Description

‘Nemo’ is a 2004 song by the symphonic power metal band 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. 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. Nemo is Latin for “nobody”. It is also the name of the mysterious captain in Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (the probable origin for Disney’s Nemo). Also, nemo corresponds to the famous answer given by the Greek hero Odysseus to the Cyclops Polyphemus. In the Odyssey, when Polyphemus asks for his name, Odysseus tells him “Ovdic” a name translated as “No-man” or “Nobody” which has been used allusively by later authors, such as Jules Verne. The line in the chorus “‘Nemo’ my name forever more” further suggests this meaning to be the intended one. Other thematic elements from the Odyssey appears in other Nightwish songs such as “The Siren”.

Track listing:
1. Nemo
2. Planet Hell
3. White Night Fantasy
4. Nemo-orchestral version
5. Studio report and photo gallery-enhanced