Any Nightwish fans?

[realisticphish]

Finnish goth metal... singer has a beautiful voice. near operatic, really

if you can find it, listen to "dark chest of wonders" and "over the hills and far away"

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[kaitykaity]

1. Are you on WinMX? You can set it up so we can

download the mp3 from your computer.

[realisticphish]

2. sorry

i'm on a Mac

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[kaitykaity]

3. Oh, too bad.

I think I like goth, I know I love metal. So I guess
I'm gonna have to find it somewhere.

Thanks for the tip.

[kaitykaity]

4. Well, I managed to get both songs.

I think this could grow in me.

The search I did came back with over 2000
files.

Any other selected same songs you can think of?

[realisticphish]

5. hmm

"wish i had an angel"
"gothic sanctuary"
"planet hell"
"romanticide"

that should give you a good start; they've been around quite a while, so they have a lot of stuff


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[kaitykaity]

6. What about

Nemo-Ministry? Do you know what that is?

It almost sounds like Prog a little bit. Prog has
that operatic quality -- like the singier for Dream
Theater.

[realisticphish]

7. im a huge DT fan

i always enjoy quality singing voices

i say that as i listen to Max Cavalera destroy his vocal cords in Soulfly :)

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[kaitykaity]

8. Huge DT fan, eh?

I don't like the singer as much as I like the musicianship.
That's why I like Portnoy's side project Liquid Tension Experiment
almost better than DT itself -- no vocals.

But any other bands like these two that you know about,
feel free to share....

[realisticphish]

9. im a drummer

mike portnoy is a god (except for the whole conservative thing)...and petrucci is an insanely good guitarist.

as to other groups, unfortunately i have yet to find similar ones, though evanescense could be considered a very very mainstreamed and simplified nightwish

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[kaitykaity]

10. What is it with drummers being DT fans?

I used to know a guy like that. Had his computer programmed
to turn the stereo on to the same DT song every morning.
Freaked me out.

Hey, if you like them, have you ever heard of Marillion?

[realisticphish]

11. no

though it sounds vaguely familier

and listen to portnoy again to see why we like DT :)

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[kaitykaity]

12. They're Irish. Their big hit was a song called Kayleigh

back in the early '80s.

This drummer I told you about who loved DT, I had
Marillion on vinyl but no turntable. He had a
turntable so he recorded the record on cassette for
me and kept the vinyl.

He liked it. It's called "Misplaced Childhood" and
it's on CD now so I have it for real. It's great from
beginning to end.

I took perverse pleasure in introducing this guy, essentially
a professional musician, to music he'd never heard of. But
of course he topped me by digging up a jam session between some
of the DT guys and Marillion on video.

Coolness.

[realisticphish]

13. cool, ill have to check it out

thanks

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[kaitykaity]

14. Let me know what you think.

I like track 8 best I think. Part of the
song is about the war between the Irish and
the British, where he's talking about "a
war widow in a laundrette washing the memories
from her husbands clothes. Medals pinned to a
threadbare greatcoat..."

It's one of the best anti-war songs I think
I've ever heard.