First time /Nightwish - Song of Myself LIVE // Reaction

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  • Опубліковано 23 лис 2024

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  • @gabriel_bardac
    @gabriel_bardac Місяць тому +54

    Hello Lil Kash [ @Lilkash ] ! Nightwish fan here, your musical quest summoned me.
    Welcome to the world of symphonic metal! And thank you for checking this legendary band! This live recording is from Wacken Open Air 2013, together with Floor Jansen [pronounced Yansen], the 3rd and present female singer of the band, and Marco Hietala, bassist and singer, in front of an 82K audience.
    About the instrumental and vocal added parts - it's good to know they recorded their orchestral and vocal back tracks with prestigious institutions as London Philharmonic Orchestra. London's The Metro Voices choir group and London's Young Musicians Children's Choir as their regular partners.
    Since this is your first Nightwish reaction, it is my duty to give you the [updated] short history of the band concentrated by Ann Waychoff, one of the biggest Nightwish fan who has since passed away (and I am doing this in her memory):
    " Nightwish was started in 1996.They are considered a Symphonic Metal band, with a female main singer. They are from Finland.
    Tuomas Holopainen [pronounced Tuo-mas], the keyboard player, composes and writes the lyrics for 95% of their music. [Sami Vanska was the bassist of the band starting with their 2nd studio album, he was with them until 2001. Then Marco Hietala was bassist and vocals, since 2001 to 2020. He recently announced his retirement both from the band and the public life for the next year at least. Then in May 2021 Jukka Koskinen [pronounced Yukka] became the bassist of the band, for the Human :II: Nature tour - and recently, the band announced he became a permanent member] And there is the guitarist Emppu Vuorinen [he also recorded the bass lines for their 1st studio album]. Then there is Troy Donockley from UK who is a multi-instrumentalist and vocals. Jukka Nevalainen [pronounced Yukka] is the drummer. In 2015 due to Jukka's health issues Kai Hahto became the drummer and as of now is a permanent addition.
    Nightwish has had three singers. 1st one was Tarja Turunen [pronounced Tarr-ya] (Operatic vocals). She was with them until 2005. The 2nd one was Anette Olzon from Sweden (Poppy, strong vocals). She was with them until 2012.The 3rd and current singer is Floor Jansen, from Netherlands (power, operatic, soprano.....most versatile) - you just heard her.
    There are live concerts that you should use depending on what era. From Wishes to Eternity and End of an Era (Tarja), Montreux Festival live 2012 and Exit Festival (Anette), Live at Wacken 2013, Live at Wembley, Live at Tampere, Vehicle of Spirit, Decades live (Floor). I hope this helps.
    I want to welcome you to the Nightwish community. I hope you like them enough to continue the journey. Believe me Nightwish will surprise you with their songs. You will never know what to expect. They are unbelievable live. I want to warn you that Nightwish fans are hard core. So be prepared. lol "
    For an extended set of suggestion (with links), I posted 2 huge comments in the community tab in my main YT channel: www.youtube.com/@gabriel.bardac/community
    🤘

    • @trevorfolker3665
      @trevorfolker3665 Місяць тому +4

      Hey General - good to see you here. Another soul won over, and so easily this time. Lil kash - just take notice of what General Gabriel says and fasten your seatbelt for the ride of your life......

    • @Lilkash
      @Lilkash  Місяць тому +2

      Thank you so much for sharing it,, Absolutely, I'll dive into more of their songs and explore their music further.

  • @fearisachoiceyouembrace
    @fearisachoiceyouembrace Місяць тому +19

    TOP 5 song for me of 28 years of Nightwish

  • @PomLimey
    @PomLimey Місяць тому +9

    Excellent reaction.
    If any band is going to get you back into metal then it’s going to be Nightwish. It’s the thinking man’s metal band. Every song is unique.
    Looking forward to your next Nightwish reaction.
    Greetings from the Uk.

    • @Lilkash
      @Lilkash  Місяць тому

      Definitely, I'll make sure to check out more

  • @glenngunnis6642
    @glenngunnis6642 Місяць тому +4

    RIP Ann Waychoff🎸🤘

  • @frenkwd1
    @frenkwd1 Місяць тому

    R.I.P Ann Waychoff mother of the Nightwish Army.
    June 28th, 2020 .
    Ann was a big Nightwish Fan.
    And every new person who listened to NW, she went through a little chat.
    And gave them some info about NW.
    This was her favorite song.
    And this song belongs to her.
    I like very much that Gabriel have continue Ann s work.... so her heritage is still here.

  • @paisa20
    @paisa20 Місяць тому +8

    Thanks, welcome to Nightwish❤❤❤

  • @dianabryson5264
    @dianabryson5264 28 днів тому

    The world of Symphonic Metal in my opinion is the best Metal out there. Nightwish is at the Apex of this Genre along with Within Temptation. Jukka, the drummer here has not been preforming live for awhile but still works behind the scenes with the band. Please react to more of their songs and I will be here and join the Nightwish Army!!

  • @schout33
    @schout33 Місяць тому +7

    When you want to go further on the path of our 1.83m (6ft.+) tall Dutch Valkyrie Queen Floor Jansen besides Nightwish, here is some background information on the best and most versitale female singer of our time. Floor joined the band 'After Forever' in 1997 at the age of 16. Here are some of my favourites: ‘Energize me’; Monolith of Doubt’ and Dreamflight’.
    Floor attended the then new Rock Academy in 1999 and graduated in 2003. She also studied 2 years at the Conservatory (1 year Music Theatre and 1 year Opera).
    'After Forever' disbanded in 2009 and Floor started her own band 'Revamp' from scratch. Here she experimented with different vocal styles within one song from full operatic to death growls in seconds. Here are some examples: ‘Misery’s no Crime’, ‘Wild card’ and ‘Disdain’.
    Besides managing a band on her own she also did a lot of vocal coaching and as she is a perfectionist, she wants to do everything at 100%+. Eventually she had to pay the price and got a burnout. She had just recovered when end of september 2012 the call came from Nightwish to fill in for the remainder of the North American Tour at first as their second singer Annette got ill. Floor had just 48 hours to learn the whole setlist. There is a documentary made of this world tour: ‘Please learn the setlist in 48 hours’
    Floor joined Nightwish after this iconic Wacken concert in 2013 as permanent member of the band. Floor continued to perform with 'Revamp’ also, but it was clear that she could not combine the two for much longer, so 'Revamp' disbanded in 2016. Floor did a side project called 'Northward' where she dived into the Hard Rock scene. The song 'While Love Died is a must see.
    Her stunning performances on the Dutch TV show 'Beste Zangers 2019' gave her at last some more recognition in her home country where she was relatively unknown until then. There are numerous guest appearances with other bands to find on UA-cam. To see how to get a crowd of metalheads silenced and in awe watch her featuring with the band 'Epica' and the song 'Stabat Mater Dolorosa’ and to see her in full opera mode, watch her rendition of 'O Mio Babbino Caro' from Puccini. As live concerts were cancelled and home isolation due to the Covid situation, Floor discovered UA-cam in these years. Mindblowing covers, chats with her idols and other singers, vocal masterclasses, personal insights and so much more. She even made a video reacting to herself singing Ghost Love Score at Wacken. Lots of technical info and some memories of her starting with Nightwish.
    Also her Fan Friday videos are hilarious. Just unpack some of these and other presents she left on her channel. Also videos of her solotour she did with songs of her impressive career. Her latest endeavour is her stunning solo album ‘My Paragon. Floor is a high sensitive person, so peace and quiet is as important for her. Living by the woods in Sweden with her husband Hannes Van Dahl (drummer of the band Sabaton), daughters Freja (turns 8 years next march) and Lucy (1 year)this october,a couple of horses, dogs and cats, she found this.

    • @Lilkash
      @Lilkash  Місяць тому

      Thank you so much for sharing it

  • @grandad.reacts
    @grandad.reacts Місяць тому +3

    RIP Ann
    And there forever remains the change from G to Em

  • @Mars-is4un
    @Mars-is4un Місяць тому +9

    🤗🍒🤘🏻 well done Lil and welcome to the Nightwish Family

  • @kezca
    @kezca Місяць тому +4

    Welcome to the world of nightwish

  • @nightwisharmyuk
    @nightwisharmyuk Місяць тому

    UK army popping in for a great first reaction

  • @jaskau2462
    @jaskau2462 Місяць тому

    🤩👍💥💯🎼
    From that on you´re almost ´obligated´ to explore more of this magical band.
    Neat reaction män and keep on rockin´ with them!
    Cheers from Finland.
    🤘😎💙🎶

    • @Lilkash
      @Lilkash  Місяць тому +1

      Thank you so much, Definitely, I'll make sure to check out more of their songs.

  • @joekel55
    @joekel55 Місяць тому

    This song is a tribute to the poem in 52 chapters, One for every week of the year, " Song of myself " by Walt Whitman 1819-1892.(one of the co-founders of US poetry). The 7th line of the song is ""Of mermaids, of Whitman's and the Ride""". The extended official studio version of this song has, at the end, a poem as a tribute to Whitman and his style ,made by Tuomas, the keyboard player and the mastermind of nightwish. These lines you can also see fast flahing on the ledscreen of the video you just saw.
    Bucle up, it goes very deep.
    " I see a slow, simple youngster by a busy street
    With a begging bowl in his shaking hand
    Trying to smile but hurting infinitely
    Nobody notices
    I do, but walk by
    An old man gets naked and kisses a model-doll in his attic
    It's half-light and he's in tears
    When he finally comes his eyes are cascading
    I see a beaten dog in a pungent alley
    He tries to bite me
    All pride has left his wild drooling eyes
    I wish I had my leg to spare
    A mother visits her son,
    Smiles to him through the bars
    She's never loved him more
    An obese girl enters an elevator with me
    All dressed up fancy
    A green butterfly on her neck
    Terribly sweet perfume deafens me
    She's going to dinner alone
    That makes her even more beautiful
    I see a model's face on a brick wall
    A statue of porcelain perfection beside a violent city kill
    A city that worships flesh
    The first thing I ever heard
    Was a wandering man telling his story
    It was you, the grass under my bare feet
    The campfire in the dead of the night
    The heavenly black of sky and sea
    It was us
    Roaming the rainy roads
    Combing the gilded beaches
    Waking up to a new gallery of wonders every morn
    Bathing in places no-one's seen before
    Shipwrecked on some matt-painted island
    Clad in nothing but the surf
    Beauty's finest robe
    Beyond all mortality we are
    Swinging in the breath of nature
    In early air of the dawn of life
    A sight to silence the heavens
    I want to travel where life travels
    Following its permanent lead
    Where the air tastes like snow music
    Where grass smells like fresh-born Eden
    I would pass no man, no stranger, no tragedy or rapture
    I would bathe in a world of sensation
    Love, Goodness, and Simplicity
    (While violated and imprisoned by technology)
    The thought of my family's graves was the only moment
    I used to experience true love
    That love remains infinite
    As I'll never be the man my father is
    How can you "just be yourself"
    When you don't know who you are?
    Stop saying "I know how you feel"
    How could anyone know how another feels?
    Who am I to judge a priest, beggar, whore, politician, wrongdoer?
    I am, you are, all of them already
    Dear child, stop working, go play
    Forget every rule
    There's no fear in a dream
    "Is there a village inside this snowflake?"
    A child asked me
    "What's the color of our lullaby?"
    I've never been so close to truth as then
    I touched its silver lining
    Death is the winner in any war
    Nothing noble in dying for your religion
    For your country
    For ideology, for faith
    For another man, yes
    Paper is dead without words
    Ink idle without a poem
    All the world dead without stories
    Without love and disarming beauty
    Careless realism costs souls
    Ever seen the Lord smile?
    All the care for the world made Beautiful a sad man?
    Why do we still carry a device of torture around our necks?
    Oh, how rotten your pre-apocalypse is
    All you bible-black fools living over nightmare ground
    I see all those empty cradles and wonder
    If man will ever change
    I, too, wish to be a decent manboy
    But all I am
    Is smoke and mirrors
    Still given everything, may I be deservin
    And there forever remains
    That change from G to E minor. "

  • @Bethuriel
    @Bethuriel Місяць тому +3

    Thnx 4 this. Go on with the stuff. Welcome to the Nightwish army^^.
    Please listen to ghost love score at Wacken. And, i am sure this will leave you speachless, the Gratest show on earth at Tampere.
    Due to Marco's voice , the wiking bassman, give The phantom of the opera a try,
    the"old" Nightwish singer Tarja will show her quality as well.
    Peace from Germany and pls stay save

  • @Aenea-de9vy
    @Aenea-de9vy Місяць тому

    Great reaction! Nightwish is best enjoyed live! 🤘🔥

  • @randalljones4370
    @randalljones4370 Місяць тому +3

    Starting out with one of my personal favorites... but there is so much more to explore.
    Enjoy.

  • @Mischnikvideos
    @Mischnikvideos Місяць тому +1

    The song is part of the concept album / film music Imaginaerum. The main character had become estranged from his daughter and he tried to write down what he always wanted to say to her but had never said. This became a work of art that he called Song of Myself. Mastermind and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen was inspired by the poem of the same name by the US poet Wittman.
    The studio recording was made with the second singer Anette Olzon. 10 months before this recording, the singer and the band had fallen out. Singer Floor Jansen is officially only the short-term replacement. It had already been agreed within the band that she would be the new singer and she still is today.
    The song was only played live on this tour. The Wacken Open Air in Germany is one of the largest and oldest metal festivals in the world.
    It is one of the drummer's last concerts. In 2015 they recorded a new album and shortly after it began, Jukka had to give up his job due to illness.
    A current single:
    Nightwish - An Ocean Of Strange Islands (OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO)

  • @pen7759
    @pen7759 Місяць тому +1

    Hello there ! You wanna watch more that magic? There is lot of Nightwish magic for you from that same concert. If you like you could do next
    Ghost Love Score from that same concert at Wacken 2013, pure magic. Anyway I liked your reaction and comments. Greets from Finland. Take care.

    • @Lilkash
      @Lilkash  Місяць тому +1

      Definitely, check out

  • @danielisrael1788
    @danielisrael1788 Місяць тому +1

    Un coucou de l'armée NIGHTWISH de Franc , avec un peu de retard, très bonne réaction à l'écoute du plus grand groupe du monde pour ma part. Mon ami vous venez de faire connaissance du métal symphonique et de notre reine Floor, mais vous n'avez qu'effleuré le dessus de l'iceberg et vous n'êtes qu'a l'entrée du terrier de lapin. Je vous souhaite de bons floorgasmes et continuez vos réactions nous serons toujours derrière vous pour vous soutenir pour notre groupe...... Encore plus d'écoutes s'il vous plait...... Merci. Continuez sur le festival du Wacken Open Air 2013, vous êtes sur de ne pas vous tromper, les quinze chansons du set sont des classiques pour tous les fans du groupe et sont à écouter absolument. Vous venez d'entendre la 14 ème et avant dernière chanson du set, habituellement les nouveaux réacteurs commence plutôt par la chanson Ghost Love Score la 13ème chanson du set, un incontournable à écouter absoolument, ensuite faites le Ever Dream qui commence comme une douce ballade voix piano et sur un signe de Marko ( le bassiste ) continue d'accélérer pour finir comme un train à grande vitesse et en même temps trtrouver la voix de Marko, ou écoutez une petite histoire, un bon rock avec un refrain qui reste longtemps en tête avec Storytime ou alors du plus lourd avec Ghost River pour entendre le mélange magnifique des voix de Floor avec Marko ( merveilleuse harmonie ) ou encore plus lourd avec Romanticide ..... Et je pense que notre ami Gabriel Bardac devait arriver sous peu, ou être déjà passé ( Un grand MERCI à Gabriel d'avoir repris le flambeau de notre regrettée Anne ) cliquez sur son nom et allez sur communauté, vous pourrez suivre sa liste en toute confiance avec les meilleurs mixages à la bonne vitesse et avec le meilleur audio mais ce n'est pas une obligation, juste un sage conseil pour entendre une petite partie du meilleur du groupe. Continuez les filets du groupe sont tendus et il vous sera très difficile de vous en sortir, plus de NIGHTWISH s'il vous plait et bienvenu à vous...... Bonne écoute et à bientôt, et un nouvel abonné ici.......Paix sur vous mon ami .......

  • @joretavara5265
    @joretavara5265 Місяць тому +3

    Compouser Tuomas Holopainen metal Mozart

  • @alanfoster6589
    @alanfoster6589 Місяць тому

    My birthday is the 18th, so...happy birthday (I am somewhat older).

    • @Lilkash
      @Lilkash  Місяць тому

      @@alanfoster6589 Looks like we’re both celebrating soon! Hope your birthday is as awesome as you are

  • @robertsheeler321
    @robertsheeler321 Місяць тому

    Nightwish Army USA (Pa) division saying welcome to Symphonic Metal and Nightwish with the Valkyrie Queen Floor Jansen, New subscriber for that. General Gabriel Bardac left you band info and a link to a list of songs with links . If I may suggest there song "Storytime" from the same show Wacken 2013 show in front of 82 k People and they were the headliner - ua-cam.com/video/Lxox2BiLap8/v-deo.html&pp=ygUfbmlnaHR3aXNoIHN0b3J5dGltZSB3aXRoIGx5cmljcw%3