Nightwish - The Greatest Show On Earth (Instrumental version)

Nightwish - The Greatest Show On Earth (Instrumental version)
Taken from "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" (Earbook edition)

[@tiekogalaxylatte8839]

The piano at 15:39 repeating the same melody as the Four Point Six intro always gives me chills, the story has been building up to this.

[@aurinkobay7118]

that arpeggio is very well placed .. great piano exercise tbh

[@TheNolinator]

I think they wanted to indicate the toolmakers return to the prior state

[@jonathanday6692]

It's something Tuomas seems to do a lot of. More than a few of NW's songs swallow their tails like that.

[@davemillet4160]

I still can't imagine what this must have been like to record such a HUGE song. Whatever they went through, it sure did pay off phenomenally.

[@BeginBye]

Partially. Then mixing. No one records songs at once

[@jonathanday6692]

It is sometimes done - it alters the texture of the sound quite dramatically and that might be precisely the effect you want - but I don't think you'll find it on any NW album. I could be wrong, though.

[@kunomoll2279]

Everytime tears are driven in my eyes I listen to this masterpiece!

[@mwjdr88]

AMAZING! MASTERFUL! EPIC! IT's whole LIFE STORY in one composition!

[@geraldineescriva60]

Please! Show this masterpiece to the UN (ONU)!! It deserves to be the Hymn for the Earth!!

[@gamephreak5]

SCREW THE UN! They deserve to be destroyed and crushed! NO other country controls what WE do, ONLY US!..

[@jeuverheggen8204]

The Greatest Musical Masterpiece ever!

[@johnlattarulo2578]

This tracks is an absolute masterpiece and undoubtedly Nightwish'es greatest offering.

[@Regisseur95]

Oh man... that last sentence destroys everything

[@Lamproly]

I lost it at that one xD This is always what I think when people try to overanalyze a song again.

[@lidiadetinta1884]

I just love this song, its the greatest song of nightwish....

[@ulthorger7327]

Greatest instrumental on Nightwish

[@Starvino]

It’s beyond words how powerful it feels in concert when you join in at the part of “we were here”. Pretty literal too.

[@krystalamper4644]

25 minutes of everything they are.. I cant even say in words how much I am grateful for this song existing

[@TheNolinator]

You can learn so much about orchestral writing listening to this songs.

[@mariaangelagomez4818]

GRACIAS....GENIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@pip3174]

24:01 *It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music!*

[@joshuadecker2473]

the last is always the part that gets me. amazing

[@isaaccortes6082]

14:17 the best part 🥇

[@gloriamarthavaldesvillegas3733]

Nightwish..Siempre con Lo Mejor....( Los Mejores..Cantantes ..La Mejor Música..Mejor Instrumental...Todo )..!! ..por Siempre ..Y Desde Siempre Me Gustaron..Y Me Gustarán..!! ..Cada Década..han Dado..Lo Mejor.. Tarla..Anette..Flor....~~~~..!! siempre Reciclando..Su Material..Para No Perder SuvEscrncia ..!! ..

[@rosemmstein]

Greatest show on Earth indeed!

[@lawrencewalston2906]

Goosebumps, seriously!!!!

[@PepitoJose]

The ending lol! Love it!

[@KennyNewby]

Excellent! Thank you for posting this!

[@DiegoSnip]

Kenny Newby You're welcome, this is majestic

[@Green.Ranger]

11:29 the best part !!! Always gives me chills !

[@147pablox]

Lyrics: [1. Four point six] Archaean horizon The first sunrise On a pristine gaea Opus perfectum Somewhere there, us sleeping After sleeping through a hundred million centuries We have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet Sparkling with color, bountiful with life Within decades we must close our eyes again Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun To work at understanding the universe And how we have come to wake up in it? [Richard Dawkins] [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 She has a tale to tell From the stellar nursery into a carbon feast Enter luca The tapestry of chemistry There’s a writing in the garden Leading us to the mother of all We are one We are a universe Forbears of what will be Scions of the devonian sea Aeons pass Writing the tale of us all A day-to-day new opening For the greatest show on earth Ion channels welcoming the outside world To the stuff of stars Bedding the tree of a biological holy Enter life The tapestry of chemistry There’s a writing in the garden Leading us to the mother of all We are one We are a universe Forbears of what will be Scions of the devonian sea Aeons pass Writing the tale of us all A day-to-day new opening For the greatest show on earth We are here to care for the garden The wonder of birth Of every form most beautiful We are one We are a universe Forbears of what will be Scions of the devonian sea Aeons pass Writing the tale of us all A day-to-day new opening For the greatest show on earth [3. The toolmaker] After a billion years The show is still here Not a single one of your fathers died young The handy travelers Out of Africa Little Lucy of the Afar Gave birth to fantasy To idolatry To self-destructive weaponry Enter the God of gaps Deep within the past Atavistic dread of the hunted Enter Ionia, the cradle of thought The architecture of understanding The human lust to feel so exceptional To rule the earth Hunger for shiny rocks For giant mushroom clouds The will to do just as you’d be done by Enter history, the grand finale Enter ratkind Man, he took his time in the sun Had a dream to understand A single grain of sand He gave birth to poetry But one day’ll cease to be Greet the last light of the library Man, he took his time in the sun Had a dream to understand A single grain of sand He gave birth to poetry But one day’ll cease to be Greet the last light of the library Man, he took his time in the sun Had a dream to understand A single grain of sand He gave birth to poetry But one day’ll cease to be Greet the last light of the library We were here! We were here! We were here! We were here! [4. The understanding] We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones Most people are never going to die because They are never going to be born The potential people who could have been Here in my place but who will in fact never see The light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara Certainly those unborn ghosts include Greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton [Richard Dawkins] We know this because the set of possible people Allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set Of actual people. In the teeth of those stupefying Odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds How dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior State from which the vast majority have never stirred? [Charles Darwin] [5. Sea-worn driftwood] There is grandeur in this view of life With its several powers, having been Originally breathed into a few forms or into one And that whilst this planet has gone cycling on According to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple A beginning endless forms most beautiful And most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved [Charles Darwin]

[@stpfs9281]

Good luck with the Kareoke!

[@WishingAngel]

I love voices of Floor and Marco, but that instrumental music is beautiful!!

[@stpfs9281]

The Star Trek "Voyager" reference at the end with Humpback Whale!

[@jwg5529]

Nightwish + Richard Dawkins = Best song on earth.

[@jonathanday6692]

The easter egg at the very end is amusing.

[@rehanmahesalitang6662]

2022 im here.. the best of the best

[@arielale03]

such a hard song to sing

[@jjpyae]

That change from G to E minor

[@kenjinpiniteu]

oof, nice reference to Imaginaerum

[@sakarinieminen3205]

Hahaa I see what you did there

[@C4DNerd]

Thanks for posting! This song works much better as an instrumental than the actual song. (although to be honest, it's really just the narrations that pop in and out that I can't stand, the singing itself is fine)

[@RamonbarretoBIG]

Brabo demais!

[@UnityFromDiversity]

The competition of the divine masculine, for the cooperation of the divine feminine.

[@Kaylinature]

Left this playing and forgot the thing was on after it went quiet. Scared the f out of me with that last line.

[@Kafurry]

oh i hate to say that this version much better than with vocal version for me :(

[@ulthorger7327]

Yeah amis !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@alanembree2725]

As great as the original is, some songs are definitely just better instrumental.

[@jakke81]

+Alan Embree Nightwish is an extraordinary band. Rarely instrumental versions work like theirs do.

[@ulthorger7327]

better than original !!!!

[@GP_Lucky7]

Best passage : 6:15 - 7:00

[@toned-fcreations5522]

I actually prefer this version to the live Tampere version. Sorry Floor, love you but I think this sounds better as a symphony.

[@Quasihamster]

16 people from Mars felt left out.

[@kevinrosner8676]

Like #999. Hit it

[@juhahuovio3548]

TA, briefe ohne sich zu melden merkwürdig, aber Ah, so altäglig

[@Aranexorsist]

Is it just me or does 5:01 feel straight out of the Witcher?

[@jeremendoza5492]

Yeeees,yeees, wtf, you're so right 🤯😁

[@annalionakoers6654]

And 7:15 isThe Never Ending Story

[@stpfs9281]

I got the new Witcher movie trailer at that point!

[@jumpin4smoke2]

If you'd have to make a playlist of only 10 Nightwish songs for a friend who never heard of them, which songs would you choose?

[@RaptorJesus.]

i don't care about the other 9 but Ghost Love Score better be in there ;)

[@arkagui]

- Amaranth ( Because it's their popiest / popular song ). - Endless forms most beautiful. - Dark chest of wonders. - ghost love score / phantom of the opera. - Gethsemane. - Last ride of the day. - The Islander. - Last of the wild. - I want my tears back. - I wish I had an angel. - Stargazers. - Over the hills and far away. ( I could do and endless list but, here you have songs from different Nightwsh styles ).

[@martesa5558]

Shullder Before the beautiful Dark chest of wonder Ever dream Bless the child Scaretale Storytime Last Ride of the day Nemo Ghost love score apleglow The greatest show on earth My playlist

[@gypsyrose121010]

Greatest show on earth Bless the child. The islander Planet hell Dead boys poem Poet and the pendulum Over the hills and far away Last ride of the day Ghost love score Ghost river I think that list gives a good veiw of the various "styles" they are capable of doing.

[@queenteam9962]

Scaretale Taikatalvi Ghost love score The poet and the pendulum The greatest show on earth Wish I had an angel Song of myself Last ride of the day Last of the winds Imaginaerum

[@eliorahg]

I wonder if there is a version without animal sounds of this. I just have misophonia and animal sounds are difficult for my ears and ugghughu... But other than that this is a masterpiece.

[@ilaly6391]

We could try to mix it with this.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/bWTTgH6Ojb1ph9U

[@diegosebastianmeneghello7276]

Look for the orchestral version

[@mariangelpart]

24:01 I think that's Marco's voice but what did he say?

[@DiegoSnip]

I think it is Richard Dawkins (or maybe troy) and he says something like "It never seems to occur to people what a man might just work to write a piece of music", which if you speak spanish means "La gente no se imagina lo que una persona tiene que trabajar para escribir una canción".

[@mariangelpart]

DiegoSnip ah si, yo hablo español :v gracias :)

[@stpfs9281]

Richard Dawkins, recorded in Oxfordshire.

[@HaoPieldeoso]

14:15 - 16:30

[@Metalkult1]

stark

[@L3O.]

24:01 An easter egg

[@L3O.]

the link doesn't works, but you can check it by yourself

[@ee-pl9gk]

Their vocals aren't my cup of tea, but the instrumental versions of their songs are just incredible.

[@lawrencewalston2906]

I totally get it!

[@jonathanday6692]

The instrumental only versions let people play with different lyrics and see how those would sound in a full performance.

[@Gredddfe]

SO glad they released an instrumental version of this. Now I can cut together a version with the amazing vocals but without the shitty voiceovers. Then I can decide what to do about the animal noises.

[@anttikotilainen4047]

Hyvaa " pirun" Suomalasta

[@juhahuovio3548]

Sound vorbei laufen, bis wohnung

[@juhahuovio3548]

African star, Gypsy Queen, if not Angie?

[@juhahuovio3548]

'"Wir haben gewohnt" 2000 €

[@robertrelata636]

😅

[@juhahuovio3548]

Die jemanden vielleicht unwichtig