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Bit Blot => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Alec on June 30, 2007, 06:49:50 pm
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Can't fucking waaaait (http://youtube.com/watch?v=IyYC2tHm6hA).
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Didn't they fire their lead singer?
edit- yup, sounds pretty different. not sure if I like it better though, but the song is good, that's for sure.
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Oooooh! So that's why it seemed so different from what I recalled. I wasn't particularly fond of nightwish, but this sounds a lot better.
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I like both singers. :)
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I really never liked Nightwish, but now it does sound a whole lotta better.
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I haven't heard a lot from this new singer yet, but I liked the old singer. Sure, at times it was a bit too much opera-like vocals perhaps (the overly classical music sound thing, not sure how to describe it well), but I definitely liked those songs. Judging from this preview the songs are still typical Nightwish stuff, which is awesome and their new singer can indeed sing. :) Yeah, after listening to it again, I'm looking forward to it too.
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Bah, the YouTube video just got pulled.
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Bah, the YouTube video just got pulled.
Greedy, greedy record companies! *shakes fist*
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Some Delain (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xfo8L6wkQ-o) in the meantime then.
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Lol, sounds just like Nightwish .. 8) Sweet, never even heard of them actually. :)
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I got the collector's edition the other day. It comes with an extra CD of the instrumental versions of the songs.
...really not worth it to get the collector's edition IMO, since the instrumental versions are the EXACT same minus vocals. Good for karaoke I guess >_<
But the album is pretty mad sick so it's okay =P
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I dig the extra CD cause you can hear parts of the orchestration that you can't hear in the original mix. :)
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Given the there's loads of awesome orchestral parts obscured by vocals, the 2nd CD's actually rather nifty.
Overall I surprisingly found this one better than Once (Good Live though), and despite a few hesitations on the new singer I honestly believe it's for the better (Not that I hated Tarja, it's just the whole operatic thing started to feel a bit bland). The final album's considerbly more Metal than their previous work, with a few tracks seemingly dedicated to a great big "Screw you!" to Tarja's departure. Crazy thing is, it feels like a concept album - THey shift styles constantly, one minute you've big orchestral choirs, then a full on metal shred-fest, then a nautical sea shanty, constantly interchanging between the female and male singer more than they've done in the past.
Overall, tis rather epic :p Will hopefully catch 'em Live when they visit UK next year
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Hmm, I've never heard of either of these bands but thanks for introducing me to some cool music! :)
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I don't like Nightwish that much, but a Cd without vocals is indeed nifty. (Enjoying some of the music, not being a fan of that style of vocals.)
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Oh, to my sadness... the lead singer is changed, can't even get to like the singer now...
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Here you go http://youtube.com/watch?v=GdZn7k5rZLQ
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I managed to see both versions of the band live. (w/ Tarja a few years ago, and w/ Anette a few months ago)
Have to say, the more recent show was even better than the first!
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I've never really followed Nightwish. Interesting sort of coming into it now after not having seen anything for a long time. The linked video was pretty decent, even if the chick seemed a little... hmm. Not sure. Her attitude didn't quite seem to fit the content, I guess. She sounded good, though. I went and checked out some older stuff, and man, how different. I can really see why a lot of fans are pissed and don't like the new girl. Doesn't get much different from: this one (http://youtube.com/watch?v=xAKf1gTx7qM). It's a lot harder to take the new girl seriously in comparison, though it's just because the other girl seems so much more... operatic? That isn't the word I'm looking for, but it'll do. Dramatic seems almost right, but that isn't quite the word either.
Still don't know that it fits my personal niche, but I need to listen to some more. I'm more on the death metal side of things being a metal guitarist myself (though honestly I listen to a lot of stuff, and the stuff I'm listening to of Nightwish on YouTube now sounds much better to me than it did the last time I heard something).
EDIT - All right, I think this song (http://youtube.com/watch?v=gmDWvGKLzBE) might have made me a convert...
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Basically I see the same meaning in this song as Aquaria, which is interesting.
(only people who have beaten the game will have a chance of understanding the similarities)
The Poet and the Pendulum
I. "WHITE LANDS OF EMPATHICA"
The end.
The songwriter's dead.
The blade fell upon him
Taking him to the white lands
Of Empathica
Of Innocence
Empathica
Innocence
II. "HOME"
The dreamer and the wine
Poet without a rhyme
A widowed writer torn apart by chains of hell
One last perfect verse
Is still the same old song
Oh Christ how I hate what I have become
Take me home
Getaway, runaway, fly away
Lead me astray to dreamer's hideaway
I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world
Forgive me
I have but two faces
One for the world
One for God
Save me
I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world
My home was there 'n then
Those meadows of heaven
Adventure-filled days
One with every smiling face
Please, no more words
Thoughts from a severed head
No more praise
Tell me once my heart goes right
Take me home
Getaway, runaway, fly away
Lead me astray to dreamer's hideaway
I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world
Forgive me
I have but two faces
One for the world
One for God
Save me
I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world
III. "THE PACIFIC"
Sparkle my scenery
With turquoise waterfall
With beauty underneath
The Ever Free
Tuck me in beneath the blue
Beneath the pain, beneath the rain
Goodnight kiss for a child in time
Swaying blade my lullaby
On the shore we sat and hoped
Under the same pale moon
Whose guiding light chose you
Chose you all
" I'm afraid. I'm so afraid.
Being raped again, and again, and again
I know I will die alone.
But loved.
You live long enough to hear the sound of guns,
long enough to find yourself screaming every night,
long enough to see your friends betray you.
For years I've been strapped unto this altar.
Now I only have 3 minutes and counting.
I just wish the tide would catch me first and give me a death I always longed for ".
IV. "DARK PASSION PLAY"
2nd robber to the right of Christ
Cut in half - infanticide
The world will rejoice today
As the crows feast on the rotting poet
Everyone must bury their own
No pack to bury the heart of stone
Now he's home in hell, serves him well
Slain by the bell, tolling for his farewell
The morning dawned, upon his altar
Remains of the dark passion play
Performed by his friends without shame
Spitting on his grave as they came
Getaway, runaway, fly away
Lead me astray to dreamer's hideaway
I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world
Forgive me
I have but two faces
One for the world
One for God
Save me
I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world
Today, in the year of our Lord 2005,
Tuomas was called from the cares of the world.
He stopped crying at the end of each beautiful day.
The music he wrote had too long been without silence.
He was found naked and dead,
With a smile in his face, a pen and 1000 pages of erased text."
Save me
V. "MOTHER & FATHER"
Be still, my son
You're home
Oh when did you become so cold?
The blade will keep on descending
All you need is to feel my love
Search for beauty, find your shore
Try to save them all, bleed no more
You have such oceans within
In the end
I will always love you
The beginning.
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Another one that I feel fits the game well:
Ocean Soul
One more night
To bear this nightmare
What more do I have to say
Crying for me was never worth a tear
My lonely soul is only filled with fear
Long hours of loneliness
Between me and the sea
Losing emotion
Finding devotion
Should I dress in white and search the sea
As I always wished to be - one with the waves
Ocean Soul
Walking the tideline
I hear your name
Is angels wispering
Something so beautiful it hurts
I only wished to become something beautiful
Through my music, through my silent devotion