Solitude (1994-1995)
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 2:23 am
I only discovered this song today after listening to the entire first TT solo album.
I looked around but I couldn't find it on the B-side of any of the singles, despite being on the "Singles B-Sides" bootleg. It's credited to Stratovarius but given the lineup on the first album that seems like it just means that Jari played the bass instead of Timo.
It seems that TT cannibalized this song - the verses, with some minor modifications and new lyrics, would form the verses of Neon Light Child on the Infinite album. But more interestingly he lifted the "fading like a dream, away from me" line and added it, without any changes, to "Angel" in Revolution Renaissance (what would become the New Era album). "Welcome to my world, close the door" is reused in Fantasia but with a different melody.
On the subject of early Strato bonus tracks, here is a little more well-known one, especially for this forum, but probably one that doesn't get listened to as often as it should - the Dreamspace bonus track Full Moon!
I looked around but I couldn't find it on the B-side of any of the singles, despite being on the "Singles B-Sides" bootleg. It's credited to Stratovarius but given the lineup on the first album that seems like it just means that Jari played the bass instead of Timo.
It seems that TT cannibalized this song - the verses, with some minor modifications and new lyrics, would form the verses of Neon Light Child on the Infinite album. But more interestingly he lifted the "fading like a dream, away from me" line and added it, without any changes, to "Angel" in Revolution Renaissance (what would become the New Era album). "Welcome to my world, close the door" is reused in Fantasia but with a different melody.
On the subject of early Strato bonus tracks, here is a little more well-known one, especially for this forum, but probably one that doesn't get listened to as often as it should - the Dreamspace bonus track Full Moon!