A Band That Actually Lives Up To Messageboard Hype?

To offer up a correction, what I meant to say in the last post was that the correct music cue was “ki ki ki… ma ma ma”. My bad, peeps.

The copy of that song I found wasn’t of the best quality, but it’s the best I could find. I used to have a good copy of it, but I downloaded it years ago on another computer and I don’t know what happened to it. However, on YouTube, of all places, you can listen to a much better copy of the full song. It can be found here. The video has some groovy memorabilia from that movie, also.

Anyway, the main thing I’m going to do here is talk about something I thought I wrote about here earlier, but I can’t find it here, so I’ll just do it again and add something to it.

For awhile now I had heard of a band being plugged heavily on certain messageboards. They’re a Finnish metal band with symphonic overtones known as Nightwish. Finally, one day I decided to check out some of their songs, and I wish that I would have done so earlier. I’m real picky (I’d say “selective”, but I’m sure others would use “picky” instead) when it comes to new music that’s “popular”, either amongst the public or the underground, so keep that in mind. From what I heard from this band, they’re pretty awesome. It’s the type of music I dig.

The first song I’m putting up is from a 2001 EP (with their former singer, Tarja Turunen); it’s the title song to the Over the Hills And Far Away album. No, it’s not the Led Zeppelin song. Rather, it’s a cover of an old 80’s song originally done by Gary Moore, an old UK guitarist who isn’t that well known in the States. Soon I’ll upload the original, as it sounds much like the cover. Anyway, when I heard the cover, it sounded very familiar; I swear that I heard it once in a store a few years ago, dug it a lot and I never found out who did it. Well, I guess I know now.

Nightwish-Over the Hills And Far Away (7.87 MB, 216 Kbits/second)

The second song is from their latest album, Dark Passion Play. During that time, Ms. Turunen and her unique operatic vocals left the band and was replaced by Anette Olzon. Now, I know that some Nightwish fans don’t like the new girl but I have no problems with her. Yeah, her singing style is more traditional, but it sounds good to me. Lord knows, I’m VERY selective when it comes to liking more modern singers that for some reason, people slobber over but I find to be akin to fingernails on a blackboard (::coughcoughJackWhitecoughcough:;), but I enjoy both lead singers and their different styles. It’s not easy for a famous band to replace a lead singer and still remain popular. Even with Van Halen, while they were still popular, you rarely hear the “Van Hager” songs on the radio, but rather the older stuff with David Lee Roth. But, from what I can see, Nightwish is still doing fine.

But back to my point, the second song is called Amaranth and it’s pretty catchy.

Nightwish-Amaranth (6.4 MB, 230Kbits/second)

The third song-Bye Bye Beautiful-is also from the newest album and it’s at least different in that it has both a female and male vocal. Also interesting is that the male wrote the song and it was a diss towards the old lead singer. Again, it’s a pretty catchy tune.

Nightwish-Bye Bye Beautiful (4.65 MB, 152 Kbits/second)

So hey, there’s proof that there are somewhat popular current bands that I dig, and I’m not biased towards the older popular bands or the more obscure current bands that I seem to favor here. Eventually, I’ll spend more times trying to find songs from this band, but for now, I can see why they have a cult following in some circles of the Internet.

I’ll be back a week from now, unless I decide to post something else before then…