I'm just gonna use this oppurtunity to brag about the fact that I attended this very concert! 😁🤘 Can confirm, it was truly a magical experince, I headbanged so hard I slightly dislocated my jawbone, and only noticed afterwards... Worth it! 🙌
The same when he walks behind her in Ghost Love Score, she has even higher heels and the angel makes him look even smaller, he barely reach her shoulder 😂
Long intro is to give time for the universe to form and our planet to spin into existence. That is the one, the Uilleann pipes. You heard it correctly. At the beginning of the last section Tuomas plays the melody to Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D minor" and at the end of the section you hear 2 riffs from Metallica "Enter Sandman". This is Tuomas' way of paying tribute to the evolution of music from calssical to metal. Yes the final song. A song about 4.6 billion years of evolution. The Greatest Show on Earth is "Life"! Wonderful job my man! as usual! Peace and be well.
After the Metallica riff you can hear a few seconds of also EDM, so that section is a tribute to music evolution in general. Fun fact: this song is the last on "Endless Forms", then the next album starts with "Music".
@@Mordred41407 no, h's correct. It's the beginning of the Fugue. See 0.40 from the french series 'Était une fois l'homme' ruclips.net/video/sC4fnyAqOB0/видео.html
Very Norse - despite Raganarok we will leave a message for who- or what-ever comes after us.WE WERE HERE.... makes me think of the Voyager probes - all alone in the cosmos - perhaps even after we are gone they will still be travelling. This song should be on the next one!
I love that Tuomas gives a lightspeed history of western music right in the middle. Everyone that I've watched react to this catches the Metallica riff, a few catch the two Bach quotes, but no one so far has noticed that the first musical quote is the Gregorian chant Dies Irae, one of the most influential and quoted melodies in all of western classical music. In the space of a few moments, Tuomas bridges hundreds of years of musical greatness. I love how his mind works!
I also think it's because it's less easy to catch it during a live performance as the instrumentals get drowned out by audience noise and stuff. To add, the whole sequence begins with tribal chanting then to Gregorian chanting from Dies Irae, to Bach, to Metallica then to the bassline (EDM-ish sounding beat) of Wish I Had An Angel.
The title refers to the evolution of life and the brief moment humans have to shine, and a plea to use it well. The spoken voice it not Marco, it is the great evolutionary biologist and pro-rationality author Richard Dawkins. Like many symphonic metal bands, Nightwish are committed to the idea that human lives would be better ruled by reason instead of superstition.
Richard Dawkins teaches lies, not reason. There is no logic to his teaching. It is nonsense. The only logical answer to life is God, which is not superstition. It is a shame that Nightwish promote Dawkins. Their music is great but they are ignorant about the origins of life, just like many brainwashed people.
@@paulviggers9106 oof you really think evolution and gods can't be together? And yes gods I'm a Heathen or trying to be one, it's a lot of work and research. So you're a mythic literalist you're exactly why all theists get bundled together. At the end of the day that's what the stories about our gods are myths to be interpeted as metafores not reality. If you can't see that evolution could be a product of the gods what's the point? You really think your god created a perfect world from scratch? I think the gods created the beginnings of a world and that nature and evolution did the rest.
@@paulviggers9106 wow. that takes some balls to call nonsense and brainwashing to sience instead to people which are believing in a mythological book like the bible as the true word of the only true god. which ist just that. a mythological book, a collection of books , randomly put together by a pope how he saw fit. A mythos same like the edda and many many other myths of the creation of earth and life, each culture and religion has their own. Why christians always thinking that they are something special? You are not. Just one religion and path of many other. Science is science. Religion has a completely different approach. Nothing wrong with that. i am a spiritual person myself. But I would never dare to say that science is just a way to brainwash people.
@@ooO0VicariouS0Ooo I think we all need to buy a big box of tissues 😉 This song makes me cry every time I listen to it. Masterpiece ! 🖤 He is ready for this song👍
@@F1rstWorldNomaD Thank you for that little nugget. I did not know this after watching this performance over and over again. :) (something new everyday)
@@firebugjohnnypyro Youre welcome. 😁 Isnt it amazing that no matter how much you learn about this band there is always more to know? They have these seemingly endless intricacies to almost everything they do, I absolutly love it. 🥰
Back in 1999 i was into metal : Priest, Maiden, Metallica, Helloween.... Then happen to see the concert "From wishes to eternity" from Nightwish... And was like i started to see in color high definition. Before metal was great! Yes! But was like a black and white picture. After that dvd show from Nightwish back in 1999 i really stated to see color. Since then, my favorite band...
@@otexote8954 every body has a different opinion and taste in music luckely. 😜. But if someone knows her vocal technique it is floor. When she sings emotions happening with a lot of us fans. I have that with no other artists. ❤️🤘
@@sanderhoogeland9161 Well, if you rate someone as the best female voice ever in history, I think 'overrated' is a fair interpretation. She's fantastic, super talented, has a nice tone to her voice, can switch well and perform in many styles and she's a humble person. But none of that makes her the best, that's so super subjective. There's women that go higher, that go lower, that have more grit, are even more angelic, more versed in opera or rap or vocal slides. Floor is just fantastic because she does all these things to a very high level. But she can't compete with people who do only 1 thing and studied and trained it to perfection. I doubt most opera singers could switch to growling though.
@@bararobberbaron859 I think that a lot of fans are a bit in love with Floor ( so am I and i am straight ) and you know what happens when someone is in love..... But it is a marvelous feeling so please let it be 😜
You're only the second reactor to catch that Metallica riff! That part of the song is the evolution of music starting with ancient chanting and ending with electronic music!
I've got a big question in my mind about this part, from the first time I heard this song. Maybe someone from Finland could help me. Before the Enter Sandman's riff, there is the Tuomas part which is From Bach "Toccata and Fugue in D minor". The fact is, when I was young there was a cartoon which explains the history of humanity, from the very beginning (from the big bang to now). The opening of this cartoon was the "Toccata and Fugue in D minor", but it was a french cartoon, I don't know if it was played in other countries, and if Tuomas used it as a tribute, or if it's just a coincidence, as the song is the story of the world. I'm gonna ask this in other "Greatest show on earth" reactions, because it's really something I want to know. This is the opening I speak about for curious people: ruclips.net/video/dfnLa4B-Pbg/видео.html
@@ooO0VicariouS0Ooo I was going to mention that no one seems to catch the Toccata and Fugue part (one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written). I have no idea about the cartoon but it is probably just a coincidence...
It's sad no reactionist catches the Bach riff done in the most epic way possible. I don't think it's hommage to a french cartoon show though :) although i remember a similar show "es war einmal... der mensch" in germany (and other 'once upon a time..' cartoons). Don't remember any of the music they had.
Supposedly, Floor's parents were there close to the front and during the show Floor tried not to make eye contact with them, fearing she would start to cry. And damn Floor's sister looks like Floor!!!!! Crazy!!!!
How cool is it to start a song with the sun still up and end the song with the sun down and it's dark. This song is epic. This band is epic. I only discovered them for myself a week ago. Wish I would have known about them sooner.
Thank you for your reaction! Im a finnish Nightwish fan, and I was there in Tampere concert to see them alive. It was awsome, I will never forget that experience. Nightwish💙💙
The part where you heard enter sandman refers to evolution of music. If you pay attention to those few seconds, it goes from classical music, to rock, to electronic music.
Thank you for this wonderful video! Really worth all the wait and preparing, aye! 🤘 To be completely honest, I'm a little surprised your head didn't just pop off from your shoulders and roll to the ground, but hey, that would've been pretty unhealthy, so you were lucky! I dislocated my jawbone at this very concert, totally worth it though! It's been really fun following your journey with Nightwish - this isn't the end, but a milestone for sure. Ten thousand congratulations for 10k subsribers, all well deserved! Here's for the next ten thousand, cheers! 🍻🥳
*has sunglasses and a neck cushion* god I hope I'm protected enough Oh hell no, but you're certainly the most prepared reactor to this song by a mile, solid effort 🤘
Floor barely starts singing that beautiful aria/intro and I'm already crying... PS: there are times where you look like literally blown away by Floor and Marko's voices, is kind of hilarious to watch that reaction
The Enter Sandman riff immediately proceeded the vocal line about man trying to understand a single grain of sand - that grain of sand is a metaphor for the earth, a la Carl Sagan's pale blue dot. I have always wondered if it was Tuomas' idea, since he is such a mastermind when it comes to composition - or perhaps it was Empu's?
Yeah, that song holds so many little secrets you don't get at first, and its meaning is the best thing about it, I think. There's still many incredible surprises to come in shorter songs though, so don't ever worry about that with this band. ;)
Kai's drumming. My 4 fav drummers, Jukka, Kai, Tommy Portimo Sonata Arctica, Alex Kamelot. Kai never ceases to amaze me and may he NEVER cease to amaze me.
The poet and the pendulum next? Ohohohoh you're not prepared for this!!! Nobody can be ready and protected when a song like this hit you in the heart directly :) tsunami of tears incoming!!!!! ;)
Don't you see? They just show us a summary of everything since the bigbang. First fireworks was it, then life start on earth. So the greatest show is everything hapend, from the beginning to now. Very poetic and artistic observation from Nightwish. Indeed they are the best ;)
glad you did this one, it's one of my favorites. I have a B.S. in biology and really appreciate Nightwish's admiration of biology and science, so this song means a lot to me. Same with 'ad astra' from their new album too.
Great reaction PF ! I really think you nailed it by saying " Not only was this the Greatest Show on Earth, but possibly they are the Greatest Band on Earth ! ". Most certainly Yes ! I would say that personally, i would put them up level with the likes of possibly Queen, certainly different style, but the same extreme talent, passion & instrumentation ...
Hey, You asked about the instrument Troy played at the end of the intro and it is a bagpipe, but they are called the Uillean Pipes and they are a typical Irish bagpipe, and you don’t have to blow in the bag to create a sound, but you can play the pipes with your elbow, that’s why they are called the Uillean Pipes (it was traditionally a word in celtic). And yes, The Greatest Show on Earth is also one of my favourites and I still have to cry every time at the “We Were Here” part.
Nightwish Live At Wacken Open Air 2018 ruclips.net/video/KLT_t4F2c70/видео.html Not last one 00:00:00 Intro Countdown 00:00:07 End Of All Hope 00:04:08 Wish I Had An Angel 00:08:17 Come Cover Me 00:13:49 Gethsemane 00:19:19 Élan 00:23:48 Amaranth 00:28:12 I Want My Tears Back 00:34:22 Devil & The Deep Dark Ocean 00:39:17 Nemo 00:44:20 Slaying The Dreamer 00:49:25 The Greatest Show On Earth 01:01:27 Ghost Love Score
You need to listen this song one more time and pay close attention to lyrics and screen in background. Song is split in several parts. Creation of Solar system. First life form that we all are originated from.( LUCA-last universal common ancestor ) Life leaving ocean and thriving on the land. And then humans came.. P.S. Now you will understand their new album Human/Nature much better.
Well done and maybe you came, just like me and probably millions of other fellow humans, to just one single conclusion: Nightwish Is everything this world might wish! - -
You heard the "Enter Sandman" riff correctly :) But you missed two other musical references just a few seconds before: First, very quietly, you can hear J.S.Bach's Minuet in G major, immediately followed by his Toccata & Fugue. Then Metallica, and then back to Nightwish ;) Kind of a nod to the past in the form of depicting a tiny bit of evolution of music, within a composition revolving around evolution of life ;)
Between T&F and Metallica , Empu plays two riffs of "Rock around the clock" ! And after Metallica. Kai is doing some Tecno drumming. The evolution of music.
Hahaha, your face when Floor started growling like a cave-woman 🤣 I love that you caught that Metallica riff in there! Thank you for such a pure heartfelt reaction to this piece of art. You're right, they create experiences that make people really think about things. Always goosebumps with Nightwish 💜
Really liked this reaction! I'm glad you watched the video to the end.Tuomas really is a genius. I think i've already suggested this to you, but if you have extra 2 hours and would like to know more about the time when Floor joined the band, you could do a reaction to the document called "Please learn the setlist in 48 hours". It's long but worth it.
I enjoyed the super intro, ha ha Further more, one of the things I like about reaction videos, is to share my enjoyment of music and other content with others. And it's so wonderful when people like yourself so obviously enjoy the content you watch. Thank you for sharing the moment. Of course when a reactor dislikes something I like, I can find joy in hearing another point of view, so yeah. It's probably more than that.
"God created music and said it was good....." "Then he created Nightwish and he smiled for it was great....." "Then God created Floor Jansen and he dropped the mic...." "For he had created Perfection"
As a technician my ear is fairly well trained. I hope that others hear the subtle change in the mix of Marco and Floor's vocals. They begin with Floor too high and eventually blend much better. I presume a live engineer tweaked this. To those who know this is a small but important change.
Yeh, you are so right, Floor is amazing and I'm so happy she is the permanent member of NW. But so defenitely is the whole band, like you said, the greatest band on earth. Thank you Nightwish you exist 🙏🤘💪
There is a concert that was recording in my country... in Argentina 2018 I think.... Please see all the complete show.. People here is full of energy... and show the love from Nightwish 100%... Pure adrenaline... Besos... Valeria.
Congrats with 10K subs! I love how Tuomas is such a nerd. I mean, who else writes songs about the origine of our planet and evolution? And another song about elves and another song about Cthulhu... And yep, that was Enter Sandman followed by a techno beat. Metal Mozart even included the evolution of music.
"I've got my eye protection....good choice....but you needed to keep them on! I hope I'm protected enough!....nope! You cannot defend against this! (proceeds to remove all protection as Tuomas lulls you into a false sense of safety :D. Yes it's fun knowing what's coming when you don't, but only because we wish we could have that first experience again and love to see others getting the whole thing! Ah, when Floor hits those monotone vocals I keep expecting her eyes to glow and for her to lift slightly off the stage as she goes full goddess-mode. I just love it. Chills every time. The transition to early humanity (the growls) into the heavy chug plus synth is just crazy, then the actual classical music blended into that synth (and yes, that is followed immediately by "Enter Sandman", that whole transition is the entire history of music in about 20 seconds - relisten, you can pick out all sorts of styles including electronic) Then that impact of "we were here". It's super emotional, even if you don't entirely understand the lyrics. Once you do.... oh my The ending is a well deserved finale and applause (with a hero backtrack to match). Everything about it screams epic. The production quality of the footage and sound mix just really seals the deal on making this a special ending to a special show. All of that to laud science and evolution.
Speaking of the “Floor Jansen Note” you really have to see and hear their Ghost Love Score performance from that concert. Holy frigging crap. Everyone always holds the Wachen set as the definitive GLS, and overall it is. But the final note she hits that night in Tampere emitted a shockwave that’s said to have circled the globe three times.
About what you said at the end, there is a beautiful side story to this Tampere concert, when Floor met her old classmates from the rock academy for a dutch tv show. They talk about their times in school and their life after that. This is the part about Floor with english subtitles: ruclips.net/video/B3NIfu0qvtg/видео.html Worth to watch it, just for yourself ;-)
I'm just gonna use this oppurtunity to brag about the fact that I attended this very concert! 😁🤘 Can confirm, it was truly a magical experince, I headbanged so hard I slightly dislocated my jawbone, and only noticed afterwards... Worth it! 🙌
Lucky! I saw them at Wembley when they played Poet and the Pendulum in 2015 :)
I'm more than slightly jealous
Can't blame you, I'd brag about it too! This and Wacken 2013 are the two concerts I really wish I could have attended
Floor's parents were there too. Lovely. Did you see the documentary? ruclips.net/video/zRqqma4kWIg/видео.html
I had tickets to Rock Fest this year. And now it is cancelled. 😪
When Empu stands next to Floor at the end, it's like Frodo standing next to Galadriel
HHAHAHAHHAHAHAA PERFECT!
😂😂😂😂
and Marko is Gandalf 😂
The same when he walks behind her in Ghost Love Score, she has even higher heels and the angel makes him look even smaller, he barely reach her shoulder 😂
@@F1rstWorldNomaD As if height were the measure of a man.
Why am I always crying at the end of this song?
The question should say: "Why are there people in this world who manage not to cry at the end of this song?" Seriously.
Because it reminds you that you "won the lottery of birth" and "WE WERE HERE." We are here, we have made our mark just by existing.
I cry every time, is inevitable
Same here 🙋♀️
@@Ilionej or maybe How come some people have never heard this song?
Fans: Nightwish, how much epicness can you pack into one song? Nightwish: Yes.
Ascension Energetics and in which other song? nightwish: yes
Long intro is to give time for the universe to form and our planet to spin into existence. That is the one, the Uilleann pipes. You heard it correctly. At the beginning of the last section Tuomas plays the melody to Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D minor" and at the end of the section you hear 2 riffs from Metallica "Enter Sandman". This is Tuomas' way of paying tribute to the evolution of music from calssical to metal. Yes the final song. A song about 4.6 billion years of evolution. The Greatest Show on Earth is "Life"! Wonderful job my man! as usual! Peace and be well.
thank you for this information about the music, makes the song even more meaningful for me ( if that is possible)
After the Metallica riff you can hear a few seconds of also EDM, so that section is a tribute to music evolution in general. Fun fact: this song is the last on "Endless Forms", then the next album starts with "Music".
That’s not Toccata and Fugue in D minor, it’s Minuet in G. The rest of what you said is spot on, though. Truly the greatest band.
@@Mordred41407 no, h's correct. It's the beginning of the Fugue. See 0.40 from the french series 'Était une fois l'homme' ruclips.net/video/sC4fnyAqOB0/видео.html
or original (2.40) ruclips.net/video/ho9rZjlsyYY/видео.html
I think where they're singing "We were here!" at the end is a cautionary nod to humanity's extinction.
A last, desperate and/or resigned message to whoever may find it in the far future made by the last remnant of humanity, yes.
Very Norse - despite Raganarok we will leave a message for who- or what-ever comes after us.WE WERE HERE.... makes me think of the Voyager probes - all alone in the cosmos - perhaps even after we are gone they will still be travelling. This song should be on the next one!
It was celebratory in my mind, especially with that Dawkins text.
@@amazonwarlord Exactly right. We are the lucky ones that were born and that were here.
I love that Tuomas gives a lightspeed history of western music right in the middle. Everyone that I've watched react to this catches the Metallica riff, a few catch the two Bach quotes, but no one so far has noticed that the first musical quote is the Gregorian chant Dies Irae, one of the most influential and quoted melodies in all of western classical music. In the space of a few moments, Tuomas bridges hundreds of years of musical greatness. I love how his mind works!
great!
that's an awesome concept, i'm not a musician so i wouldn't hear such things myself
I also think it's because it's less easy to catch it during a live performance as the instrumentals get drowned out by audience noise and stuff.
To add, the whole sequence begins with tribal chanting then to Gregorian chanting from Dies Irae, to Bach, to Metallica then to the bassline (EDM-ish sounding beat) of Wish I Had An Angel.
I did!! 😁
The mother of all songs. The end always makes me shed a tear.
C'mon my friend
And now...THE POET AND THE PENDULUM
and Master, Passion Greed, honestly more Tarja then Poet and the pendulum
@@1982jeepcj8 probably
But Floor is more powerful
@@erasmorappa4218 Why even bother comparing Floor and Tarja? They're both amazing!
As long as he brings the tissues
Oh oh 😂
The title refers to the evolution of life and the brief moment humans have to shine, and a plea to use it well. The spoken voice it not Marco, it is the great evolutionary biologist and pro-rationality author Richard Dawkins. Like many symphonic metal bands, Nightwish are committed to the idea that human lives would be better ruled by reason instead of superstition.
Hiawatha Goldstein man I read origin of species by charles darwin because of this song LMAO
Richard Dawkins teaches lies, not reason. There is no logic to his teaching. It is nonsense. The only logical answer to life is God, which is not superstition. It is a shame that Nightwish promote Dawkins. Their music is great but they are ignorant about the origins of life, just like many brainwashed people.
@@paulviggers9106 oof you really think evolution and gods can't be together? And yes gods I'm a Heathen or trying to be one, it's a lot of work and research. So you're a mythic literalist you're exactly why all theists get bundled together. At the end of the day that's what the stories about our gods are myths to be interpeted as metafores not reality. If you can't see that evolution could be a product of the gods what's the point? You really think your god created a perfect world from scratch? I think the gods created the beginnings of a world and that nature and evolution did the rest.
@@paulviggers9106 K.
@@paulviggers9106
wow.
that takes some balls to call nonsense and brainwashing to sience instead to people which are believing in a mythological book like the bible as the true word of the only true god.
which ist just that.
a mythological book, a collection of books , randomly put together by a pope how he saw fit.
A mythos same like the edda and many many other myths of the creation of earth and life, each culture and religion has their own.
Why christians always thinking that they are something special?
You are not.
Just one religion and path of many other.
Science is science.
Religion has a completely different approach.
Nothing wrong with that.
i am a spiritual person myself.
But I would never dare to say that science is just a way to brainwash people.
Next : The Poet and the Pendulum (live at Wembley) 🖤👍
I can't wait !🤘🖤☺️
Yes. He is ready for this...
@@chewie2648 Are you sure? He needs to buy a big box of tissues first.
@@ooO0VicariouS0Ooo I think we all need to buy a big box of tissues 😉 This song makes me cry every time I listen to it. Masterpiece ! 🖤 He is ready for this song👍
Indeed, Poet and the Pendulum really hits harder... in the best way possible.
Next: "Weak Fantasy" from the same concert.
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Yes please
The Enter the Sandman riff is part of the history of music. There's tribal drums, a harpsichord, Bach, and banjos.
The enter Sandman riff is also a pun to the "Single grain of sand" line in the lyric.
There's dubstep too, but it's clearer on the album.
@@F1rstWorldNomaD Thank you for that little nugget. I did not know this after watching this performance over and over again. :) (something new everyday)
If I'm not mistaken, there's a little bit of Led Zeppelin in there too, but I might be wrong :)
@@firebugjohnnypyro Youre welcome. 😁
Isnt it amazing that no matter how much you learn about this band there is always more to know?
They have these seemingly endless intricacies to almost everything they do, I absolutly love it. 🥰
Back in 1999 i was into metal : Priest, Maiden, Metallica, Helloween.... Then happen to see the concert "From wishes to eternity" from Nightwish... And was like i started to see in color high definition. Before metal was great! Yes! But was like a black and white picture. After that dvd show from Nightwish back in 1999 i really stated to see color. Since then, my favorite band...
Shudder Before the Beautiful from the same show please....... Such a great opener and such a lovely response.
best female voice ever in history
so overrated man 😂😅
OTE x OTE overrated?
@@otexote8954 every body has a different opinion and taste in music luckely. 😜. But if someone knows her vocal technique it is floor. When she sings emotions happening with a lot of us fans. I have that with no other artists. ❤️🤘
@@sanderhoogeland9161 Well, if you rate someone as the best female voice ever in history, I think 'overrated' is a fair interpretation. She's fantastic, super talented, has a nice tone to her voice, can switch well and perform in many styles and she's a humble person. But none of that makes her the best, that's so super subjective. There's women that go higher, that go lower, that have more grit, are even more angelic, more versed in opera or rap or vocal slides. Floor is just fantastic because she does all these things to a very high level. But she can't compete with people who do only 1 thing and studied and trained it to perfection. I doubt most opera singers could switch to growling though.
@@bararobberbaron859 I think that a lot of fans are a bit in love with Floor ( so am I and i am straight ) and you know what happens when someone is in love..... But it is a marvelous feeling so please let it be 😜
"I hope I'm protected enough" made me lol.
You're only the second reactor to catch that Metallica riff! That part of the song is the evolution of music starting with ancient chanting and ending with electronic music!
I've got a big question in my mind about this part, from the first time I heard this song.
Maybe someone from Finland could help me.
Before the Enter Sandman's riff, there is the Tuomas part which is From Bach "Toccata and Fugue in D minor".
The fact is, when I was young there was a cartoon which explains the history of humanity, from the very beginning (from the big bang to now).
The opening of this cartoon was the "Toccata and Fugue in D minor", but it was a french cartoon, I don't know if it was played in other countries, and if Tuomas used it as a tribute, or if it's just a coincidence, as the song is the story of the world.
I'm gonna ask this in other "Greatest show on earth" reactions, because it's really something I want to know.
This is the opening I speak about for curious people: ruclips.net/video/dfnLa4B-Pbg/видео.html
@@ooO0VicariouS0Ooo I was going to mention that no one seems to catch the Toccata and Fugue part (one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written). I have no idea about the cartoon but it is probably just a coincidence...
It's sad no reactionist catches the Bach riff done in the most epic way possible.
I don't think it's hommage to a french cartoon show though :) although i remember a similar show "es war einmal... der mensch" in germany (and other 'once upon a time..' cartoons). Don't remember any of the music they had.
@@ooO0VicariouS0Ooo first I thought you meant Fantasia (original, not 2000), but nope! I don't know what that cartoon is!
There is Floor and there are ... aaaa??? ... O yes Floor , and Floor and Floor ...
Tarja is really good also.
i can get not liking Anette that much, but i like a few studio songs with her at least...
I'd like to call her Paradox, actually. Because somehow, she's always on the ceiling.
"There is Floor and there are ... aaaa??? ... " Irene.... ;)
wonderfull reaction. i enjoyed it as much as you did. Thanks for playing it till the very end.
I've watched this a million times but always get me in tears 😢
Supposedly, Floor's parents were there close to the front and during the show Floor tried not to make eye contact with them, fearing she would start to cry. And damn Floor's sister looks like Floor!!!!! Crazy!!!!
Irene (Floors sister) is a great great singer as well. Check them both out on Ayreon.
How cool is it to start a song with the sun still up and end the song with the sun down and it's dark. This song is epic. This band is epic. I only discovered them for myself a week ago. Wish I would have known about them sooner.
Neighbor, "Did I hear you refer to yourself as the greatest show on Earth while in the shower?"
😂😂😂😂😂
Thank you for your reaction! Im a finnish Nightwish fan, and I was there in Tampere concert to see them alive. It was awsome, I will never forget that experience. Nightwish💙💙
I am so glad that you finally see it and felt it! Nightwish is in fact the Greatest Show on Earth!
You also heard "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" by J.S. Bach.
Please react live to Buenos Aires concert
Jaaa!
Yes it was "Enter Sandman" from Metallica. But did you noticed before, there was a part of Johann Sebastian Bach "Menuett"?
Fugue D minor :)
Omg. So excited for this reaction. Such a beautiful masterpiece 😍
This is not just a song.
This is a Hymn to the Human specie singed by the best feamale voice of all time.
The crowd cheer at the end had to shake the ground. Massive!
Ty get goosebumps everytime i watch this it was great
The part where you heard enter sandman refers to evolution of music. If you pay attention to those few seconds, it goes from classical music, to rock, to electronic music.
Crazy 😊
OMG! I love this song! Is amazing! Nightwish❤
good afternoon. in my opinion the best show of Nightwish. greetings from brazil
The moment right after the "green growl section" when Floor takes two steps back and start to windmill...Oh boy, oh boy!
Thank you for this wonderful video! Really worth all the wait and preparing, aye! 🤘 To be completely honest, I'm a little surprised your head didn't just pop off from your shoulders and roll to the ground, but hey, that would've been pretty unhealthy, so you were lucky! I dislocated my jawbone at this very concert, totally worth it though!
It's been really fun following your journey with Nightwish - this isn't the end, but a milestone for sure. Ten thousand congratulations for 10k subsribers, all well deserved! Here's for the next ten thousand, cheers! 🍻🥳
Great reaction dude. Respect from 🇬🇧
Damn so beautiful that it hurts! :-))))) Love from a proud Dutchy! xoxo
Did you notice that the chord progressions from the piano intro return for the ”We were here” climax?
*has sunglasses and a neck cushion* god I hope I'm protected enough
Oh hell no, but you're certainly the most prepared reactor to this song by a mile, solid effort 🤘
😂😂🤘🤘🤘
Many People: I feel I just listened to a whole album.
Nightwish: Hold my Greatest Show on Earth.
Floor barely starts singing that beautiful aria/intro and I'm already crying...
PS: there are times where you look like literally blown away by Floor and Marko's voices, is kind of hilarious to watch that reaction
I just mis two things... The poet and the pendulum and the new album👍 keep up the good work😁👍👍
Glad you stayed with it to the very end. Many bail out early thinking their viewers are in a hurry or something, and we aren't.
Well done!
The Enter Sandman riff immediately proceeded the vocal line about man trying to understand a single grain of sand - that grain of sand is a metaphor for the earth, a la Carl Sagan's pale blue dot. I have always wondered if it was Tuomas' idea, since he is such a mastermind when it comes to composition - or perhaps it was Empu's?
My favourite live performance from them is phantom of the opera with Tarja Turunen
This was not a song. It is a work of art that surpasseth understanding.
Yeah, that song holds so many little secrets you don't get at first, and its meaning is the best thing about it, I think.
There's still many incredible surprises to come in shorter songs though, so don't ever worry about that with this band. ;)
okay before I even review your reaction “it’s about time!” Here we go!
Kai's drumming. My 4 fav drummers, Jukka, Kai, Tommy Portimo Sonata Arctica, Alex Kamelot. Kai never ceases to amaze me and may he NEVER cease to amaze me.
Absolutely fantastic reaction. Again, congratulations on 10000 subscribers, you most definitely deserve it. Also, your new microphone is great.
20:20 is a reference to a music from Bach :) this song is so great ^^
The poet and the pendulum next? Ohohohoh you're not prepared for this!!! Nobody can be ready and protected when a song like this hit you in the heart directly :) tsunami of tears incoming!!!!! ;)
Floor Jansen is the best that ever happened to Nightwish!!! Period 👍👍👍
Hear hear!
Don't you see? They just show us a summary of everything since the bigbang. First fireworks was it, then life start on earth. So the greatest show is everything hapend, from the beginning to now. Very poetic and artistic observation from Nightwish. Indeed they are the best ;)
Have seen them live twice (im a fin) in Lahti and Himos. Both times.... EPIC!! so proud of them. and yes, this song is always the last one :D
glad you did this one, it's one of my favorites. I have a B.S. in biology and really appreciate Nightwish's admiration of biology and science, so this song means a lot to me. Same with 'ad astra' from their new album too.
This is my chosen home town. Greetings from tampere ❤️
Splendid. Thanks!
You are welcome
"Shudder before the beautyful " next thx👍🤘 (same consert or Wembley)
Greatest Show On Earth is not Nightwish being presumptuous, it is the life on this planet. The incredible diversity and Forms Most Beautiful.
Great reaction PF ! I really think you nailed it by saying " Not only was this the Greatest Show on Earth, but possibly they
are the Greatest Band on Earth ! ". Most certainly Yes ! I would say that personally, i would put them up level with the likes
of possibly Queen, certainly different style, but the same extreme talent, passion & instrumentation ...
I see, a man of culture. You didn't cut off the credits…
Hey,
You asked about the instrument Troy played at the end of the intro and it is a bagpipe, but they are called the Uillean Pipes and they are a typical Irish bagpipe, and you don’t have to blow in the bag to create a sound, but you can play the pipes with your elbow, that’s why they are called the Uillean Pipes (it was traditionally a word in celtic).
And yes, The Greatest Show on Earth is also one of my favourites and I still have to cry every time at the “We Were Here” part.
Haha pioei, I only just found this comment. Well said, the meestel approves.
Nightwish Live At Wacken Open Air 2018
ruclips.net/video/KLT_t4F2c70/видео.html
Not last one
00:00:00 Intro Countdown
00:00:07 End Of All Hope
00:04:08 Wish I Had An Angel
00:08:17 Come Cover Me
00:13:49 Gethsemane
00:19:19 Élan
00:23:48 Amaranth
00:28:12 I Want My Tears Back
00:34:22 Devil & The Deep Dark Ocean
00:39:17 Nemo
00:44:20 Slaying The Dreamer
00:49:25 The Greatest Show On Earth
01:01:27 Ghost Love Score
You need to listen this song one more time and pay close attention to lyrics and screen in background.
Song is split in several parts.
Creation of Solar system.
First life form that we all are originated from.( LUCA-last universal common ancestor )
Life leaving ocean and thriving on the land.
And then humans came..
P.S. Now you will understand their new album Human/Nature much better.
Well done and maybe you came, just like me and probably millions of other fellow humans, to just one single conclusion: Nightwish Is everything this world might wish!
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yeeeees :)
Ive watched so many reactions to this and no one has even mentioned how the guitarist damn near fell on his face while doing the bow at the end lmao
Floor's parents were in public this special evening 😊👌😍🎩
Powerful reaction, Powerful band! Congrats on 10k subs!
You heard the "Enter Sandman" riff correctly :) But you missed two other musical references just a few seconds before: First, very quietly, you can hear J.S.Bach's Minuet in G major, immediately followed by his Toccata & Fugue. Then Metallica, and then back to Nightwish ;) Kind of a nod to the past in the form of depicting a tiny bit of evolution of music, within a composition revolving around evolution of life ;)
Between T&F and Metallica , Empu plays two riffs of "Rock around the clock" ! And after Metallica. Kai is doing some Tecno drumming. The evolution of music.
I am confused. I bought Nightwish CDs in the 90's I kept listening. Where was everyone before? I think I need a cap to wear backwards.
Goosebumbs.. Every time 💙
Epic again everytime i see the performence....
Congratulations for your 10k+ subscribers, you deserve it. 👍🤘
Hahaha, your face when Floor started growling like a cave-woman 🤣 I love that you caught that Metallica riff in there! Thank you for such a pure heartfelt reaction to this piece of art. You're right, they create experiences that make people really think about things. Always goosebumps with Nightwish 💜
Really liked this reaction! I'm glad you watched the video to the end.Tuomas really is a genius.
I think i've already suggested this to you, but if you have extra 2 hours and would like to know more about the time when Floor joined the band, you could do a reaction to the document called "Please learn the setlist in 48 hours". It's long but worth it.
I enjoyed the super intro, ha ha
Further more, one of the things I like about reaction videos, is to share my enjoyment of music and other content with others. And it's so wonderful when people like yourself so obviously enjoy the content you watch. Thank you for sharing the moment.
Of course when a reactor dislikes something I like, I can find joy in hearing another point of view, so yeah. It's probably more than that.
"God created music and said it was good....."
"Then he created Nightwish and he smiled for it was great....."
"Then God created Floor Jansen and he dropped the mic...."
"For he had created Perfection"
If they really want to send something in space, this should be it. A history of us in one single masterpiece.
As a technician my ear is fairly well trained. I hope that others hear the subtle change in the mix of Marco and Floor's vocals. They begin with Floor too high and eventually blend much better. I presume a live engineer tweaked this. To those who know this is a small but important change.
Said it before, I'll repeat myself again - This is still my favorite Nightwish song.
We were here ❤️🤘
Yeh, you are so right, Floor is amazing and I'm so happy she is the permanent member of NW.
But so defenitely is the whole band, like you said, the greatest band on earth.
Thank you Nightwish you exist 🙏🤘💪
There is a concert that was recording in my country... in Argentina
2018 I think....
Please see all the complete show..
People here is full of energy... and show the love from Nightwish 100%...
Pure adrenaline...
Besos...
Valeria.
Priceless review. Just had to sub.
Congrats with 10K subs! I love how Tuomas is such a nerd. I mean, who else writes songs about the origine of our planet and evolution? And another song about elves and another song about Cthulhu... And yep, that was Enter Sandman followed by a techno beat. Metal Mozart even included the evolution of music.
The instrument you are talking about is an uileean pipe, or armpit pipe, it is a variation of the mouth-inflated pipe
"I've got my eye protection....good choice....but you needed to keep them on! I hope I'm protected enough!....nope! You cannot defend against this! (proceeds to remove all protection as Tuomas lulls you into a false sense of safety :D. Yes it's fun knowing what's coming when you don't, but only because we wish we could have that first experience again and love to see others getting the whole thing!
Ah, when Floor hits those monotone vocals I keep expecting her eyes to glow and for her to lift slightly off the stage as she goes full goddess-mode. I just love it. Chills every time.
The transition to early humanity (the growls) into the heavy chug plus synth is just crazy, then the actual classical music blended into that synth (and yes, that is followed immediately by "Enter Sandman", that whole transition is the entire history of music in about 20 seconds - relisten, you can pick out all sorts of styles including electronic)
Then that impact of "we were here". It's super emotional, even if you don't entirely understand the lyrics. Once you do.... oh my
The ending is a well deserved finale and applause (with a hero backtrack to match). Everything about it screams epic. The production quality of the footage and sound mix just really seals the deal on making this a special ending to a special show. All of that to laud science and evolution.
Goosebumps. Tears. Gratitude. Exhilaration.
Nightwish.
They are the greatest band on earth but their name is still Nightwish and should stay so :)
How much more do you want? A Godess and her Vikings on stage. Speechless! And I am gonna see them in Novemer in Floors homecountry. Can't wait.
This is Art!!
I can’t wait 😎
Speaking of the “Floor Jansen Note” you really have to see and hear their Ghost Love Score performance from that concert. Holy frigging crap.
Everyone always holds the Wachen set as the definitive GLS, and overall it is. But the final note she hits that night in Tampere emitted a shockwave that’s said to have circled the globe three times.
If Floors voice would be an electric chair, I would sit there my whole life and just enjoy it! 🖤 (No offense! It's just a metaphor!!! 😊)
FLOOR, MARKO, TUOMAS....ALL on 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
About what you said at the end, there is a beautiful side story to this Tampere concert, when Floor met her old classmates from the rock academy for a dutch tv show. They talk about their times in school and their life after that. This is the part about Floor with english subtitles: ruclips.net/video/B3NIfu0qvtg/видео.html
Worth to watch it, just for yourself ;-)