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21 hours ago, Jaded said:

 

Never actually listened to Pearl Jam songs, but now I understand all those jokes about not understanding what the feck the vocalist of that band is singing lol

Anyways, ninth Nightwish album "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" (2015). And, now, I enter Floor Jansen era of the band. Um, playing back to back, I find no faults with this album at all. It's actually as good as any Tarja era albums for me.

 

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So far, final and tenth album of Nightwish "Human II Nature" (2020). Yep, as I remember it, very very very tame in comparison to the rest of their catalogue. Hell, even Angels Fall First with its folkey music sounds whole lot more inspired than this...

As always, subjective assessments of each album:

1. Angels Fall First (1997) - 9.4/10 [Best songs: Elvenpath; The Carpenter; Astral Romance; Tutankhamen; Know Why the Nightingale Sings; Return to the Sea; Nightwish - Demo]

2. Oceanborn (1998) - 10/10 [Best songs: Passion and the Opera; Moondance; The Riddler; Walking in the Air; Sleeping Sun; Nightquest; Sleeping Sun – Live at Summer Breeze Open Air; Swanheart – Live; The Pharoah Sales to the Orion – Live]

3. Wishmaster (2000) - 10/10 [Best songs: She Is My Sin; The Kinslayer; Come Cover Me; Wonderlust; Two For Tragedy; Wishmaster; Bare Grace Misery; Deep Silent Complete; Wonderlust – Live; Deep Silent Complete – Live]

4. Century Child (2002) - 9.3/10 [Best songs: End of All Hope; Dead to the World; Slaying the Dreamer; Ocean Soul; Feel For You; Beauty of the Beast; The Wayfarer; Bless the Child – Radio Edit; Dead to the World – Live At Summer Breeze Open Air]

4.5. Over the Hills and Far Away (2002) - 6/10 [Best songs: Over the Hills And Far Away; 10th Man Down; The Kinslayer – Live; She Is My Sin – Live; Walking in the Air – Live; Wishmaster – Live]

5. Once (2004) - 10/10 [Best songs: Dark Chest of Wonders; Planet Hell; Creek Mary’s Blood; The Siren; Dead Gardens; Romanticide; Ghost Love Score; Higher Than Hope]

6. Dark Passion Play (2007) - 7.7/10 [Best songs: Bye, Bye, Beautiful; Cadence of Her Last Breath; For the Heart I Once Had; The Islander; Last of the Wilds; 7 Days to the Wolves; Meadows of Heaven]

7. Imaginaerum (2011) - 7.7/10 [Best songs: Talkativi; Ghost River; I Want My Tears Back; Scaretale; Turn Loose the Mermaids; Rest Calm; The Crow, the Owl and the Dove; Last Ride of the Day]

8. Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2015) - 10/10 [Best songs: Weak Fantasy; Elan; Yours An Empty Hope; Our Decades in the Sun; My Walden; Endless Forms Most Beautiful; Alpenglow; Greatest Show on Earth]

9. Human II Nature (2020) - 7.6/10 [Best songs: Shoemaker; Harvest; How’s the Heart; Endlessness; All the Works the Adorn the World – The Blue; All the Works the Adorn the World – The Green; All the Works the Adorn the World – Moors; All the Works the Adorn the World – Aurorae; All the Works the Adorn the World – Quiet as the Snow; All the Works the Adorn the World – Ad Astra]

And, looking back at the scores I given, wow, even though I don't particularly care for songs in albums that received low scores (relatively), but it appears that I still give (baring Over the Hills LP album) a score not lower than 7, which is not quite frequent at all. I mean, something in the music of this band really elevates the hearing experience. I don't know. Kinda like with ABBA or something. But, yeah, I guess, I liked Tarja era the best.

Average album score: 8.7/10

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6 hours ago, Rushmoras said:

Wait, is this the song that was recently - what seems in all the news - that it's a song that what English sounds to non-English speakers? LOL.

Yep. :) I first heard it Thanksgiving 2020, when someone posted it on twitter. A different video (black and white). 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisencolinensinainciusol

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