Nightwish Fangirling

So there's this Finnish metal band I listen to frequently.

If I had to pick one Finnish band to listen to for the rest of my life, it would probably be Sonata Arctica. Their music speaks to me - not sure why, considering half of it is about revenge and creepiness and - well, maybe I'm just weird...anyway, if I could pick two Finnish bands, the other would be Nightwish.

Which brings me to this song.

Nightwish is a symphonic metal band. You can definitely hear the "movie soundtrack" influence in quite a bit of the music.

They covered a version of "The Heart Asks Pleasure First" for their latest album. "The Heart..." is the theme song from the movie The Piano; if you haven't heard it, I highly recommend - very pretty, soothing music. The Nightwish version has guitars, a choir, the lovely Anette Olzon singing...

The original composer, Michael Nyman, hated it and wouldn't let them release it.

They finally played it at the final concert of this tour - it played in the background during their final bows. All we really have of it are bad YouTube recordings and rips...but damn, it's a pity Nyman wouldn't let them release it. The song is hypnotic.

I can't even understand half the lyrics - I hear "slave to the toil, this mortal coil" and I can make out a few of the other lines, but damn, I can listen to it over and over again, which is what I've been doing since I got my mitts on a copy. Would love to hear what it really sounds like without the screaming, clapping crowd.

There is no real point to this entry. It's just me fangirling over this song. Or what I can hear of it, anyway. I did yank "mortal coil" from it as a working title for the new manuscript - but that was yanked from Shakespeare, so...not counting it as infringement. :D



On another note, Nightwish has typically made it onto whatever writing playlist I make. They have sad songs, angry songs, happy songs...okay, maybe two of them are happy songs. Plenty of epic stuff. If you're into movie music, check them out.