Nightwish - Song of Myself (live) I Singer Reacts I

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  • @alexandersteinmetz6857
    @alexandersteinmetz6857 8 місяців тому +8

    RIP Ann, where ever your Soul does lead the Armies of our passed Ones.
    Nice, you do some NW again, and how it does emotional Hits you in positive Ways.
    Stay Healthy.

  • @dixie3086
    @dixie3086 7 місяців тому +6

    A big shoutout to Jukka!! Can you imagine what it would sound like without drums? He doesn't get the recognition he deserves. Miss you Jukka!!!

  • @alexthorpe6583
    @alexthorpe6583 8 місяців тому +27

    This song is from their 2011 'Imaginarium' concept album, 2nd to last song. Recorded with Anette on vocals, the album version of this song is 13 minutes 30 seconds, as it suddenly transitions into a quiet piece, pretty much a poetry reading session. They left the poetry out of the live version, aside from putting the words on the projection behind them. 'Song of Myself' is a famous poem by Walt Whitman.

  • @kentk2215
    @kentk2215 8 місяців тому +61

    RIP Ann Waychoff, mother of the Nightwish Army. Sometimes the within is piano black. And there forever remains the change from G to e minor.

  • @chrish3762
    @chrish3762 8 місяців тому +6

    i was there. On Holy Ground with a holy performance!

  • @randalljones4370
    @randalljones4370 8 місяців тому +11

    So many things to say, but "Yes", just yes.
    This song points out and brings out the fire and piano black in the listener.
    Love your work. Enjoy life.

  • @arnaldotanta3630
    @arnaldotanta3630 8 місяців тому +55

    For Ann , R.I.P dear we still miss you , this will be forever your song ❤❤🤘🤘

  • @samusahlsten5948
    @samusahlsten5948 8 місяців тому +18

    This song is always as good. Drummer Jukka was working his ass off behind his drumset. And Rachel is crazy and sweet and fun at the same time.

  • @markusjackel2132
    @markusjackel2132 8 місяців тому +4

    R.I.P Ann Waychoff mother of the Nightwish Army. June 28th, 2020
    This is your song.
    If you ever have to explain the Groove in Metal to someone - play this tune.
    Until the Breakdown hits you with a 10 ton hammer it is all fun and games.
    But then the slow chugging monster with the machine gun riffing takes over.
    And for every Metal Head this lights up the day.
    Awesome….Imho one of the best songs ever.
    Sometimes the sky is piano black….
    Floor Jansen, First of Her Name, Queen of the Valkyries and Stonehenge, Lady of Nightwish and Protector of our Metal Realm. Long may she reign. Bow, mortal !

  • @jeffreyphipps1507
    @jeffreyphipps1507 8 місяців тому +88

    Nightwish IS therapy...

    • @Cherlindrea99
      @Cherlindrea99 8 місяців тому +9

      Yes! Nightwish did more for me then 14 years mental health care ❤️

    • @ArsRegnandi
      @ArsRegnandi 8 місяців тому +6

      Nightwish is therapy.
      A lot of tears may flow, but man did this music help me.

    • @AndreSomers
      @AndreSomers 7 місяців тому +3

      Yes, and it helps a lot better than “betterhelp” w/o the privacy nightmares.

  • @Frightspear
    @Frightspear 8 місяців тому +10

    Whitman, Theroux, Lewis Carroll, Richard Dawkins - Tuomas Holopainen seems to like good books, explore the deeper meanings and get inspired by them. I love it, and the melodic approach in this type of metal adds to its power.
    "A catnap in the ghost town of my heart" and "A midnight flight into Covington Woods, A princess and a panther by my side, These are Territories I live for, I'd still give my everything to love you more". Tuomas... ❤

  • @Cosmos_Titan
    @Cosmos_Titan 8 місяців тому +2

    One of my all time favorite songs by NW, nice reaction by one of my favorite reactors!💖🖤
    R. I. P. Ann Waychoff!

  • @silverblack5475
    @silverblack5475 8 місяців тому +30

    Top 5 Nightwish song .....RIP ANN
    10:52 pure Epicness ....Hail to the Queen

  • @louisminten7889
    @louisminten7889 8 місяців тому +52

    R.I.P. Dear Ann Waychoff, mother of all nightwish fans (june 28 2020). This song is dedicated to her, because she loved it so much.

  • @Duskwind_
    @Duskwind_ 8 місяців тому +12

    This is Floor we're talking about, so she's obviously "The Queen of Chaos" 🤣 I was there when you watched your first Nightwish song (has it only been a year!) and it's great to see that you're still your same goofy self. Much love from the Nightwish army little sister 🤗

  • @Waylander45
    @Waylander45 8 місяців тому

    Love your work Rach!! This performance is just top notch. There are not many greater things in this Universe that Floor in full Rock Chick mode, belting it out in her first register. She is enthralling. This is one of the 8-10 songs in my Nightwish Top 5, depending on the day you ask me :). Hope you hit the 200k mark soon !!

  • @joekel55
    @joekel55 8 місяців тому +1

    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 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. "

  • @ironbard316
    @ironbard316 8 місяців тому +4

    I hope you check Dead Boy's Poem someday, it's a very underrated and beautiful Nightwish song barely anyone reacts to

  • @dianabryson5264
    @dianabryson5264 8 місяців тому

    No other band makes music like Nightwish, everything is perfection. Their music is good for your soul. I`ve been listening to Nightwish for many years, mostly when Anette was hired. I was a little upset when she left but Floor , like wow she is the complete package!! Sad that Marko left, his voice is awesome, but Troy is doing an great job with their newer music. I love your energetic reaction also.

  • @larryd4352
    @larryd4352 8 місяців тому +15

    Your intro about mental health issues was exceptional. I suffered with depression and alcoholism for nearly 20 years, and on July 31,1999, I got the help I needed and stopped drinking. I will be 25 years free of both.
    There is a better version of this song/poem...with much better sound and you get to listen to the rest of the "Poem".... which is excellent! It's well worth listening to!

    • @ArsRegnandi
      @ArsRegnandi 8 місяців тому +1

      congrats, man.
      I myself am still fighting an uphill battle.

  • @michel_g
    @michel_g 8 місяців тому +3

    Great reaction. Don’t beat yourself up about stopping. BTW, “standing you” seems to be even more expressive than usual so keep that up, if you’re comfortable.

  • @erinfilbert9462
    @erinfilbert9462 8 місяців тому

    I love that Empuu, when he needs to shred, steps into a deep bow stance, as befits a Judoist such as himself.

  • @NickBR57
    @NickBR57 8 місяців тому +12

    No 2 in my favourites list.
    Marco is superb - I love his second entry (the rising gliss) so much I extracted it and have it as my ringtone.
    Favourite parts:
    Piano Black , and particularly the best description of depression I've heard - "sometimes the within is piano black". Piano black - that deep glossy black that almost evades the eye.
    Emppu holding that long note one-handed as he drinks a Corona.
    The unexpected pauses (rests) towards the end, particularly, in this performance, when Floor turns her hands upwards and the flames seem to come from her palms.
    Great chuggy rhythms in the breakdown.
    Little pizzicato string sections in the run-up to that ending.
    At the end the lead vocals use the same lyrics as the choir are singing in the earlier parts -
    "All that great heart lying still and slowly dying
    All that great heart lying still on an angelwing". That lyric is perfect for the staccato rhythm.
    ...and lots more

  • @MycontentisgoldJerryGold
    @MycontentisgoldJerryGold 8 місяців тому +3

    Suddenly seeing you without glasses, for the first time, was a pleasant surprise. 😊

  • @bazkeen
    @bazkeen 8 місяців тому +23

    In memory of Ann Waychoff who sadly passed in 2020 💔💔💔💔💔 Ann was the God-Mother of the YT reactors. She had such passion for Nightwish. This was her favourite song
    R.I.P. Ann 😢😢
    Speaking of mental health, check out Jee Veerey by Bloodywood. Their message at the end of the song is so heart felt and touching. Bloodywood is a folk metal band from india

  • @kjvail
    @kjvail 8 місяців тому +6

    You actually didn’t hear the last part of this song. It’s on the album, but not live. You can find a video that adds it on the end of the live performance. It’s worth looking up

  • @Thorgrim247
    @Thorgrim247 8 місяців тому

    I would have never guessed Rayactions. You seem to be such a well adjusted, mentally healthy, and beautiful young woman. Hold on to your self esteem. Move forward. Never look back. You will find your bliss and achieve your dreams. 🌹🌹🌟🌟

  • @mattilindstrom
    @mattilindstrom 8 місяців тому +5

    You may be right about the the lower voice range being underestimated. As a personal opinion I love Floor's lower vocals, they have certain gravitas.

  • @Pascal-the-Rascal
    @Pascal-the-Rascal 8 місяців тому

    A princess and a panther by my side... I love that line, it really paints a picture.

  • @markclements7767
    @markclements7767 8 місяців тому

    Hello Rachel, greetings from UK
    Mark your calendar!!!
    Yesterwynde is a fantastical voyage through time, memory, and the better angels of human nature. Three years in the making, Nightwish are thrilled beyond words to share their tenth album with the world on September 20th!
    Single 'Perfume Of The Timeless' will mark the beginning of this new era and will be released on May 21st
    1. Yesterwynde
    2. An Ocean Of Strange Islands
    3. The Antikythera Mechanism
    4. The Day Of...
    5. Perfume Of The Timeless
    6. Sway
    7. The Children Of 'Ata
    8. Something Whispered Follow Me
    9. Spider Silk
    10. Hiraeth
    11. The Weave
    12. Lanternlight
    It is supposed to be more Metal than the last album

  • @2beans_and_a_bug
    @2beans_and_a_bug 8 місяців тому +4

    Hi there, great reaction! I love this song so much.... At this Wacken concert, this song immediately followed Ghost Love Score. Which, as you alluded to, was one of your first videos you did. So for fun I re-watched your reaction to GLS, and you said it was your 2nd video. And girl, it has 250K views! Wow, Dang! It looks like 200K subs are right around the corner. Congrats on your success! Wishing you and everyone on here love and peace! 😊❤✌🤘

  • @wil4459
    @wil4459 8 місяців тому +8

    RIP Ann ❤

  • @mattgraham2835
    @mattgraham2835 8 місяців тому

    as far a elements of the symphony with heavy metal you will be hard pressed to find a better example of a group of extremely talented group of musicians such as these six people second to none nightwish are their own brand and i don't think anyone else could pull off this sound they have so seamlessly so beautifully elegant the tapestries here

  • @johnosterhout3411
    @johnosterhout3411 8 місяців тому +3

    RIP Ann Waychoff.

  • @kehrleka1361
    @kehrleka1361 8 місяців тому

    I was at this concert. It was incredible.
    You should check out the band "Periphery" in one of your videos. Maybe their song "Satellites" if you want to stand out from your fellow reactors. The vocal part at the end is out of this world.

  • @Mars-is4un
    @Mars-is4un 8 місяців тому +1

    🤗🍒🤘🏻😘 Great Job

  • @Rolldag70
    @Rolldag70 8 місяців тому +2

    have fun in this rabbithole 🤘

  • @alexandrabarrenbrugge4585
    @alexandrabarrenbrugge4585 8 місяців тому +12

    Ann 🌹🍃

  • @staruchx2235
    @staruchx2235 8 місяців тому

    To listen more Marko, I recommend "Ghost river". I really like his participation in this show :)

  • @GryLi
    @GryLi 8 місяців тому +3

    It is my favorit NW song.

  • @MrDijaru
    @MrDijaru 8 місяців тому +1

    My Queen . nice command this song holy smoke .🤘🤘🤘🤘

  • @peaster4fun
    @peaster4fun 8 місяців тому +1

    Hey Raya, it would be interesting to see your reaction on the full version of the song with the poetry at the end of the original recording. Very nice and powerful words. And there is almost no reaction of this version of the song...
    Tissues recommended... ;)

  • @janottens6755
    @janottens6755 8 місяців тому +14

    Ann is smiling her favorite is playing 🧚‍♀️💖🌺

  • @jeffreyphipps1507
    @jeffreyphipps1507 8 місяців тому +37

    RIP Ann Waychoff...

  • @samdavidowicz
    @samdavidowicz 8 місяців тому +1

    What's better than watching Nightwish? Watching a pretty girl reacting to Nightwish. 🙂

  • @SRMWorkshop
    @SRMWorkshop 8 місяців тому

    Just think this was the song that followed Ghost Love Score that night in Wacken.

  • @ragde2163
    @ragde2163 8 місяців тому +4

    ❤❤❤

  • @Kie75
    @Kie75 8 місяців тому +2

    If you only watched the live version of the song you'll have missed about 40% of the actual song

  • @NeeceLoneWolf
    @NeeceLoneWolf 8 місяців тому +4

    RIP Ann. Thank you for telling me about Sonata Arctica which in your words I would probably love, you weren't wrong.

  • @LeRoy-z5f
    @LeRoy-z5f 8 місяців тому +3

    Nice reaction

  • @petee074496648
    @petee074496648 7 місяців тому +1

    you put in a promotion half way through a nightwish song 😱😱
    i will go and watch this somewhere else !!

  • @jamesgunter5934
    @jamesgunter5934 8 місяців тому

    Floor is my all-time favorite, but if you like female singers who can go low, I recommend '25' by The Pretty Reckless (especially the acoustic video). Taylor Momsen's low register is like honey.

  • @MilaMan
    @MilaMan 8 місяців тому +1

    The master mind of this song is not Floor Jansen no matter what outfit she has. Tuomas Holopainen (keyboards) is the master mind. The heavier section make the drummer Jukka and basist Marko. They make this song as beautiful as it is. I love the style Jukka (the drums) have.

  • @danellwein8679
    @danellwein8679 8 місяців тому

    nice reaction Ray . .i liked it . .if you haven't done Ghost River .. think you would like that one also

  • @Magyarkhan
    @Magyarkhan 8 місяців тому +1

    Try Devil and the deep dark ocean..... Floorever Floors!

  • @guidoheuts
    @guidoheuts 8 місяців тому +1

    I'm sorry, but to me it seems that every youtuber/reactor/influencer is being hijacked by some kind of sponsor, and it's that fact that really annoys me. What happened to the times that UA-cam is being "Just fun". Are we all that desperate to earn money the easy way, I don't know, but my standpoint is: "If you want to earn money, just get a decent job!" Cuz what nobody realizes is the fact that those sponsor companies are making big money over your back, they just give you guys some pocketchange. I guess what I'm trying to say is; "Open your f%#*^n eyes people. btw great reaction, Rayactions. I really love your bubbly self. ;)

  • @edteller5821
    @edteller5821 8 місяців тому

    You should try Therion. They paved the way for Nightwish, Epica and others.

  • @deathworlder100
    @deathworlder100 8 місяців тому +3

    Great reaction, as always.
    Do you normally stand for your reactions?
    I think your body language compliments your spoken reaction.

  • @jasonmarshall7572
    @jasonmarshall7572 8 місяців тому

    Sweet reaction.

  • @KodokVegan226
    @KodokVegan226 8 місяців тому +1

    Next stop: BRING ME THE HORIZON

  • @adlicious100
    @adlicious100 8 місяців тому +1

  • @P3Dokkazz
    @P3Dokkazz 8 місяців тому +1

    Trivium - Throes Of Perdition!

  • @tobimobiv1
    @tobimobiv1 8 місяців тому +3

    Yes Floor is great. But Jukka is the star of this one

  • @nathanetchoe2335
    @nathanetchoe2335 8 місяців тому

    All That Remains just released a song called Divine. Could you react to that next pretty please!!! 😁

  • @Sonofhroft
    @Sonofhroft 8 місяців тому +1

    No spoilers!
    😂

  • @xDporrada
    @xDporrada 8 місяців тому

    not the pause before the breakdown.. they build tension and then it's not released because of the pause

    • @xDporrada
      @xDporrada 8 місяців тому

      and then after, when you hear the breakdown, you only release the tension of the 5~10 seconds before it that you rewinded, so it isn't as powerfull as it is meant to be

  • @jaskau2462
    @jaskau2462 8 місяців тому

    🤩👍💥💯🎼
    🤘😎💙🎶

  • @Sir_AlexxTv
    @Sir_AlexxTv 8 місяців тому

    Queen Floor.

  • @RobinC63
    @RobinC63 8 місяців тому

    Now Rachel, did you have a Markogasm? 😅

  • @yourwinefamily1939
    @yourwinefamily1939 8 місяців тому +1

    Think you set the playback of the video on 1.5 or greater. It's not that fast a song.

  • @avesebus6108
    @avesebus6108 8 місяців тому

    W końcu

  • @T1hitsTheHighestNote
    @T1hitsTheHighestNote 7 місяців тому

    Damn how I miss Marko in the band. Their live shows are not the same without his high belting!

  • @trokoshea1
    @trokoshea1 3 місяці тому

    FYI, w is pronounced like a v in German while the v is pronounced like an f. :-) So Wacken sounds like "Vaken".

  • @shaianeribeiro4969
    @shaianeribeiro4969 7 місяців тому

    React MIRACLE LOVE MATT CORBy

  • @SerangBanten-g5t
    @SerangBanten-g5t 8 місяців тому

    Please make a reaction to a7x unholy confession at rock am ring 2014

  • @johanregalado69
    @johanregalado69 8 місяців тому

    Marko doesn't play the guitar...

  • @petecogan1
    @petecogan1 8 місяців тому

    Now that u get the aesthetic understand that it’s pronounced Vocken not Wacken

  • @tland4912
    @tland4912 8 місяців тому

    Sounds awful with the twitch compressed file. To bad, epic 🎶

    • @Aenea-de9vy
      @Aenea-de9vy 8 місяців тому

      I have to agree with you. This sounds terrible.

  • @longkhoishiu2363
    @longkhoishiu2363 8 місяців тому

    Plz u can reacts to A7X song girl I know.

  • @alexandremaireno-ni4ec
    @alexandremaireno-ni4ec 8 місяців тому +1

    Vah-ken

  • @edvidson7
    @edvidson7 8 місяців тому +1

    Therapy made simple. Guy's are DIX!... Find a Man who would be a great Dad! WHY, because you would be an AWESOME Mom!...👍

  • @azaze88
    @azaze88 7 місяців тому +2

    Better help is a scam, there are lots of videos exposing better help

  • @SinSorrowEU
    @SinSorrowEU 8 місяців тому +1

    Please, put adds skippable or at the end. …well, oh well, was nice to watch thease NightWish reactions, but adds.. time to move on. Have a great life. Sorry, even thought I like videos, but hate adds more than like.
    So adds=unsub, dislike and videos hidden from now on. Adds are cancer of modern society.

  • @WakefieldTolbert
    @WakefieldTolbert 7 місяців тому

    "Vhahken"

  • @shanesharman7723
    @shanesharman7723 8 місяців тому

    Day 16? Of asking for saint asonia

  • @alexandremaireno-ni4ec
    @alexandremaireno-ni4ec 8 місяців тому

    11:31 I didn't...

  • @daystars-den
    @daystars-den 7 місяців тому +1

    u talk 2 much homegirl

  • @emersonlebron2399
    @emersonlebron2399 8 місяців тому

    Princesa Linda 😘

  • @duncanwyer2460
    @duncanwyer2460 8 місяців тому

    Think this is the one when I said yes I’m home 😊