Classical Composer Reacts to NIGHTWISH: SCARETALE | The Daily Doug (Episode 681)
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2024
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In this edition of #thedailydoug, I'm listening to Scaretale by Nightwish. This song comes from Imaginaerum, their 7th album, and features Anette Olzon on vocals. This song is perfect for this time of year...it's spooky and macabre...as well as being lighthearted and a sheer delight. Enjoy!
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For me Imaginaerum is their best album. You really should listen to it completly and perhaps share your thoughts here with us?😊
for many.
Great idea. What an incredible album! It's meant to be listened all the way through.
It's not great. It lacks the complexity of other albums. But I totally get why some mainstream listeners like it best.
i like later albums more and previous. good tho.@@miskatonic6210
@@miskatonic6210no less complex than wishmaster really for example.
I'm not kidding if I consider this song as one of my top 5 favorites of their career. Thuomas was delivering the best movie soundtrack inspiration here.
I can't argue with you. I'm not sure if it's yet in my top 5, but the more I listen to it, the more I love it, so it's at the very least close.
This song is just perfect for Anette! No one sings this like she does. Thank you for this reaction!
Anette is really underrated because her vocal range is less expansive, her singing is a bit less technical than tarja and floor but one thing I don't see praised is the performance itself (as in, acting the song) and I think she is really good at that especially in imaginareum where she gets to be very expressive.
Their Imaginaerum album also serves as a soundtrack for their movie of the same name. Thanks for your reaction - "demented Disney" indeed!
Tuomas Holopainen is a great fan of classic Disney. One of his all time favorite songs is When you wish upon a star.
You made me extremely happy to react to Nightwish again - your vast knowledge of Music and delightful personality makes your Nightwish Reactions a gem amongst others - Thank You :D
If your looking for Annett nightwish. My personal favorite is Slow Love Slow and Ameranthe. Her voice fits those two along with this one perfectly.
Meadows of heaven I also like!
Anette is such an good singer. All the hate she have gotten is just so stupid, she and Floor are my personal favorites of the singers in Nightwish, I still like Tarja but Anette and Floor is just something special to me. Anette also got a great solo album called Strong and also in a project with someone called The Dark element that also putted put really awesome music.
For me it is Tarja and Anette.
But mostly that is because of the insane people who worship floor for singing songs not made for her.
"Demented Disney" aka tales from the Brothers Grimm in their original form. A lot of fairy tales are much more horrific than you might think if you just know the Disney version of the tale. This song is basically "What if Disney faithfully recreated stories from the Brothers Grimm?"
Someone somewhere here on YT wrote in a comment: Nightwish had three singers: A witch, a fairy, and a warrior. And I completely agree!
While Nightwish has certainly had their moments post-Imaginaerum, this album, to me, is Tuomas's magnum opus. I've been with them since the early 2000s and this was one of the very few albums that I have had to immediately spin all the way through again.
This day can no longer pass without a premium Scaretale reaction and you didn’t disappoint
I miss Marko in Nightwish!
Been binge watching all your Nightwish reactions! I was a big (strictly) metalhead till I was introduced to them in 2020.. now I compose orchestral music for video games and trailers lmao They literally hijacked my music tastes and brought me into a world I never thought I'd love. The second half of their Human Nature album was my most played on Spotify the year it came out.
I absolutely love and appreciate the music knowledge you bring to these reactions! Subbed.
Yes! Do check the whole Imaginarium. There's not a bad song on it.
My favourites are "The crow, the owl and the dove" and "Turn loose the mermaids "
Both are so beautifully sad. Basically different sides of the same coin, both from the point of view and the subject. I recommend you to check the fan animated video of the crow, dove&owl. It cuts deep
It's sad to see that not many people know that this is an album which is done into a beautiful movie that I cry everytime after I watch it. (Note I struggle to cry, but this brings the water works).
Do yourself a favor and try to find this film.
Annette is not my favorite Nightwish vocalist. But she is on my favorite Nightwish album (Dark Passion Play), her post NW stuff is amazing (The Dark Element) and she is just an all around good person (she works as a nurse).
You have to realize that Tuomas did this album for Annette and how she sings. If Floor or Tarja was with Nightwish album like this would have not happened.
I love Annette's performance in this song, this sort of theatrical stuff was when she was at her best.
This video is a combination of scenes from the Imaginaerium movie (a full length feature film based on the album), and a live performance.
There is another video that is of the live performance
Imaginaerum is one of my favorite Nightwish album. Highly recommend a full listen 🙂
I stumbled over your channel via the One Winged Angel video and I'm SO GLAD you have covered Nightwish, and particularly this album. It's a masterpiece in it's own right, and a very successful combination of the orchestral and rock sounds.
A couple songs you might consider.. Anette has a very lovely song "Eva", another song that's famous is "Nemo" and all 3 vocalists have done nemo all very artistically different and good in there own right
This is surely Anettes song!
Hi Doug, greetings from UK
I am glad you liked this one, it is a true Halloween song!
I watch all of your Nightwish reactions and learn things every time. Thank you 😉
With Anette on vocals I would like to see a Doug's reaction to "Amaranth" or "I want my tears back" 🤟🤟
I am so impressed and pleased that a youtuber has finally decided to give annette a listen. Her Imaganaerum (sp?) album really makes her shine. I do note however, that some clever mixing is used to fill out her lesseer powering compared to taria and floor. Bravo Doug!
Funny thing is... when I watched the movie, this part with this song gave me the creeps so much I was sorry I was alone.
Top tier Halloween vibe song ever. Imaginaerum is one of their best albums. I love the vibe of this so much. Nightwish is so incredible
Always great to see Juuka giving his usual 125%
To this day I still miss him 😢 Kai is definitely more technical but Jukka stage presence was unmatched
Tuomas writes multi-level songs and at the same time brings out the best sides of the singer. In other words, he knows how to take into account the singer's strengths when making a song.
A lot of people give trash to Annete's era with Nightwish, but both albums with her are so fucking good, a lot of bangers in there.
Tuomas Holopainen is my favorite metal composer.
"Demented Disney"... LOL!!! Great reaction! Thank you for this!
Best wishes from Namibia
Very good album and the movie is also very good...... I got the dvd for my birthday...
There's a movie based on the album, too. It's fantastic.
Would love to see you react to Gethsemane (Live Buenos Aires 2018)... You'll love that one
Loved that Thankyou for sharing this gem.
I personally highly suggest to also check the movie Imaginaerum (many of the scenes are from there).
It helps a lot to fully grasp the whole concept of the album.
As for the vocal part. Annette has that bright colorful voice which fits perfectly for a storyteller of a fairy tale (even a creepy one).
While some can argue about if the songs sound better on one singer or the other, I can't imagine the original Imaginaerum with someone else's voice.
I recommend you dig into more material from the Anette era. It´´s superb. In this song, she doesn´t quite sing with her "normal" voice. She deliberately made her voice more "witch-sounding", more of a character - this shocked the guys during the recording, especially when singing the "squealing pigs" part, where she spat into the microphone for extra effect. She totally went into the character and delivered what the song needed.
Tarja and Floor are considered better singers but Anette has so far probably sang the band´s best material. When I listen to the material Anette was on, I think it´s perfect for her voice. The songs are very strong.
I love this marriage of symphony and metal. Also - great Spinal Tap reference!
Thanks Doug, my favourite Halloween song, and this track belongs to Anette.
“Amaranth” is an example of an Annette song that only sounds good when Annette does it. For more, non-Nightwish Annette, check out Allen/Olzon and The Dark Element. Fantastic stuff. She only moonlights as a singer on recordings…her everyday job is a nurse, so kudos to her.
i can tell you even with Annette nightwish still rocking it great combination And balance between metal with symphonic armonys that's something Thuomas don't do it anymore at least on the latest 2 albums with floor saddenly.
@DougHelvering Kamelot: Elizabeth trilogy on masterpiece Friday would be awesome. Can’t get any creepier than a real life story of the Blood countess dispatching her subjects and her quest to remain young and beautiful
Absolutely love your channel! You take us on a great ride with each reaction. So smart musically and articulate it so well. Not to mention the great mix of genres covered. Keep it going please! Love it…
I really love that song, and all your reacts to Nightwish!. Thumbs up!
I used to listen to Imaginaerium all the time. I love it.
can we say that classical and heavy music truly merger 1996 when tuomas start nightwish band. thanx to great reaction and have wonderful weekend.
I guess this is not quite the best representation of Anette Olzons voice, as she is in her circus witch -mode here.
What a talented songwriter Tuomas is!
You have no idea how spot on you were when you called this demented Disney. 😂 Tuomas is a huge Disney fan and it's easy to see the inspiration, just look at Anette dressed as Snow White, exactly how she was drawn in the Disney movie. It's not my favorite album (DPP is) but it's high up there. So many great songs. And as much as I love Floor and prefer her on almost everything... This one is Anette's. She was absolutely brilliant putting in the right amount of creepiness 🖤🤘🏼
Interesting note the riff that's happening during the verses (4:45 etc.) is possibly a direct nod to the Phantom of the Opera ("Sing for me" section riff) which Tuomas of course is intimately familiar with. There are many reasons for doing this intentionally (eluding to that vibe, giving it new life, putting his stamp on it, plain honouring the riff etc.) or it could have weaseled its way from his memory into his imagination and made it's reentry that way but I'd be amazed if this wasn't at least on his radar somehow. Either way it's kinda cool.
The Imaginaerum album started with Taikatalvi sung by Marko, serving as a prelude which segues into Storytime.
This was then followed by Arabesque which was entirely instrumental. The imagery seen in the video is also seen in the feature length film, "Imaginaerum," which is worth watching.
I'm here for the full album review, I hope we can join in on the journey. Maybe a live stream? I'd happily watch the whole thing.
Love your quip about D minor. Makes people weep instantly. :-)
It's like demented Disney - hahaba😂😂😂- a perfect description. Great reaction 🤘
you Imaginaerun, the movie that was made to accompany the album this song comes from, it's an underrated gem
Imaginaerium and Dark Passion Play were my favorite era of Nightwish simply because the songs were all coherent and creates so much stories in my head when listened consequentialy
The movie accompanying the album is very good choice to go through the album. Nightwish themselves are staring in it. And I am pretty sure all the songs from the album are in the movie.
Additionally all the scenes from the video that are not from live show are from the movie.
Tuomas has a knack for writing to the strengths to the vocalist by the second album with them. With Anette, Dark Passion Play is more general in terms of vocal expectations, but Imaginaerum is tailored for Anette perfectly. Same thing happened with Floor; her first album, Endless Forms, is more general in vocal expectations. It's evident in the next album, Human :||: Nature, Tuomas worked more closely with Floor to write vocals that pretty much only she can do.
As far as I remember DPP was already finished in writing when they cast Anette so she just had to somehow fit in with what was already there. On Imaginearum the tracks where written with her voice and capabilities already known to Tuomas, so it fit her much better and gave her the oppurtunity to shine.
Scenes from the movie used in this clip - Imaginaerum! Worth a look! Love Anette's looks in this - more witchy than Bellatrix La Strange! Also see "Slow, Love, Slow" - official video or live, Montreaux 2012. You might also like her with another Finnish band "Brother Firetribe" - live at the Apollo for the song "Heart Full of Fire" - and look closely at the guitarist!
Maybe next year at Halloween, you can react to Floor Jansen singing Face Your Demons, during Floor Jansen, live at Amsterdam 2021, a song she wrote with other members of After Forever 14 years earlier 🙂
I love this track. It reminds me of Danny Elfman. (Nightmare before Christmas or Corpse Bride)
Annette made me like nightwish.... floor made me love nightwish
Damn. A full album reaction would be incredible. This one and Human || Nature are the only albums I really love to listen from begining to the end because of the storirs, but I particularly enjoy Imaginaerum because of the theatricallity. Let’s do it Doug!! You are awesome
The best Nightwish album along with Dark Passion play. The song is too spot on Annete , who performes it like diva!
Great reaction, as always! Nightwish is so much fun. First time I heard this song I thought "finally he (Tuomas) lost his mind, what's going on?" 😆
I may be in the minority, but I think some of their most under-appreciated songs are from the Annette days.
the two best albums. There are others with great songs but from a complete album perspective these two are far and away the best.
Imaginarium is an amazing album to experience in its entirety, highly recommend it!
It's more then just an album as they made a movie with the same name Imaginaerum. Here you'll see the story Tuomas was talking about. Not a bad film worth a look.
It's not only a concept album, there is also a whole movie to go with it. I highly recommend watching it
I bid thee once again, Diablo Swing Orchestra... "Vodka Inferno" in particular captures the sheer insanity of this group best.
This one of the most theatretical Sony from Nightwish! So great!
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Oh, actually, Imaginaerum has 2 CD's, the first is the normal album, and the 2nd one is all the same songs, but without singing, all instrumental. That's something to hear as well, it is fantastic.
Anette is gorgeous..❤❤❤
Anette is better than many people think
If you really want to understand the album, watch the movie Imaginaerum, from which much of this video comes, before you do the album. It will put everything on the album in context and it's good to see all the band members as actors
Another great reaction, thanks. 👍 You should watch the entire movie Imaginaerum to get the full picture of this album. 🎃🦇
If you're a creature of the night you sleep during the day and, therefore, you can have daymares
Got to watch the movie
Oh Lord I'm happy Anette is gone. So annoing appearance and voice...at least in this one.
I think "Bless the Child" is Tuomas's most symphonic work...but this is a close second. I'd love to hear it for just full orchestra. The strings are already there. The trick is to properly orchestra Antette's lines, for the right instrument. But throw in some big brass, and you've got a piece any orchestra would love to play. If had a copy of the score (and permission)....
Their peak album, Imaginaerum
Yes, this is NW at their most musical-theatric! An album listen of _Imaginaerum_ is the best way to experience it IMO, because of the through-story. One clever thing is that the album and film have similar but different storylines, so I extract different meanings depending on context. The daymare bit in particular here varies - in the movie it seems like a child is having a daymare, but the reality is very different.
Read the Joe Hill book NOS4R2 - this track would suit Christmasland well.
I thought I was the only one who heard the Disney esque parts of this song.
🇬🇧 Norfolk strapped in for the Halloween journey 😊
Ring a ring o roses of course is about the plague 😮
Anette is the goat
Kamelot - Memento Mori
this must be the disney metal i've always heard about...
you must watch the movie of the same name. It includes the music from the CD. Many of the scenes in this video clip are taken from the movie
I suggest you should see the entire movie: Imaginaerum. After all it is also about music. And memories. And symbols. I did not thought about the circus as demented, because the episode was pretty horrible, however it makes sense.
You should do, Master of the wind, with Manowar
If you get the opportunity, maybe check out “Songs The Night Sings” from her band The Dark Element. They have some interesting material & she sounds very good on it.
You must watch the movie, it's great!
sooo underestimated song, maybe too 'artistic' to regular listener and they don't want to do the background search like you do. I love your reactions cause you have soooo much music knowledge
is there any way to hear any of your classical compisitions?
The scenes in this video are from the movie "Imaginaerum" which is quite good and I highly recommend it!!!
Doug, for the next year Halloween week please make note to review "Horror Show" album by Iced Earth
There are alot of songs on Imaginaerum & Dark Passion Play I have a hard time listening to because I just prefer Floors "bassier" vocals, but this.. I cannot imagine anyone could do this song better than Anette.
Olá lenda assisto seus vídeos direto me nota🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Hi Doug, actually I have a request.
Could you do a reaction video on Nightwish: Shoemaker?
I'm pretty curious about your reaction.
Thanks in advance.
Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
I just have to say as a huge Nightwish fan i really feel for anette she had to follow in the footsteps of Tarja who was so beloved by NW fans and i think both albums anette was on were 2 of the best albums NW has come out with not saying best but definitely top 5 and then happened to get replaced by Floor who has been amazing in her time with the band. Anette was not the operatic singing style like tarja and Floor can do anette was more poppy sounding but really loved both Dark passion play and Imaginaerum albums. And on a side note watching this video made me miss Jukka on drums nothing against kai but jukka just had a presence i enjoyed.