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“Computer games don’t affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.”

- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo Inc, 1989

Today, Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish released their third single from their Dark Passion Play album, “Bye Bye Beautiful” (preceded by “Eva” in May 2007 and “Amaranth” in August). This is clearly the best single of the album, and one of the best songs, together with for example “The Poet and the Pendulum”, “Sahara” and “7 Days to the Wolves”.

The standard version of the singel features this tracklisting:
1. Bye Bye Beautiful
2. The Poet And The Pendulum (demo version)
3. Escapist
4. Bye Bye Beautiful (DJ Orkidea remix)

Except “Bye Bye Beautiful”, this features “Escapist”, a bonus track for Dark Passion Play’s Japanese version, as well as two unreleased versions of two songs; a remix of “Bye Bye Beautiful” and a demo version of “The Poet and the Pendulum” where Marco Hietala performs all the vocals, with changed lyrics at some points. Frankly, DJ Orkidea’s remix sucks big time. But also, I’ve never really liked techno music. The demo version is ofcourse a demo version, and ofcourse it’s silly to believe Marco can sing the parts of a boy soprano. White Lands of Sympathica, which is a sad part, really makes me laugh on the demo version. I like the lyrics in “The Pacific” part of TPTP though, that got banned from being published. :)