NEMO is the very first extract from Nightwish’s fifth album called Once. This album was released on June 7th 2004 by Spinefarm Records in Finland and by Nuclear Blast in the rest of Europe. Nemo is a mid-tempo ballad with a catchy chorus that gets you from the first listening. It also shows that the album sounds majestic ! A video was shot by Antti Jokinen to promote this single, and a lot of different versions were released to please collectors ;=)
Release date: April 26th 2004 Number of copies sold: gold record in Finland within a week. Written and composed by Tuomas Holopainen Alapage link : buy
01. Nemo 02. Planet Hell 03. White Night Fantasy 04. Live To Tell The Tale
(or 04. Nemo (Orchestral version), depending on the versions)
NEMO is Nightwish’s very first CD to be released by Nuclear Blast and you could say that, for a first CD, the German record company made things big! No less than 4 versions were released (twice as much if you make a difference between "Spinefarm Records" and "Nuclear Blast" versions, and even more if you consider import CDs), a promo CD, tee-shirts and even a poster !
Nemo history:
After the release of their second DVD, End of Innocence, the band went back to the studios to record their 5th album: Once. A few months later, the title of the first single was announced: NEMO. Knowing how passionate Tuomas is about Disney’s world, there were many hypothesis and speculations about the theme dealt with in the song. Eventually, we learnt that the song had nothing to do with a certain clown-fish, but that NEMO was a song dealing with questioning oneself: “I know where I am from, but who am I and where am I going?” As a matter of fact, NEMO is a Latin word meaning “no one”. For the record, the cover does look like the “Pirates of the Caribbean” poster and it was done on purpose since the band (Tuomas especially) loves the movie !
Once and for all
And all for once
Nemo my name forevermore...
NEMO is Nightwish’s very first CD to be released by Nuclear Blast and you could say that, for a first CD, the German record company made things big! No less than 4 versions were released (twice as much if you make a difference between "Spinefarm Records" and "Nuclear Blast" versions, and even more if you consider import CDs), a promo CD, tee-shirts and even a poster !
