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    Posted: August 18 2020 at 05:58
I know a thread about this has already been made, but it was made several years ago and has been closed since then.

Even though i have every Nightwish album from the Tarja era, and i consider Wishmaster and Once, as the bands best albums, i might possibly consider Floor the best vocalist.    I know the thing that Nightwish suffered when they had Anette as their vocalist is, she wasnt opera trained in her vocals like Tarja was, so the band had to change direction a fair bit to suit that.

But the problem with Tarja is, opera style vocals is ALL she can do.  From having a listen to Endless Forms Most Beautiful, it seems Floor has the most variety of the 3.
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I have all of Tarja Turunen's Nightwish albums too, AND all of her solo albums. Thumbs Up Heart
 
I'm also floored by Floor Jansen of Epica and tempted by Sharon den Adel of Within Temptation. Smile
 
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

I have all of Tarja Turunen's Nightwish albums too, AND all of her solo albums. Thumbs Up Heart
 I'm also floored by Floor Jansen of Epica and tempted by Sharon den Adel of Within Temptation. Smile
 

Floor was only a guest vocalist in Epica. 

I only like the Nightwish with Tarja, late 90s, early 2000s. 
I do think Floor is a good singer, but the bands she's been in don't do much for me, as well as the two albums she did with Nightwish. 
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I like em all.  I consider them as complements to the music so haven't gone to lengths to compare them.  Hopefully rogerthat is around as he has some opinions to share I believe
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

I have all of Tarja Turunen's Nightwish albums too, AND all of her solo albums. Thumbs Up Heart
 I'm also floored by Floor Jansen of Epica and tempted by Sharon den Adel of Within Temptation. Smile
 

Floor was only a guest vocalist in Epica. 
 
Sorry, my mistake. I meant Simone Simons. Embarrassed
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

I have all of Tarja Turunen's Nightwish albums too, AND all of her solo albums. Thumbs Up Heart
 I'm also floored by Floor Jansen of Epica and tempted by Sharon den Adel of Within Temptation. Smile
 

Floor was only a guest vocalist in Epica. 
 
Sorry, my mistake. I meant Simone Simons. Embarrassed
 



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I think the contest is really between Tarja and Floor... Anette is just not in the same league. Indeed Floor has the great advantage of being the more versatile one... perhaps one of the most versatile women singers I can think of. Yet hearing her sing Tarja's originals, I can't help but notice how unique Tarja's voice was, and must just prefer her performances. And then, so far I have not really been much of a fan of the music Nightwish has done with Floor. Strangely enough, my favourite Nightwish album in Imaginaerum, with Anette on vocals (though the live versions they have done with Floor do sound so much better in her vocal delivery, and I only wish they had originally recorded this album with her).
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Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

I think the contest is really between Tarja and Floor... Anette is just not in the same league. Indeed Floor has the great advantage of being the more versatile one... perhaps one of the most versatile women singers I can think of. Yet hearing her sing Tarja's originals, I can't help but notice how unique Tarja's voice was, and must just prefer her performances. And then, so far I have not really been much of a fan of the music Nightwish has done with Floor. Strangely enough, my favourite Nightwish album in Imaginaerum, with Anette on vocals (though the live versions they have done with Floor do sound so much better in her vocal delivery, and I only wish they had originally recorded this album with her).

Pretty much, Annette just doesn't belong.  Floor is overall comfortably a better singer than Tarja.  One of the most versatile SINGERS, across genders.   I think it's more that Nightwish utilises only a part of Floor's seemingly endless repertoire and in that she gets compared with Tarja. 
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^ I saw Floor Jansen with Nightwish last night in the Prog Rock Dock concert series and she was amazing! Thumbs Up
I was floored to discover she's also the tallest member of Nightwish at over six feet tall! Smile

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Talking about Floor's versatility, I would love to hear a full collaboration between Floor Jansen and Devin Townsend, whose music I also love because of his own versatility.
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Floor over Annette over Tarja. Came late to the Nightwish party...
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Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

Talking about Floor's versatility, I would love to hear a full collaboration between Floor Jansen and Devin Townsend, whose music I also love because of his own versatility.

I would too, what a treat that would be!  Although, we might have difficulty identifying which of the two is rendering the death-growls! LOL
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Nightwish with Tarja was magical.

Imaginaerum with Anette was awesome, perhaps their best album as for songwriting and craftsmanship.

Floor is a very talented singer. One of the best professional figures in metal. She's awesome live too. However, I didn't like her first album with Nightwish (Endless Forms Most Beautiful). I've yet to hear their last album, though.

All in all, I'd go with Tarja. Oceanborn is perfect, Wishmaster is not perfect but has great magical atmosphere and they don't have any crappy album together.
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Originally posted by rogerthat rogerthat wrote:

Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

Talking about Floor's versatility, I would love to hear a full collaboration between Floor Jansen and Devin Townsend, whose music I also love because of his own versatility.


I would too, what a treat that would be!  Although, we might have difficulty identifying which of the two is rendering the death-growls! LOL


I think she actually had Devin sing a song with her on one of her albums before Nighwish (ReVamp I think was the name of that project), but it was actually rather ordinary. A whole collaboration album would be wonderful, specially if Devin was mostly in charge of writing the music.
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Originally posted by Shadowyzard Shadowyzard wrote:

Nightwish with Tarja was magical.

Imaginaerum with Anette was awesome, perhaps their best album as for songwriting and craftsmanship.

Floor is a very talented singer. One of the best professional figures in metal. She's awesome live too. However, I didn't like her first album with Nightwish (Endless Forms Most Beautiful). I've yet to hear their last album, though.

All in all, I'd go with Tarja. Oceanborn is perfect, Wishmaster is not perfect but has great magical atmosphere and they don't have any crappy album together.


Just about the way I would put it myself.
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Personally, I not only respect and acknowledge ALL 3 singers, but recognize the 3 different eras of the band. But, lets not forget the 2 different drummers (Jukka & Kai), or the 3 different bass guitarists (Sami, Marko & Jukkis). Plus since Tuomas is still the chief song/lyric composer in the band it goes without saying Nightwish is still thriving in 2024! The comparison is always between the 3 different lead singers, even tho the band has had several slight lineup changes over the years. The way I see it is: Tarja is/was the myth in the studio, Anette was the fairy the bridged Tarja & Floor, and Floor is the f**king live legend! All 3 have made Nightwish the band they are today!
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I'm on Tarja side, her voice in Ever Dream & Phantom of the Opera was absolutely amazing.
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IMHO - The best albums to me are in Annette’s era, I rate Imaginarium very highly, but in terms of vocals both Tarya and Floor are better vocalists. There we area vote for each one.
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^ Imaginaerum is actually my favourite album from Nightwish, but indeed I prefer both Tarja and Floor as singers over Annette. And the Imaginaerum songs played live with Floor are gorgeous.
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for me Nightwish  was TARJA. Her voice was like a revolution  for my ears 
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