Let’s dive in! The album starts.ĭewinged : “Once I had a dream” yeah me too boy, me too.ĭewinged : Ok no cheating, I’ve seen this one on the Wacken live vid.
Having not heard them since then, I expect a military-grade level of cheese and some decent acoustic folkiness. The selection was between them and Simon and Garfunkel but we just had to have a metalhead student in attendance who insisted on the former. LeddSledd : Before going into Once, the only experience I have with this band is the time in early high school when my nerdy band teacher had my class members each write a review for a Nightwish concert on Youtube “as if we were a concert reviewer from the Rolling Stone”.
Weak! Is it too late? Dewi’s passion has reignited my craving for epic and big. Unfortunately I was incorrigibly feeble and never listened to anything outside of the now-legendary Oceanborn-Wishmaster-Century Child power trio. JohnnyoftheWell : Let’s go back a long, long time ago to when my favourite band was Children of Bodom and I was a little bit OBSESSED with Tarja-era Nightwish. Can’t remember how it started but the important thing is that we are about to dive into the DEFINITIVE Nightwish experience (or so they say), ready to push play when you are my dear. STARTING COMMENTSĮach participant, please explain your attitude going into and/or prior experience with Emotion Sides A and B and/or intentions for this exercise.ĭewinged : Ok, so I’ve been on a Nightwish fever for like a week. This session was almost entirely unplanned and has no bonus rules. Let’s delve!Įach participant must KILL and KEEP some songs. With not partisan attachments past, present or (likely) future, he has the least to gain from this sh*t please listen to him when you’re not sure to believe. To remedy this and save the whole affair from corrupt SputStaff-exclusive sticky-pokey, we invited the unmodified unmastered vox pop microdeity LeddSledd into the fray ( baaased). Unfortunately, these motivations were both ultimately selfish, hardly reflective of KILL or KEEP‘s deeper imperative for critical justice and practical public advice. Dewi got to take the next steps on his Epic journey with added style Johnny got to go back in time and cover his tracks. The album in question turned out to be Once, the 2004 opus among opuses viewed by many as the group’s symphonic peak – this being the most significant Nightwish album that JohnnyoftheWell ( lol loser) had not heard, a glitzy pact was formed on the spot. There was (probably) going to be a celebration of this belletristic triumph, but before it got organised, Sputnik MVP Staffer Dewinged ( legeeend) spontaneously declared that he was going to listen to a Nightwish album with one hour’s notice, and a different kind of gravity asserted itself.
We have transcended the snottiness of bashing mediocre bands like the Smashing Pumpkins and Nine Inch Nails and reached such heights that we can make up whatever bollocks we so please and potentially tackle a legitimately “good” artist one day. We have gone from powers of 2 to powers of 5. Welcome to the KILL or KEEP milestone instalment, Vol.5.