My first reaction to The Greatest Show On Earth - Nightwish
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2022
- My first Reaction to The Greatest Show on Earth - NightWish. This video was recorded live. Community links are below.
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I'm 78 my wife is 77, we had the privilege, and I mean privilege, to see Nightwish on May 10th in New York....They were Magical, you can't say enough about the band, but Floor, you can't take your eyes off of her, the class she has and interaction with the crowd is unmatched....My wife and I will never forget what we shared together that night....
Husband & I are 70. We saw them in Maryland. We wholeheartedly agree with you. Indeed it is a privilege to watch these Master Class musicians performing together for the sake of music and the pleasure of sharing their joy with us. It can’t get any better than that. Cheers!
Wow, i respect you so much. But, i say, you are never to old or to young for Nightwish. 🤘
RESPECT for both of you. I am 63 and saw them in 2018 in the Decades Tour and yes they are Amazing
@@ruudvandommelen8979 Huh🤔
I anvy you and your wife. I am 71 and my wife is 63 and we missed the Nightwish concert in Amsterdam last year November because of a lockdown at that time in the Netherlands.
This time we will miss Nightwish again because we are flying back to Thailand after 2.5 years. Damn COVID-19!
"The cosmic laws of gravity pulls the newborns around a fire" is a statement of the newly formed planets being pulled into their orbit around the sun. "Lonely farer in the Goldilocks zone, she has a tale to tell." refers to planet earth ... the Goldilocks zone being the area "not too hot and not too cold" to sustain life as we know it. Everything Tuomas wrote has references to the development of life on this planet, LUCA being Lost Universal Common Ancestor - the life-form to which all creatures can trace their existence. Little Lucy, the remains found in Ethiopia that are believed to be the first biped. 21 minutes to tell the story of billions of years, and it was done in genius fashion. A person should get college credit for watching this brilliance. It is simply the greatest composition of my lifetime, and I'm an old guy. I've watched it over and over and still get tears ... especially when Floor whispers ... "us sleeping." Very nice job,, Jim. Thank you for allowing to relive our first time through you.
Last Universal Common Ancestor*
What awesome Lyrics, what awesome Performance from the Band, and this all with the awesome Floor..what a Masterpiece of Music. The nightwished Nightwish Song. Yep
A cool thing to point out when Tuomas was playing the opening keyboard riff with 6 notes at a time and with space in the background those 6 notes at a time stands for carbon carbon is number 6 on the periodic table. That’s also because thats what was only there in space. And the fireworks is representing the Big Bang. Also with LUCA is basically our universe. Also with LUCY when they reference LUCY that is basically the first known modern human of today. There is so many references in this song i cant name them all
I think, as the first chapter is "4 point 6", meaning 4.6 Billion years ago, the creation of our solar system and Earth, the firework represents "The great bombardement", when many asteroids impacted and probably brought water.
Thanks Jim. I needed something like this today. I always get a tear during the 'We Are Here' at the end but this song is so hopeful. And thank you Nightwish.
"The most NW NW song... ever" Fantastic reaction Jim!
Best wishes from Namibia
The most Nightwish song ever is right! My favorite Nightwish song, and my favorite performance of that song! Glad they spent the money to make it so special, because quite frankly, all things considered, I think it's the greatest live performance I've ever seen. It's just so special from start to finish, right down to the band interacting with the audience at the end, while the epic closing score played in the background, and then the bows while the fireworks went off behind them. And I love how Marko and Floor both acknowledged Tuomas at the end, to show their appreciation of what he has created (and not just the TGSOE). I don't think I've seen a reactor point that out, but I notice it every time, and I think it's worth mentioning.
I'm not sobbing.
I've seen this performance a thousand times and it always gets me.
Jim, I found you through BTS. I was Nightwish ARMY before BTS ARMY. They're the only two bands I have tattoos from. I'm so so so glad you're exploring both.
You're officially my favorite UA-cam reactor.
Not sobbing with you, friend! No, seriously, of all Nightwish songs...this is the one that makes me break down every single time. That message really smacks you in the soul and puts your shit into sharp petspective. I'm a disabled senior, I struggle...but I'm HERE! And here with you!
@@amygoodson-catlady You ARE here. You are seen. You are valued.
@@erinraecowin You too, sister! If only we could get everyone else on our page!
One of the greatest, most epic song ever written.... right there with Echoes by Pink Floyd and such.
It is a rare thing to conceive of something this ambitious...It's even rarer to realize it...
” Man he takes his time in the sun, dream to understand a single grain of the sand ” 🔥👊🏼🤘💥🙏🏻❤️🇫🇮
LoL the big bangs are symbolizing.... the big bang 😉
There are so many pieces to this song, hidden gems, Easter eggs, etc. I hear new things everytime I listen to it.
Universe being born, Earth being born, life being born, man being born, man being extinct, or maybe leaving earth, crying’ We were here!
The first part is the formation of the earth 4.6 as in 4.6 billion. The big bang was roughly 13.8 billion.
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I always am inevitably moved to ponder a deep introspective contemplation of our universe, and my insignificance in the grand scheme of all things, by this one... wow!
Awesome isn’t it!
There is lots of “hidden gems” in the lyrics & music - you’ll hear about them all in the comments or look them up.
And yes... you did hear the Metallica riff - that’s one of them gems there about 6 other iconic songs in those few moments - it’s part of the story of mankind entering their chapter into history
The most nightwish thing nightwish has ever nightwished 😂
The fireworks are great here and add to an amazing spectacle, but also check out the Wembley gig, when Richard Dawkins narrates and appears on stage at the end...This band are incredible 🤘🤘🤘
Tuomas was about to make this 45 min long but had to shorten it to this so they can do few other songs during a gig too. He explains the 4,6 Billion years in this time.
I wouldn’t mind a 45 min long song from NightWish tbh
Was just about to go to bed... oh well, what's another half hour! :)
Like your attitude.
Great reaction! Thank you for taking the time and sharing this with us!
Fantastic you have returned to Nightwish again. Another maybe THE masterpiece of Nightwish. I am now hoping you will return to EPICA reacting to their monumental masterpiece "Kingdom of Heaven Part 3" Omega Alive. Trust me, another mindblowing 13 minutes - you already know the song from your Omega album reaction. But THIS live version!!!! ;D
Hallo voyagers, Opus Perfectum she sings and thats what NW is. Pulling us all together - all ages, colours, religions...- making us feel like one. One day we'll yell together in eternity: WE WHERE HERE! Thanks Jim and greetings from Germany 😊
LOOK at the amazing amount people at this concert. AWESOME!
I especially liked your one comment where you said, "This song is all over the fricken map!" .... Yup. That's because it *IS* the whole fricken map! ;)
Great reaction! tnx
The fireworks represent the early cosmic asteroid and meteor bombarbment that the very young earth sustained which some scientist theorize might have brought with them the buidling blocks for life.
The lyrics later refer to the "newborns" meaning the planets settling in their orbits around the Sun. Goldilocks zone is the "perfect" distance for a star that can sustain life, not to hot, not to cold.
"Devonian sea" is the Devonian era when oceans begun spawning a massive amount of diverse species of fish.
There are so many of these references to parts of our evolutional history and it all ties in with the "We Were Here" when you hear the last bit read by Dawkins about how lucky we are to even have been born.
Truly epic. Wish I was there for this.
Good stuff Jim, I hope you can now make sense of my attempt at a lyrical analysis I sent 22/01/2021.
Epic it is, let me remind you, the odds about any of us being here now are 400 trillion to one against.
Nice touch, the DNA helices on the drum faces and a representation in Floor's costume that can also be seen as the Finnish national flag.
What a scientifically accurate musical ride through life on the planet and beyond, the genius of Tuomas Holopainen.
We were here, we have always been here along with our DNA, but unassembled; it all came in the space dust and condensing gas that made the planet; everything and everyone to come is here now, unassembled. We'll all be here when we're gone, but in a different elemental form of a prior state.
The planet is unchanged, what is here, was here when it formed, we can ignore the less than insignificant material loss from space hardware or the gains by meteoric impact.
Dawkins hypothesises there will be a human extinction event (The last light of the library), we've had dinosaur extinction and they were way more successful than humankind having ruled for 165 million years suppressing mammalian life against our piffling 300,000 years so far.
Dawkins suggests the next most successful life forms, rats, (Ratkind) may well take over after a human extinction and have more than enough time to evolve, become sentient and research humankind as a previous life form.
The planet only has another 5 billion years until the ever increasing sun, which is at its half-life now, evaporates the oceans, covers the globe in sand and then becomes a red giant swallowing the solar system before collapsing to a white dwarf. We will all have departed a while before that for whatever reason.
6:10 Jim: What a freaking ride this is!
me: dude, you haven't even started yet! 😂😂😂
this song is a master piece...Floor is the Queen..the best singer on the planet
For anyone looking a clearer explanation of the meaning of this song, it is based off of the book written by Richard Dawkins entitled "The Greatest Show On Earth". I have many books in my home library but this book is deff one of my top 5.
In fact, there is also an edition of where Richard Dawkins himself attends the concert and enters the stage at the end. You should see that too 🙂
We were here. So much meaning in those words. All this will pass so we should be happy we are here. Or were. This song celebrates life without religious stuff and portrays the atheistic world view so well so i relate to this song so much.
This is one of the great pieces of music that Tuomas has written. So beautifully thoughtful 🙂
77 and have watched 100s of NW reactions. Yours was great, enjoy the next 48 hours of The Greatest Show on Earth. If you haven't already reacted check out The Poet and the Pendulum, Elan and Epica featuring Floor 'Sancta Terra'.
Had no idea that you had not posted this one before but good to see anyway.
a damn good Comment thanks Jim.
The fireworks at the beginning stand for the early meteor impacts on a young Earth, apparently, Tuomas timed it to match the (likely) timing, just scaled down of course 😊
Yes! Also called the late heavy bombardment period. Asteroids, meteors, and comets.
There's one thought that's lately on my mind: I would very much like to know what does Dr.Brian May think of this song, if he has ever heard it. His opinion as both scientist and famous musician would be very interesting. Great reaction, now Human. :II: Nature.?
Yeah, it's awesome 😊
Opus Perfectum, the perfect creation.
Did you forget about Jinjer? with being from Ukraine, canceling their tour, and surely many other unimaginable hardships, they would welcome all the exposure they could get. Many great songs to choose from, including several off their last album. Or there is JINJER - Home Back (Official Video 4K) | Napalm Records a song off their 2019 album Macro, on video in 2020. Refers to their homeland in eastern Ukraine being invaded in 2014. Thanx!
To say that Tuomas is a genius, is an understatement.. If someone, any one knows the word what he is, please tell..
Thanks
Just be appreciative of life and just be respectful and grateful.
The fireworks are representing the meteors crashing on earth in the early stages to bring the building blocks of life to us from space.
Curious as to why nobody mentions the audio seeming out of sync here? Checked the orig. lyrics video and it was fine.
There was another Show where Dawkins comes out at the end. I forgot which show. I think Wembley
I love the looks reactors give if they catch the enter sandman riff
Just a tidbit... I would invert the facecam horizontally so you wouldn't be watching "outside" of our monitors... looks a bit funny. Thanks for this vid anyways... NW forever 💓
The only thing wrong with this masterpiece is that life came before LUCA ....
I think that was covered with Floor saying somewhere there, us sleeping.
Other life was growing in the meantime, and then the spoken word " ..we opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life.."
The LUCA verse comes after generalizing our planet formed from the stellar nursery, and adding for our own history, enter LUCA.
That is my take on how he wrote it anyway. :)
That's how the early humans sounded like ... Noise no words ...
Good one.
My personal theory is this.....first set of fireworks = big bang, the second set of fireworks = solar system formation..
BTW do you remember when you first started on Nightwish a bunch of us said WE WERE HERE. Now you know why?
I think your theory is wrong, though. I believe the fireworks represent meteors colliding with earth, carrying the resources needed to form life. Big bang was about 13.8 billion years ago, not 4.6 as the first section of the song is titled, which is the age of Earth.
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I live like right next to where this took place.
And I just wasn't looking.
I'm the most idiot of any idiots.
Fireworks= Big Bang
No it's not. This song is about forming life on earth, not about birth of the entire universe. The fireworks are most often explained as meteors colliding with earth, carrying the resources needed to form life, if I'm not mistaken.
ROCK NORDIC
Sorry to say but i don't think this is your first reaction to this piece, you already did it in a live stream with the documentary of Floors school years reunion before that if i am not mistaken but it was on Twitch, great reaction tho
Think same 🤔🇫🇮❤️🎶✨🤘
The simplest way to explain it is that it’s The Greatest Show on Earth.
Ironic isn’t it? 😂
guess you wore yourself out on NF?
I wouldn't say that 😉
VALKYRIE
This is SO much better when you just just the fuck up and take.it all in while holding the blah blah blah til àfter it's over. You should try it sometime.
Nice! But yoy were not ready for this one yet,. Greetings fgfrom Finland¨As we say Grow Up . :)