+1 and re-stumble on ;-) The catalogue is that deep.

They’ve played it live once. On 13 Feb 2020. The 1st night of their Line Cube Shibuya show, which did not get a live recording and release. We only got the 2nd night released as BlurRay/DVD

Excepting Line Cube Shibuya and the live streams, they never toured Conqueror - not in Europe or the States, at least. If they ever run out of material, they could tour Conqueror and Unseen World and their fans (meaning me, for sure) would love it. I know they've played some of the hits, I mean the deep cuts like this one and Azure, and Mirage, and Catharsis, etc. (ahem) Shall we? Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaah!! Come out!

@@surfingasongwave Well a few months after conqueror got released, boom lockdown everywhere. Even they weren't sure if they wanted to push the Line Cube Shibuya concerts. Glad that they did though.

@@surfingasongwave: Like I've said, for me, Conqueror is a masterpiece & my favorite album. It's sad that Conqueror got somewhat lost in the pandemic and subsequent shutdowns. It seems that the Maids are back and their plans for world domination are back on track !!!!!

For real, people who skip tracks are just delaying or avoiding the time when it "clicks" for them. (Not talking about playlists specifically for driving, working out, etc.)

@@stevehall5128 My Band Maid Playlist starts from Maid in Japan and goes through to Unleash! Including where I ripped the audio from all of the concert videos and separated all the tracks into their individual songs. Looking at my phone I have over 270 band maid songs on it, once the live edits are added in.

@@greylocke100 Now that is dedication!

@@Davey-Boyd I am also getting the fancams with the best sound and ripping the audio from them as well to add to my playlist. I want to be able to listen to ALL the songs, ALL of the time :)

Upvote for your avatar! SAY!

I'm proud to have been part of the crowd that surprised Miku with those towels. I will treasure mine.

@@flip.flap. Dallas was awesome, I yelled “Hentai”, then got a thumbs up when I said it was a Miku word!

To be fair, they have to choose 18 tracks out of 100+ tracks. If you check on one of the setlist websites (I don't dare mentioning the full name because youtube likes to eat my comments if I mention websites, but it's name is litterally setlist), you can see that they try to skew to newer tracks in general (which is normal) and then try to add a couple tracks from their older album. This list is from their current tour. I am somewhat surprised that there are more tracks from Brand New Maid than from Conqueror actually, but they seem to have done alone and Freedom 9 times each, so that adds up quickly. 1 Unleash 40 2 WORLD DOMINATION 36 3 Unseen World 31 4 Others 19 5 Brand New MAID 18 6 CONQUEROR 14 7 Just Bring It 7 8 New Beginning 3 Conqueror has had: endless Story (9) glory (4) Blooming (1) Not sure why they didn't throw in flying high. My guess is that they either tried to gauge how popular tracks are + the difficulty and fun they have playing them (for the older tracks). World Domination probably has their most known tracks (at least with the most views/reactions because of Domination and Play). I personally am not a big fan of Daydreaming, but it makes a lot of sense that they play it with how popular it is. I also think the perfect set would be different for most Maidiacs, I like flying high but I wouldn't have even thought putting it in a 18 track setlist. I would personally scrap Daydreaming in a heartbeat, while most people are probably thrilled that they played it as much as they have.

Man that sounds like a blast! Will you be at any more shows?

@@WavePotter not this tour but you can count on it next time. I'm 2 for 4 meeting the GG crew so it's my intention to complete the set...lol. 🙃

I am not taking away from your comment as it's somewhat subjective. But I can't hear a lot of Conqueror in Unseen World myself, I agree that World Domination doesn't sound like Unseen World either as it is way more hard rock based. I have honestly not heard a lot of metal riffs from Band-Maid personally, the only riff I can think of of the top of my head is that one part in Beauty and the beast. Most of what they have produced (to my ears) has been either punk based or has hard rock based riffs (usually a mix of both). The only thing they lend from metal regularly imo is Akane's drums, especially on Unseen World and later. You can hear she practices drums to metal tracks (she said so in one of her mails to the fanclub), especially her double-bass drumming. I do agree that the dual-vocals have probably started on Conqueror though as did the more progressive writing, so in that sense I agree. Maybe it's just the production that makes it sound so different to me. But Conqueror still has quite a few hard rock songs, Unseen World has almost none of those, most of it sounds punk based to me. I think Screaming is the closest to Unseen World and later they have done before including the use of Kanami's harmonizer. To me that was Kanami trying out something different (as a b-side of a single) and it stuck. Screaming could have been released on Unseen World or the single and EP after that and it would have fit in perfectly with most of the other tracks.

No, mate, you're not alone. Conqueror is great.

The Ladies need to take the original files and sit down and re-master them. And then re-release the album with maybe 2 or 3 new tracks as call it the Re-Conqueror. Then make videos for Flying High, At the drop of the hat, PAGE, Liberal, Azure, and Dilemma. Basically videos for the ENTIRE album. I know I would love it. Maybe just the Ladies had a mini concert where they just performed the entire album itself and released that as videos for Conqueror.

Well said!

Wave is hypnotized by Akane.😵

There seem to be a few too many self-appointed "experts" who dismiss every new B-M record based on one listen to the first track released. And they look dumb every time when the other songs (or even that first song done live) are exactly what they're complaining about not getting. :D

But his dad will probably get into it.

👆👍

lol!

I preferred everything over Conqueror for a long time with the exception of Maid In Japan. I would now probably place it over the first 3, but I still prefer every full album from Just Bring It and later over this one, although the gap certainly tightened, it might kick Just Bring It of it's 3rd spot over time. And there are a couple of tracks on Conqueror that I absolutely love. But I just discovered Band-Maid and basically only knew Unseen World. When I first put on Conqueror (from a bunch of new Band-Maid CD's I bought) I immediately was very disappointed because of Page. Page is still a track I really don't like that much and it left such a bad taste in my mouth (just the first few seconds) that I immediately wrote off the album. At the drop of a hat and the way everything sounded productionwise didn't help with it either. I would say I somewhat hated both Page and At the drop of a hat the first time I heard them. As far as one of the more debated tracks of the album goes, The Dragon Cries, I never disliked the track/music I don't like the production on it. But I think it's ok even though I think the chorus is very whiny. The only tracks I really liked off of this album back then were probably Rinne, bubble, glory and blooming. And I am not as big of a fan of blooming as most people are (I still like it though). Wonderland has become one of my favourite tracks though and the Acoustic Okyu-ji helped me appreciate some of the slower songs a bit more (page, at the drop of a hat and endless story), but I still don't gravitate towards those tracks and would still place them low on my list for Band-Maid tracks. The album grew on me over time though and I at least enjoy most of the tracks and appreciate what they were going for. I don't think it's a bad album and I understand what people love about it, some of the songs on there just really aren't my thing. The poppy opening of Page especially is what made me run away from more popular music to metal about 20 years ago. I might have had a different feeling on the album if it didn't start with Page actually, first impressions can make a big difference the same goes for expectations. It actually made me listen to the album less, which is why I am still not super familiar with a bunch of tracks on it (I can't place the name of the track with the song, I do recognize all of them when I listen to the album). Edit: I am actually curious to know if people who love Conqueror were fans of Band-Maid before it came out or discovered them through music off of Conqueror. Unseen World is my favourite album by them (closely followed by World Domination) and I discovered them just after Unseen World came out through a buch of tracks off of Unseen World and World Domination (Domination Live, Play Live, ...). I am curious if this might be something that colors people's views on specific albums.

@@MaartenT In my opinion, Page is misplaced. It should close the album and leave you humming. Blooming should have been first. The opening four bars are like a curtain rising on a stage. It's uptempo and dramatic, and very well constructed. They could have moved Endless Story for pacing, maybe right after The Dragon Cries to balance the pessimism. On all their albums they tend to group similar songs together; maybe they could split them up for pacing. But Saiki chooses and I don't want her mad at me. I knew of Band-Maid before Conqueror. It was the first album they released after I heard of them though, and not long after. Blooming was one of the songs that really *really* impressed me, just the quality of songwriting is outstanding. Dice and Choose Me are two others that continue to impress me. I don't "hate" anything they've done. I like some more than others, but frankly it depends on what's going on in my life. It changes. Unseen World is a masterpiece, in my opinion, and I'm pretty sure they will write and record more masterpieces before they are done.

@@surfingasongwave I find the chorus of Blooming a bit too pop-punky, but I have that "problem" with a lot of their chorusses (and a lot of chorusses of other Japanese bands), so that doesn't have anything to do with the quality of the track. I agree that it's very well written and that MV fits the track perfectly. I do agree that it would be a banging opener. So, that would have had a better impression on me for sure. But yes, I agree that pissing off Saiki would be a good idea, except if we get an other great song out of it like "HATE?". I wouldn't want to be on her bad side though. I just realize that I probably did hear a lot of those songs before because I did buy their Line Cube Shibuya and Online Okyu-ji Blu-ray before buying their albums, but I didn't fully watch them and just put them on while working from home at that time. So I wasn't super focussed on most of their music before getting the CD's. I remember not liking some back-to-back slower songs on Line Cube Shibuya Blu-ray, that might have been Page and Mirage actually. I never heard the majority of Band-Maid songs before watching/listening to those Blu-rays. Also, to be clear I don't "hate" those tracks, I just really don't like them that much in their original form. The acoustic versions fitted really well in the concert though. I actually love the set they did for Christmas even though a lot of the songs are not among my favourites at all. The fact that I had some alcohol for Christmas and it was streamed from 3 - 5 am my time or so might have had something to do with that, but it was so soothing before going to bed. It's probably my favourite live set they have done even though I generally prefer their more uptempo tracks.