tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3553830799290471029.post7266446273107610336..comments2024-02-24T01:09:46.767-08:00Comments on Heavy Metal FTW!: CD Review: Nightwish's "Century Child"Allysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08232708063742867319noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3553830799290471029.post-27205597934886124882011-04-13T17:02:20.556-07:002011-04-13T17:02:20.556-07:00Everdream rules!!Everdream rules!!T-WAChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915644249760125138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3553830799290471029.post-64755666868607456762010-07-11T18:03:22.847-07:002010-07-11T18:03:22.847-07:00Weird, again my comment has disappeared ...
What ...Weird, again my comment has disappeared ...<br /><br />What I wanted to express with the comparison is that Slaying the Dreamer sounds like a sanitised, "Disneyfied" version of a "brootal", angry metal song, especially the lyrics. If you want to say F**K, just F**KING SAY F**K! (I need to censor the swearwords myself now because I suspect that they were the reason my comment didn't get through.)<br /><br />As for the metre/time signature, that's not really an odd one I think, in the sense of compound metre, but it would be really unusual for Nightwish anyway, except perhaps for the intro of Ghost Love Score and (just my impression, it may well be wrong) the verses of Away. Otherwise, Nightwish rarely ever stray from 4/4 at all.<br /><br />This brings me to a further point. There are lots of bands who develop and change their sound (sometimes even radically - in some cases even so that every album totally different in character from every other), without ever dumbing down or diluting their music. They may release a more accessible album at one time but not stick with the concept. Take Therion: Even though their music has become mellower with time, it is still creative, courageous, intricate, adventurous, and intelligent, all the while still sounding like Therion, and achieving considerable commercial success on top. Selling out, as someone else has pointed out, also has an element of greed: it's when an artist or band who is already successful changes their sound so that it becomes more acceptable to the mainstream.Almagesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11737365394774242432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3553830799290471029.post-48367399795105377002010-07-10T11:56:17.326-07:002010-07-10T11:56:17.326-07:00Oh yes, I almost forgot!
The time signature for &...Oh yes, I almost forgot!<br /><br />The time signature for "Feel For You" in the intro goes 4/4 for the first bar, then it jumps to 6/4 for the second, which is 6 beats per bar instead of the standard 4, and it repeats. The rest of the song besides the parts with the bassline intro to it is just 4/4. I hope that helped! :DEric Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09474566428504101761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3553830799290471029.post-83705246741548043852010-07-10T11:33:53.343-07:002010-07-10T11:33:53.343-07:00@ Winterstorm
Once again, your comment is thanked...@ Winterstorm<br /><br />Once again, your comment is thanked! :D<br /><br />Well this was an album that really changed Nightwish and who they were as a band. The absence of Sami really hit home and it altered their direction a lot. I agree that their music did become more digestable on Century Child and onward, no doubt about it, but I still believe that the songs were very creative and unique to me because only Nightwish can pull off this kind of sound with Tarja and now Marco. As I said in my review, I like the idea of changing things up and going towards something different because I am not really a big fan of bands that keep a "sameness" formula and use that their entire career without taking any risks. Here Nightwish took a risk and it paid off in some respects. Some not so much and yes it does appear that they were going away from their original sound a little bit.<br /><br />Yeah "Forever Yours" is probably my least favorite ballad by Nightwish, probably ever! And we can agree to disagree about "Slaying the Dreamer". To me, it is nice to hear a different side of this band with this song. Of course, this song I think is an influence that Marco brought in from his days in Tarot and it is clearly heard in this song!<br />Hannah Montana covering Exhumed?? Wow, that would be interesting!<br /><br />Anyways, thanks again for your input on this! It is greatly appriecated! :D<br /><br />@ Sorcha<br /><br />Thank you! :DEric Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09474566428504101761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3553830799290471029.post-4635399934113097102010-07-09T20:15:02.890-07:002010-07-09T20:15:02.890-07:00Hmm ... this is another album that I don't lik...Hmm ... this is another album that I don't like as much as before. I used not to be able to understand when people complained about the melodies of Nightwish being poppy, cheesy and saccharine, but after not really listening to this album almost for a year and then re-listening it it struck me and I could barely listen to them anymore, they're just too ... slick somehow. They even spoil Beauty of the Beast for me.<br /><br />This is a definite turning moment for Nightwish, when their music began losing its edge and became much more accessible. Even though advertised as "darker", in fact it's just a diluted but pompous form of Nightwish and less fun. This is when I feel they exchanged fireworks and style for substance.<br /><br />Marco's vocals are only a fig leaf to distract from the fact that this album has less of a metal edge. I like him on Dead to the World (my personal favourite here), but he totally fails on Phantom of the Opera, he sounds quite silly there.<br /><br />One problem that affects Tarja's performance is that she had a cold at the time. You can hear it especially on "Ocean Soul", which, if I remember, was the track they recorded first. She sniffs and breathes throughout the album, it's awful.<br /><br />"Forever Yours" has often been compared to "My Heart Will Go On". The ballads are really the weakest point of the album, although "Slaying the Dreamer" is also unconvincing and starts the trend of Nightwish trying to act all heavy and brootal while staying kid-friendly, which just sounds corny and stupid. Sort of like replacing swearwords with "cute" bowdlerisations, or Hannah Montana covering Exhumed.<br /><br />I do like The Wayfarer, although it really sounds quite out of place compared with the rest of the album given how unabashedly "happy" sounding it is.<br /><br />What metre is the bass line of Feel For You in, by the way?Almagesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11737365394774242432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3553830799290471029.post-86366671568296143402010-06-22T15:42:55.850-07:002010-06-22T15:42:55.850-07:00One of my favorite albums from Nightwish. Mostly c...One of my favorite albums from Nightwish. Mostly cauze the adding of marco's vocals.<br /><br />Nice review.sorchanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3553830799290471029.post-65326439737216444782010-06-21T21:48:43.268-07:002010-06-21T21:48:43.268-07:00@ CanuckFan
Really? Well it is still very solid ...@ CanuckFan <br /><br />Really? Well it is still very solid and it has some great moments, despite a few off songs. It is still a CD I put in quite often!Eric Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09474566428504101761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3553830799290471029.post-27576678199371232002010-06-21T21:39:22.626-07:002010-06-21T21:39:22.626-07:00I'm surprised you gave it this high a rating!I'm surprised you gave it this high a rating!Allysonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08232708063742867319noreply@blogger.com