Totally agree. The Crow, The Owl, And The Dove is one of my favorites, I haven't listened to it in ages. I actually seriously considered getting the seal with the crow, the owl, and the dove on it tattooed, it really was a song that made a big impact on me. Google it if you haven't seen it, images aren't super true to form, it looked badass in the CD art. I'm also a fan of Slow, Love, Slow, but it's a DRASTIC change in style from the NW norm. My fianceé doesn't have a problem with style changes, but she doesn't particularly care for that one, unfortunately. Last of the Wilds is an instrumental, but it's 100% our road trip song. Every. Single. Time. We just don't travel without *at least* starting off our journey with LotW. Troy REALLY proved his chops in that one. If you want to watch a ROCKING folk-metal song of theirs, the Buenos Aires performance of "I want my tears back" is just KILLER. Now THAT was a party.

Her ballads are beautiful. My vote is for "Slow, Love, Slow" or "Meadows of Heaven" because I love how different they are while still sounding "Nightwish".

And Turn Loose the Mermaids and Eva I also really like.

I think with anette it was a case of too big too fast. She went from being relatively unknown to fronting one of the biggest bands in the worlld and replacing a much loved voice. That's some big shoes to fill. She didn't have near the experience singing live and touring extensively as Floor or Tarja. Must have been overwhelming for her. Her voice is much more polished these days and i love her with The Dark Element.

I agree "Medows of heaven" and "Dark Chest of Wonders" are my favourite songs of her era and no she was a good singer but more a rock singer. Unlike the other 2 that are classically trained and so can hit the hight notes and be fantastic singers, personally, I think Nightwish really come alive fully in the Floor ear but that is a personal choice and I still enjoy listening to all their songs no matter the singer! But like in everything we have to have our favourites don't we all?

I never disliked Annette per say, I disliked the feeble, infrequent attempts to sing like Tarja for Tarja written music, even with Marco taking a greater role in those songs to help those performance along it seemed forced, It didn't help that the back catalog was what I wanted to hear from Nightwish in addition to the newer stuff, I think we as fans looking back on it were not very fair in our expectations of Annette. I am not alone in this either

The duties of adapting the the songs off Imaginaerum into the actual film score were handed off to a film composer named Petri Alanko, who also composed the intro & outro music from their recent "Noise" video.

The soundtrack album is very good.

@@Green-Lyon Petri Akanko only did the adaptation of the songs used in the movie. The songs themselves as well as the actual movie score were composed by Tuomas.

imaginerium is my favorite album.

@@dougmphilly understandably so!

Totally agree, but Tuomas did a great job writing specifically for who he had to work with. Anette pulled off the insanity in "Scaretale" so well. And the jazzy sultriness of "Slow, Love, Slow" was such a departure, likely because the singer he had to work with was such a departure. i have to wonder, even with her incredible expressiveness and versatility, would Floor manage to pull off those two particular songs as convincingly?

Probably the most neutral and yet accurately thoughtful comment I've ever read on the disparities.

Agree absolutely.

Yes that is a great song to react to!

I love love love The Escapist...gives me chills when I even think about it!

SECONDED WITH MUCH ENTHUSIASM

Ah yes this!!! I heartily agree that there is nothing wrong with people preferring Floor- her vocals are outstanding and I would easily say that she is one of the best singers in the entire world- or preferring Tarja, since she came first AND her vocals & performances are gorgeous and just, *classic*. But I never understood the hate on Annette, she's talented as well and honestly the album's produced in her era are some of my all time favs! Imaginaerum I've listened to on repeat since it's release. Definitely check out the studio recording of The Islander(the music video is great!!) Annette is in that and that song was always my fav growing up. Something about it just pulls at my heart. Also mentioned was Escapist!!!!! Please listen to that one!!! Thank you so much for doing these videos, and refusing to rank the singers(the thought of that breaks my heart...) And continuing to do things the way that you want even if some reactions to what you do might not be positive!!! Mad respect for that! I'd love to hear what you have to say about comparing some of the live vers to studio recordings, since they tend to put a bit of a different spin on them in concert. I'm looking forward to continuing this journey with you through the slew of NW songs! There are so many that are just LOADS of FUN (like their Phantom cover that you saw), to overwhelmingly, emotionally rich, meaningful songs (see Creek Mary's Blood) (And of course the little silly memes we had back in the day *facepalm* [kindly listen to Wishmaster with the lyrics pulled up/or watch a lyric video, the misheard lyrics on that are a bit legendary, you see] and Elvenpath which I will never un-hear as "elven-BATH" agdksjaka) NW is a band full of absolute NERDS and I LOVE THEM FOR IT. So much is inspired from folk and fairy tales and fantasy stories. (I'm again quietly recommending their song The Siren 👀 sorry hahaha)

Yes at the montraeux Jazz Festival...

@@giselameyer2814 That was my first and so far last NW concert. I was waiting for the concerts this summer, but... yeah bummer.

Imaginaerum is one of my favourite NW albums.

Yes, I second that. And right after Sons of Winter and Stars the other songs from the same session.

I third that!

I'll forth and fifth that!

I honestly liked Floors version better and I think if it was kept in rotation, she would have nailed it. Annette was way too pitchy but she did give more of a wicked witch vibe? Marko always had to stop singing over her though.

@@wren180 It's the wicked witch vibe that really works with this song, but not with most other songs. Well at least that's my opinion. However it is true that the only version from Floor that I know (that I posted) was November 2012, i.e. 1 month into her tenure with Nightwish. No idea where it might have evolved over time. However sometimes Floor's best versions of songs were her earlier versions (example - nearly everything from Wacken 2013 is better than later versions of the same songs). But 1 month (posted link) vs. 10 months (Wacken 2013) would likely make a difference.

Yes. Tides is a magnificent song. Haven't seen anyone react to it either.

everyone with a good studio is a good studio artist, the trick is to do it well live to be a good singer. that why tarja always gonna be 1000 better than annet. and floor its the only replacement that can fit tarja shoes and make it her own.

Yes and the video is based on a 1903 oil painting by Hugo Simberg called Haavoittunut Enkeli (The Wounded Angel). He was a very well repected artist. He later made the frescoes to Tampere cathedral of which one is a larger version of the Wounded Angel.

I always think the issues for Annette were that her voice has a more limited range and that the vocal work for Nightwish was so complex and intense that her voice wore out.

@@juanb2715 Yes and no. Annette could not really handle the Tarja songs, I doubt that Tarja would be able to "do" the Annette songs on how they are meant/arranged to be sung. Floor can do all the songs from Tarja and Annette with her versatile range/style. Does that make her way of singing them all better than the other two? Not really but, she can do so and still keep the flavor of each song as it was meant to be while still doing Floor. Actually, would love to hear Tarja sing this one now, would be interesting to see the end result. lol. love me some Tarja too. Would I change any of the music arrangement JUST to fit one singer or another? No. Then it would not be the same song that I already fell in love with. lol

@@Liatni yeah, this was always my view. Tarja and Annette had two different styles they were good at. Floor is just so versatile that she can hold her own doing pretty much any style, even though I don't think she is far ahead of either in their style.

Tuomas writes always all the riffs with few exceptions, only solos he left for Emppu.

@@JackM. Most of the original riffs are from Tuomas. Sometimes Emppu makes some changes and polishes them, and sometimes he re-writes them, like Nemo and Alpenglow. :) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ap98abqi3aipaWw.html

i too...😊