This song is something else. It's not just music, It's spiritual experience. It's truly the greatest show on earth.

@diandraa_

6 жыл бұрын

Best comment ever

@jazzx251

5 жыл бұрын

We are one, we are the universe ...we're the greatest show on Earth.

@jorgkuijt4735

4 жыл бұрын

And we were here...awesome...

@klaymor73

3 жыл бұрын

The whole album it's spiritual, i love this song but it's very hard to me to listen just this song , i need to listen the whole album to travel to the life itself.

I am 54 and have NEVER experienced anything anywhere near to this Masterpiece. Seen it live twice now Epic is to small a Word to describe it This is the Ultimate Band, performing the Ultimate Show on Earth

@ieradossantos

5 жыл бұрын

It sounds strange but in some way the band has become bigger than itself and the songs they made are going to be performed for a thousand years, and only the very best will be able to

@cooswillemse7551

4 жыл бұрын

I am as old as you are and only recently discovered this band and I am 100% with you! Never witnessed anything near close to this band. Can’t stop listening to them . Gib smacked. And that comes from a die hard hard rock fan

@liefde1911

4 жыл бұрын

Pete, I am 63. I listen all my life music! I never expected anything like Nightwish. I can tell you, I heard a lot of music. I but this..............totally insane!

@billytaylor4498

Жыл бұрын

yep we are both 57 now i discovered them just last year i hope youve looked at sabaton and battle beast

The Greatest Show on Earth is about the history of Earth and life itself. It has 5 sections: 1. Four Point Six (ends with the first spoken part by Richard Dawkins) - Earth as an empty planet, all rocks, lava etc. and the first life, the title refers to the estimated age of Earth, 4.6 billion years. 2. Life (begins when the guitars kick in, ends with the break after the drum solo) - evolution and life, references to LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor), the Devonian era (also known as the Age of Fish, when amphibians started evolving to go on land), the Goldilock Zone (the ideal distance from the Sun, which allows water to exist in a liquid state) etc. 3. The Toolmaker (starts with Floor's high notes and the primate grunting, ends with the "We were here" segment) - humans enter the stage, references to Lucy (the primate that seems to be our earliest ancestor), migration out of Africa, atomic bombs etc. and there are musical snippets from other musicians and composers, such as Bach, Mozart and Metallica (just before the second chorus you can hear the riff from Enter Sandman) 4. The Understanding (the two spoken parts during the outro of the show) - quotes by UNWEAVING THE RAINBOW by Richard Dawkins and ON THE ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES by Charles Darwin, narrated by Dawkins. 5. Sea Worn Driftwood - not that present here, but it is the soundscape after the last spoken part, with animal and ocean sounds to play it out.

@iirockstar23562

6 жыл бұрын

Wow!, thank you for deep info :)

@edudario1974

5 жыл бұрын

This is such a great song itself, musically speaking, complex, long, interesting... but I'm so interested in the lyrics. Tell me who else sings about things like this nowadays ? This is a great way for people to think a little and do some research, to understand. Your comment is great, and very usefull to understand a very deep song... I may be wrong, but may be a materpiece. Thanks, and if you have more info, please keep on sending it. Thanks.

@iirockstar23562

5 жыл бұрын

@@edudario1974 "Archaean horizon, The first sunrise" Earth's history is divided into four principal Eons: the Hadean, the Archean, Proterozoic, and the Phanerozoic. The Hadean is the Eon during which the Earth and Moon formed; in the Archaean, primordial life appeared. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Earth) "On a pristine gaea" Gaia is the primordial Greek goddess of the Earth. More recently, the Gaia hypothesis is a recognition of the living and nonliving Earth systems which form an interdependent whole. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia) "Opus perfectum, Somewhere there, us sleeping" Pristine perfection (of silence, of a blank page, of the very point from which the big bang itself sprung) implies a rich creative potential. Here Earth is painted in the same powerful way. Diversity awaits; unborn beings are sleeping the same sleep to which they will return at death. This interpretation is thematically linked with the album's opening track, "Shudder before the Beautiful," which includes the lyrics, "The music of this awe, Deep silence between the notes, Deafens me with endless love." Or as the furious hobbit screamed at the novice trumpeter, "An artist respects the silence, it serves as the foundation of creativity." (kzread.info/dash/bejne/a3lqlMt6Zq6pebQ.html) [Part 2: Life] "The cosmic law of gravity Pulled the newborns around a fire, A careless cold infinity in every vast direction. Lonely farer in the Goldilocks zone" Gravity pulls the Earth and its inhabitants around the energizing Sun in an otherwise inhospitable universe. Earth is the only planet in our solar system's circumstellar habitable zone, orbiting at the "just right, not too hot, not too cold" distance from the Sun. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstellar_habitable_zone) "She has a tale to tell, From the stellar nursery into a carbon feast, Enter LUCA" In astronomy, stellar nurseries are the birthplaces of stars: they nurse stars (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_formation#Stellar_nurseries). Poetically, our solar system is another "stellar nursery," in which a star is the nurse, caring for and warming a planet of 'newborns,' early carbon-based life. "Feast" evokes the incorporation of plentiful chemical building blocks into rudimentary life forms. "LUCA" stands for "Last universal common ancestor," the one single organism from which all other presently existing life on Earth descended. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_ancestor) "The tapestry of chemistry is a writing in the garden, Leading us to the mother of all" The periodic table of elements does look like a sort of patchwork tapestry, but this can go further. The historical function of tapestries was as "nomadic murals," pictographical histories which moving people could pack up and revisit wherever they went. The "writing in the garden," in nature, is not only the stone murals left by dead animals in the form of fossils, but is also this chemical writing that encodes the relatively nomadic DNA molecule with the instructions for life. The scientific investigation of this information leads us back to LUCA, and further. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapestry#Function) "We are one, We are a universe," This is the natural conclusion to draw from the fact that life shares common origin, that all life is built with the same blocks, and that all life on Earth is interdependent (gaia hypothesis). The multiplicity of beings on Earth are one, just as the cells in a body are one. "Forebears of what will be Scions of the Devonian sea." The Devonian geologic time period marked the first significant, rapid diversification of life (and the more well-known Cambrian explosion is another of these 'adaptive radiation' events). It was during the Devonian that the 'higher plants' appeared and blanketed the continents with forests. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devonian). The word "scion" refers to a shoot of a plant cut for grafting, and is also used to denote a descendent of a notable family. Both meanings apply. "Aeons pass, Writing the tale of us all. A day-to-day new opening For the greatest show on Earth" Evolutionary adaptation is written in the DNA and as fossils in the rocks, and is ongoing. Species die, diversifiy and delineate. Every day is different, every day something changes. "Ion channels welcoming the outside world To the stuff of stars" Ion channels are found in the membranes of all cells, controlling the flow of energy through the cells. The stuff of stars is all the physical matter we're made of. So it's the ion channels, guiding enery, which allow living bodies to interact with the rest of the world by exchanging energy with it. "Stuff of stars" is surely a Sagan reference: "The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff." (For fun: kzread.info/dash/bejne/int_mpaJn8jfns4.html) "Bedding the tree of a biological holy, Enter life" The bed of a tree is the nutrient-rich soil from which it grows, a soil made of dead things. The "tree of a biological holy" is probably the tree of life (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life). This line refers to the "holy" legendary tree of everlasting life but also means the conceptual, branching family tree of all life, whose bed consists of all deceased beings (in a more literal sense), or all extinct ancestral species (in a more abstract sense). This is thematically linked with the song "Alpenglow." "We are here to care for the garden, The wonder of birth Of every form most beautiful" "We" could be human beings tasked with acting as nature's stewards, garden of eden style, but that's not chronological -- human beings haven't quite appeared in the song yet. "We" could instead be all of life itself, in a gaia-philosophy sense, which posits that life creates environments ever more hospitable to more life. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_philosophy) Or maybe it's a combination of these two thoughts: life eventually creates an environment suitable for the development of consiously acting, thinking human stewards. [Part 3: The Toolmaker] "After a billion years, The show is still here. Not a single one of your fathers died young." Every single one of a given person's ancestors, male and female, lived past puberty at least. But "fathers" evokes "forefathers," which has a nicer storytelling ring to it than "parents." "The handy travelers Out of Africa Little Lucy of the Afar" Handymen are good with tools; travelers posessing hands rather than forefeet walk upright. Hominids originated in Africa and spread to the rest of the world from there. Lucy is a particular specimen of the Australopithecus, one of many "missing links" between modern humans and nonhuman ancestors. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(Australopithecus)) "Gave birth to fantasy, To idolatry, To self-destructive weaponry. Enter the God of gaps Deep within the past. Atavistic dread of the hunted!" The brain grows, consciousness and creativity along with it. Atavism is the tendency to revert to ancestral type, an evolutionary throwback. Fight-or-flight instincts that helped human ancestors survive have now been creatively projected onto the world to both explain it (origins, meaning, suffering) and gain security in it (bargaining through sacrifice). These are the roots of theism. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atavism) "Enter Ionia, the cradle of thought, The architecture of understanding. The human lust to feel so exceptional, To rule the Earth" Nomadic people develop agriculture and settle down into civilizations. The word "architecture" is at once both literal and figurative. The efficiency of civilization graces people with free time to do more than just feed themselves. They develop rich cultural traditions, arts and philosophies, much of which are deeply influenced by how different humans now are from all the rest of life. "Hunger for shiny rocks, For giant mushroom clouds, The will to do as you'd be done by." Shiny rocks are wealth: gold, precious stones, jewels, and later uranium which leads to the nuclear arms race. The golden rule -- "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" -- is a coin with a dark side: "an eye for an eye," revenge. This ensures the "MAD"ness of mutually assured destruction. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction) "Enter history, the grand finale. Enter ratkind." "Ratkind" comes from Richard Dawkins' book "The Ancestor's Tale." Dawkins imagines a post-apocalyptic world in which rodents feast on the remnants of humanity (and humanity's garbage). The rat population explodes, and then as they exhaust these resources they turn on one another for food. As a consequence of natural selection, the rats diverge into new carnivorous and herbivorous species, and perhaps, eventually, a specices of rodent whose intelligence rivals that of humans. This is "ratkind." (iberianature.com/wildworld/tag/ratkind/) "Man, he took his time in the sun, Had a dream to understand A single grain of sand." From William Blake: "To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour." ...And the story of the planet in 24 minutes. Not bad. "He gave birth to poetry, But one day'll cease to be. Greet the last light of the library" A bittersweet redundancy: poetry with library, the last light with ceasing to be. Reminiscent of Elan: "Be the first to greet the morn [...] Travel with great élan, dance a jig at the funeral." "We were here!" Who else is going to vote for this song's inclusion on the next Voyager golden record, if there'll ever be one? I want to beam this song into space forever.

@el0kadur

5 жыл бұрын

@@edudario1974 the ones who listen to short/less content songs, do not listen to this kind of music

@CoolMusicVibes526

5 жыл бұрын

@@iirockstar23562 Thanks!! This was a great breakdown \m/(^_^)\m/

Floor brought a new spirit to this band, and therefore affected Tuomas' mastery. This IS the BEST song from Nightwish ever. Period.

@guitarman0365

5 жыл бұрын

i feel nightwish helped her too. I have no idea why but i have listened to other songs of hers in the past before nightwish and i just did not FEEL it. Not that I did not like it but I did not get THAT feeling when she sang before. It's like she made a deal with a crossroads demon or something haha just exploded with potential after joining nightwish.

@ieradossantos

5 жыл бұрын

they saved her and she saved them

The Greatest Show On Earth is pretty much the ultimate Nightwish song. That "We were here" chant with over 23 000 people singing along with the band gets me every time.

@TheNiittylahti

6 жыл бұрын

It was Epic live. I was There. Still have it on Blu-ray and it is almost as awesome every time :)

@ZealSeraph

6 жыл бұрын

Damn. I can imagine how amazing that whole show was.

@Quasihamster

6 жыл бұрын

I've called it the pinnacle of human evolution as far as music is concerned. And I was not satiric or metaphoric or exaggerating or anything of that sort.

@StefaniaCXI

5 жыл бұрын

One of the best thing ever happened in my life: screaming WE WERE HERE together with about 15.000 people I never met before. Amazing

@JS-bg3jw

5 жыл бұрын

Some of us were there. Few meters from the stage. Last song, with the fireworks - was pretty amazing. And again last Fall they were kind enough to save the last gigs of their world/Europe tour for their fellow countrymen, sold out of course, but great.

Nothing will ever win the feeling when you scream as loud as you can "we were here" with 15 000 people. Tears fell down my cheeks and I have never been that happy, there is no other band who can touch my feelings the way Nightwish does. Just pure love.

Nightwish ist einfach die ultimative liveband 🤘🤘🤘 bin 63 Jahre alt und begeistert!!!!

And this is why I call it “The Greatest Song On Earth” It elicits a reaction of amazement out of all who hear it.

There's a reason why I absolutely LOVE your reaction videos. The sheer joy and real emotions you exhibit. Watching you react to this EPIC piece of artistry has me seeing and hearing it through brand new eyes. I totally understand how overwhelming it can be, but wow! I remember first hearing it through my headphones, then seeing it live. If I had to describe "The Greatest Show on Earth", I'd have to say that it was the most epic and coolest science documentary ever made, lol. And your adorable doggie, she wanted to make sure you were okay. Take care and thank you again for sharing your genuine feelings with us. And yes, Floorgasm is a real thing 😉.

@GothicElf68

5 жыл бұрын

Could not have said it better myself, so I won't even try.

I pre-ordered Endless Forms Most Beautiful (after being absolutely blown away by videos of Floor at Wacken, much like everyone else), but it took a while for my copy to arrive. While I was waiting, I went onto the Nightwish forums to see what people were saying. There was a thread titled "So who's made it to Greatest Show On Earth yet?" and the entire thread was just people posting: WE WERE HERE over and over and over.

@The_Pony

6 жыл бұрын

Oh mannnnn I wish I had preordered that one 😞😭😭😭 Also what a neat thing to see happen LOL I'd be like "DAMNIT IM SLACKIN'"

I would feel sorry for people who cannot experience feeling and emotions to Nightwish. You can listen over and over and still have the same feelings.

Your enthusiasm is contagious! Your enjoyment of the show is so sincere it made me smile. Nightwish is really unique. Sure there are other great bands in the genre but I think none has been able to deliver such a presentation. Great reaction!

Listening to Nightwish and get goosepumps is normal effect so don't worry. I was there in that concert and i didn't get my goosepumps down for a week. I think i still have them.

This song is a resume of all that is Nightwish, of all it is capable to do. It is not a song, it is an experience that overwhelms you.

@React4you

5 жыл бұрын

True that

I know many female vocalists, most of them good, many of them great, some of them absolutely amazing, but none can touch Floor, in my opinion~ She can do almost everything. She has a rock voice, strong head voice, strong chest voice, amazing falsetto all the while maintaining absolute control and projecting great power. "Best song we're had on this channel so far, hands down" - wait until you hear Epica - Stabat Mater (Live), Floor and Simone, singing a classical soprano aria in duet. That one will break you. :D

@wolfpolinski3748

6 жыл бұрын

Thats absolute right what you say ,Floor is the best !!!

@dirkschmidt2276

5 жыл бұрын

@fnglert not to mention the growling she can to

@GothicElf68

5 жыл бұрын

Oh, the duet with Simone... I am almost an atheist; I believe in science. But that song sounded like a pair of angels singing.

So... when i first got this song on the album, it just stayed on loop for about 2 days, even with how good the other songs on there were. We were here, when that final tempo change kicks in... every single time, goosebumps like you say. Great review karl, about time you got to this one! Just sit back for a few minutes and try to imagine the talent and genius it takes to sit down and write and compose this song. It just frazzles my brain to try and get my head around being able to put this together. He is the modern day mozart, I hope people appreciate Tuomas as a composer in a few hundred years time because he is simply the best we have alive today.

Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen (born 25 December 1976)[1] is a Finnish songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer, best known as the founder, leader, keyboardist and songwriter of symphonic metal band Nightwish.[2] He has also studied jazz and classical styles, but prefers to be influenced by harmonic film music

it's a song about the universe and us humans

I went to see Nightwish at Bloodstock last month with some family from the UK, and along tagged my little cousin. She's 7, and aspires to headbang like Floor. She tries to input herself in all of the adult conversations that goes on around her, and she often picks up a joke now and then, and normally the context is so lost on her (which is what usually makes it funny), however. For years, friends and family have made fun of the 5 gum commercial. It's often quite stupid and slap stick. The night before we set out to attend Bloodstock, we were watching some Nightwish videos, and my little cousin hadn't yet heard TGSOE. So we pull up this video and we watch it, and her little eyes are sO BIG, and she's so fixated, that by the end, she lets out this barely audible "so this is what it feels like to chew 5 gum", which is still the most hilarious thing to me and now every time I see this performance or hear this song, it's the only thing I can think of. 😂 It's so appropriate, too. This song takes you on a journey and it's fuckin' bone chilling. Goosebumps all over!

@The_Pony

6 жыл бұрын

This is the single best comment I've seen all week!

@tankanstein5125

6 жыл бұрын

thats so great lol

@vandersonjunior8018

6 жыл бұрын

AWESOME HAHAHAHAHA

@GothicElf68

5 жыл бұрын

That's hilarious,. And if she can appreciate the music of Nightwish at the tender age of 7, then she has more sense than the rest of us! ;-)

I've seen this in concert twice, and it is beyond words. At the last concert, they ended the concert with this song, followed by Ghost Love Score, and people had tears pouring down their faces

@jazzysugar3777

6 жыл бұрын

Then you must have seen it in the decades tour? I was sad that they chopped off so much of the song, even more than at tampere compared to the album version. Now, they don't even play the Archean horizon... Part...

@johnhitchens5632

6 жыл бұрын

Well they did the "We Were Here" bit, then did Ghost Love Score, then played the rest of the track after Ghost Love Score. When I saw them with Sonata Arctica and Delain on the Endless Forms tour, they did the whole thing in one iece.

Dude your reactions are so straight from the hearth. Respect!!

great reaction to another great Nightwish tune with Floor as always they just keep getting better and better no signs of slowing down anytime soon just bigger and better !!!! goosebumps are the norm while listening to any Nightwish tune done by Floor shes amazing and a goddess and in my opinion the best there is !!! and no your definitely not overreacting at all !!! was a great reaction one of the best ive seen !!!!

Beautiful Song, I Love this Band.

@iirockstar23562

6 жыл бұрын

Same here.

@fdsannie

6 жыл бұрын

Same here!

Wacken 2013 cemented Floor's legacy with Nightwish. Live at Tempere showed she "owned" Nightwish. Cannot stop listening to her singing...it's like crack.

I have seen other people react to this song. Yours was fantastic. Just not being able to speak says it all. This truly is a masterpiece. I love how it is about the universe how we evolved. This song makes you feel like you are a part of something big. Especially the part "We Were Here". One of my favorite parts are when they come back on stage.That music and Richard Dawkins speaking is so beautiful and full of emotion. I find a lot of people do not realize that is part of the song. I know some people want you to go mainstream music. I think you will short change yourself and your subs if you limit yourself. There is so much music out there to hear and share. Thanks for continuing to do Nightwish. And I am getting to know other music because of you.

@React4you

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Ann! This song was truly amazing and the live performance...stunning. It is always fun and exciting to widen your horizons, and it is because of you guys that I get to experience new awesome music. And that I in turn can introduce new music to people is fantastic, it is a win win :D

I didn't pay attention to this song until my very first Nightwish concert "in real" in Paris last November... And this one just stunned me! Followed by Ghost Love Score to finish, that made a truly amazing last half an hour!

Karl this video was one of my favorite reactions you have on patreon. I’m so happy to see you have released it on KZread for the masses to enjoy. Rock on Karl 🤙🏼

@React4you

6 жыл бұрын

Raul Haha well this is really a masterpiece indeed!😂 Rock on Raul!🤘

Så himla kul att se nån som uppskattar den här låten nästan lika mycket som mig! ;)

Your reaction makes me feel less lonely. The first time I heard this song, I was leaving uni and going nowhere in particular. I played that song while waiting for the metro. I shouldn't have done that. The metro ride became an interstellar ride. I saw the big bang when the piano left with a big explosive sound. I saw star and nebulas, gass clouds, planets... The metro window was a spaceship window. It was crazy! I don't do drugs, I don't do anything like that. I got a bit scared for what was happening. When the bagpipes started I had to get off the metro cause I didn't even know where I was anymore. Dawkings starts speaking, I start going upstairs. When the guitar kicked in I found myself at the city park... Nope. I was in "the garden of dinosaurs!" Like what the actual hell?! And I was such an idiot not to take the earphones off. No, the music kept playing and I went through such a journey with that song. When the "Toolmaker" section started (which I had no clue it was called toolmaker), I found myself at the feet of Heroes Square, a monument in honour of the origins ofthe Hungarian people. The lyrics fused with everything that I saw around me. I was already frightened at the synchronicity of it all. But I couldn't take off my earphones cause I was too much of an idiot. When they started singing "we were here" I was done, so to speak. I ran inside the park again and into the small castle landmark. There's a statue of an anonymous poet, which has always been my comfort spot. So I ran for it. Meanwhile I was "seeing" everything tumble down around me, while at the same time it all looked normal, it's hard to explain. When I finally reached the statue, the voice of Richard Dawkings began again, as if it were the statue speaking to me. "We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones." I lost it. I began to cry. But because the statue is so touristy, and it was like 3 in the afternoon, I went behind a bush next to the statute and cried there, and the song was still playing! I know, I am a fucking idiot. That big and epic instrumental break after he speaks, that was the first time I made a photo as "Blind Photographer - Budapest" and yes, I am really partially blind. My vision is too crappy so I am legally categorised as blind. Still, that was my first photo under this name I have. During the outro of the song, with all those whale sounds and animals and such, I was at the back of the statue, crying some more and trying to relax. I had goosebumps all over like you during this video. I am a sensitive creature with a very strong imagination, but nothing like that had ever happened to me while listening to a song. Never. This song really made me much more appreciative of life as a whole. Hands down, one of the most beautiful experiences I ever had. Seeing you react almost in the same extreme as I did, it was awesome. Thank you! Subscribed. This is the first time I find your channel.

You are NOT alone in your reaction to this EXTRAORDINARY song and performance! I'm 65...and the only difference in our reactions was where you had goosebumps...I had those...and tears. This is the first of your reaction videos I've watched. I will be watching more! :-)

1 dislike= one still mad Tarja fan 😊 Edit: IM SO READY TO CLICK PLAY RN! Re Edit: YOU ARE SO PURE 😭💜

@Raul-vl7ly

6 жыл бұрын

Pony Of The Village Hi Pony! Karl has a great reaction on his patreon of Tarja - supremacy! It’s amazing. It’s only a matter of time before its released on KZread and when it does get released, game on 🤙🏼

@The_Pony

6 жыл бұрын

@@Raul-vl7ly oooooooooo dats a good fuckin song!!!!!

@The_Pony

6 жыл бұрын

@@Raul-vl7ly ffs I wish I could afford another Patreon support :( maybe I'll screw around with my set up for the other less important one and then I can patreon 3 of my favorite KZread reactors instead of what I'm doing now :)

Love your reaction. Predicted your reaction through all stages of the song.

God I love watching your reaction to these Nightwish songs. It is the greatest show on earth. No one beats them. They're my favorite band ever.

i sleep with nightwish every night and especially with the poet and the pendulum song oh god... is like magic trip is like astral projection is something i can't describe with words

The greatest song ever

I got the same raction the first time I heard this, the ultimate Nightwish song

Nice reaction!!!! 4600 million years and we are part of the history of the earth, all human beings, those who live those who have died, all races. All living beings, we are special. WE WERE HEREEEEE!!!! THANX Nightwish!!!!!

@xKasumiChan

5 жыл бұрын

4600 milion years we had to wait for Nightwish.. It was definitely worth it!! :D

Anyone who loves his dog that much is ok in my book.

I love how passionate you are about music. Keep up the good work and all The best for you. This is one of my favorite Nightwish songs and it makes me very emotional. I'm a classical singer myself, but I also love metal. For me music must be filled with extreme emotions and talent. I have found Opera at very young age because my mother is an operasinger (as I aspire to Be) but metal is my other passion. My husband is a deathmetal composer/ player but still likes Nightwish and has seen them many times with me. Greetings from Finland :)

This is truly amazing song. It has so many layers and stages which makes it a true musical masterpiece.

I feel the same bro... It's like a train beating your heart.

The moment she started singing at 5:12, oh my god what a voice! Her voice absolutely brought me to another world.

Finally!! I told you. Best Greatest show reaction!! Trust me i've seen them all. Thank you and you welcome!! Tusen Tack :)

@React4you

6 жыл бұрын

Iiro Mäittälä Thanks mate! I’m soo glad you enjoyed it!😊😊😊 It was an absolute joy filming it!

The song is truly epic. "We were hear" takes me back to seeing them earlier this year for the first time as that is how the show ended. If you ever get a chance to see them live you absolutely must see them. They played for 2 hours but I could have listened to them all night.

I saw them back in november. I was really suprised when they played this song. Absolutely epic!

Looking at your reaction before nightwish’s songs makes me feel like my first time i’ve heard it. It’s really amazing.

A great and perfectly natural reaction to what is an epic piece of art and performance.

Good lord your emotions are off the scale, you feel every emotion of the song , you must be highly sensetive, by the way what a sweet dog you have,greetings from Benjamin from the Netherlands 🤗🤗🤗

Also your dog is the true star of this channel :)

Hard to describe how good they are- epic is an understatement. Thx for sharing your honest and emotional experience. XD

I love your reaction videos!!! Especially when you are reacting to my favorite band which is Nightwish. You are amazing dude! Hail from Brazil!

Killer song.killer voice.absolutly brilliant.

Lyric wise I go with the band on the endless form most beautiful, because anyone can see them, :-). But there it it stops. I intend to be here much longer than "a few decades", forever actually. And you know what, Someone promised just that! :-)

18:15 Got Floorgasm after Floor's "Kiitos" lol. Let me call this "The Greatest Reaction on Earth". I said all, thx

@React4you

6 жыл бұрын

Dmitry XDSIB Haha ofcourse it was floor who said it! Thanks Dmitry! You’re too nice

That's a reaction video! Don't worry, many people agree with you. This song is an amazing piece of art in every way. A beautiful tribute to the universe, life, humanity and science.

Awesome reaction!! I love how you let the music and vocals overtake you

@React4you

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Charles! Im really glad you enjoyed it. I loved making this video

@charlessmith1698

6 жыл бұрын

@@React4you I'm a big Nightwish fan too

Hi Karl.Thanks for the reaction. It seems you like the song.Is similar to poet and the pendulum ,so many emotions. Keep up the good work with your Chanel

This is THE BEST reaction video to this song I've seen :D

I'm new to the family but I love Nightwish! Wow....

Great reaction!... and nice dog...

When you hear a song with Floor, got goosebumbs and it hurts a little bit by touching it... Great reaction Sir, thanks!

I genuinely cannot wait to see these guys in London on November, they are going to be EPIC! As a biologist myself this pushes all of my evolutionary biology buttons. Thoumas is an absolute genius with his compositions and lyrics, and to be able to put in 4.6 billion years of evolutionary biology into a single song is literally mind blowing

@mangalover0149

5 жыл бұрын

Evolution Rocks November?

@mangalover0149

5 жыл бұрын

It’s December 8th.

@evorock

5 жыл бұрын

@@mangalover0149 you are right. I meant to amend this ages ago 😁

I laughed and cried with you, thanks for the reaction

And probably a best reaction video ever!

Nice dog you have...maybe also NW fan ? And your reaction is so natural and pure ; )

Besides the amazing composition of this song, the thing that made you hug yourself is commonly known as "Floorgasm". Welcome to the club ;)

Probably the best reaction to nightwish I've seen. You need to look up the lyrics of the song. It about the development and evolution of the earth. It talking about how humans are just a small blip on the history of the universe. Last line of the song, "we were here" is a testament to the fact that we are the very few that were ever born. And it is a miracle that we are who we are. Because one simple sperm cell different that got to the egg first woul drastically change who we are. We won the lottery of birth

"We were here"! A message to mankind (or and mayby to other advanced civilization) which will born / visit millions years after our (human) destruction (this cycle of mankind).

Does anyone know if Richard Dawkins has heard this? He once wondered along the lines of what Wagner's Evolution Symphony would have sounded like, He may not be aware that he no longer has to wonder about it.

Your reaction was spot on.

Again, great video, thanks! Allways like your sincere reactions and Nightwish is so good! Still hoping that some day I can hear your thoughts on Amorphis Death of a king and Apocalyptica Path vol 2. But never have I asked that maybe you have heard them allready? Since you live so near? Bara en liten Bottniska viken på väg, lol! Min svensk är ju inte så bra att jag kunde fortsätta, därför engelska då... Anyway, no point reacting to familiar songs, in my opinion so tell me and I stop bombarding this request 😛

@tinaaikaa77

6 жыл бұрын

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@tinaaikaa77

6 жыл бұрын

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@majaraina3700

6 жыл бұрын

Oh, would love me some Amorphis!

Haha!!! This is the best reaction I've ever seen to a Nightwish song ever! I recommend: Last Ride of the Day, Romanticide and Scaretale if you want to see Nightwish go heavy...Wishmaster...aahhh...every song is amazing :-)

@React4you

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Fooser! I appreciate that.:) Ive already reacted to romanticide, scaretale and wishmaster. So you can check them out if you would like. Last ride of the day is on the list so i will do that eventually

@FooserX

5 жыл бұрын

Crap! I didn't know that when I commented, but I've watched all your NW videos....This is still the best one though, and I've showed my friends. :-) They're slowly getting into the band. Definitely try Savatage - Commissar, Morphine Child, Wake of Magellan, or Hourglass. They're the male vox comparison to Nightwish. Lost of people recommend their older stuff, which is completely different and dated. Keep it up man!

You know, I hope someone day I get to scream "We were here" in a Nightwish live concert at the top of my lung and ended up with a hoarse voice for a few days.

I cant even think of someone else to sing this masterpiece of a song but Floor f***ing Jansen.

This song and Octavarium by Dream Theater may be the most beautiful artistic/intellectual pieces of art mankind has gotten in many, many years...

@React4you

5 жыл бұрын

Yea i absolutely loved doing a reaction video to octavarium. such a good song

This is Art.

Koskettimet...Tuomas Holopainen That simple intro from Marco sets all that epicness into motion!

Hey Karl your react is the greatest show too keep it up

I am sure you probably already know this but in case not, Nightwish is coming to perform in Gothenburg the 2nd of November. If you haven't gotten tickets yet, buy buy buy and go go go!

@React4you

6 жыл бұрын

Already got tickets for me and my brother, it is going to be awesome!

@Novenar

5 жыл бұрын

Oh that is awesome! Me too! I have been waiting for Nightwish to come to Sweden ever since I became a fan 2 years ago, so I am super HYPED! It will be an amazing concert I am sure

@React4you

5 жыл бұрын

Thats so cool! If you see me be sure to say hi:) I will do a vlog while im there so if you meet up with me you can be a part of it if you would like;)

@Novenar

5 жыл бұрын

Ohhh to do a vlog sounds awesome! But I will probably be way to shy to come up and say hi and be a part of it xD

It is a great song and it makes you speachless, doesn't it..it's a song about the universe and planet earth, truly amazing. Vilken söt hund du har, får jag fråga vilken ras, pudel men hurudan, den var då söt ☺ sad that we can´t hear your thoughts on this song...

Lovely!

Great reaction! Plus points for random "The Joker" at 18:20-18:25

You seem to like Nightwish and Floor Jansen. Yes, Nightwish is marvellous. The band has developed all the time. Everything good to you.

You see the same drummer there was in Sons of the winter and stars.

\m/ WE WERE HERE \m/

How cruel and heartless of you to listen to Nightwish all alone and your cute little doggy can't even hear the music. Not fair! Trust me, he'd love Nightwish too! My dog gets the best day dreams when I watch the Dvd

I've already requested this but you really have to listen to "Kamelot - Elizabeth (1, 2 and 3) Live One Cold Winters Night" if you loved this you'd most likely love this song aswell.

Thank you Karl for this honest reaction! You're special because you're not holding your emotions back. Great job! Unfortunately, your voice was a bit too low in the first minutes, I could barely hear your comments. It's OK to be overwhelmed by this masterpiece, I'm glad you don't only enjoy Floor's voice, but all of the package. But yeah, Floor is outstanding! Marco and Troy are great singers too and their three voices match perfectly. I also admire Kai's stamina and concentration, it's such a long and varied song, after already 1:45 h of concert. Great reaction, I'm looking forward to the reaction to the reaction video! Please consider your dog might like to listen too... Now, persistance seems to help, that's why I'll nag again. Please do: Revamp Disdain live at Graspop 2010, or On the sideline or Precibus (album version). Or After Forever Eccentric, Monolith of doubt (official live!), or Floor Puccini live,....

@React4you

6 жыл бұрын

No problem Jazzy! Im really glad you enjoyed it. Thats too bad, im trying to find the perfect balance between the music and my voice because there has been complaints of the music being to low. Haha yea my dog has a pretty good music taste so i think he would definitely enjoy this song. Haha unfortunately nagging doesnt really help. The songs come when they do and there is no way i can speed up the process because i cant do more than one video per day. But those songs are on the list and will be out.:)

@jazzysugar3777

6 жыл бұрын

@@React4you I'm just joking no pressure ;-) yeah it's a difficult task to get the right volume balance. It's a great video still

Awww so cute

there are wery good bands. and then there is nightwish and pink floyd. two above all.

After Forever (Floors old band) - Dreamflight (album ver)

@madddog6790

6 жыл бұрын

The live Prog Power version was awesome, but it looks like it's been taken down. Luckily for me, I recorded it...just watched it the other day, in fact.

❤️

Don’t ever let anyone tell you that you’re overreacting. Keep doing you, nothing else matters 💜

Welcome to Tampere ;)

@React4you

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks man:)

Great reaction, but EXCUSE ME YOU HAVE A CUTE POODLE?! I want to give a hundred likes for just that alone. :D Seriously though, nice reaction! Thanks for doing it. :)

@React4you

6 жыл бұрын

Haha, yes I do. I posted a picture of him on twitter :) Thank you for your kind words.

try to listen "Turn loose the mermaids" this lyrical and poetic song is about the death of a loved person

Nightwish IS amazing. Poet and the pendulum?

@React4you

5 жыл бұрын

Indeed! Done it, here is a link: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hIp40Kh-o6jalbw.html

but did you get the message? we WHERE here

Yes -Floor is actually God -but only on Tuesdays.

Cocaine's a hell of a drug. God help us if he ever sees a double rainbow.