#3 Key - BAND-MAID REACTION - ULTIMATE BAND-MAID RANKING
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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THE LIST SO FAR! (MOST TO LEAST FAVOURITE ORDER)
Be OK
Ever Green
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A mere drop in the bucket!
from JAPAN You are a very courageous person who is taking on an incredibly difficult challenge. It is wonderful. Keep up the good work.
Thank you so much!
@@K-RossReacts 👍😃
BAND-MAID were already unlocking the door to the future sound we all love with "Key". Thx Ross & Panic :)
KEY is actually a really popular track with fans. I did not realize to what degree until I did the collage :) . Ross, YOU are not supposed to be distracted by the photos ... but I understand ;) .
You should've known this was more popular. Evergreen it ain't. Hey & don't undersell yourself, photo collages are s'posed to distract you with their photos. I know this because that's why they're called "Photo collages".😜
Well then you should have done a crappier job putting them together, P&D.
Maid In Japan is a really fun album. It will always get lots of love from me.
I can't stop thinking about Miku's song "Fork in You"
Told you. I told you you were going to like this next one (Key), but it won't be the last. You'll have a problem with the next song deciding between 2nd or 3rd
Be OK is my #1 and it will stay there for a while because it's my fave MiJ song.
I don't think you fully understand what you've got yourself into😂, but I can only wish you the best of luck.
So far for me:
Be OK
Key
Evergreen
Agreed, Kawaii Davey.
Miku started this song with the first 2 lines, then next 2 was a duet and then Saiki took the last 2.... in the first verse. Same with the 2nd verse. There IS A LOT more Miku vocals on the first 3 "mini albums" than what alot of people realise. She sings a whole lot more "then" to what she does "now". If one listens enough, one can tell in the vocal timbre. And there is quite a few dual vocal songs to come.
Key, Be OK, Ever Green so far.
MISA MISA MISA!!!!! Ok a couple of thing before I forget 1. Miku probably sang 50% of the verses not much (if any ) of the choruses yet not one mention of her singing 2. Avril is the POSTER CHILD of Skater Punk Neo(pop) Punk is more Greenday, Blink182 etc. 3. This song is in my top 3rd Band-Maid songs.
Key, Be OK, Evergreen.
I like this overall, but the part where they say the song title feels underpowered.
For me, that's the best part😊 The subtlety of the two-note title hook transitioning back to rock riff after the soaring chorus makes me want to listen to it again.
: Band-Maid's older, somewhat overlooked songs are going to be rediscovered for years to come. This will bring a continuous flow of new fans into their fold. Some of these tunes are heavy, hard punk rock adding a new depth of artistry to the Maids many fans didn't know they had. Of course, for Maidiacs, they always knew about these bitchin tunes long ago and still listen to them all the time. Thx, Ross!
One thing to note that I have not heard you mention with a lot of early Band-Maid songs, is Miku is actually singing a lot more than people might realize. Occasionally, quite a bit of a song will be Miku, but either reactors do not know this and are just assuming it's Seiki, or for some reason they simply are not saying anything when/if they recognize this. (and I'm not talking just harmonies, of course)
I wish they would add some more songs with Miku sharing more of the vocals. She has a very lovely voice and it hits just right when she sings with Saiki.
Agree, Miku picked the right person for the lead vocals that fit their sound :)
Key is my favorite song on this album.
They were this awesome from the start, love it!
Three songs in and I'm having trouble ranking them already... this is not gonna go well for me, just about 120 songs to go lol
I had trouble after 2, this was a little easier for me.
Ranking Band-Maid? Easy!
Band-Maid: 10
All Songs: 10
Executions: 10
Performances: 10
Reactor Ross: 10 🤘🤣
Using a 1-10 ranking system: 0 😣👎
Okay, took me a couple listens and a relisten of Be Ok, but it’s the bass groove during the verse that really puts this one ahead for me. That breakdown also pushes the needle.
1. Key
2. Be OK
3. Evergreen
You know everyone always talk about when Kanami took over the writing of BM music which I absolutely love !!!! But lets give the previous
writers some love !!!!! They came up with some incredible songs !!!!!
Great reaction.
Well I'm having trouble already. Key is the better, more complex song but Be OK will always put a smile on my face. Don't think I could fit a (better not use the UK slang here) cigarette paper between them, therefore will probably have to group together, thusly...
1a. Be OK
1b. Key
3. EverGreen
I think so too. But wonder if that is colored by having seen a live video of Be OK, and not for Key? Many overlooked songs tend to not have a video, or a hard to find video.
@@DAVID-io9nj Very true (although I'm sure I've seen a video somwhere - maybe a fancam) as I tend to be a visual appreciator of muisic, understanding it better after seeing it. Don't think it would matter in this case though, I think the simpler, straight forward, catchier, faster tempo wins out this time as far as ranking on my favourites list goes. Having more complexitiy, dynamics isn't an automatic bump up the charts for me.
*K-Ross BAND-MAID Playlist*
🎀 *Maid in Japan* 01/8/2014
├ 📂 -Be OK-
├ 📂 -Ever Green-
├ 📂 -Key-
├ 📂 Bye My Tears
├ 📂 Knockin' on Your Heart
├ 📂 Big Dad
├ 📂 Yoake mae (夜明け前)
├ 📂 Forward
├ 📂 Ai to Jōnetsu no Matador (愛と情熱のマタドール)
└ 📂 Summer Drive
🎀 *New Beginning* 11/18/2015
🎀 *Brand New Maid* 05/18/2016
🎀 *YOLO* 11/15/2016
🎀 *Just Bring It* 01/11/2017
🎀 *Daydreaming / Choose me* 06/18/2017
🎀 *World Domination* 02/14/2018
🎀 *start over* 06/25/2018
🎀 *Bubble* 01/16/2019
🎀 *Glory* 01/16/2019
🎀 *BAND-MAIKO* 04/03/2019
🎀 *Conqueror* 12/04/2019
🎀 *Different* 12/02/2020
🎀 *Unseen World* 01/13/2021
🎀 *about Us* 2/3/2021
🎀 *Sense* 10/27/2021
🎀 *BAND-MAID ONLINE ACOUSTIC* 12/25/2021
🎀 *Unleash!!!!!* 9/21/2022
🎀 *Memorable* 2/21/2023
🎀 *Shambles* 8/3/2023
🎀 *Bestie* 5/1/2024
Riff sounds like it was pulled directly from the Scott Pilgrim Vs the World Soundtrack
I think it has a sound like Veruca Salt's song "Seether"
Ross i'm totally happy with your ranking so far but by God you better put "Don't You Tell Me" in the right spot when you come to it or the MINCHOSAUR will be unleashed.🦖
Hello Gary. Some fans call her Minchozilla. But Minchosaurus Regina would be better IMO.
Your list will morph so many times the deeper you get,and you will have your head in your hands,and say,why have i done this,its too hard,but so worth the effort,enjoy pal.
Hahah cheers mate! This is my 26th Series doing these....I'm used to it......but maybe not 'BAND-MAID' used to it!
The Maids participated in the arrangements, it's mentioned in the MIJ booklet. This is why even if they haven't composed anything, the Band-Maid sound is already present. Key is number one, but could that change? I'm looking forward to the next vidéo, K-Ross. THANKS.
1. Key
2. Be OK
3. Evergreen
I love Key from this album. Kanami's guitar tone is so cool.
Good stuff, K-Ross! Still with you on rankings. It's interesting that even before 100% Band-Maid songs, you can hear some elements of later Band-Maid. And Key is a pretty decent example.
If you were ranking songs per album I believe you could do it. But aren’t you ranking their whole discography? Did I misunderstand?Difficulty level: FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE
Pop-punk to me is kind of a broad category. Avril for sure, but also bands like Blink-182 and Green Day. I see what you’re saying about it sounding like skate punk though.
I’ve probably said this before, but I feel like this is a wildly underrated album. Is it their least mature work? Yeah. Is it before they started doing hard rock? Sure. Is it missing, or only hinting at, a lot of things we’d later come to expect (changed 2nd verses, etc)? Well, yeah. But they still sound like themselves. And it’s still a pretty good album, especially for a newly-formed band that didn’t quite know how to sound and used leftover songs for their first album.
"Pop-Punk isn't Skate Rock to me. Pop-Punk is Avril Lavigne."
Avril Lavigne, for those who don't know, is known for the hit song *_Sk8er Boi._* 😝
The problem with "Skate Punk" is that, like "Grunge" or "Nu-Metal," is that it is an arbitrary catch-all that is a tied to a time rather than a sound. Like, "Skate Punk" is just a collection of songs that are either Thrash Punk, Surfer Rock, straight up Pop-Punk, Hardcore Punk, Punk Rock with a singer who (intentionally) doesn't sing clean, or Ska Punk. The term means nothing musically, it's just a feeling. Like, take Sk8er Boi and Bad Religion's Infected or 21CDB and is there much of a difference other than gender and raspiness of the vocals and a decade's worth of advancement in post-production? There's really not a lot. Like, have The Offspring always been Skate Punk? Most would say yes, but their sound went from Thrash Punk to Punk Rock to Pop-Punk, dabbles in Ska Punk for a song, back to thrashy and then just hopping between sub-genres sometimes song by song on an album, but were they ever not Skate Punk? Goldfinger, one of the most widely recognized Skate Punk bands ever and their most popular song is Superman, which is straight up Ska Punk. But that song? Like the biggest song on Tony Hawks Pro Skater soundtrack lol. Like Superman could not be more different than The Kids Aren't Alright, but they're both Skate Punk. You know what I mean?
Perhaps you like punk that's less "hooky?" Or maybe that pop-punk instrumentation is more in service of the vocals, whereas NOFX or MxPx (maybe the closest sound instrumentally to this album???) have instrumentation and then the vocals just kinda do their own thing and are not necessarily in sync melody wise? That's not a diss, btw, that's just the best I can articulate the difference. Or maybe it's just straight up voice or autopitch or lyrics or subject matter preference? Before Band-Maid, my favorite band was The Offspring and Sugar Ray before that (and most people don't know before they hit it big Sugar Ray were funk metal which is heavily influenced by thrash punk. Check out Cash if you question the connection).
So - I confess that I've sort of avoided your rankings because I couldn't bear the idea of picking my "least favorite" - I think it might kill me. The way you're doing it isn't so bad though - although eventually you'll wind up with a bottom ten. So - even though I'm NOT a fan of "ranking" maid songs (I'm very much in favor of the notion that you don't critique their songs - you simply bask in their sonic splendor) - I suppose I can handle watching you rank them. Since you are a true Maidiac after all and therefore your heart is in the right place.
Perhaps knowing the background of the band makes me biased, but whenever I hear these early songs, all I hear are Nickelodeon sitcom rock songs played by musicians who are desperately trying to breakout and really rock
1. Key
2. Be OK
3. Evergreen
🗝🕊Po! Mincho appears!
The best thing about these collages by Panic is that they show the Maids as everyday young Japanese women... until they start playing their music. They then become burgeoning superstars. What an amazing and serendipitous gathering of artists. The stars were definitely aligned when they found each other. Every Band-Maid I hear makes my heart happy.