His face went from "Child on Christmas Morning" to "Don't stop me now - I'm having such a good time. I'm having a Ball!"

I SSOOOOOOO love Marko's voice. I truly think he is among the very best in the Metal world.

I love this part: 14:01 It's more or less the same as i reacted to this. Priceless :)

Well, I can assure you that you will have an excellent weekend. Recorded my [ANALYSE] this morning. You will love it !

We did actually hear him before, just in two (and three!) part harmonies. We've seen some older songs change in live versions to accomodate more of those harmonies ever since Floor and Troy joined, and it's nice to see Tuomas put it to good use on an album.

Grazie mille, grazie mille. Anche a me piace molto. Greeting from Canada.

agreed and also Romanticide :) he would love that one

the islander live at tampere, Marco being funny and the singing a folkish song ending on a harmony with floor that is just phenominal.

While your lips are still red! with the divine E-Bow guitar of Troy!

Elan from me, Floor just made it live so much more and one of Tuomas most beautiful melodies.

Ok he ,but for the Poet.. he needs the Background ..its Tuomas song..

Thank you, Rita. To be frank, I feel the privileged one. By your presence of you all.

you are on to something here... it makes sense . Tuomas is a genius

I was thinking entropy is the thief.

@@HellStr82 Also, Time is everywhere, from start to end, and with us every step of the way. 'Someone to enjoy the thief' with. Someone to share a lifeTime with ;)

Moon could be the thief too, since it's supposedly formed from the same material as earth, after earth collided with another planet or such back in the days. Time might make more sense poetically though.

Well, my [ANALYSE] will give you my insights. Hope to hear from you after seeing it !

Tuomas is indeed a musical genius and not only his music is amazing he makes you think and wonder ...who else does that!!!!

HellStr82 no one. You are absolutely right. The music is not just music. There are so many levels to understand within each song. It’s like reading a book, a poem, with the perfect soundtrack but it’s not just the words telling the story. The music is as well. It’s multi dimensional

Maybe our husbands will need a support group! 😆 My husband is hearing quite a bit of both albums right now too.

My husband just asked me yesterday: You listen it (Nightwish) every day why you didn’t get bored? I can understand him. I discover our band about 8 month ago and listend their music every day whenever I have time. So I give him an answer: Well I am still waiting to this bored. Haha 😆

This thread of discussion is absolutely LOVELY. Now, imagine if in the monastery I would play NW all the time! This would be hilarious. Happily, I have an EXCELLENT pair of headphones and enjoy the music in my leisure time. I always say something : "I prefer listening a great album 100 times, than listening 100 forgettable albums." Great music nourishes the heart and the soul.

Totally agree. And it becomes better with age!

Thank you for your nice words. I can reassure you : I will cover the studio version, and, after - when available - a live version. One of them will be in short (1-2 minutes), but both will be listened to. Peace!

Very well said, John!

Thanks, John. Always a pleasure to read comments from my neighbour (USA)! Peace to you!

I will announce a 10 songs series of Epica, and then a 10 songs series of Nightwish. After that, it will be Rush.

@@GuylainPrince you should really do the Beste Zangers dutch show where Floor was invited.. it really tells you more about what a wonderfull human she is and even more about her singing

I already know all the songs and the contest. From last fall. And I loved it !

@@GuylainPrince That is a great plan since I'm a big fan of all these bands.

Thanks for the nice comments. I LOVE this album. Dearly. And yes, there is spiritual about it.

I was SOOOOO happy. Love his voice. so much!

If this is true, I enjoyed it so much. Lots of layers in the lyrics; it is unbelievable.

@@GuylainPrince Well... I am not trained to look at the lyrics in depth... I was referring to the subject material of the lyrics and the generic chords/melodies/feeling of the music.

I give my best to start the discussion. The comments do the rest of it.

Pour être franc tu es le 3e ou 4e à m'en parler. Je crois que je vais le mettre à la programmation cette année. Ma curiosité est vraiment piquée. Merci pour les bons mots!

Thanks for trying in French! Much appreciated and understandable! Glad you enjoyed the series!

It is one of the best ways, I agree. Totally!

Thanks! I love great music, and great lyrics! So, with Nightwish, I am right at home!

Thanks, Gary! To be frank, I am not a very "standard" cleric. In fact, as a friar, we have a different point of view on things and life. If Francis of Assisi ring a bell to you, it might give you an idea on how I am very different. Moreover, a metal-head and Franciscan, this is quite a unique blend to my knowledge! In the whole world, we are... 2,3, maybe 5 ? As for Marko, I declared many times my appreciation for his voice, his bass playing and his performer's abilities. I REALLY like him!

@@GuylainPrince Thank you for your rapid response and for the record Friar, you, I'm sure, are so much more holier than I am, regardless of your religious designation. Having said that, I just finished watching your entire video of your interpretations of the lyrics of Endlessness and found them to be so enveloping that my mind lost all concept of time. Tuomas to me is a musical giant of our generation, and more, not only in his ability to create such musical majesty, but in his obvious intelligence and deep understanding of life itself and how we as humans "exist, evolve and pass through the flow." This is such a fascinating subject to me and makes me regret I hadn't found Nightwish many years ago, as I am now 77, and unfortunately fighting cancer. So, for obvious reasons, Endlessness (the entire Human Nature collection of music, actually) has understandably drawn me into it's sobering and mind bending deep meanings. Thank you, friar Guylain. I'm glad I found you.

Avec grand plaisir, cher Laurent. Venez sur mon canal quand vous voulez. Réactions en français, analyse en anglais (avec de bon sous-titres). Tout est là pour passer du bon temps. Et vous savez que vous pouvez vous adresser à l'hôte de ces lieux en français.

It has been a real blessing for me.

Perfect! :-) See you a bit later, by the end of the week.

@@GuylainPrince Having now watched your reaction, I'd like to thank you for giving me the pleasure to discover the Afro Celt Sound System. They are truly unique & amazing. Take care & stay safe.

I LOVE SO Much Marko, as a performer, and as a singer. The actual Marko is the best (compared to Century Child or Once).

Endlessness. The music of the Universe!

Well, since I love the instrumental B side as well, I would say 10 musical piece.

In two months! I will be back.

Thanks. It was enjoyable. Recorded it Yesterday.

To be frank, dear Helen, I entered in the journey of this album without knowing what I was contemplating. Right from the start, with music, I told myself: "What is that?". If you want to listen to a GREAT album, buy yourself : "Showtime, Storytime" by Nightwish also. It is up there, at the very top of my list (Top-5 EVER). You will then become a lifetime fan. Something I just became with this album.

Thanks !

Thanks! Plenty coming in the next few months. Don't forget it!

Muito obrigado pela grande confiança que você tem me demonstrado. Mal posso esperar para continuar a aventura. Estou feliz que você está se juntando às fileiras daqueles que amam "grande letra, grande música, e grande significado".

Natural instruments are irreplaceable, but so hard to play while travelling. Troy has all my admiration.

Thanks. Much appreciated.

Excellent ! Probably Friday, or something.

Parfait ! Pour NW, j'ai déjà une liste accumulée (que je mettrai dans la boîte de description) et tu pourras ajouter les tiennes.

Friday and next Tuesday.

Thanks, Tina! I have to say : I truly enjoy doing that. One song / week! I love it!

To bring my love of lyrics to the metal fan-base was one of my objectives. Bringing together those persons was my second one. We have it all, it seems ! Peace to you.

This message, this morning, brings joy and gratitude to my heart. Well, we helped each other on that path. Let's continue. It has just begun.

@@GuylainPrince Agreed.

Thanks. Well, it is natural.

Oh, what a nice word from you Lorie. I so appreciated your presence at the première and your kind words here. Close to one million French Canadian immigrated in the NE of USA at the end of the XIX and beginning of the XXth centuries. We are a significant part of what is now called New England. Even if NY is only 8,5 hours from Montréal, I visited the city for the first time last fall (only three days) and loved it. If you come to Québec, let me know! Peace to you.

Well, that will be a great journey !

"Fulminant" review of the whole album? That is a good word, I think. :-) But first, let's publish the [ANALYSE] I recorded last Monday.

Ha ha ha! Yes, I was delighted!

I've been thrown into this while being completely naive. Never anticipated such a great reaction. Never in my life. And there we are, 2 months later and close to 2000 subscribers. Then, I thought I would do this for 30-50 French Canadien!!!!! The quality of the comments comes also from the quality of the commentators. I am the witness of something beautiful, here: people love to dig into the lyrics and to understand, and to share around great music. If I was the little spark to this, I am the most blessed of you all.

Ah oui! J'ai connu cet album il y 10 ans seulement. Quelle découverte!

On mine too. Did you notice?

@@GuylainPrince Indeed!😱 It nearly escaped my attention😁. Seriously, its a gift to feel this kind of joy and to express it so freely. Have a beautiful day! (Sorry, I hope you can understand what I am trying to say,I cant speak english very well and not one word in french)

Don't worry, my Netherlander friend! All of this is already on my list! It will be done!

Here it is. I still think that "Tribal" focused on religious "tribes", and that is a missed opportunity for exposing "new tribes" and bad leaders (scientific, political, economical, etc.) in present world. But it is, it has meaning within the album, yes. I agree. But, hey\, I am bound to comment from my point of view! :-)

@@GuylainPrince thank you indeed. If you listen to "Song of myself" on their 2011 album Imaginaerum, i found the themes you have raised in your response explored so powerfully, I recommend this for an analysis, it is ethereally beautiful, yet poignant reflection.

Probablement mardi prochain. Je suis en train de planifier cela. Piano, piano, comme disent les italiens.

I think it is a great song.

En train de faire les sous-titres dans mes temps libres. Ça s'en vient!

Вот мое предложение: вырезать видео через два или три. Это то, что я делаю, когда чувствую усталость и хочу прослушать все видео.

I'm not a native speaker, but you can set up KZfaq to translate. I do it every time, and really helps.

Well, a reviewer is nothing but a "professional opinion" on a certain type of art. The key is to find a reviewer looking for the same things that you look for. If his criteria are not the same as you, you will end up with music that you don't like (or movies, or TV shows). I will only be relevant for you if you agree with my criteria.

I have the highest opinion of Marko. As a rocker, as a bassis, as a vocalist, but also as a performer!!! He is great!

Je connais très bien les Trois Accords, même si leur style déjanté et absurde m'a parfois laissé perplexe. Aujourd'hui, ils se sont taillés une place enviable dans le monde de la musique. C'est bien de la même ville. Facile : Drummondville est une ville de musique. Département de collège, festival et une belle grande tradition de country francophone (Renée Martel) et de jazz (UZEB, Bourrassa Trio, etc.). Plusieurs chanteuses pop aussi viennent de chez nous. Tu aimes le folk/rock? As-tu déjà entendu Kaïn? Je te recommande leur dernier album. En plus d'un CD de nouvelles chansons, ils on fait une rétrospective de leurs plus grands succès en duo avec plein d'artistes d'ici. Jouissif du début à la fin. Si tu aimes les mots et les histoires simples, tu vas adorer.

Since you asked for some songs, i would say "Ghost Love Score"(waken live), Greatest Show on Earth (tampere Live), the islander also from tampere Live, my walden i know for sure you will appreciate them a lot. For sure the others famous i didn't mention here will be asked by some other people. :)

I know very well the audio of Wacken. I have watched the whole show once (completely) and pieces here and there.

Don't worry about NW. I got an idea, yesterday. We will talk about it later.

What a nice thing to say. Well, there is a way. Making a nice comment like you did. That is awesome. Peace to you.

WT est sur ma liste de 2022. Je n'ai fait qu'une chanson d'eux. Mais EPICA et NW, il y a beaucoup de videos, oui. Bienvenue! Marko me manque aussi. Quand je l'écoute sur DPP et Imaginerium... le moment où il contribuait le plus à NW, il était superbe!

Yup! We tend to forget that, isn't ? The songs are beautiful and meaningful. Quite rare.

At least, he took a pause. Let hi, take care of himself and close ones... Maybe, one day!!!

Thanks ! One thing we have to realize : some of his bass lines are really difficult. One instrument and a voice : split concentration !

Guylain Prince This is not a problem in studio obviously. But still there a plenty of singing bassists, guitarists an drummers etc., who do this live.

:-)

Great. The call to the fans will be in about two months. Be there!

I will do a 10 songs journeys into their old repertoire in August. I am pretty sure Getsemani will part of the ones chosen by fans.

To be frank, I have the same feeling, since I can hear a real improvement in his tone. Don't forget that I am a choir director. Part of my job was to make sure the chorists were at there best. Few pointers to an accomplished singer, so that he keeps is voice in good health, is sometimes good enough. His voice improved, this is undeniable.

A little piece of dust with meaning, giving a voice to the Earth, in a new way. The majesty and, yet, the human "good sense" of it all. That is a fabulour, song.

De nada, amigo mío. No sé si está en buen español, pero al menos sé que es útil. De rien, mon ami. Je ne sais pas si c'est en bon espagnol, mais au moins, je sais que ça rend service !

Thanks you for your kind words. As for me, I thougt immediately of Peter Gabriel, while he was in Genesis. He used to play different characters. This would have been perfect.

Trois-Rivières est facile à rejoindre et il y a plein de beaux cafés, ici ! Tu seras le bienvenu. Et le plus beau? Pas vraiment plus long Montréal-Québec en passant par Trois-Rivières.

Agreed!

Merci! Oui, j'accepte ton invitation, Christopher. Dès que ce sera possible. Reviens-moi sur mon compte Facebook, ou Twitter et on va organiser ça! Certain! J'ai toujours pensé que j'étais à peu près le seul à TR à aimer ce genre de musique. Je réalise que non.

I was :-D

De nada, querido amigo. He estado experimentando con dos videos. Cuando hice los subtítulos en inglés, puedo usar mi software para hacer los en español. Sin embargo, no sé si son comprensibles. ¿Diría que son buenos subtítulos?

@@GuylainPrince Yo diría que son excelentes, incluso conjuga bien los verbos que en español son muchos.

Me too! In different ways!

Agreed!

Oui, j'ai ajouté quelques réflexions sur Tribal dans la clôture de "Endlessness". Je ne suis pas entièrement satisfait de Tribal, mais je comprends son point. J'aurais aimé que les religions - surtout chrétienne - ne soient pas visées, mais bon. On comprend que ce sont des comportements abusifs par une minorité.

Thanks! ACSS: love them!

I will collect all of your recommendation in two months. Thanks !

Thanks for the info! And welcome on the channel!

Guylain Prince OFM thank you, but this is not my first reaction to your channel 😊. We had a little conversation a few months ago about a song from the last album of Nightwish.

Agreed !

Querido amigo, he entendido muy bien lo que me has escrito y te agradezco que hayas hecho el esfuerzo de traducirlo a mi idioma. Yo también uso una aplicación para escribir en su idioma. Puedo leerlo, pero no puedo escribirlo. Muchas gracias, pues, por tus ánimos. Se agradece mucho. Y bienvenido a TU canal: si te gusta la buena música, las letras que dicen algo y los intercambios agradables, ¡estarás contento aquí! Bienvenido de nuevo. Cher, ami, j'ai très bien compris ce que tu m'as écrit et je te remercis d'avoir fait l'effort de traduire dans ma langue. J'utilise une application, moi aussi, pour écrire dans ta langue. Je peux la lire, mais je ne peux pas l'écrire. Grands mercis, donc, pour tes encouragements. C'est très apprécié. Et bienvenue sur TA chaîne : si tu aimes la super musique, les paroles qui disent quelque chose et de beaux échanges, tu seras heureux, ici! Bienvenue encore.

Such great melodies, some of them get stuck in my head for weeks, especially when I'm in the remote regions and have vast quietness around! Sonic, soul candy!!

Allen : to be in silence is my normal way of life. This is why "I get stuck" with the melodies for days. Endlessness has been my companion for 6 days, now. @Graham : Melodies are catchy when they have to, and very intricate when needed. To me, it is close to perfection.

Excellent comment! For the bodhrán, it is a matter of tuning, but also tension on the skin. It reacts very badly to dry/damp weather. To the point that the skin becomes very "dull" sounding. And tuning a bodhrán on the fly... almost possible.

I love this song!

@@GuylainPrince me too!!!

Ha ha ha ! You are upfor a surprise. I did CD 2 as my first reaction to NW. Look for LM. 05 and you will see it.

To be frank, at this point, I found a way to appreciate "Tribal". I said a word about it in my [ANALYSE] video. Let me know what you think about what I said there. It will be out Friday, or something...

Totally agree !

Ha ha ha ! Well... you know... we kind of get used to excellence! :-) Did you get a close look to the lyrics. If not, you are up for a great surprise !

@@GuylainPrince 🤗👍

Yup. They are already on the list. Thank you for your nice words.

Be there in a little more than one week! Have you seen my [REACTION/ANALYSE] to Facade of Reality? I was number 05. Here is the link : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p5uohsx2zMqxgok.html

For the Thief : take the whole first paragraph as the description of the same reality. And think of the 5th song.

@@GuylainPrince OK, since you prompted me early! My treatise is not complete! There are two most obvious candidates that can be considered the greatest thief in all of human story telling, *Time* and *Death*. Both function very similarly. Taking Death as the most obvious, and the stream reference in the first paragraph, we arrive at (river) Styx. This Greek godess would fit well given the potential planets (pantheon) references in "Procession" and the early Pan reference both to the Greek pantheon and to story telling itself. The "Tip the Reaper" line is a give away, as The Grim Reaper is the classic anthropomorphic personification (thank you Sir Terry Pratchett) for death. As this album is about story and human nature, the reaper fits well hear (it's also a "Harvest" reference for the same reason). Using Time as the interpretation leads us roughly to the same place, but with a looser interpretation on some of the lyrics. Other appealing interpretations to explore are Extinction, Idleness and Gravity (I wish I could remember who to credit for suggested this one). Of these I find Gravity the most compelling. Gravity keeps us in the "Goldilocks Zone" (GSoE reference), gives us day and night, the tides of the sea and the moving positions of the stars (and ofc the stars themselves instead of "dust with *no* meaning). With no property of attraction, none of this would be. Of course, gravity is a thief too. The blackhole is an ultimate universal thief, from which nothing (poetically, I'm not going into hawking radiation, information theory, etc, etc). There is an innevitable gravitational field or "stream" towards it. Get too close and it becomes innevitable. Other than the big bang / or reversal of which, the backhole is the ultimate ending point for matter. Poetically speaking all matter collapsing back to one singularity and then exploding in a new big bang is the ultimate in endlessness. Perhaps this is not the "true interpretation", but it is definitely one worth contemplation and meditation on. Looking forward to seeing your thoughts!

Yup ! Great line!

That is hilarious ! Well, if you have problem with him, you know where to go ! :-)

@@GuylainPrince i hope he picks up some french too. you should do audio books for kids. 😉

I live your comment. you made me laugh. You are absolutely right. Their is a PF sense to it. Good insight. Let's hope the pause will not be of 20 years.

WOW! Thanks. To late to include it in the [ANALYSE] video, but would you give us more info on that on the last one (14.2) ? Thanks for considering.

@@GuylainPrince I'm not that good at pedagogy, but here is a good video, that explain the creation (and death) of stars. Just think about how many elements we have(periodic table). All our sun can create is Helium, from the fusion of Hydrogen. Heavier elements have to be created through bigger/different stars, and through supernovas. In an endless cycle... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fqqjoJxhrtOzd2g.html