Ha, yes, 'epic melodrama' is something that Nightwish does very well. If you're able to look the band up on YouTube, that's a good way to get a broader sampling of their music. If not, then let's see here. Century Child might be the one I'd most recommend for getting in to them; it's a pretty decent blend of everything that made Nightwish sound so good even before they added the orchestra. But then again, Once was the first album I think I got, based on my attachment to the song 'Ghost Love Score'. It's the first album where they went all-out with the full orchestral accompaniment. 'Nemo' is another good song off that album, but as I think about it, each album is kind of hit-and-miss for me. There are about half the songs that I really like and half that leave me going 'ehh'.
From their very first album, Angels Fall First, the only song I'm enthusiastic about is 'Beauty and the Beast' - it remains one of my favorites despite the fact that they were still kind of finding their stride with their sound. I would love to hear this revisited with the full-orchestra thing they're doing nowadays, even though they've changed singers and the new girl's voice would not be quite the same. I'd still like to hear what she might do with it.
Wishmaster only has a couple of songs I actually like ('Two for Tragedy', 'Dead Boy's Poem'); Oceanborn is about half-and-half but contains 'Gethsemane', which is possibly my favorite Nightwish song to date and another that I would really like to see them revisit in current style. Over the Hills and Far Away has several live tracks of existing songs, a remake of 'Astral Romance' from their first album (much better than the original version, imo), and three songs that were new at the time - 'Away' is one of these.
Dark Passion Play is the second album they did with full orchestra and the first with their new singer, so it sounds good but it's a little different than all the albums before it. 'Amaranth' and 'Eva' are two of the most accessible tracks, but the whole thing's pretty good, there are only two songs that I actually dislike and two others that leave me 'ehh'.
And, come to think of it, if your bandwidth is up for it, I've still got several tracks available for download-and-sampling here (http://www.4shared.com/account/dir/abBifYDH/_online.html#dir=19573306), if you're interested.
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Date: 2012-05-22 08:17 am (UTC)From their very first album, Angels Fall First, the only song I'm enthusiastic about is 'Beauty and the Beast' - it remains one of my favorites despite the fact that they were still kind of finding their stride with their sound. I would love to hear this revisited with the full-orchestra thing they're doing nowadays, even though they've changed singers and the new girl's voice would not be quite the same. I'd still like to hear what she might do with it.
Wishmaster only has a couple of songs I actually like ('Two for Tragedy', 'Dead Boy's Poem'); Oceanborn is about half-and-half but contains 'Gethsemane', which is possibly my favorite Nightwish song to date and another that I would really like to see them revisit in current style. Over the Hills and Far Away has several live tracks of existing songs, a remake of 'Astral Romance' from their first album (much better than the original version, imo), and three songs that were new at the time - 'Away' is one of these.
Dark Passion Play is the second album they did with full orchestra and the first with their new singer, so it sounds good but it's a little different than all the albums before it. 'Amaranth' and 'Eva' are two of the most accessible tracks, but the whole thing's pretty good, there are only two songs that I actually dislike and two others that leave me 'ehh'.
And, come to think of it, if your bandwidth is up for it, I've still got several tracks available for download-and-sampling here (http://www.4shared.com/account/dir/abBifYDH/_online.html#dir=19573306), if you're interested.