Our journey begins, fellow Nightwish fans! During the next few months we will choose the best Nightwish song in our fair survivor, where everyone will honestly vote for their least favourite tunes in each poll and so on. Nightwish is quite a band to say the least; they went from operatic female-only quite amateur albums to full-blown epic and pompous performance with Marco; then Tarja left the band and we got a totally different and awesome band with Dark Passion Play and Imaginaerum, featuring Anette Olzon on vocals; finally, Floor Jansen took her place as the main vocalist in the band and their latest album, Endless Forms Most Beautiful allows us to see what music Tuomas wrote for Floor on this album. Well, anyway, I can ramble about awesomeness of Nightwish forever, but the point is whether you are a big fan of Tarja and operatic approach, or you lean towards the more commercial and accessible Nightwish, or you are here just because of Floor, you're welcome anyways! You may be here to vote only for a few albums or for the whole journey, either way, you're welcome!
Below you will find a general outline for the whole survivor, yet it's still a subject to change if there will be any objections...
- Each album will have its own survivor, which makes it eight survivors totally (not counting consolations and finals)
- (This is a subject to discuss and change. Let me know if you prefer a different approach) Every round will last two days, but we will be running two albums at the same time. Let's say Angels Fall First survivor will take place at every odd day, and Oceanborn will take place at every even day, and so on. You get the idea.
- Two best songs from each album will make it to the finals, and the third and fourth songs will go to the consolations, where they will fight for two more places in the main bracket
- Therefore, the finals will feature twenty best Nightwish songs
- there will be tie-breakers if needed
Now, the most important thing about the bonus tracks. I don't think we should include the bonus tracks in this survivor, however great they are, and I think we should just roll this thing on with the studio tracks. However, if most of you think the bonus tracks should be in the polls, I will include them. So let me know if you prefer to get the bonus tracks here too.
For any reference, I will be using the albums' tracklists from the
official NW site (that means Sleeping Sun is game for Oceanborn). Then again, if you have any reasonable objections, post them in this thread.
The actual survivor will start Wednesday or Thursday, so there's quite a few days to voice your objections if there are any. I hope you guys will participate in this; I saw thirteen people voting for the Nightwish survivor, so I'm really looking forward for it! See you there in a few days!