BAND-MAID's Beautifully Heartfelt 'Page' | Multi-Musician Reaction + Analysis
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- Multi-instrumentalist reacts to BAND-MAID's 'Page'.
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To his patrons, could you please ask him about "Chemical Reaction"? It's a hidden gem on the Unseen World album and desperately needs more attention (and a music video).
@@Medley3000 one of my favorites from that album
@@curtisrrobles7885 The only Band Maid song with cowbell, dude. Kanami's solo is simply divine and MISA's bassline a euphony !
@@Medley3000 I agree, MORE COWBELL!!!!
When BAND-MAID play ballads they're not only great songs they also make all the happy & sad memories you've ever had come flooding back :)
post rock
I'm not crying you are!
You must be wrong! I have no memories due to alcohol, and that's why I feel so young. However, I still love B-M ballads!
We're in a bad drought here so a good flood of tears would go a long way. More Band-Maid mid tempos, I say! 😥
@@nussekuddenxxx6564 I knew it. You've been at the craft beers in your cellar again havent you.🥴
Saiki & Miku's harmonies over that slow, low & beautiful music.........❤😎 I don't know how I love everything they do.
One of the best Band Maid songs ever wave. This song like much of their slower songs have pulled at the heart strings of kids and adults alike. Long Live Band Maid
Oooohhhh one of my favs off the Conqueror album! The performance of this song at Shibuya was exquisite 😍
Nice comment by you Jonas & a nice reply to Crabuki's comment on Chase.👍
@@GaryHolloway-810 Thanks Scary Bunny ;)
So underrated - this is my favorite Sai-chan showcase. Just beautiful!
Another beautiful mid-tempo song by B-M😍
Mincho said that because Miku learned the acoustic guitar, she could write more mid-tempo songs like this☕🎸🕊💕
One of my favorites! Seems to fly under everyone’s radar. Would make a good country and western song as well.
I missed it I wonder why lol, ther is a lot to Band-Maid as you will find out as you do more reactions to the nice one.
I think playing a ballad is a matter of a "mood" more than restraint. They can all go heavy on their instruments, but they can also gently groove cause (I believe) they love their music.
I'm glad you reacted to this, very few people do and it's a beautiful song 🤗
Rock on Po! 🕊️😎🖤🤘
This song is a testimony of their wide range of songwriting abilities
Page is the opening track from Conquerer. It is a slower album, Kanami must have been in a mellow mood but it also gave us Blooming guess that happened after her coffee kicked in !
Great song!! I'm gonna miss the premiere but I can't wait to watch it later. Mirage and Catharsis are also great songs.
You think you keep seeing new sides to BAND MAID......But what you fail to realize is.....They are so well rounded....They don't have sides 🤯
My 2d favorite ballad behind Daydreaming
Page... Is one of my favorite songs they perform.
It's one favorite song from band-maid. I have the DVD concert, is masterpiece.
A very under-rated song. There are other songs from Conquerer that are under-rated too... At the Drop of a Hat is a fantastic song.
Totally agree… i wish he had let it play, because Mirage was next. I love that song, too.
Band-Maid's ballads are simply beautiful.
I am convinced. Kanami is a musical savant supported by four of the most musically talented band members you could find anywhere. They just get better and better and I hope that their huge work ethic rewards.
Hadn't heard this before - giving me About Us feels! And Kobato on the acoustic, Po!
My wedding song😚😚😚well in my dream😭...lol...no band can play Page unless its Band-Maid..but they are busy right now..darn...🤣
What about the Page boy?😏
@@GaryHolloway-810 he screwed....i asked him to hired the Maids to jammed out on our wedding day...but he's dumb assss not believing The almighty Hard Rock Maids actually can play....🙄so i left him on his own at the altar 🤣( imagine Julia Roberts the runaway bride scene thingy 😚)
I have a theory. When Kanami writes songs like this, writing the lead, rhythm, and vocals, she is placing her faith in Misa, Akane, Miku, and Saiki. Kanami knows the emotional affect she is creating and she knows her band mates will fulfill her vision for the song. She imagines how each will fulfill their part. She knows Miku will write heartfelt, meaningful lyrics and that Saiki will amplify Miku's words beyond the meaning of mere words. When Saiki is singing Miku's words everyone understands what she is feeling even though you may not know the language. Kanami knows how to infuse emotion into each part, as though Saiki is the solo, and Miku's lyrics are..... I've no words for this. See Misa swaying to the song? Misa is feeling it. Akane is incredible. After seeing her cry while completing "Endless Story" in Chicago, she must be one of the all time greatest percussionists: she never missed a beat while wiping the tears from her eyes. This is inspiring!
No one does this better than Band-Maid. Pink Floyd came close a few times, Bowie too, but songs like "About Us" and "Page" are monumental.
Great pick wave! It's one of band-maid's amazing mid-tempo songs. Endless story, Mirage, Wonderland, Awkward, About Us and Anemone of course are also ones you can check out!
Thanks for making my day!
The studio version of this song has been my number one play this summer
Finally!! A reaction to Page!! I love Saiki’s vibrato in this song! It’s a very good Band-Maid song and one of my favorites! Of course they all are! Thanks for reacting 👋
One of the best mellow ballad for me! And i thing the second was wonderland
始めて聞いたけど、この曲も神曲で、彼女達だから作り得る世界心を掴まれる！
One of my favorites that need more reacts. The harmonies are wonderful.
Thanks for the reaction video! As much as I like BAND-MAID's bangers, I absolutely LOVE their ballads, and they tug at the heartstrings like no other group I've ever heard.
Holy buckets, Wave, I can't keep up with all your Band-Maid content and I love it!
If you play their albums from Spotify, this usually follows Black Hole (Unseen World last track) to Page (Conqueror first track). It is a nice change of pace.
I forgot how much better this song was live.... how dare I!
On the album I originally thought Page was just a decent song. But the live Shibuya version really grabbed me -- it's just a different experience.
If you like this version, I hope you get to hear their acoustic version from their Christmas online acoustic Okyu-ji. ❤ Just so beautiful, powerful and emotional.
So beautiful ! Thank you and your patreon for requesting this special song
More Band-Maid mid-tempos, I say! And I'll bet Rosie would like this one, maybe... ;-)
I really enjoy this kind song with it's nuanced playing it's a nice change of pace from some of the more frantic songs
If you where ever wondering why Miku wanted Saiki to sing lead vocals.
Line Cube Shibuya and Zepp Tokyo are the two gigs they use for their "official live" vídeos... but your are missing Akasaka Blitz and Shinkiba Studio Coast, that have a lot of great performances.🔥
Absolutely beautiful
This band's versatility makes them pretty unique: so cool to release a song like this on the same album as Rinne or The Dragon Cries. Kanami wrote Page to be played at weddings - it's got a passionate and steady feel, and seems tailored to spotlight Saiki's vocals. Miku didn't know that Kanami's inspiration was a wedding song, so there's a bit of a disconnect with the lyrics lol. (Also, not fond of this live mix; the studio version sounds richer imo.)
This is the musical version of a lap pillow for the fans. Caring and soothing. Miku puts Saiki in some really emotional places with her lyrics.
😅 wow. That is so true.
Glad to finally see this song get its props.
Dude, these ladies could sing the phone book and make it great !!!
"Band-Maid doing Band-Maid things"
my favorite album number 1 conqueror
kanami's guitar tone fits perfectly with the acoustic
Oh, this is the first time I've seen the reaction to this song.
I love this song.
MISA!!! MISA!!! MISA!!! 🥃🥃🥃 the beauty of Band-Maid is that they love to get in your face with the hard Rock but have the courtesy to step back and let us take a breath before they get back in our face again. ❤ our Maids
My rule of thumb: Really good hard rock band usually also writes and plays killer power ballads.
The harder they rock, the more heartfelt their ballads... Weird.
👍👍👍 request ONE AND ONLY / ENDLESS STORY / GLORY / START OVER 🎵🎶
Then on the album this on, "Conqueror", it immediately picks up several notches into "Glory", which is a straight up banger. IIRC, it was used as an ED (ending song) for a recent Yu-Gi-Oh show. Then you have their song "Different", which was used as the opening for Log Horizon season 3.
And man. I couldn't imagine they feels if they played Page, then About Us, then acoustic Puzzle, back to back.
The miracle that is BAND MAID!!!!!!!
2014 acoustic video including Thrill in the mix.with Miku's guitar ornament still.
MISA MISA MISA!
ANOTHER TO OFTEN OVERLOOKED GEM BY THEM !
This song and At The Drop Of A Hat are really nice from this album. I know they released Endless Story as a single but this and the previously mentioned song are just as good in my opinion.
It's funny, after going back to the album again it's PAGE and especially At The Drop Of A Hat that I really don't enjoy. Some parts of At The Drop Of A Hat don't even feel like a rock band played them, but like Kanami created half the song on a computer without any real instruments except for Saiki's voice and maybe the guitars as they sound somewhat left alone. Even the drums sound programmed instead of Akane playing them. It might be because of them using triggers and a somewhat artifical sounding sample though.
I can hear it's a real bass because of MISA's playing style, but the sound of the bass also sounds like it could have been played on a keyboard on that one. Most of the instruments sound extremely artificial on At The Drop Of A Hat (overproduced imo). I really woudn't be surprised if most of that song was created on a computer the more that I think about it, which isn't necessarily a problem for me but I do notice it a lot. I actually think it's more overproduced than The Dragon Cries is.
I am sure they were going for that specific sound (I don't have problem with them making that choice) and I completely understand why people would like or love those songs, but I have a hard time enjoying the song just because of the way the instruments sound as it bothers me to no end.
endless Story (and even PAGE apart from the beginning) don't have this as much as the guitars and most instruments still more-or-less sound like real instruments, but they are just not for me (which is fine). Relistening to the album might have put At The Drop Of A Hat as my least favourite instead of PAGE though.
There are some others on Conqueror,that are not for me, but after going back (and my semi-rant before in an other comment), I did notice some songs that I do appreciate next to the couple I said before (Rinne, Blooming, glory, Bubble) as I did somewhat enjoy liberal and wonderland, which is another one of their slower ones that I do appreciate (I enjoy Saiki's vocals in that one). I honestly think I appreciate Conqueror more than I did before going back.
Also, nothing against you (or anyone else) loving those songs. I would have not problem with Wave Potter doing a reaction to At The Drop Of A Hat and I will most likely watch the reaction as I am curious to what he things about it so you get a thumbs up from me. I am not a musician, so I might mishear some things.
It's all taste and the fact that you love both of those songs, makes it more logical to me that I don't like either since I knew I didn't really enjoy PAGE and they share some similatiries.
All in all, It's great that Band-Maid can create so many different types of songs that can divide their fans as far as all have their favourites and then ones they like less, but in the end they all consider themselves fans of the band.
Hey, just ran across your rap for Davie504 earlier today - Good Job Buddy!
Why hasn't Band-Maid released this as a music video? I was also surprised to see Miku playing an acoustic guitar.
my favourite ballad from Band Maid.As others have stated, it's all about Saiki's voice in this one.
yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my fav ballad
Different groove from band-maid!!! This band is a legend. It's not a joke. I have never listen much time a band. Akane have a percussion module from Roland.
why are my eyes sweating? dang they always sweat when listening to BM ballads
Wonderful, so great you did this reaction. And the mood seems so appropriate. Two of my three favorite bands in the world have just suffered huge losses--Nightwish, losing Marko, and Lovebites, losing Miho. I pray Band-Maid can keep it together and stay happy with what they are doing. I know they are under a lot of pressure from their label. Hopefully their management don't get stupid and risk burning them out.
I didn't know untill I read this. Miho is the heart of Lovebites. She wasn't out front, but she was the driving force. I worry about them without her love and focus on classic type metal.
@@Darth.Fluffy As do many of the Wolfpack. This is the first time since the Beatles broke up that this sort of thing hit me so hard.
@@Darth.Fluffy Lots of pressure on Haruna. Will she carry on without Miho?
@@markyg236 I think it depends on why Miho really left. If it's depression and an identity crises, Haruna will probably stick. If there's any kind of fight over the direction of the band, she's probably gone.
@@Darth.Fluffy Could be, either way, she has to do some thinking and evaluating.
This is such a beautiful song isn't it? Btw I've just realised that you haven't reacted to Matchless Gum (Shinkiba studio Coast live 2017 performance is the best) yet. It sounds different from other bandmaid songs even though it still has the bandmaid sound. Hope you check it out.
by now i think she has about 9 zemaitis guitars. 2 are acoustic
Band Maid are the best ever, just accept this a fact.
I mean, i can't argue with that! 😅
Still waiting on yer Band Maid - Bubble reaction...
And Miku gets out the steel string!
First time I heard this, I was like "It's kinda Mom-Rock, like the ballad take on 'Since You Been Gone' by Kelly Clarkson." But then I thought, 'SYBG' is actually a banger for Top 40, and of course the Maids can do it even better," just like how if mainstream arena rock had been as consistently good/intetesting back in the 80s I wouldn't have set out for AlternativeLand.
EDIT: You'd probably find their _song_ "Start Over" really interesting even though 50% of the video is cringey. I'd actually suggest Something No Reactor Has Done Yet and just react to the audio and maybe a second pass with the MV.
Really. The song is great - the video not so much (except for showing Kinami playing the piano of course)...
How would you feel about passing this song to Ryan Mear to react to it? It is worth sharing.
He said in a recent video that he recently purchased the CDs of Conqueror, Unseen World, and World Domination. Maybe it will be in the cards, if he does a whole-album reaction to Conqueror like he's currently doing for Unseen World...
Hey Wave.... if I "smash" the like button instead of simply clicking it... does my "like" count for more? This is something I've been wondering, since every single reactor tells me to smash it.
Do they want me to break my mouse?
You can instead caress the like button if you prefer.
Just interact with the like button until it has a blue colour.
But if you rather break your mouse, I'm not stopping you.
That said I agree that it's actually a curious thing how that all started. I am wondering if Davie504 has something to do with that.
wave why band maid made this kind of stuff its just they want ti reserve energy.. they made instrumental and acoustic for them to break.. their concert may run up to 2 hours
This is by far one of my least favourite of their songs. It made me almost turn off the Conqueror album after the first couple of seconds. I think the Live version is a bit more manageable because it doesn't sound as processed as the album does, but it still isn't for me. Conqueror was the first of the Band-Maid albums I have played after buying Conqueror and Unseen World (I was only listening to them for a month or so) and it's probably my least favourite album of them, I think because of the first impressions I got from this song (because there are some good tracks on there as well) and because most of the songs sound way too polished/processed/compressed for my tastes. My brain tells me it also has quite a bit of ballads, but I might have just misremembered since I have only really listened to the full album once.
I am not saying it's a bad song, but I don't tend to enjoy a lot of ballads in general and I don't tend to enjoy these types of processed/poppy vocals. It reminds me of radio songs, but it has been over 20 years since I really listened to the radio, so I might be wrong.
But obviously nothing against people loving this song, I understand why. It's still Band-Maid, it is obviously well written and they are still great musicians. It just is like a worst-case scenario for me (especially the beginning which still really bothers me)
I think about Us (and the Puzzle Acoustic version, which is S-tier) are the only ballad-like songs of them that I really like, so that's for sure a me-thing and not a Band-Maid thing.
I did enjoy the reaction though. I honestly wrote the song and this album off (with the exception of Rinne, Blooming, glory and Bubble), but I want to give it a chance again and this reaction made me at least try to listen to Page again. Even though it still really wasn't my thing, who knows if I get used to it in the future.
Edit:
After reading more of the comments, I can see that I am one of the few people who doesn't like this song all that much. I am not that surprised since I know the Conqueror album is well like by a lot of fans as is Daydreaming which is an other of their ballads that's not really for me (even though I like that one way more than Page).
Ah well, I knew for a while that I tend to have "weird" musical tastes compared to a lot of other people. The fact that, even though I listen to a lot of different genres, metal (and a lot of black metal and other harsher styles) is the music I listen to most might be a reason why I don't like a lot of ballads I guess.
The great thing about this is that it's clear that almost all of their songs have their fans, which shows how well rounded they are.
Yep, most fans seem to have very differing biases towards the different albums, and _Conqueror_ as a whole was not what a lot of them wanted (even though they'd declare "Rinne" to be their all-time favorite Band-Maid song). This is partially by design though; the band has said they tend to go, "Whoa, we went really far in _this_ direction on that last album, so let's balance things out by leaning in another direction on the next one." Some people were saying some pretty silly stuff like, "Oh, after _Conqueror_ I've lost interest" - but it was a good bet that _Unseen World_ wasn't going to be anything like _Conqueror_, as in fact turned out to be the case.
@@stevehall5128 I have only started to listen to them since april or may or so after I finally gave a Band-Maid reaction a chance. It's still a weird band for me even though I like them a lot in general.
I have bought all their albums and singles (except for the first one) on CD and their blurays since then, but there aren't a lot of songs of them that I love from beginning to end for some reason. I think it's because I am not always the biggest fan of their more poppy chorusses. I am drawn to their musicianship though and Kanami is great songwriter (and honestly some of the early songs are good too).
That being said I am getting more used to it. I really like Unseen World a lot and I tend to enjoy the live versions of their songs more than the album versions because of the mixing (although they tend to put Kanami a bit low in the mix). I have always liked rawer sounding music over polished music (except for electronic music obviously).
I personally love that they seem to make the music they want to make. I don't think any band should adapt their sound to their fans except if they really want to make that type of music as well.
So I would consider myself a fan, but not a superfan like a lot on here are. I keep checking reactions to them though and listen to them quite a bit.
I just know that I probably won't enjoy a couple of their songs as much each album and that's ok. The parts or songs that I do like are worth it to me.
'Conqueror' features some of the best songs Band Maid have ever written : Blooming, Rinne, Glory and Wonderland, even Bubble is great.
The rest, unfortunately, is rather forgettable, which is surprising as the rest of their work is anything but that.
Even their debut album, although poppier, features fun hooks and memorable riffs that make it a joy to listen to.
It's no surprise that I've rarely replayed 'Conqueror' in its entirety. I did recently, just to see if I was too quick to judge during my initial reaction, but the result was the same.
Naturally, this is all my opinion, but I am glad I'm not alone in feeling they can do better. Which, BTW, they definitely proved with 'Unseen World', one of the best albums I've heard in years.
Many of the fans who adore Conqueror also deny Unseen World (and mistakenly include the song Different in that drift). Curiously, both albums are divisive because they are a very personal decision in what the band decides to write. What is important here is that Band Maid is not a band that plays metal, or hard rock, or pop punk. They are that and much more. If one approaches their songs expecting that they stick to a genre, he is wrong and therefore it is easier for him to feel disappointed. The four LPs that they have written and produced themselves in four years (this is important, four radically different LPs in four years ... creativity wise THAT is out of reach right now) span all possible genres of music rock. I doubt very much that one can anticipate anything from any Band Maid premiere, only be amazed at what they have written after surprising you (for better or for worse). Of course I hope their next album is also divisive, that will mean that it has been surprising. As in a matter of taste there is nothing written, it is perfectly normal that some songs are more your cup of tea than others.
Sorry for this wall of words, I just wanted to share my thoughts on Conqueror and Unseen World (that are the same like Just Bring It and World Domination). Two authentic masterpieces each in its own way. Greetings!
@@JuanSan66 "I hope their next album is also divisive, that will mean it has been surprising "
Well said!