Here is the list of "the very best" songs by Nightwish

Most Recent Chart :

Released : 13th of January 2010, 23:10 GMT+1
Votes : 68
Songs : 72
Avg. Points Per Song : 4.7
Avg. Voters Per Song : 5.85
Avg. Pt.Avg Per Song : 0.75

Jumper : Creek Mary's Blood (+37)
Looser : Swanheart (-13)

#		Song	Pts	Voters	Avg
01.	> +0	Ghost Love Score	30.7 (1.)	27 (1.)	1.14 (10.)
02.	^ +3	The Poet And The Pendulum	18.3 (2.)	16 (4.)	1.14 (10.)
03.	ˇ -1	Wishmaster	16.1 (3.)	17 (2.)	0.95 (20.)
04.	^ +8	Dark Chest Of Wonders	14.7 (4.)	16 (4.)	0.92 (22.)
05.	ˇ -2	Deep Silent Complete	13.5 (5.)	10 (12.)	1.35 (5.)
06.	^ +1	Pharaoh Sails To Orion	11.2 (6.)	9 (16.)	1.24 (6.)
07.	^ +1	Moondance	11.0 (7.)	8 (18.)	1.38 (4.)
08.	^ +1	The Kinslayer	9.5 (8.)	13 (7.)	0.73 (31.)
09.	ˇ -3	Wish I Had An Angel	9.3 (9.)	17 (2.)	0.55 (45.)
10.	ˇ -6	Nemo	9.2 (10.)	14 (6.)	0.66 (34.)
11.	^ +12	Stargazers	8.5 (11.)	10 (12.)	0.85 (24.)
12.	^ +37	Creek Mary's Blood	8.2 (12.)	7 (21.)	1.17 (8.)
13.	^ +2	Beauty Of The Beast	7.4 (13.)	7 (21.)	1.06 (15.)
14.	^ +8	Amaranth	7.2 (14.)	10 (12.)	0.72 (32.)
15.	^ +12	Planet Hell	7.2 (14.)	11 (8.)	0.65 (36.)
-	ˇ -5	Sleeping Sun	7.2 (14.)	11 (8.)	0.65 (36.)
17.	^ +25	The Islander	6.5 (17.)	4 (37.)	1.63 (3.)
18.	ˇ -2	End Of All Hope	6.4 (18.)	6 (25.)	1.07 (14.)
19.	^ +1	10th Man Down	6.1 (19.)	8 (18.)	0.76 (28.)
20.	ˇ -7	Everdream	6.1 (19.)	11 (8.)	0.55 (45.)
21.	^ +34	Ocean Soul	5.9 (21.)	3 (43.)	1.97 (2.)
22.	^ +2	Passion And The Opera	5.9 (21.)	6 (25.)	0.98 (19.)
23.	ˇ -12	7 Days To The Wolves	5.9 (21.)	7 (21.)	0.84 (25.)
24.	^ +5	FantasMic	5.7 (24.)	5 (28.)	1.14 (10.)
25.	^ +1	She Is My Sin	5.6 (25.)	11 (8.)	0.51 (48.)
26.	ˇ -9	Dead Boy's Poem	5.5 (26.)	9 (16.)	0.61 (41.)
27.	ˇ -13	Swanheart	5.4 (27.)	5 (28.)	1.08 (13.)
28.	ˇ -9	Over The Hills And Far Away	5.4 (27.)	10 (12.)	0.54 (47.)
29.	ˇ -12	Bless The Child	5.1 (29.)	8 (18.)	0.64 (40.)
30.	ˇ -9	Beauty And The Beast	4.1 (30.)	4 (37.)	1.03 (16.)
31.	^ +25	Last Of The Wilds	4.1 (30.)	6 (25.)	0.68 (33.)
32.	ˇ -2	Sacrament Of Wilderness	4.0 (32.)	5 (28.)	0.80 (26.)
33.	^ +5	Gethsemane	4.0 (32.)	7 (21.)	0.57 (44.)
34.	ˇ -3	Sleepwalker	3.5 (34.)	3 (43.)	1.17 (8.)
35.	ˇ -10	Dead To The World	3.3 (35.)	5 (28.)	0.66 (34.)
36.	^ +12	Know Why The Nightingale Sings?	3.0 (36.)	3 (43.)	1.00 (17.)
37.	ˇ -9	Elvenpath	2.9 (37.)	5 (28.)	0.58 (43.)
38.	ˇ -5	Two For Tragedy	2.8 (38.)	3 (43.)	0.93 (21.)
39.	ˇ -5	Meadows Of Heaven	2.6 (39.)	4 (37.)	0.65 (36.)
40.	ˇ -8	Crimson Tide & Deep Blue Sea	2.4 (40.)	2 (51.)	1.20 (7.)
41.	ˇ -7	The Escapist	2.3 (41.)	3 (43.)	0.77 (27.)
42.	^ +6	Eva	2.3 (41.)	5 (28.)	0.46 (57.)
-	ˇ -8	Romanticide	2.3 (41.)	5 (28.)	0.46 (57.)
44.	^ +3	The Siren	2.1 (44.)	5 (28.)	0.42 (61.)
45.	ˇ -8	Devil & The Deep Dark Ocean	2.0 (45.)	1 (65.)	2.00 (1.)
46.	ˇ -8	Bye Bye Beautiful	2.0 (45.)	4 (37.)	0.50 (49.)
47.	ˇ -4	Walking In The Air	1.8 (47.)	5 (28.)	0.36(64.)
48.	ˇ -8	Nightquest	1.5 (48.)	2 (51.)	0.75 (29.)
-	ˇ -8	The Carpenter	1.5 (48.)	2 (51.)	0.75 (29.)
50.	ˇ -6	Slaying The Dreamer	1.5 (48.)	3 (43.)	0.50 (39.)
51.	^ +2	Cadence Of Her Last Breath	1.5 (48.)	4 (37.)	0.38 (63.)
52.	^ +12	Higher Than Hope	1.3 (52.)	2 (51.)	0.65 (36.)
53.	^ +16	Lappi (Lapland)	1.3 (52.)	3 (43.)	0.43 (60.)
54.	ˇ -10	Wanderlust	1.2 (54.)	2 (51.)	0.60 (42.)
55.	ˇ -9	The Phantom Of The Opera	1.2 (54.)	3 (43.)	0.40 (62.)
56.	^ +6	Come Cover Me	1.1 (56.)	4 (37.)	0.28 (69.)
57.	N	High Hopes	1.0 (57.)	1 (65.)	1.00 (17.)
58.	ˇ -7	Crownless	1.0 (57.)	2 (51.)	0.50 (49.)
-	ˇ -1	Sahara	1.0 (57.)	2 (51.)	0.50 (49.)
-	ˇ -7	The Riddler	1.0 (57.)	2 (51.)	0.50 (49.)
61.	ˇ -7	Whoever Brings The Night	0.9 (61.)	1 (65.)	0.90 (23.)
62.	ˇ -2	Master Passion Greed	0.9 (61.)	2 (51.)	0.45 (59.)
63.	^ +1	Dead Gardens	0.6 (63.)	2 (51.)	0.30 (65.)
-	ˇ -3	While Your Lips Are Still Red	0.6 (63.)	2 (51.)	0.30 (65.)
65.	N	Astral Romance	0.5 (65.)	1 (65.)	0.50 (49.)
-	N	Eramaan Viimeinen	0.5 (65.)	1 (65.)	0.50 (49.)
-	ˇ -8	Symphony Of Destruction	0.5 (65.)	1 (65.)	0.50 (49.)
68.	ˇ -9	Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan	0.5 (65.)	2 (51.)	0.25 (70.)
69.	ˇ -7	Feel For You	0.4 (69.)	2 (51.)	0.20 (71.)
-	ˇ -1	For The Heart I Once Head	0.4 (69.)	2 (51.)	0.20 (71.)
71.	ˇ -7	Angels Fall First	0.3 (71.)	1 (65.)	0.30 (65.)
-	ˇ -7	Away	0.3 (71.)	1 (65.)	0.30 (65.)

Criteria for voting :

Each of you have one vote consists from 5 points. You may divide this 5 points between any number of songs in any way (only limit is, that you cant give less than 0.1 point to one song (so no 0.05 or 0.22 or so)). This is better than just one vote, because you may have more favorite songs (i have more than 40 by Nightwish ). I will be the judge who will be counting the votes and for each week (or longer period if this topic become somehow inactive) i will release new actual order. You can vote for any song ever appeared on any band´s release - either own work, either cover...Anything the band has done so far.

If anyone has any ideas, comments or suggestions about the rules or the evaluating system, dont be afraid and post them freely in this topic


My points went for :

Ghost Love Score (Once - Track no. 9) - 3
Crimson Tide / Deep Blue Sea (From Wishes To Eternity - Instrumental Track no. 7) - 1
Nightquest (Oceanborn - Bonus Track no. 11) - 0.5
10th Man Down (Over The Hills And Far Away EP - Track no. 2) - 0.5

Hmmmm I dunno what tos ay but I like Lapi song and also carpenther are werry good song, Over The Hills And fara way I like that song too but moutsly all songs are good

dont tell us which songs are good but tell us how exactly you will divide your 5 points between them

Written by Ellrohir on 16.10.2007 at 00:24

dont tell us which songs are good but tell us how exactly you will divide your 5 points between them

I will do it after I came beck of school and sleep unsdleped hours

All right.....

"Ghost Love Score" 1.6
"Meadows Of Heaven" 2
"The Escapist" 1.5
"Slaying The Dreamer" 0.9

It's rather difficult to say...for instance there may be songs I didn't like much when Tarja performed them but which I love now because I prefer Anette singing them......well....anyway.....here are my rough votes....my opinion may be changing....these are my favourites at the moment....

"The Poet and the Pendulum" - 2
"Dead to the World" - 1
"Ghost Love Score" - 1
"Ever Dream" - .5
"Wish I Had an Angel" - .5

So we have now after three votes (15 points total) the chart :

01. Ghost Love Score - 5.6
02. Meadows Of Heaven - 2
02. The Poet And The Pendulum - 2
04. The Escapist - 1.5
05. Crimson Tide / Deep Blue Sea - 1
05. Dead To The World - 1
07. Slaying The Dreamer - 0.9
08. 10th Man Down - 0.5
08. Everdream - 0.5
08. Nightquest - 0.5
08. Wish I Had An Angel - 0.5


please other people try to vote too...it doesn´t hurt

Phew this feels like a Eurovision voting hehe, and speaking of which I'm from Iceland and its 100% likely that our next song is just a joke, the dude who wrote the song was just 2 minutes composing it. Oh yea back to my Nightwish list songs are as goes.

Dead Boy's Poem (Wishmaster - Track no. 10) - 2
Sleeping Sun (Oceanborn - Track no. 11) - 1
Amaranth (Dark Passion Play - Track no. 3) - 1
Wish I Had an Angel (Once - Track no. 2)- 0.5
Wishmaster (Wishmaster - Track no. 6) - 0.5

i think in the end 'Ghost Love Score' is gonna win this . ok, since i like many NW songs so i will divide my 5 points like this :

- Ghost Love Score - 2
- Sleepwalker - 2 (how strange to see how much i love this song.. it's only a bonus track, you know... )
- Sacrament Of Wilderness - 0.2
- Deep Silent Complete - 0.2
- Come Cover Me - 0.2
- Dead Boy's Poem - 0.1
- Nemo - 0.1
- Over The Hills And Far Away - 0.1
- Beauty And The Beast - 0.1

No song from Century Child and Dark Passion Play

Deep Silent Complete 7.5
and the Pharaoh Sails To Orion 7.5

they are the most melodic and heavy from nightwish
i love the guitar riffs and the vocals especially on DSC they were the best girl singer band ever

Written by Dreamwar_86 on 19.11.2007 at 15:32

Deep Silent Complete and the Pharaoh Sails To Orion

they are the most melodic and heavy from nightwish
i love the guitar riffs and the vocals especially on DSC they were the best girl singer band ever

Read the first post.

This is such a painful choice since I seriously love 90 % of all their songs!
So to not make an neverending list I'll just post their five best songs (studio version) with one point each

Ghost Love Score 1
Deep Silent Complete 1
Wish I Had an Angel 1
Creek Mary's Blood 1
Dead Boy's Poem 1

Still alot of Nightwish I need to hear, but at the moment its Poet and the Pendulum.

2bucky01403 : so all 5 points to Poet you mean?

2_Dreamwar_ : i count your points as 2.5 an 2.5 according to rules, agreed?


and current top-list after 7 (bucky01403 has to confirm first) voters (35 points totals) :

And you others - vote, vote, vote



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Deep Silent Complete- 3
Two For Tragedy- 2

Elvenpath - 1
Beauty And The Beast - 1
Stargazers - 1
The Pharaoh Sails To Orion - 1
She Is My Sin - 1

another two votes - another chart

seems we'll have complete NW work here soon




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Well, I love all their songs, it's too difficult to choose !!
I'd say that my favourites are

Beauty of the Beast (Century Child track 10) - 1

End of All Hope (Century Child track 2) - 1

Gethsemane (Oceanborn track 2) - 1

Dark Chest of Wonders (Once tr. 1) - 0.5

Ghost Love Score (Once tr.9) - 0.5

Wanderlust (Wishmaster tr.4) - 1

This method is probably better for deciding best song than polls but it will be hard to count after a few pages. Anyway, mine are:

The riddler (Oceanborn) - 0.5
Sleeping sun (Oceanborn) - 0.5
She is my sin (Wishmaster) - 0.5
Wishmaster (Wishmaster) - 1
Bless the child (Century child) - 0.5
Beauty of the beast (Century child) - 1
Dark chest of wonders (Once) - 0.5
Ghost love score (Once) - 0.5

Turns out to be about eqal for each album accept for their first and their latest...

OK I willput the Wishmaster on the first place, although it probably isnt their bes song, but Ive heard it while I was stil getting into metal and stuff, so I went WOW what is this!! And everytime I listen to it my skin crawls...

Wishmaster 2
Deep Silent... 2
Nightquest 1

alright so after 12 voters the chart is :

the chart is still looking quite weird - 31 songs in the diversion of 2 points...we still need more votes to make the list at least a bit obvious...so come on and vote




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Ok, I'm ready to vote. However it's quite difficult...

Ghost Love Score (Once) - 1.8
The Poet And The Pendulum (Dark Passion Play) - 1.5
Dead Boy's Poem (Wismaster) - 0.8
Slaying The Dreamer (Century Child) - 0.3
Beauty Of The Beast (Century Child) - 0.2
Planet Hell (Once) - 0.1
Feel For You (Century Child) - 0.1
The Kinslayer (Wishmaster) - 0.1
Meadows Of Heaven (Dark Passion Play) - 0.1

God, I've chosen 9 songs! I'm really interested in this thing... It's great fo people, who don't know Nightwish

Written by Guest on 07.12.2007 at 20:21


God, I've chosen 9 songs!

Don't worry i've chosen 9 as well , that's the problem of being in love with too many NW songs

alright...this topic is again "dying in oblivion", so another chart i´ll post to bring it on the top again

Thirteen people participated so far and the standings are :



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Great! Three of my five favourites are top 3! Come on people, post your lists!

Nightwish is pretty special for me band for me, anyway, I'll give some points to the old and the new for various reasons. I saw them live with Anette a few months ago and really had a great time. Wow this is a tough list to make.

• Ghost Love Score - 1.0 - (Epic song, great backgrounds, great vocals, great composition, this is #1 that I'm judging the rest)
  
• The Poet And The Pendulum - 0.6 - (Great start to the new disc, sweet song)
  
• Wish I had an Angel - 0.5 (This was actually *the* song that got me listening to melodic euro-metal, and 10,000 songs later and 3 years later I'm a happier person. I think Anette actually sounded better singing this live that Tarja)
  
• Everdream - 0.5 - (Great song on Century Child to break up the style, you think it might be slower, but then it kicks in)
  
• The Kinslayer - 0.4 - (I love the guitar solo on this song, and remember listening to it on repeat on some road time for a few hours once)
  
• The Amaranth - 0.4 - (First single, standard stuff, but still very catchy and perfect for Anette)
  
• Romanticide - 0.3 - (For awhile I thought of Dead Gardens and Romanticide as one long song, they go together well, I love when the audio crashes before the chorus, sounds great, and some of the guitar effects do to on my stereo, nice solo)
  
• Dead Gardens - 0.3 - (Same comments as Romanticide)
  
• Bye Bye Beautiful - 0.3 - (First song you hear Marco singing on the new cd, and it really has a good style before Amaranth)
  
• Deep Silent Complete - 0.3 - (I wasn't that into this song, but it was good nonetheless)
  
• Eva - 0.2 - (I usually stop DPP after this song, very nice instrumentals though here)
  
• WishMaster - 0.2 - (Funnier because even when I heard it live I thought of the fishmaster video)
  

Fantasmic (Wishmaster) - 1.5
Amaranth (Dark Passion Play) - 1
Over The Hills And Far Away (EP) - 0.7
Wishmaster (Wishmaster) - 0.5
Ghost Love Score (Once) - 0.5
Deep Silent Complete - 0.5
Dead Boy's Poem (Wishmaster) - 0.3

hm...two new voters...time for another chart (now in new and better graphic design )

Another doze of new songs...about 30 wasnt mentioned yet, i wonder how long will it take till they appear too

And one thing about RULES - i cancel the rule "the version of the song matters"...now it is only the title of the song what is important, not if it is studio or life version...it is because many persons didnt followed the rule and anyway it was quite useless rule... ;-)

15 people participated, 75 points were divided in this way :




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Now that's superb Mr ChrisAmber!

Let me pick mine, tbh I am going to play with the polls, you may will need to ban me from voting

Seven Days To The Wolves 3
EverDream 1.5
10th Man Down 0.5

@Chris : whaww what a chart , am really impressed, good work