For those wondering, the term "spanner" is British for the word "wrench," which is British slang for "a stupid person." For those wondering, British is a language derived from English, but with sillier words. The More You Know 🌈🏳🌈🏳🌈🏳🌈🏳🌈⭐
glad you don't pop up in many Band-maid feeds cos I would get miffed making such a great community as ours sound like Dushes, putting people OFF re-acting to Band-Maid with these pithy (not) comments
High on my list. I love it and once again there's nothing like in in their entire catalogue. They master an era/subgenre on their first try then walk away.
As a fan of Band Maid I kept a bit quiet when I first listened to the album. Like Chemical Reaction it was a wall of sound and no fishing line for me to grab the hook and be swept up. On repeat listens however, again like this song, it began to not only have a tasty ear worm on the hook but an entire fishing net became available to become trapped in. May have over done the whole fishing thing. But in the end, cow bell or no cow bell, the song is repeatable. Which is what Band Maid are good at.
This and FATE are real stompers. Just a lot of basic fun and for an old guy like me this brings back a whole era. More cowbell. 😁 As the old Judas Priest song says: Heavy metal, what do you want?
In the context of the album as a whole the 4 songs before this are: I Still Seek Revenge, H-G-K, Sayonakidori then, Why Why Why kind of melt your brain and you need something simple... like cow bell.
I had a generally similar reaction, Mark. It felt a little different for them. Apparently, this song started out as an idea Misa had so that might explain why. Initially, I thought, okay, it's just okay. I did dig the Alice-in-Chains-like/neo-pysch intro guitar line and like the heavy guitar tone but I wasn't sold. Then, of course, they got closer to the bridge and solo and things started to shift. You wouldn't care but that guitar solo and the accompanying music is f*cking nuts. Brilliant. Still not in my favorites for them but like all of their stuff, there are always turns and surprises that make just about every song unskippable. You never know exactly what's about to happen in the next bar.
In an interview about Unseen World, Miku said they wanted some songs that were a back to the roots (Genten Kaiki) element from their earliest albums, so things in the spirit of Freezer, Arcadia Girl or Shake That. There are English captions available in this interview th-cam.com/video/JKvQ34ZYT9A/w-d-xo.html
Im in the minority...I like the song. It's different. It's taking a chance. I like that. Like Miku says "You have no choice". Also, that t-shirt collar hanging a little limp....7/10 on EMO scale of collars
Some respite on a friggin hectic album. This and Manners allow heart rates to settle for some...let the pacemakers cool down for a mo 😁 As an album listener, I'd never dream to skip it...a grower for sure 👍🤘
I consider "Chemical Reaction" an homage to 70's music. Kanami was experimenting with this but I love it. Ittakes me back to my youth. Thumping bass, hard driving drum beats complete with cowbell. Kanami used fuzz tones and the wah wah pedal. At the end of the song there is a subtle but real tribute to a person considered the great rock and roll guitarist of all-time. Who, you ask. Jimi Hendrix. There is a fade out with the warbling rifts that reminded me of "Purple Haze" or "Foxy Lady". Clever Kanami!!!!!
Band-Maid goes tribal! Still Band-Maid. Their music is always uniquely theirs. Instantly familiar and comfortable, but always so much more than that with further listening.
Thank you for your reaction. I was curious how reactors thinks about this song and I kind of like it but it is on an epic album which kind of makes not the #1 song. Like Manners, my first song with Band Maid, they seem also to test different ideas on this album. Not sure, but have you checked the MV for Warning? There is also an online live. Otherwise, Giovanni is an intersting composition. Have fun! :)
I like the song. A perfect arena rock that probably sound massive live. It has Band-Maid written all over the place imo, but I only notice that because I've been listening to so many Band-Maid songs everyday. Yep, it's very Kanami thing to mess around with different ideas.
Absolutely a metal song, almost hair-metal, in fact. No idea why anybody would claim that Band-Maid can't do metal, when they absolutely can and do. :)
Love this song, to me it's one of their most late 60's / early 70's songs and sounds like a Deep Purple / Atomic Roster mashup, absolutely not metal in any shape or form. The other interesting thing to me is Kanami's intro lead/riff that is repeated during the song sounded instantly familiar to me, it screamed 1967 but I couldn't think of the song. However after extensive digging I eventually found it in the 1968 song Paradise Lost by The Herd (Peter Frampton) th-cam.com/video/p5HZKDQzeLU/w-d-xo.html . Incidentally, I gather Akane didn't want to use cowbell, she wanted to use the cymbal bell but Kanami insisted, also Misa took a big role in the composition and she has said that this is the song that is closest to her musical tastes.
Sometimes it serves no purpose to try to categorize a Band-Maid song. Each one is what it is. This old boy's eyes and ears just sees this as one flat out old school rock banger. Nothing fancy, just good rock. One of my favorites.
CHEMICAL REACTION is BAND-MAID’s big Stadium Rock Song: big, stupid riff: chanted lyrics; and Cow Bell! Not my favorite song, but it’s accessible for the masses. SAIKI is the best part.
Normally, I'm not a cowbell kind of guy. I trust Kanami's instinct on this one. At least she didn't call for " church bell " or " service counter bell " or " tricycle bell "...they all would have sucked royally . If Mincho wants me to cut her some slack... I'm getting out the measuring tape and asking " How much do you need ? " 😁
The first time I heard this song, with Saikis cadence and the chord progression especially in the chorus all I thought was later album Fall Out Boy. Am I crazy.
A lot of the song sounds like they're covering a KISS song, 'God Of Thunder', or something like that. Great Bass, but it needs a Music Video, though I'm not sure it's worth one. To many other songs on the list in front of it. But I gotta have more cowbell! I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more Cowbell!
Pretty sure there were exactly 314 cowbells in this song. As a completely unbiased professional commenter, I must say it was the PERFECT number of cowbells. Also, I feel Build A Mario back there is staring at me, silently judging. (Just me?! Oh, okay.)
Akane: And if Kanami wants more cowbell, we should probably give her more cowbell! Kanami: Say it, Baby! Akane: And, Miku, you are right -- I am being selfish. But the last time I checked, we don't have a whole lot of songs that feature the cowbell. Kanami: I gotta have more cowbell, baby!
Even with Kanami's technical issue, it's fun to see the Maid's play Chemical Reaction Live. See it at: th-cam.com/video/IQpzy0vNQ_k/w-d-xo.html Thx, Mark!
Plenty of the lesser played songs on this album are more metal- enough for some to consider this a mostly metal album. Apparently Akane didn't want the cow bell in but Kanami insisted. In fact I think she didn't posses a cow bell so used a pad. Anyone seen a cowbell on her kit?
Sorry, I forgot to add this bit. There is a phrase that discribed 70's music and culture. The phrase - Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll. There is a chemical reaction from males and females when sex is involved. Drugs obviously create a chemical reaction. Rock and roll also created a chemical reaction. When you hear great rock and roll, your body has to move, your muscles twitching and jumping. Miku was again clever with the title and the lyrics. "You have no choice".
Their standard stuff... THEIR STANDARD STUFF? I could be wrong, but I don't think they have "standard stuff". Go and wash your mouth out with bleach immediately. Genres...I can't believe that in comments on previous Band Maid songs no one has observed that they span all known genres. Or, as Ryan Mear (a fellow reactor) put it: "They sound like Band Maid...they just fucking sound like Band Maid". Keep up the good work and best regards to your street dog family.
One of their very few album fillers. Only ever played live once, although it was playing on a loop in DC through the PA system before the concert I went to. Nothing like a cowbell to get your heart going.
I agree...one of my least "Band Maid " tracks. Your commentary is always valid and i know is paid attention to by other reviewers. Have a good week fella!
interesting your comment about the production. I've always found their albums a bit sub par production wise compared to their music vids (even the live ones). Their DVDs and Blu-Rays don't have that issue either. Just the CD / album recordings. Baffles me a bit. As usual, your reaction made me giggle. Good job.
I really like this song in spite of myself. To me this is Band-Maid doing cock rock. But better then any cock rock band. Nickelback and said " yeah we can do that" and then proceeded to outdo Nickelback at the thing that they do. That's not what I actually believe happened but it's what I like to think ;)
To me it seems like this song was written to be performed live at US festivals but they don't perform it live. It does feel a bit out of place on the UW album IMO.
Here for the #Science. Kanami is incapable of writing a shitty song, but this is the least Kanami, least inspired song she's put out there, IMO. If The Warning came out with this, minus the solo, I'd not think it was out of place with rest of their songs in terms of composition. Good, but you know there's better to come.
Cowbell? Too emo for me. Overheard at the studio - We need a filler for this album that can be. “B” side, you ladies have anything? Kanami - well, I have this one that is kind of old style which might sound god with cowbell… All the band - そうだね！(hell yeah!)
My main question after this is: does the addition of cowbell have any impact on how emo a song is? Based on the Scale, it should have no bearing, being neither guitar nor vocals, but... I feel cowbell is more powerful than that. More research is needed.
*plays Band Miid's most 80s Pop influenced song ever"* "it's too metal... too metal.. metal isn't clever enough"..... also emo, emo, emo! 🤣 OK mate.... what's in your vape??? Seems like some good shit....
Akane doesn't like cowbells for some reason... He's just like that. Although... it would be nice. Of course it goes with him here. But show me another Band Maid track where you use it.
I have questions. Did The Maids have to pay royalties to Blue Oyster Cult for using cowbell? Where did they get a cowbell? Is there now a cowbelless cow roaming somewhere in Japan? Did Akane eat the cow? If Akane DID eat the cow, does that affect the EMO scale rating? Ahhh, the mysteries confound! 🕊️
This is one of only 2 Band-Maid songs that I don’t really care for (the other being Dragon Cries). I agree the second half is better, but it just feels mundane. And I usually like cowbell.
Not my favourite Band-Maid song. There are parts in this song I do like....... But I hate the "Cow bell" in principle. This is (for me) Meh Band-.Maid song. Try something different (which is ok......looking at you "Start Over" )...... hence no official MV. Having said that, it could have been waaaaaaaaaay worse. NO MORE COWBELL. Leave that for the hair-metal bands.
Another yammering moron. Dandy. Influencer wanna-bes SUCK. You're all the same.
And yet here you are watching us, like a fucking spanner.
For those wondering, the term "spanner" is British for the word "wrench," which is British slang for "a stupid person."
For those wondering, British is a language derived from English, but with sillier words.
The More You Know
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@@Parker-- I’m glad you pointed that out, cause I wasn’t gonna 😂
you seem to have some expertise in yammering morons....... 🤔
glad you don't pop up in many Band-maid feeds cos I would get miffed making such a great community as ours sound like Dushes, putting people OFF re-acting to Band-Maid with these pithy (not) comments
One of my favourite songs by them, I adore it!
High on my list. I love it and once again there's nothing like in in their entire catalogue. They master an era/subgenre on their first try then walk away.
That guitar solo is straight out of Lynyrd Skynyrd's library!! Totally Southern Rock!
As a fan of Band Maid I kept a bit quiet when I first listened to the album. Like Chemical Reaction it was a wall of sound and no fishing line for me to grab the hook and be swept up. On repeat listens however, again like this song, it began to not only have a tasty ear worm on the hook but an entire fishing net became available to become trapped in. May have over done the whole fishing thing. But in the end, cow bell or no cow bell, the song is repeatable. Which is what Band Maid are good at.
This and FATE are real stompers. Just a lot of basic fun and for an old guy like me this brings back a whole era. More cowbell. 😁 As the old Judas Priest song says: Heavy metal, what do you want?
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Love this song. It has a metal feeling and a swing groove. And the chorus is nice, too. I have no problem with some straight forward songs 🤟
In the context of the album as a whole the 4 songs before this are: I Still Seek Revenge, H-G-K, Sayonakidori then, Why Why Why kind of melt your brain and you need something simple... like cow bell.
I had a generally similar reaction, Mark. It felt a little different for them. Apparently, this song started out as an idea Misa had so that might explain why. Initially, I thought, okay, it's just okay. I did dig the Alice-in-Chains-like/neo-pysch intro guitar line and like the heavy guitar tone but I wasn't sold. Then, of course, they got closer to the bridge and solo and things started to shift. You wouldn't care but that guitar solo and the accompanying music is f*cking nuts. Brilliant. Still not in my favorites for them but like all of their stuff, there are always turns and surprises that make just about every song unskippable. You never know exactly what's about to happen in the next bar.
In an interview about Unseen World, Miku said they wanted some songs that were a back to the roots (Genten Kaiki) element from their earliest albums, so things in the spirit of Freezer, Arcadia Girl or Shake That. There are English captions available in this interview th-cam.com/video/JKvQ34ZYT9A/w-d-xo.html
Nothing wrong with Freezer, Arcadia Girl….
IIRC Misa wrote the riff this song is based on - her first foray into songwriting
Im in the minority...I like the song. It's different. It's taking a chance. I like that. Like Miku says "You have no choice". Also, that t-shirt collar hanging a little limp....7/10 on EMO scale of collars
' I still seek revenge ' is the most underrated song off this album . Misa and Arkane masterpiece.
Totally
Some respite on a friggin hectic album. This and Manners allow heart rates to settle for some...let the pacemakers cool down for a mo 😁 As an album listener, I'd never dream to skip it...a grower for sure 👍🤘
I consider "Chemical Reaction" an homage to 70's music. Kanami was experimenting with this but I love it. Ittakes me back to my youth. Thumping bass, hard driving drum beats complete with cowbell. Kanami used fuzz tones and the wah wah pedal. At the end of the song there is a subtle but real tribute to a person considered the great rock and roll guitarist of all-time. Who, you ask. Jimi Hendrix. There is a fade out with the warbling rifts that reminded me of "Purple Haze" or "Foxy Lady". Clever Kanami!!!!!
I agree, very 70's rock feel!
Exactly the "Dad's track"
Band-Maid goes tribal! Still Band-Maid. Their music is always uniquely theirs. Instantly familiar and comfortable, but always so much more than that with further listening.
More cowbell! Love this song!
Thank you for your reaction. I was curious how reactors thinks about this song and I kind of like it but it is on an epic album which kind of makes not the #1 song. Like Manners, my first song with Band Maid, they seem also to test different ideas on this album. Not sure, but have you checked the MV for Warning? There is also an online live. Otherwise, Giovanni is an intersting composition. Have fun! :)
I was worried cowbell would be too much for the science. Glad the Emo scale could handle it.
I like the song. A perfect arena rock that probably sound massive live.
It has Band-Maid written all over the place imo, but I only notice that because I've been listening to so many Band-Maid songs everyday.
Yep, it's very Kanami thing to mess around with different ideas.
I don’t know how anyone can say it’s not emo. The science is right there for all to see.
Love this song and even more excited to find out that this 70's Blue Oyster Cult/Deep Purple era rock song is the most Emo song ever.
Kanami wanted the cowbell. Akane didn't even own one so she had to get one for this song.
Yup, Akane suggested using the bell of her ride cymbal and Kanami said Nope, keep the cowbell.
Absolutely a metal song, almost hair-metal, in fact. No idea why anybody would claim that Band-Maid can't do metal, when they absolutely can and do. :)
Love this song, to me it's one of their most late 60's / early 70's songs and sounds like a Deep Purple / Atomic Roster mashup, absolutely not metal in any shape or form. The other interesting thing to me is Kanami's intro lead/riff that is repeated during the song sounded instantly familiar to me, it screamed 1967 but I couldn't think of the song. However after extensive digging I eventually found it in the 1968 song Paradise Lost by The Herd (Peter Frampton) th-cam.com/video/p5HZKDQzeLU/w-d-xo.html . Incidentally, I gather Akane didn't want to use cowbell, she wanted to use the cymbal bell but Kanami insisted, also Misa took a big role in the composition and she has said that this is the song that is closest to her musical tastes.
Didn't I read that Akane had to buy a cowbell just for this song?
The cowbell sounds like their click track mic'd up. I like this one.
They should make this song a drinking song each time you hear a cowbell take a shot of whiskey 😆😆😆
the beginning of the song remind me the 90's nickleback sound, I love this song
Love this song! My only complaint they should of had Saiki on cowbell 😢
Akane didn't want to use the cowbell. Kanami pulled rank.
@rogerchance9074 Hit up MXR. They have done LB and Nemo, but no BM.
Cowbells are so emo though 😂
Akane: I don't have a cowbell, can I use the bell ride instead?
Kanami: No.
Akane: ok 😶
@@madsstavang get one. 🤣
@rogerchance9074 You're a legend for spreading the word yet again. Thanks, Roger!
MISA MISA MISA!!!!! LOVE this song no surprise it is opposite to your opinion I just love the straight ahead ROCK sound (and COWBELL)
I love this song. I never skip it.
How in the hell did crazy Akane stick to "four on the floor" for this song? That's the billiance. To me its a fine deep cut for Unseen World.
Sometimes it serves no purpose to try to categorize a Band-Maid song. Each one is what it is. This old boy's eyes and ears just sees this as one flat out old school rock banger. Nothing fancy, just good rock. One of my favorites.
CHEMICAL REACTION is BAND-MAID’s big Stadium Rock Song: big, stupid riff: chanted lyrics; and Cow Bell!
Not my favorite song, but it’s accessible for the masses. SAIKI is the best part.
Normally, I'm not a cowbell kind of guy. I trust Kanami's instinct on this one. At least she didn't call for " church bell " or " service counter bell " or " tricycle bell "...they all would have sucked royally .
If Mincho wants me to cut her some slack... I'm getting out the measuring tape and asking " How much do you need ? " 😁
Love it, best played at 11
The first time I heard this song, with Saikis cadence and the chord progression especially in the chorus all I thought was later album Fall Out Boy. Am I crazy.
A lot of the song sounds like they're covering a KISS song, 'God Of Thunder', or something like that. Great Bass, but it needs a Music Video, though I'm not sure it's worth one. To many other songs on the list in front of it. But I gotta have more cowbell! I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more Cowbell!
Pretty sure there were exactly 314 cowbells in this song. As a completely unbiased professional commenter, I must say it was the PERFECT number of cowbells.
Also, I feel Build A Mario back there is staring at me, silently judging. (Just me?! Oh, okay.)
Akane: And if Kanami wants more cowbell, we should probably give her more cowbell!
Kanami: Say it, Baby!
Akane: And, Miku, you are right -- I am being selfish. But the last time I checked, we don't have a whole lot of songs that feature the cowbell.
Kanami: I gotta have more cowbell, baby!
This is the song you play at a rave when the tranq kicks in.
Even with Kanami's technical issue, it's fun to see the Maid's play Chemical Reaction Live. See it at: th-cam.com/video/IQpzy0vNQ_k/w-d-xo.html Thx, Mark!
This song isn’t controversial. The only reactor that doesn’t like it is Champ. He is allowed to be wrong once in a while 😉
BAND-MAID should change the song’s name to “Emo Scale Reaction” in your honor
I can't stop singing that in my head now. You f***** 😁👍
Mr. Walkin agrees!!!!!
I forgot to add my suggestion for the next stop on your Band Maid spelunking joyride.
You.
Plenty of the lesser played songs on this album are more metal- enough for some to consider this a mostly metal album. Apparently Akane didn't want the cow bell in but Kanami insisted. In fact I think she didn't posses a cow bell so used a pad. Anyone seen a cowbell on her kit?
Sorry, I forgot to add this bit. There is a phrase that discribed 70's music and culture. The phrase - Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll. There is a chemical reaction from males and females when sex is involved. Drugs obviously create a chemical reaction. Rock and roll also created a chemical reaction. When you hear great rock and roll, your body has to move, your muscles twitching and jumping. Miku was again clever with the title and the lyrics. "You have no choice".
I like that they chose the major hooks to be in English with the details in Japanese.
I always think Status Quo when I hear this song
Really? 🤨
Their standard stuff...
THEIR STANDARD STUFF?
I could be wrong, but I don't think they have "standard stuff".
Go and wash your mouth out with bleach immediately.
Genres...I can't believe that in comments on previous Band Maid songs no one has observed that they span all known genres.
Or, as Ryan Mear (a fellow reactor) put it:
"They sound like Band Maid...they just fucking sound like Band Maid".
Keep up the good work and best regards to your street dog family.
Reminds me of some Sound Garden in spots.
I predict you fecking love it.
One of their very few album fillers. Only ever played live once, although it was playing on a loop in DC through the PA system before the concert I went to. Nothing like a cowbell to get your heart going.
I agree...one of my least "Band Maid " tracks. Your commentary is always valid and i know is paid attention to by other reviewers. Have a good week fella!
Who is paying attention to it?!
So long they don't do "children's choir" or duet with Elton John I'm good. Either of those is a suicide note.
I like it. It is different.
Also Akane has some really cool upbeat ride stabs and other stuff going on. Cowbell draws the attention, but she has alot more going on.
interesting your comment about the production. I've always found their albums a bit sub par production wise compared to their music vids (even the live ones). Their DVDs and Blu-Rays don't have that issue either. Just the CD / album recordings. Baffles me a bit.
As usual, your reaction made me giggle. Good job.
There are multiple peer-reviewed studies that show cowbell reduces emo-ness. I can't believe you haven't read them.
I can’t read. Thanks for reminding me 😞
I really like this song in spite of myself. To me this is Band-Maid doing cock rock. But better then any cock rock band. Nickelback and said " yeah we can do that" and then proceeded to outdo Nickelback at the thing that they do. That's not what I actually believe happened but it's what I like to think ;)
To me it seems like this song was written to be performed live at US festivals but they don't perform it live. It does feel a bit out of place on the UW album IMO.
What is your definition /example of "EMO"? I'm not familiar with that description of music, maybe it's a 'Scottish Thing'?
Well it originated in America, so not really a Scottish thing at all.
Here for the #Science. Kanami is incapable of writing a shitty song, but this is the least Kanami, least inspired song she's put out there, IMO. If The Warning came out with this, minus the solo, I'd not think it was out of place with rest of their songs in terms of composition. Good, but you know there's better to come.
Honestly, this was a filler song until the cowbell saved it. Even the solos were "eh". God bless Akane, she saved it.
Cowbell? Too emo for me.
Overheard at the studio - We need a filler for this album that can be. “B” side, you ladies have anything?
Kanami - well, I have this one that is kind of old style which might sound god with cowbell…
All the band - そうだね！(hell yeah!)
My main question after this is: does the addition of cowbell have any impact on how emo a song is? Based on the Scale, it should have no bearing, being neither guitar nor vocals, but... I feel cowbell is more powerful than that. More research is needed.
Mark i havent huffed any wd40 in weeks , i got the withdrawal shakes
A song that started meh and grew hugely on me during the dozen times I listened to the album. It's now settled comfortably in the best half.
This is one is on my lower end of the Band-Maid scale. The cowbell is its saving grace.
great song, they don't play it ;live enough
This one grew on me a little, but not enough to get out of my lower tier of Band-Maid songs. Which is still mid tier for songs overall.
*plays Band Miid's most 80s Pop influenced song ever"* "it's too metal... too metal.. metal isn't clever enough"..... also emo, emo, emo! 🤣 OK mate.... what's in your vape??? Seems like some good shit....
Weird, literally all of the comments here say 70s rock. You are literally the ONLY person who says 80s pop. But I’m the one on drugs. Makes sense.
not too much twinkling, eh?
Lift the guitars a tad and this takes a whole different look
Akane doesn't like cowbells for some reason...
He's just like that.
Although... it would be nice.
Of course it goes with him here. But show me another Band Maid track where you use it.
You mean she?
I have questions. Did The Maids have to pay royalties to Blue Oyster Cult for using cowbell? Where did they get a cowbell? Is there now a cowbelless cow roaming somewhere in Japan? Did Akane eat the cow? If Akane DID eat the cow, does that affect the EMO scale rating? Ahhh, the mysteries confound! 🕊️
In this case, placement on the album matters. Its an appropriate choice on a 14 track album.
This is one of only 2 Band-Maid songs that I don’t really care for (the other being Dragon Cries). I agree the second half is better, but it just feels mundane. And I usually like cowbell.
Not my favourite Band-Maid song. There are parts in this song I do like....... But I hate the "Cow bell" in principle. This is (for me) Meh Band-.Maid song. Try something different (which is ok......looking at you "Start Over" )...... hence no official MV. Having said that, it could have been waaaaaaaaaay worse. NO MORE COWBELL. Leave that for the hair-metal bands.