt reactions to this masterpiece!
I wondered if that little off-kilter note might be a mistake too, but it is definitely in the studio version, so purposefully placed.
And I think it`s in Wembley also.
At 21:00 growls are made by Marko, Troy AND Floor.
This song is like a key to my soul. I can't listen to it as a backsound, I need to feel it every time I press PLAY, and each single time y explode in tears. It's like a hack. Tuomas hacked my brain.
I was at the Wembley one. I cried instantly at the end
Gosh, this song gives epic a new meaning!! I have watched the video with Richard Dawkins a hundred times already. It changed my life, my vision of life so hard. I am still crying each time I see this video. It's absolutely amazing and you don't have to be ashamed when you are crying too. 🤧😭😭Tuomas is a genius 😍😍Beethoven and Mozart would love him too😍and Floor is an Angel, fallen from the sky to bring us a touch of heaven 😍😍😍😍no matter if boy or girl, everyone who is not having a crush on her must be dead inside already
I love watching you have your mind blown over and over. I don't know why, but it's brilliant to see.
I used to find this song boring, because I refused to listen to the lyrics, or actually sit back and admire the music itself. Just because it took too long to ramp up. Stupid of me, right?
By now it's one of my absolute favorites, especially because of the spoken parts.
Honestly those words are quite the slap in the face... for me at least... who are we to complain? We're the lucky ones. There's so many forms of life that could've been here instead of me, yet I'm one of them that made it. Yet I tend to complain a lot, and waste my life.
Whenever I listen to this song it tends to force me into action and actually do something, anything at all. Maybe I should just start listening to this song at the start of each day. Might not be the worst idea...
This was so much fun, I was screaming all the answers to the questions you asked to my iPad 😂 I’ve seen this at least 30 times and I still discover new things, it’s so much, so beautiful, so...nightwish
Hi,thanks for your reaction. Always wonderful to see. I like your emotionally, and I cry with you.
I was there in the concert and yes it was amazing 🤘💖🙋♀️
The girl in the pink top at the end sums it up for me right there, how she gives the rock salute then drops her head....just awesome feel this song.
I have seen this video so many times and still need tissues.
It makes you feel so small but yet so greatfull to be alive.
Surely a masterpice, and you can just see how much the band ejoy this concert, and also how happy they are that everthing went well, and beyond, must be a fantastic feeling to stand in front of this crowd, knowing you just delivered something special for the fans, and the world..
The Metallica bit was part of an overall musical evolution. That segment started with Celtic throat singers, then a harmony of female voices, then primitive musical instruments, then the harpsichord playing Bach, then a full symphony playing Bach, then a banjo diddy, then Metallica then techno.
thx for looking into it :)
before i even watch this. ive been waiting for you to do this, and i KNOW it will blow your mind!
Love your reactions, keep Up the joy you spread.
Loved your Leonardo and Mona Lisa comment. Very appropriate. ••• Thanks! (-:
Here is this Masterpiece in plain english. Lyrics are in ""
"Archaean horizon, The first sunrise"
Earth's history is divided into four principal Eons: the Hadean, the Archean, Proterozoic, and the Phanerozoic. The Hadean is the Eon during which the Earth and Moon formed; in the Archaean, primordial life appeared. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Earth)
"On a pristine gaea"
Gaia is the primordial Greek goddess of the Earth. More recently, the Gaia hypothesis is a recognition of the living and nonliving Earth systems which form an interdependent whole. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…)
"Opus perfectum, Somewhere there, us sleeping" Pristine perfection (of silence, of a blank page, of the very point from which the big bang itself sprung) implies a rich creative potential. Here Earth is painted in the same powerful way. Diversity awaits; unborn beings are sleeping the same sleep to which they will return at death. This interpretation is thematically linked with the album's opening track, "Shudder before the Beautiful," which includes the lyrics, "The music of this awe, Deep silence between the notes, Deafens me with endless love." Or as the furious hobbit screamed at the novice trumpeter, "An artist respects the silence, it serves as the foundation of creativity." (youtu.be/…)
[Part 2: Life]
"The cosmic law of gravity Pulled the newborns around a fire, A careless cold infinity in every vast direction. Lonely farer in the Goldilocks zone"
Gravity pulls the Earth and its inhabitants around the energizing Sun in an otherwise inhospitable universe. Earth is the only planet in our solar system's circumstellar habitable zone, orbiting at the "just right, not too hot, not too cold" distance from the Sun. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…)
"She has a tale to tell, From the stellar nursery into a carbon feast, Enter LUCA"
In astronomy, stellar nurseries are the birthplaces of stars: they nurse stars (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…). Poetically, our solar system is another "stellar nursery," in which a star is the nurse, caring for and warming a planet of 'newborns,' early carbon-based life. "Feast" evokes the incorporation of plentiful chemical building blocks into rudimentary life forms. "LUCA" stands for "Last universal common ancestor," the one single organism from which all other presently existing life on Earth descended. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…)
"The tapestry of chemistry is a writing in the garden, Leading us to the mother of all"
The periodic table of elements does look like a sort of patchwork tapestry, but this can go further. The historical function of tapestries was as "nomadic murals," pictographical histories which moving people could pack up and revisit wherever they went. The "writing in the garden," in nature, is not only the stone murals left by dead animals in the form of fossils, but is also this chemical writing that encodes the relatively nomadic DNA molecule with the instructions for life. The scientific investigation of this information leads us back to LUCA, and further. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…)
"We are one, We are a universe,"
This is the natural conclusion to draw from the fact that life shares common origin, that all life is built with the same blocks, and that all life on Earth is interdependent (gaia hypothesis). The multiplicity of beings on Earth are one, just as the cells in a body are one.
"Forebears of what will be Scions of the Devonian sea."
The Devonian geologic time period marked the first significant, rapid diversification of life (and the more well-known Cambrian explosion is another of these 'adaptive radiation' events). It was during the Devonian that the 'higher plants' appeared and blanketed the continents with forests. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…). The word "scion" refers to a shoot of a plant cut for grafting, and is also used to denote a descendent of a notable family. Both meanings apply.
"Aeons pass, Writing the tale of us all. A day-to-day new opening For the greatest show on Earth"
Evolutionary adaptation is written in the DNA and as fossils in the rocks, and is ongoing. Species die, diversifiy and delineate. Every day is different, every day something changes.
"Ion channels welcoming the outside world To the stuff of stars"
Ion channels are found in the membranes of all cells, controlling the flow of energy through the cells. The stuff of stars is all the physical matter we're made of. So it's the ion channels, guiding enery, which allow living bodies to interact with the rest of the world by exchanging energy with it. "Stuff of stars" is surely a Sagan reference: "The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff." (For fun: youtu.be/…)
"Bedding the tree of a biological holy, Enter life"
The bed of a tree is the nutrient-rich soil from which it grows, a soil made of dead things. The "tree of a biological holy" is probably the tree of life (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…). This line refers to the "holy" legendary tree of everlasting life but also means the conceptual, branching family tree of all life, whose bed consists of all deceased beings (in a more literal sense), or all extinct ancestral species (in a more abstract sense). This is thematically linked with the song "Alpenglow."
"We are here to care for the garden, The wonder of birth Of every form most beautiful"
"We" could be human beings tasked with acting as nature's stewards, garden of eden style, but that's not chronological -- human beings haven't quite appeared in the song yet. "We" could instead be all of life itself, in a gaia-philosophy sense, which posits that life creates environments ever more hospitable to more life. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…) Or maybe it's a combination of these two thoughts: life eventually creates an environment suitable for the development of consiously acting, thinking human stewards.
[Part 3: The Toolmaker]
"After a billion years, The show is still here. Not a single one of your fathers died young."
Every single one of a given person's ancestors, male and female, lived past puberty at least. But "fathers" evokes "forefathers," which has a nicer storytelling ring to it than "parents."
"The handy travelers Out of Africa Little Lucy of the Afar"
Handymen are good with tools; travelers posessing hands rather than forefeet walk upright. Hominids originated in Africa and spread to the rest of the world from there. Lucy is a particular specimen of the Australopithecus, one of many "missing links" between modern humans and nonhuman ancestors. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…)
"Gave birth to fantasy, To idolatry, To self-destructive weaponry. Enter the God of gaps Deep within the past. Atavistic dread of the hunted!"
The brain grows, consciousness and creativity along with it. Atavism is the tendency to revert to ancestral type, an evolutionary throwback. Fight-or-flight instincts that helped human ancestors survive have now been creatively projected onto the world to both explain it (origins, meaning, suffering) and gain security in it (bargaining through sacrifice). These are the roots of theism. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…)
"Enter Ionia, the cradle of thought, The architecture of understanding. The human lust to feel so exceptional, To rule the Earth"
Nomadic people develop agriculture and settle down into civilizations. The word "architecture" is at once both literal and figurative. The efficiency of civilization graces people with free time to do more than just feed themselves. They develop rich cultural traditions, arts and philosophies, much of which are deeply influenced by how different humans now are from all the rest of life.
"Hunger for shiny rocks, For giant mushroom clouds, The will to do as you'd be done by."
Shiny rocks are wealth: gold, precious stones, jewels, and later uranium which leads to the nuclear arms race. The golden rule -- "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" -- is a coin with a dark side: "an eye for an eye," revenge. This ensures the "MAD"ness of mutually assured destruction. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…)
"Enter history, the grand finale. Enter ratkind."
"Ratkind" comes from Richard Dawkins' book "The Ancestor's Tale." Dawkins imagines a post-apocalyptic world in which rodents feast on the remnants of humanity (and humanity's garbage). The rat population explodes, and then as they exhaust these resources they turn on one another for food. As a consequence of natural selection, the rats diverge into new carnivorous and herbivorous species, and perhaps, eventually, a specices of rodent whose intelligence rivals that of humans. This is "ratkind." (iberianature.com/wildworld/tag/ratkind/)
"Man, he took his time in the sun, Had a dream to understand A single grain of sand."
From William Blake: "To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour." ...And the story of the planet in 24 minutes. Not bad.
"He gave birth to poetry, But one day'll cease to be. Greet the last light of the library"
A bittersweet redundancy: poetry with library, the last light with ceasing to be. Reminiscent of Elan: "Be the first to greet the morn [...] Travel with great élan, dance a jig at the funeral."
"We were here!"
Someone give this man a pin!
I have seen this like 30 times and still see new things 😁. Great reaction 👍🤘😎