Even when konami is not soloing she's soloing

These ladies are custom maid (😏) for double reactions 🎸 It’s no exaggeration to say that Band Maid play music with a variety of sounds that sometimes get them compared to bands like the Beatles. They have thrash heavy metal, hair metal rock, progressive, jazz-influenced cinematic rock, radio pop/fun stuff, and even slow jams that tug heartstrings. One of the most dramatic two-fers would be “Domination.” The song is cool, but the music video feels restrained and formulaic. The live? Completely alive. Rearranged and extended with solos from everyone. And a crowd cheering them on the whole time More? Of course. “Don’t you tell ME,” both versions are great, but the Yokohama live, once again…solos!! 🎉

There is simply NO wrong direction to take when you dive into the Band Maid catalog. 🎶🎸🥁🎸🎶🔥🙂🕊

You can listen in any order you like. Their new stuff will not spoil you for the older ones. They were magic from the first. If you hear one of their songs without grinning like an idiot or looking for the kleenex, it means you didn't listen closely enough.

This is one of the best bands on the scene right now. Do the music videos, do the lives, do it all! We will be here for it! We’ve seen it all and love seeing people fall in love with them just like we did 🤘🤘🤘

That's why I call her minchozilla

A few years ago I lucked into seeing the Live version of this just randomly in my YT feed. That's all it took. Oops! Too late! Hooked for life now. 🙂 You're going to enjoy this journey down the 'pigeonhole'! Thanks!

Best way to do it. Studio then live. They add that extra sauce on the live versions 😉

I think you may have just discovered the magic of BM! They make you smile! Their music can make a bad day better!

Try this " Double Reaction " thing with " Domination " , " Don't you tell ME " and " Endless Story " from Band Maid.

There are many unique aspects to Real Existence that sets it apart from many rock songs: the starts and stops, Miku's little breakout vocal line, Akane's double tempo gallop, and Kamani's solo. I mean, who would ever put that kind of solo in a rock song? But it works... just like all of the plot-twists, complex density, and genre-merging they employ on most of their material. Thx, Graxus!

Band Maid's look and music is known as the "Gap". You see these attractive young women in cute maid costumes then they melt your face. It's always fun to watch new reactors to their music.

Yep, we told you ;) You want real Hard Rock? listen to Band-Maid! Saviours of the whole genre! 🤘😎🤘

In my humble opinion....this is their best live performance along with PLAY Live !!!!!

Another great choice and doing the studio than the live is a really great way to see their progression and they do get better and better. When Saiki and MISA were fooling around it was because Saiki didn't have her shoes on, she had taken them off to go into the women's section and didn't get them back on in time. During Kanami's solo, she put them back on. Also, when you see the members crowd around the drummer (Akane) they're playing a game of making funny faces at her to see if they can make her make a mistake, she never does.

Their recorded music is great, well crafted and polished. Their live music is great too, raw and passionate. It's all good. There is no "correct" way to go through their discography. All their songs are good. You can tape all the titles to a dart board and choose that way, they're all good. About the time you've figured out how hard they can go, you'll hear an acoustic song that seems to be written for you and sung directly to you, personally. It will touch your heart and it will be your new favorite! You'll see! They are truly artists.

Thrill got me interested. This made me a Maidiac. Five years later I love these humans more than ever🤘🤘🔥🔥😎😎

Akane, showing she was a beat on drums from the off. Kanami, performs solos in most songs. However they are often fairly short. It can easily be argued that leaving people wanting more, is a good thing. You can see how amazing Band Maid are live.

Anything they do in the studio, they take to the stage and in most cases (as you just seen) is a lot better. Miku is a very smart lady. She wanted to start a band but needed to stand out from the rest - She used to work at a "Maid Cafe" in Japan so, enter the outfits. I didn't like the outfits when I first seen a thumbnail 5 or so years ago ... although I did wonder. A few months later I give em a go to see what all the fuss was about and realised how unbelievably talented these guys are - they ARE the real deal. Excellent songwriters, musicians, performers and just genuinely humble human beings.

So, Saiki (lead V) took her heels off on the previous song during this live. She got into the crowd and had to be helped back to the stage, less heels. That's why you see Misa (Bass, AKA "Barefoot" Assassin) and Saiki acknowledging one another like how Knights salute before battle, Po! 🦍🍌🐎

When Band-Maid goes really heavy, it is not borderline metal. It is metal 😆

Did you like the guitar solo? Name of this guitar Queen is KANAMI and she plays her amazing solos in each BAND MAID song! She is the best female guitar player in the world! She is awesome same like all members of this amazing band!!!

My No.2 MAID's track...It was the first I heard....But never thought one day I would actually be standing in front of that very temple holding up my mobile to have a my own personal performace..hehehe...I visited this temple a number of times during both my trips to Japan (from the UK) to see these ladies LIVE..

The next early MV's to check out are Don't Let Me Down & The Non-fiction Days.

The double reactions are a great way to compare live to studio. In Band-Maid's case, both are going to be great! Starting with the early songs and working your way to the new ones is a good way to see how the band has evolved, but the older songs are lacking nothing, the whole catalog is great! Enjoy the ride down the Pigeon Hole, Po!

Watch fancams in a couple of months! (After being more of a fan). You'll see all the antics they get up to on stage! lmao! They're so awesome! Seen them 3x already.

If you still are looking to graduate up to current BAND-MAID, please check out DOMINATION (live video) next - it is classic. Plus, you get another bass solo with guitar and a few measures of a drum highlight. Thank you for appreciating these five talented ladies. Great reaction, sir.

i still love saiki flipping the crowd the bird in the live

It's interesting to react to an MV-studio and then a live one.

For when there are both MV and live available doing both is the way to go. They also have a couple of double song videos that would be interesting as they do 2 contrasting songs back to back. Welcome to the world of Band-Maid.

Some Easter Eggs, in the live Real Existence performance. Saiki is shoeless, since she took off her shoes, during the immediately preceding rendition of FREEDOM. She was half-climbing out among part of the crowd, and didn't want to stab anyone. She wasn't able to re-shoe before the next song. (Of course, MISA always goes without shoes when performing.) Notice Saiki giving a quick, but *clearly intentional*, middle finger at 9:37 in Graxus' video. Maybe someone was bothering her about the shoe thing, or something else, in her in-ear mike? We don't know! Thanks for the great reaction, Graxus! I caught BAND-MAID for a live show in the US, last year. As amazing as you'd expect, and more.

Check out ,Hate, live at Yokahama to see just how good live these ladies are,its only a few months old,enjoy.

Welcome to the pigeonhole, po! Best rock band on the planet! Going with your plan, I'll suggest Don't Let Me Down, which is an older track. The lyrics are, let's just say, interesting. Super saucey!😂😂😂 Now, if you want to see the best power metal thrash band on the planet, check out Love Bites - Stand and Deliver! Warning! Lead guitarists, Midori and Miyaku, will melt your face off without breaking a sweat!

Very nice decision to watch both. And yes, "Real Existence" is from the same (second!) album as "Thrill" and the MV is also from that time period. Before I get to some recommendations for a next song, let's get back to their first(!) album with at least one great song named "Forward". They played it at their Christmas Acoustic Concert (not public available). There is no other good quality live video available but a video from their radio show 'BAND-MAID NIPPON' (with only Miku and Saiki): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rapmfZCkkprXo4k.html And that song is also a great introduction to the Band Maid Community Discord project (BMCD) where many MAIDIAC musicians cover Band Maid songs: www.youtube.com/@bmcdoa Back to your journey after "Real Existence": The album "New beginning" has some more great songs like ... 'Freezer' (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rp13Y7l21b3Ij3U.htmlsi=RTQvqokrtLr7eCcy and one of the bast BMCD covers: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ntl3eriaxMqxfKM.htmlsi=Mau8xRb8MHiDrmjU) "Don't let me down", WARNING: lyrics only for adults 😅: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zr93qriZzJi8fp8.htmlsi=ljxPc7tTPPtRqEiA "Beauty and the Beast". a Miku song with a surprise: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q5p8YKxhmZfOmac.htmlsi=1RX39srrHcqjW6rH). And for the next album "Brand new Maid" you have to checkout "Freedom" (LIVE), one of the best live performances: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fK6gqKiisqfHdJs.htmlsi=OMwbefdmZGvJGjGH "Alone" (MV), their first own composition: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l952aJmamdnUmaM.htmlsi=wC1oxK7skKFfAXSI But I already told you that in my last Thrill-comment, didn't I.😀Po! Twice is better than never, po! 🕊

The official live of this song is killer, so if you want to do the MV & live versions at the same time, it's fine by me. Now let's talk about the bass player, Misa, aka, the Barefoot Assassin !! Lots & lots of fans fall in love with Misa, she is no joke. The band knows how great she is, so they let her shine ! 😏♥️🎙🎸🥁😎🤘

The LIVE version is even better! Watch especially for the on stage interaction between Saiki and MISA during that high bass line in that one.

Several years ago, I started diving down the rabbit hole of Japanese music for several weeks, starting because of an old article Metal Hammer posted on Facebook. It was about a prog rock band called Lightbringer. KZfaq started suggesting all kinds of bands. Many were weird. The gimmicks got a bit much for me. I ignored the suggestions for BAND-MAID for 2-3 weeks thinking they were going to be squeaky, nauseatingly cute pop like so many of the other gimmick bands I'd seen. I finally gave in and watched Thrill. It surprised me. It was OK, but it had a great sound. I watched this next and I was blown away. The 1st thought that popped into my head was "Who is this band and why have I not heard of them before?".

Band-Maid (Kanami) does write their songs where there is, for the most part, All-In towards the end of the song/after last chorus. You'll really see it in "Blooming" and later in "Manners". Well it seems you're hooked past the barb so here's a little something to help you on your Band-Maid journey. Band-Maid Is: Akane Hirose (Ah-kah-nee or Ah-kah-nay) -Drums, Nickname: “Ah-chan” and "Gorilla" because she eats lots of bananas for her stamina and is a BEAST on drums. Lost her little hat back in 2018....a sad day indeed. MISA (Mee-sah) - Bass Guitar, Nickname: "The Barefoot Assassin" MISA always performs barefoot as she states she likes to feel the music through her feet, and "kills" everything she plays. Kanami Tono (Kah-nah-mee) - Lead Guitar/Genius Songwriter Nickname: "Mincho" “Kanamincho” ……Miku’s guitar Sensei. Miku Kobato (Mee-koo) - Band-Maid Spokesperson/Rhythm Guitar/Lyricist/Founder/Backing Vocals/Lead Vocals…hardest working girl in music. Nickname: "Little Pigeon" (Miku’s surname means “Little Pigeon”) ....po! Getting caught up in Band-Maid means going down the “Pigeon Hole”…….. no rabbits here. Saiki Atsumi (Sy-kee) -Lead Vocals Nickname: "The Princess" “Si-chan”. Saiki may be called The Princess but Miku is The Queen…..also Saiki is Kanami’s “crush”.

Welcome back to *BAND MAID!* Plenty to hear and see 🤘😀🤘

every song they do, is better live, amazing

If you’re doing it in order then “Don’t Let Me Down” will be pretty soon. There are no subtitles in the video, but you need to look them up. It’s their “naughty” song. It’s technically all in English, but their accents are still very pronounced at this point. They’ve gotten better since then. This is from an era of the band where they had song writers from the label that wrote and worked with the ladies on the songs. So we joke that they didn’t know what they were singing and were tricked! But they absolutely knew what that song was about.

In my opinion BAND-MAID is always better live...oh, that energy!

Kanami🥰 Guess Don't Let Me Down will be next.

バンドメンバーのドキュメンタリーを見てMVやLIVEを見ると我が娘の成長を見ているみたいで🥹😢😂😭😄😘

OG Band Maid for the win. Moritorium knocks it up another notch as far as heaviness goes. It is also an early Maid song. If you want heavier all female J-metal you need to head into Mary’s Blood, Nemophila and Lovebites though.

DO the Official Live of "Real Existence" ASAP, while your memory of this original MV is fresh -- see how the song evolves!

Even though it wasn't written by Kanami, there are a few band-maid tricks you hear, Kanami's solo, cooky Misa arrangement, distinctive use of pause.

BAND-MAID のライブ動画では、Freedom と HATE? をお勧めします。AKANE の凄いドラムソロと、KANAMI と MISA の ギター vs ベース バトルが見所です！ For BAND-MAID's live videos, I recommend Freedom and HATE? . The highlights are AKANE's amazing drum solo and KANAMI and MISA's guitar vs bass battle !

Regarding Babymetal, always go with live, always! Migetsune, Karate and BxMxC are the only exceptions!😁🙏🤘

YOU WANT HEAVIER JAPANESE WOMEN BANDS? TRY LOVEBITES AND NEMOPHILA. YOU WILL THEN DISCOVER DOZENS AND DOZENS OF AMAZING JAPANESE BANDS GOING BACK 50 YEARS.

No disrespect intended, but live is almost always worse. The whole point of a studio recording is you can play parts over and over and over to get them right. Live you have to live with your mistakes. Sometimes that can make a song better - we've all heard clearly over-produced stuff - but generally not. BAND-MAID's official lives, like every other band's official live songs, have been scrubbed up and re-mixed. They ARE one of the best live bands on the planet, but when you see them in person, live mixes are hit or miss.

Not Live? Shame...

Too many pauses.😐👎