Colonoscopy/IMAGINAERUM

Today was oddly interesting. Let me start with yesterday though... KYLE BROUGHT ME IMAGINAERUM. My dreams have come true. After four years of waiting for this album, IT'S REAL AND IT'S MINE. I've listened to it all day, at least seven times through.

I adore the first song, sung in Finnish. I can't tell who's singing, because it sounds like Tuomas, but I know he said he'd never sing again after Astral Romance ;P But this is sooo like him. Anyways, love it cause it sounds like a music box. Then Storytime after, which rocks. I don't remember the order exactly nor all the song names, but I'll skip around. Turn Loose The Mermaids is GORGEOUS. I love Anette's ballads :) And the jazz song was actually really good! Slow Love Slow is... slow and romantic. Bass, piano, and voice. There's a little Marco duet action in there ;) Jazzy, but gets metal at the end. I Want My Tears Back is pretty heavy, and there's some good sounds from Emppu there! Story of Me is weird because the last half of the long song is dialogue, and kind of depressing :P And I love the last song, Imaginaerum, because it's an orchestral medly of the album. I feel like it should have been the first song, like an overture.

Other songs... Arabesque is ok, very Middle Eastern influenced. Scareground is just weird as hell, between the demented kids and the Harold-esque circus leader. There's one more song I'm forgetting the name of, but I like it's heaviness. Oh yeah, and of course I love The Owl, The Crow, And The Dove :)

It's just such an experimental album. So many new sounds and styles for them, but also sounds that allude back to the earlier albums. It's not very consistent sounding between songs, cause each one is so different and complex. Tuomas is truly a genius composer.

Anyways, enough of the music rant. I've been chugging that salty acid shit liquid and peeing out of my butt. Like seriously, it's gross. My stomach is making the funniest sounds, too... but I have to wake up in five hours to do this all over again before we go to the hospital at nine thirty. Ughhh, I'm hungry :( So much Nightwish in my mind! Definitely gonna be my signatures for the next few posts...

xx What Color Is Our Love Marz