The whole Evolution in a one song. No one than Nightwish can or want to do this. Greetings from freezing Finland! ⛄👍

The title of the issue is taken from a 2009 book by evolutionary biologist and atheist writer Richard Dawkins, about the evidence for biological evolution. Dawkins also contributes to the album. Holopainen explained to HMV in March 2015: "I wrote him a letter a little over a year ago and explained what ideas we had for this album, mainly about evolution. Since one of the songs goes straight to one of his books, it felt like a perfect match to try and recite him on the album. A few weeks later, he sent me an email accepting the invitation." "Later in 2014, we recorded his parts at Hats Off Studios, Oxford. This is a huge honour for us, as Dawkins is one of our greatest heroes and his writings have been a huge inspiration for the album."

Texas freezing?😂 ... we had -37.12°F a few days ago. Have a nice day and enjoy a hot cup of coffee.

Great reaction, thank you!

Tuomas’s absolute masterpiece!🤘🎸 Floor’s dress is the colors of the Finnish flag.🇫🇮

i have heard this one around 5 times or more but thats the same as the other songs such creative geniuses tuomas and the other members of this band the epic music compositions they write is second to none

🤘😁🤘 Greetings from freezing Norway!

Greatings from the Netherlands. Its warm here, minus 3

Floor and Marko can sing at my Pep Rally at High school. Wu Wu Wu Wu We Were Here indeed, for a moment.

Can we live without our phones for 20 minutes, maybe once? From the Big Bang to Enter The Sandman, only Nightwish can pull this off.

This song is collaboration of Tuomas and Marko, however I am certain they have been working together, because is not a show of one person (or two).

Did you get the multiple literary, musical and scientific references? The almost giveaway line: "The will to do just as you'd be done by." Mrs Do-as-you-would-be-done-by, Charles Kingsley, “The Water Babies” a positive parody of “On the Origin of Species”!

No, not right pronunciation. It is not Tamper-AY but closer to Tamper-uh Wembley and Tampere are the two great versions but there are many others. If you have these two under your belt, you are all set. This is the Endless Forms tour inspired by reading Dawkins books and hence the rock Troy is sitting on is a giant ammonite. Here are some notes and history : Troy: At some point we ended up watching Richard Dawkins lectures on the internet. After a while I suggested, half in jest, that maybe we should ask Dawkins to be our special guest on the new album. Tuomas: It was an amazing idea, and I immedia\tely started wondering if could really make it happen. Jukka: We were naturally a bit sceptical, too - we had to try and ask him of course, but it was better not to have such high hopes. Dawkins had pretty much shied away from popular culture apart from one episode of The Simpsons. Troy: I enthusiastically assured them that I can make this work, like "You'll see, guys". Well the next morning I wasn't feeling so confident any more and I rtemembered Tuomas and Jukka going "Told you so" TUOMAS: Still, there was no way we could let it drop without at least trying. So we started thinking about a proper manner to approach Dawkins. We decided our best option would be to send him a hand-written, polite letter, where we would tell him about the band, the scientific themes on the forthcoming album and the fact that he had been a great inspiration TROY: We got no reply, so we sent another letter. In the end, I guess we had a bit of luck, because it turned out Dawkins personal assistant knew the band and actually liked Nightwish. He suggested that Dawkins should take our inquiry seriously TUOMAS: I was in Paris doing interviews for the Scrooge album. When I got back to the hotel in the evening. I noticed there was an email from Dawkins, something like, "1 went to the internet and browsed your band, and what I heard l liked very much. So I'd be happy to co-operate. FLOOR: Tuomas sent us a triumphant message: "You won't believe what just M happened: Dawkins said yes!" TROY: It was obvious from the start that Dawkins' appearance would attract a lot of attention - both positive and negative. His book God Delusion had created a worldwide controversy. after all. JUKKA: We didn't invite Dawkins to be on our album to criticize religion but to speak as a scientist: an evolutionary biologist. Of course neither the fans nor anybody else outside the band knew it at that point. TUOMAS: There has been a lot of unreasonable criticism hurled at him for all kinds of reasons. A lot of people seem to ignore the fact that Dawkins is also happy to listen to contrary opinions and is always open for new ideas. In that sense, he's like Esko Valtaoja, with whom we had the honour to work on Showtime, Storytime DVD. I had endless possibilities in my hands for "The Greatest Show on Earth" What is the sound of crumpling continental plates that mountains are made of? Or the disintegration of radioactive components? Or the sound of space particles bombarding the earth? And how would I refer to immortal works of music composed by man? Well, I included shades of "Dies Irae" by Thomas Celano, "Toccata" and "Fuga" by Johann Sebastian Bach, banjo music from Western movies, "Rock around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets, and "Enter Sandman" by Metallica. I was also thinking about borrowing "Sandstorm" by Darude, but in the end, we just went for an unrecognizable techno loop. Also Petzold and Bach. Recording - and Jukka Resigning: MARCO: Kaitsu handled the drum parts admirably, so we could continue with the other instruments right away, This time we tried to concentrate on one song at a time and kept on working on it till we felt there was nothing more we could add. TROY: And we didn't even have thunder. Rauhala does not have the best sound proofing in the world, so it would have been pretty challenging to mike the instruments if there had been rain and thunderclaps. TUOMAS: I actually got off easier than I expected, because a lot of the demo keyboards from Hämeenlinna were good enough to be included on the album. The stuff in "Sea-Worn Driftwood", part five of "The Greatest Show on Earth", for example, was salvaged straight off the demo. In Hämeenlinna, I had explained to Tero that this passage would be about "whales singing and rats taking over the world". I had just come up with that improvised stuff, and it made it on the album MARCO: Recording the vocals was teamwork in the best possible sense, no matter who was behind the mike. We kicked around suggestions and tried out all kinds of last minute ideas. Like, "Hey Floor, throw in some of that sweet upper octave of yours in the second verse... Yeah, that's a nice touch!" FLOOR: Marco kept on surprising us. He might just suddenly say, "Wait, I have an idea!" Then he'd pull out his bass and introduce an excellent harmony MARCO: It was great fun recording the vocals. I've never had the chance to impersonate a troglodyte in front of a microphone before, so creating gorilla sounds for "The Greatest Show on Earth" was pretty hilarious. I didn't want to undermine the majesty of the song in any way, but I didn't exactly do it with a straight face, either! TROY: I recorded my own ape grunts at home. To get in character, I took off my shirt, banged my chest with my fists, and pretended I was an ancient Homo Erectus. I think my wife was a bit worried MARCO: I cut my bass parts pretty quickly in about one and a half days. I even got a bit lazy towards the evening of the first day - if I had really pushed it, I might have been able to complete them in a single day. Notes: The first part, "Four Point Six", is a reference to the age of our planet -in billions of years. The journey starts with a simple but persistent keyboard theme, interrupted by massive thunder claps - the origin of life that despite the murderous bombardment by asteroids, sprouts time and again and finally manages to grow permanent roots. The word "archaean" in the lyrics refers to the Archean Eon, the first of the geological eons of the world (Gaea). The second part of the song chronicles the birth and the first on Earth. "Enter Luca" is a reference to an early life form, an acronym for the Last Universal Common Ancestor. We can make assumptions about the characteristics of Luca and other early life forms by reading the DNA of current organisms: "There's a writing in the garden, leading us to the mother of all." Right from the beginning, one of the key characteristics of living cells has been the ability to sense their environment and react to their perceptions: "Ion channels welcoming the outside world." In the third part, chronicling the age of man, there's a fascinating reminder: All of us current organisms are descendants of an unbroken lineage of winners. "Not a single one of your fathers died young". "Little Lucy of the Afar" refers to the famous fossil of Australopithecus Afarensis that was found in Afari, Ethiopia, a hominin that might have been the ancestor of man (genus Homo). In the long run, all species have the tendency to become extinct, and a fitting vision of the future of mankind is presented in the song, "One day'Il cease to be" On the other hand, man had earlier had "a dream to understand" and "[given] birth to poetry" . He wanted to leave his mark stating "We were here!" In the fourth part, man strives to understand it all, and Richard Dawkins takes up the story once again with a surprising claim:"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. The explanation folows shortly."Most people are never going die, because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been herein my place, but who will in fact never see the light of day, outnumber the sand grains of Sahara." In the fifth and final part, Dawkins recites the concuding words of The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: "From so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." FLOOR: I felt real good after the final rehearsals [for EFMB] in a New York studio. There were obviously many challenging parts in the set - I'd have to be extra careful in the beginning of "The Greatest Show on Earth", for example because some of the phones rise from the back of the throat but "operatic vocals are produced in the front of the mouth EDIT: The two differences you mentioned are not the only major differences. - the cello part here is played by Troy on guitar with eBow at Wembley and it is much more prominent so you can hear more of the harmony. Tampere 31 July 2015, Wembley 19 December.

@zbygniewprlwytzkofsky6614

5 ай бұрын

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@fokkioni

5 ай бұрын

What a great explanation of this epic song!! I did understand most of the lyrics, but now i totally get it and it makes this masterpiece even more epic. Thank you very much 😃

🎼🎼👍👍🇳🇱🤘🤘🎼🎼🎤🎸💕👏

Nightwish doesn't get blocked. Enter Luca Enter Life Enter the god of gaps Enter Ionia Enter History Enter Ratkind Enter Sandman

I'm sorry if you were distracted by my looking at my phone on this one. I looked up the lyrics because I couldn't understand some of the words. I tried to do it without them, but couldn't. I'm so sorry.

🤗🍒🤘🏻😘 well done

🤩👍💥💯🎼 *OPUS PERFECTUM* 🤘😎 🇫🇮 💙

HER NAME IS NOT JENSEN. THE PRONOUNCIATION IS. JANSEN. !!!!!

@intelligentdonkey

5 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure I've been pronouncing is "Jansen". But I'll be more mindful of it for the future.

Can't put the phone down. Come on.

@intelligentdonkey

5 ай бұрын

See Nana's comment above. She was just looking up the lyrics.

Darkins was on this to but is cut out in this wertion for some reason

If you enjoyed Nightwish, you should check out another metal band called Lovebites. They are all female group from Japan and dress up like princesses, but they shred and rock better than almost any band out there today. Please check out a song called Swan Song with Chopin Etude, Live from Zepp Diver City, Tokyo, 2019. kzread.info/dash/bejne/iXac1tOgmburcZc.html If you do be prepared the Wolfpack will invade your channel.

@intelligentdonkey

5 ай бұрын

Thank you; I will check it out!