PARAMEDIC'S first time listen to - NIGHTWISH (ft Richard Dawkins) - THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:08]Hey everybody, welcome back in to K17 Reactions. I am your host, Jimmy. And uh if this is your first time here, I would like to thank you all for taking time to stop by, check out my channel. And as always, if you um are regular listener to my channel, I just welcome you back and I greatly appreciate appreciate or appreci- however you want me to say that.

[00:00:33]I greatly appreciate uh you tuning back in to see me.

[00:00:38]So today, what I'm going to do on the channel is I'm going to reaction to um a fairly long song.

[00:00:46]Um it's one that um this group uh popped in my head and I decided I'd go ahead and do another reaction to them. I believe I have done uh 10 different reactions to this group. Um the group is Nightwish from Finland.

[00:01:07]And uh like I said, I've done about 10 songs of theirs and as I was trying to get um ideas for another one to do, uh I came across one that really the title kind of um caught my eye at first.

[00:01:25]And the title of it is The Greatest Show on Earth.

[00:01:28]Well, of course, my first thought was the movie and I know the song Never Enough uh from the movie. So I didn't know if this had anything to do. I didn't really think this had anything to do with the movie.

[00:01:43]Um just knowing the genre that Nightwish sings in and the genre uh [snorts] of Loren Allred singing Never Enough. So I really didn't think the the two um had anything uh similar other than just the title.

[00:02:00]And [snorts] I was right about that. Um but uh you know, I don't do any research um or if I look up anything, it's very, very minimal. And when I looked this up just to see what it uh was about, it intrigued me.

[00:02:17]Um and I saw where it uh apparently is in five different parts and it's basically talking about the origin of Earth, the origin of life uh and so forth. I saw that um this particular live uh performance from Wembley 2015 uh says that it is with Richard Dawkins.

[00:02:41]I am familiar with who Richard Dawkins is and um his uh various researches and beliefs and so forth. And while I will say from the get-go that uh his overall beliefs and my beliefs don't fully line up together, uh I still can have uh show respect to people um even though I may not completely agree with everything that they uh they personally believe and so forth. Um but I can only be me and you guys can be you, but that doesn't mean that uh I can't be respectful of you.

[00:03:26]So saying all that, um I didn't mean to say that in any way to sound controversial or anything cuz I really didn't mean it like that. It's just, you know, just the way I am. I'm weird, but um I really don't want to be normal because normal people are fairly boring.

[00:03:43]But uh anyway, again, getting myself back on track with my ADHD moment there.

[00:03:49]Um I'm going to react to this song and I and again, I noticed this song was about 20 minutes or so long.

[00:03:55]Um but like I said, it just intrigued me. And of course, ever since I was um introduced to Nightwish, you know, when I first saw that they were a symphonic metal band, uh I got to thinking, you know, initially, well, metal has never really been my big thing or a genre that I really listen to. Uh neither has symphonies [snorts] or symphonic um genres well. And especially putting those two things together, I initially didn't have any clue what I was getting myself into listening to them.

[00:04:37]But uh it was very intriguing to me and you know, I've I've reacted to 10 of their songs.

[00:04:47]Uh so that might show a little bit of something that they have intrigued me and uh I think that they are a phenomenal group.

[00:04:57]Um with a phenomenal talent and just the the just thinking of symphony and thinking of metal music, you know, kind of initially didn't think that they could go together at all.

[00:05:14]Uh but I've been pleasantly surprised that they do go together and go together quite well.

[00:05:20]Uh so saying all that, I'm going to get into uh doing Nightwish, The Greatest Show on Earth with Richard Dawkins, the official live video from Wembley 2015.

[00:05:32]And I think I've done um one or maybe two other uh reactions and you all can correct me if I'm wrong from that Wembley uh live performance.

[00:05:46]Uh and that did remind me of something.

[00:05:48]I was just going to let you know, you know, when I first started the channel, uh I really didn't have a clue what I'm doing uh what I was doing and uh I don't you know, I'm not really that bright on it now. Uh however, I've learned a few things and one of the things I didn't do uh starting out, which I'm kind of paying for now, is I didn't put together playlist. I really didn't understand them at the time. I I knew what a playlist was, but I didn't see the importance of it and things like that at the time when I first uh started the channel. Uh now I do. So I just want to let you know that I have started uh putting some playlist together. I've still got a long way to go. Uh but Nightwish uh their music is in a playlist all by itself now. So it make a lot easier for you to find if you'd like to look back and uh see any of their other songs that I've reacted to.

[00:06:44]So saying all that, let me just say if you like what I'm doing here on the channel, uh you like my reactions to Nightwish or even some of the other ones I do, uh please hit that like button. Also share, comment, and subscribe. Uh I'm also currently um building a Patreon page. Uh I do have some um uh music over there, some of which were uh songs that were blocked here on YouTube. Um but uh if you want to go over there, the link to my Patreon will have popped up on the screen briefly and it'll also be down in the description.

[00:07:24]So without further ado, I'm really looking forward to getting into The Greatest Show on Earth with uh from the group Nightwish.

[00:07:33]So let me get this started.

[00:07:36]And here we >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [singing] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> After sleeping through a hundred million centuries, >> [music] >> we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet sparkling with color, bountiful with life.

[00:13:18]Within decades, we must close our eyes again.

[00:13:21]>> [music] >> Isn't it a noble and enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun [music] to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it?

[00:13:32]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [singing and music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Uh, I'm going to I'm not going to stop it too much.

[00:18:05]Long enough song.

[00:18:07]Um, I have to say with just the first part uh, of this uh, you know, up to the point that we've listened to right now, this might be one of my favorite songs by them.

[00:18:27]Um, now, you know, my background is in science. Um, my uh, bachelor's degree, I was a biology major, um, chemistry minor, which we won't talk about the chemistry, but I did love biology. I do love biology.

[00:18:47]Um, I took that and um, went to the towards the medical side, the medical field, and I've mentioned I think on here before that I was a paramedic for about 20 years and uh, walked worked in ambulances and ERs and doctor's offices and and all that kind of stuff. So, um, I am really open to listening to different um, theories, different beliefs when it comes to, you know, different biological um, topics.

[00:19:24]Um, and so, maybe that's kind of why this one right here is um, excuse me.

[00:19:32]Is um, kind of striking me like that. Um, but also just like the the way that they have this both the the the you know, the way it started out, the the instrumentals, the kind of the soft softer than I would, you know, say that I remember hearing them too much.

[00:19:58]But then just as I have kind of getting that slower, softer groove then it just all comes in. And they have a very unique ability um in my opinion of just dropping that uh you know, hardness out of the sky and it just hits you.

[00:20:23]Um just right across the jaw with a big thick hard fist.

[00:20:30]Um but uh the one thing I had to ask as a question and y'all can let me know in the comments.

[00:20:38]Uh again, most of y'all know that I have no experience in um with music or whatever. I can't sing a lick.

[00:20:48]Um don't play an instrument, although I've always wanted to. I don't have any rhythm.

[00:20:54]Um so a lot of questions about the musicianship that I can ask, you know, a lot of them may sound ignorant or stupid. I just don't know. But my question was I thought at at one point that that was bagpipes that came in there and he was playing.

[00:21:18]And the only thing that confused me and maybe it's just because of the lighting on on set here.

[00:21:28]Uh I did not notice him blowing into the bagpipes.

[00:21:37]If that's what they were. Now, something may have went up or there was an alternative air source or whatever that I just didn't see.

[00:21:47]But it just kind of confused me because uh I guess you know, I get it in my mind I picture uh the traditional bagpipes and and the Scottish people sitting there playing them and and so forth. So I have a preconceived notion in my mind about what they're supposed to look like and so forth and so on.

[00:22:11]If I missed them you know, actually blowing in into the bagpipes, let me know if there was some type of alternative source or if it was just a different configuration of the instrument.

[00:22:26]You know, let me know that as well. And if it's just an ignorant question, you can let me know that too.

[00:22:32]Uh but anyway, I really enjoyed this. I really enjoy this and I don't know how far in we're in.

[00:22:40]Well, we're almost to the halfway point.

[00:22:43]Uh so I went a little bit longer than I thought. So it looks like we're fixing to get into Oh, this is the second part. So we're about to get into the third part. Uh so anyway, saying every bit of that, y'all let me know in the comments what I missed, what I'm wrong about.

[00:23:05]But I am really enjoying this song.

[00:23:08]Um and I'm really enjoying the topic behind this song.

[00:23:13]So let me just back up just a hair cuz I don't want to miss anything.

[00:23:19]And let's uh get back into it. Thank y'all.

[00:23:23]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> I've got a telling years the show was selling out. Just in the one of [music] your fathers died young. The handy travelers out of Africa. Later [music] left the seal of the empire.

[00:25:59]From person to fantasy to idolatry to self-destructor [music] until they got a guest who REPRESENTS THE PAST AND A MYSTIC CROWD OF THE HUNTER.

[00:26:11]>> [music] [music] >> Enter a Yonia, the cradle of all.

[00:26:27]>> [music] >> The architectural understanding that humans must to feel so receptive now to rule the earth.

[00:26:35]>> [music] >> Under the persimmon rocks with giant mushroom clouds, they were to do as you've [music] been done by.

[00:26:43]Enter history, the probability.

[00:26:46]Enter mankind.

[00:26:49]Knowledge [music] took his time in the sun and a dream to understand >> [music] >> a single grain of He >> [music] >> can conjure poetry but one day he ceased to be.

[00:27:09]Break the last smile of the >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Knowledge took his time in the sun and >> [music] >> had a dream to understand a single grain of >> [music] >> He can conjure poetry but one day he ceased [music] to be.

[00:28:35]Break the last smile of >> [music] >> Knowledge took his time in the sun and had a dream to understand >> [music] >> a single grain of >> [music] >> He can conjure poetry but one [music] day he ceased to be.

[00:29:01]Break the last smile of >> [music] >> Will you sing with us?

[00:29:10]We were >> [music] >> We were here.

[00:29:17]Raise your voices up on the balconies.

[00:29:19]Don't you worry everybody. [music] Slaughter she comes.

[00:29:23]We were >> [music] [music] >> A BIG ONE COMING.

[00:29:36]WE WERE >> [music] [music] >> And the last one.

[00:29:48]We are here.

[00:29:50]>> [music] [cheering] [music] >> We are going to die and that makes [music] us the lucky ones.

[00:30:31]Most people [music] are never going to die because they're never going to be born.

[00:30:35]>> [music] >> The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact [music] never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara.

[00:30:47]>> [music] >> Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton.

[00:30:55]We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA [music] so massively exceeds the set of actual people.

[00:31:06]>> [music] >> In the teeth of these stupefying odds, it is you and I >> [music] >> in our ordinariness that are lucky.

[00:31:15]>> [music] >> We privileged few who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state >> [music] >> from which the vast majority have never stirred.

[00:31:32]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Thus from the war of nature from famine and death the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving namely the production of the higher animals directly follows.

[00:33:36]There is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers originally breathed into a few forms or into one.

[00:33:48]>> [music] >> And that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.

[00:34:20]>> [cheering] >> Okay.

[00:34:29]>> [sighs] >> Nightwish, the greatest show on Earth featuring Richard Dawkins uh the official live video from Wembley in 2015.

[00:34:43]Um I really do and not saying anything negative about any of the other songs of theirs that I have reacted to.

[00:34:52]Um with probably the exception of Ghost Love Score I think this is about my favorite one that I've seen them do.

[00:35:03]Um you know, not only was their musicianship um phenomenal like always.

[00:35:13]Um but the production of it uh went above and beyond.

[00:35:21]Uh their voices are great.

[00:35:24]Um one thing I wrote down just cuz of my ADHD and I'll more than likely forget it if I hadn't written it down, but just a simple fact of um and I've said this same thing about the warning. If any of y'all have seen my any of my reactions to the the group The Warning uh I noted that while the music is great, the um lyrics are great, the whole production and everything is great. One thing that I noticed watching this video um and that's why it reminded me back at the of The Warning as well.

[00:36:05]Looking at each of these musicians on that stage performing they all seem like they are genuinely having a great time.

[00:36:18]That they are absolutely loving what they do.

[00:36:22]And it shows. You know, when I see them the pan camera pan around and I see um them smiling them laughing them just again just seemingly having a fantastic time doing what it is that they're doing.

[00:36:44]And as a fan I see that and that uh just reinforces uh or even sometimes makes it better uh than had they not seemed to enjoy it so much, to have so much fun with it, with the song, with each other, with the crowd.

[00:37:09]You know, it just all fit uh so perfectly together.

[00:37:16]And um I do know that's a big part of the reason that I really do like this song.

[00:37:24]Um but yeah, I hope that you guys, for those of you who hung around this long since it was such a long song and long reaction, uh I hope you guys enjoyed it as well.

[00:37:37]Um this is one that I'm going to go back and rewatch with the lyrics up. Uh I was able to catch a good bit of the lyrics, but there's some things that um kind of got past me there that I didn't understand what they were saying.

[00:37:52]Um but uh great song, great musicians a great artist like has been all the other times. Nightwish.

[00:38:04]Um so if you guys like this as well, please don't hesitate.

[00:38:10]Go down into the comments and hit the like button, subscribe to my channel.

[00:38:15]Um share, comment, the whole nine yards.

[00:38:19]Uh it would be greatly appreciated. And again, I'm starting I've started up my Patreon page. Uh it's still in the very early works of getting it uh up and going like I want it to eventually. Um but I'll leave a description in the link um and like I said, probably flashed above me as well uh to get into my Patreon over there.

[00:38:45]So, in saying every bit of that, I enjoyed this. Uh it made me made me happy in so many different uh ways from so many different angles.

[00:38:57]And so, let me just encourage you anybody out there if you're suffering from mental health issues, especially depression, uh PTSD, anxiety uh paranoia, anything you know, that causes you to feel isolated, causes you to feel unimportant, um causes you to feel like nobody cares. I'd just be better off dead.

[00:39:27]And let me just let you know that that is a lie straight from the depths of hell.

[00:39:36]Uh there are people out there who are concerned about you who are um you know, they care about you. They want to see you get better and they love you.

[00:39:55]And to me love you know, makes all those other things even more possible. But don't go through life feeling like you're all alone, that you're a failure, that you let people down because um regardless of what anybody may have thought or said about you over there again, there are people that care about you and want to help you.

[00:40:18]Until next time.