
When then tiny independent record label Spinefarm decided to take a chance on a brand new group called Nightwish by releasing a modest 500-unit pressing of their first album, Angels Fall First (originally recorded as a simple demo), little did they know this would quickly evolve into their biggest future cash cow, and one of Finland’s most successful bands ever! Believe it: such were the humble origins and expectations for both band and album; despite the already quite advanced songwriting abilities of chief architect, keyboardist, and vocalist Tuomas Holopainen, which adorned melodic power metal with gothic, folk, and classical music elements, then topped them with the budding vocal power of a still baby-faced opera student named Tarja Turunen. Completed by guitarist/bassist Emppu Vuorinen and drummer Jukka Nevalainen, the nascent Nightwish were in fact merely scratching the surface of their commercial potential (and ensuing stardom), at this stage; yet they showed amazing courage and versatility on forceful tracks like “Elvenpath” and “Know Why the Nightingale Sings,” the Finnish folk-steeped “The Carpenter,” and an early glimpse of their latter-day fascination with musical theater in “Beauty and the Beast.” So even though there were still several areas where the precocious bandmembers required additional seasoning (e.g. replacing Holopainen’s unsatisfying vocal efforts, leaving folk-metal aspirations for other Finnish bands to exploit, and reigning in occasional lyrical transgressions like those of “Nymphomaniac Fantasia”), Angels Fall First arguably remains the band’s most eclectic album (unfocused to its detractors), and, for this very reason, a favorite for many of their fans. And in the greater scheme of things, Nightwish’s unexpectedly popular debut easily trumped most of the era’s less risk-taking, female-fronted goth-metal bands, and felt like a veritable tornado of fresh air blowing through the Scandinavian extreme metal scene — hence its success among female consumers.
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NIGHTWISH – ANGELS FALL FIRST (1997)
NIGHTWISH – CENTURY CHILD (2002)

Possibly the biggest success story in the history of Finnish heavy metal, Nightwish celebrated their second chart-topping album in their homeland with 2002’s Century Child, which eventually collected numerous awards and went double platinum (60,000 units in Finland) within a year of release. The group’s fourth LP overall, Century Child wisely repeated its predecessors’ winning characteristics: symphony-enhanced power metal laced with accessible pop sensibilities (mostly straightforward song structures and romantic lyrics), distinguished by the operatic voice of classically trained singer Tarja Turunen. Undoubtedly the key to Nightwish’s remarkable success (and since, hugely influential on countless followers like After Forever and Epica), Turunen is actually more restrained in her delivery than one might expect, rarely belting her way overboard in an effort to match the metallic aggression of opening shots “Bless the Child” and “End of All Hope.” Never losing momentum, she duets with bassist Marco Hietala on “Dead to the World,” returns to center stage on the platinum-selling single “Ever Dream” (which combines the group’s commercial attributes to perfection), and leads the band towards commercial apotheosis on the gentle ballad “Forever Yours,” which could fit perfectly well in any pop diva’s catalog. “Slaying the Dreamer” and “Ocean Soul” resume the power metal with strings and choirs motif, and “Feel for You” curiously appears to draw its eerie riffs and strings from the theme of the Halloween movies! And before they embark on the album’s final, ten-minute, three-part magnum opus, “Beauty of the Beast,” Nightwish take a very competent stab at “The Phantom of the Opera” — no, not the Iron Maiden classic, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical’s title track. Which makes for an interesting tidbit when considering this album’s appeal: fans of more aggressive heavy metal might find it simply too saccharine for the palate, but those with an affinity for straightforward rock and pop will not only eat it up, but ask for seconds.
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ကိုင္ဇာ-ဟိုတုန္းကသီခ်င္းမ်ား(၂)
01။ ဘာလိုေသးလဲအခ်စ္ရယ္
02။ အိပ္မက္ေလွ
03။ ဂစ္တာလူေလး
04။ ၾကာၿပီေနာ္
05။ က်ဳပ္နဲ႔ခင္ဗ်ား
06။ မအိပ္ေသးေသာစိတ္အေတြးမ်ား
07။ မိုးေကာင္းကင္ေအာက္တြင္ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္စြာေနထိုင္ခ်င္း
08။ မိုးေၿပးေလး
09။ ေနဆီၿပန္မည့္ငွက္
10။ ေန၀င္မွာစိုးတယ္
11။ ပကာသနမရွိလို႔မုန္းလိုက္ၿပီ
12။ သိပ္ခ်စ္ရေသာအခ်စ္
13။ ေသာက၏ေဒါသသံ
14။ ရည္းစားရွိဖို႕လိုအပ္လာၿပီ
15။ ရည္းစားသီခ်င္း
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ကိုင္ဇာ-ဟိုတုန္းကသီခ်င္းမ်ား(၁)
01။ အိပ္ေတာ့ေလ
02။ အသိဥဏ္ေၾကာင့္အထီးက်န္ၿပီလား
03။ ဘာလုပ္ေနတာလဲ
04။ အိမ္အၿပန္
05။ ေကာလိပ္ေက်ာင္းကခ်စ္သူ
06။ ေလလံတင္ပြဲ
07။ မၾကာခင္မွာၾကင္နာမယ္
08။ မဂၤလာေဆာင္ရေအာင္
09။ ေနာက္ဆံုးအခ်ိန္ေလး
10။ ငယ္ခ်စ္အတြက္ေတးတစ္ပုဒ္
11။ ညမေရာက္ခ်င္ပါ
12။ ေၿပး ေၿပးေေၿပး
13။ သူမ်ားေပ်ာ္လို႕မေပ်ာ္ႏိုင္
14။ ရံုးေတာ္ကအၿပန္
15။ ရြာကိုေမာင္ၾကီးၿပန္လာမယ္
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NIGHTWISH – WISHMASTER (2000)

Oceanborn wasn’t just a hit in Finland, it also opened new doors for Nightwish abroad. So naturally, the pressure to come up with a comparable sophomore album was enormous. Rarely does a band fulfill the demands of a second album successfully, and Nightwish is no exception. Even though Wishmaster is mainly targeted to radio and pop audiences, it does succeed somewhat. Even more demanding listeners will find this as enjoyable as they did Oceanborn, but Wishmaster isn’t as consistent as that album was. The same patterns repeat, and every track’s hook is based on a powerful intro and a simple chorus. Their charm is in their overflowing drama and, as it was on their first album, the whole concept can be described as “operatic metal.” It may sound inventive and full of potential for a while, but as a whole album (and with this release it’s two albums), it can be a little annoying, even frustrating. Still, a lot of listeners will enjoy it; after all, it does have its moments.
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ကိုင္ဇာ – သီခ်င္းရွင္ရဲ႕ ခရီးစဥ္ ၂ ( Live Show )
၁။ ေမာင့္အိပ္မက္ေမ
၂။ ႏွလုံးေရာဂါ
၃။ ခ်စ္တာအျပစ္လား
၄။ မႏုိးပါေစနဲ႔မုိးရယ္
၅။ အခ်စ္ဓားျပ
၆။ အင္းေလးမွာရြာတဲ့မုိး
၇။ တယ္လီဖုန္းေလးနဲ႔ခ်စ္ၾကမယ္
၈။ အရမ္းလြမ္းေနၿပီ
၉။ မုိးသီခ်င္း
၁၀။ တစ္သက္လုံးသတိရေနမယ္
၁၁။ သီဟဒန
၁၂။ ေမာင့္မ်က္ရည္၀ုိင္း
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Placebo…Battle For The Sun (2009)

Genre…Alt Rock
Year…2009
File Size…79.39Mb
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Placebo…Meds (2006)

Genre…Alt Rock
Year…2006
File Size…107.79Mb
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Placebo…Once More With Feeling (2004)

Genre…Alt Rock
Year…2004
File Size…92.63Mb
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Placebo…Sleeping With Ghosts (2003)

Genre…Alt Rock
Year…2003
File Size…74.07Mb
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