Nemo (song)

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"Nemo"
"Nemo" cover
Single by Nightwish
from the album Once
Released April 26, 2004
Format CD
Recorded November 2003-March 2004 at
Tempputupa Studios, Finland
Genre Symphonic metal
Length 17:46
Label Nuclear Blast
Producer(s) Tero Kinnunen
Chart positions
Nightwish singles chronology
"Bless the Child"
(2002)		 "Nemo"
(2004)		 "Wish I Had an Angel"
(2004)

"Nemo" is a 2004 song by the symphonic metal group Nightwish. It is taken from the album Once. The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields participated on the single. Once topped the album charts in Finland, Germany, Norway, Greece, Slovenia and Hungary.[citation needed] Widely successful, the single was certified gold in Finland on the day of its release. In the UK it could only chart at #87 after a chart entry of #101 the week before, but spent over 20 weeks on the top 200 plus a few re-entries.[citation needed]

Keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen is a fan of Disney animation and loves Disneyworld in Florida, USA. Nightwish did some shows at the Blues Club there at the time when the Disney film "Finding Nemo" was in theaters, leading to the misconception that the song "Nemo" had something to do with the movie.

The truth is that nemo is Latin for "nobody". It is the name of the mysterious Captain in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (the probable origin for Disney's Nemo). At Nightwish live shows, fans have been known to throw Nemo fish character plush dolls on stage.

Perhaps more significantly nemo also corresponds to the famous answer given by the Greek hero Odysseus to the the Cyclops Polyphemus. In the Odyssey, when Polyphemus asks for his name, Odysseus tells him "Oυτις" a name translated as "No-man" or "Nobody" which has been used allusively by later authors, such as Jules Verne. Other thematic elements from the Odyssey appears in other Nightwish songs such as "The Siren".

A big-budget music video was created for the song, directed by Antti Jokinen.

Contents

[edit] Track listing (1st edition)

  1. "Nemo" (04:27)
  2. "Planet Hell" (04:39)
  3. "White Night Fantasy" (non-album bonus track) (04:02)
  4. "Nemo" (orchestral version) (04:37)
  5. "Nemo" (music video) (04:05)

[edit] Track listing (2nd edition)

  1. "Nemo" (04:36)
  2. "Live to Tell the Tale" (exclusive bonus track) (05:02)
  3. "Nemo" (orchestral version) (04:39)
  4. "Nemo" (music video) (04:05)

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Production

  • Engineers and recorders: TeeCee Kinnunen, Mikko Karmila and Emppu Vuorinen
  • Mixing: Mikko Karmila and Tuomas Holopainen
  • Mastering: Mika Jussila
  • Orchestral and choral arrangements: Pip Williams
  • Conducted: James Shearman
  • Orchestra Leader: Gavyn Wright
  • Band photographer: Toni Härkönen

[edit] "Nemo" in popular culture

The song can be heard in the ending credits of the 2005 film, The Cave and a special version of the music video was released that contained scenes from the movie.

On the Australian music quiz show Spicks & Specks'. A video clip of Nemo was featured with questions to go with it.


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Tuomas Holopainen | Marco Hietala | Emppu Vuorinen | Jukka Nevalainen
Former members: Sami Vänskä | Tarja Turunen
Discography
Albums and EPs: Angels Fall First | Oceanborn | Wishmaster | Over the Hills and Far Away | Century Child | Once
Singles: "The Carpenter" | "Sacrament of Wilderness" | "Passion and the Opera" | "Walking in the Air" | "Sleeping Sun (Four Ballads of the Eclipse)" | "The Kinslayer" | "Deep Silent Complete" | "Ever Dream" | "Bless the Child" | "Nemo" | "Wish I Had an Angel" | "Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan" | "The Siren" | "Sleeping Sun" | "Eva"
Live albums: From Wishes to Eternity | End of an Era
Compilations: Wishmastour 2000 | Tales from the Elvenpath | Bestwishes | Highest Hopes
Videos and DVDs: From Wishes to Eternity | End of Innocence | End of an Era
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