K-pop (2015)

Shannon Williams - Why Why !

Well I love the BoA album so I'll nominated that.

Lily Fever is hysterical. Drama of the year. Go watch it on youtube, subbed officially and all. Watching all five ep's released so far will take you about 30 minutes.

So...many... girls... https://youtu.be/M3rg-rh6MPo

Just make a korean akb48.

Is AKB a survival show?

I wasn't expecting an actual single out of this, at least TWICE only had 16 contestants and Her Secret Weapon used (more or less) established acts... but I guess it is possible to keep track of so many different faces and names, if AKB48 does it.

http://i.imgur.com/jKhc1JE.png

P much

AKB is the ultimate survival show - a whole collective of idols at the mercy of yearly fan votes, etc. etc... but it's not an actual show, no.

Source: sexhaver

:)

What's with everyone at YG copying BEP recently, by the way? But this is just on the right side of stupid fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjZkpm7_kRk

This album track is rly good too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hlhSif-CRw

Hmm looks like GD has a composing credit on that one, maybe that's why I like it *shrug emoji*

Really nice remix of Hot Pink (except for the end) at the SBS end of year show, by the way. I enjoyed the remix of 'Hero' (Monta X) too, even SBS's techical issues couldn't duck with it. Remixes were enjoyable in greneral, I hope some of 'em show up somewhere else in a higher quality format.

https://youtu.be/rLauBWbtOtw
https://youtu.be/MZStnVrYqqQ

SBS gayo managed to fuck up the audio in whole new ways. Also the year end shows should just have collab stages or something. More killer less filler. Enjoyed IU finally performing Twenty-three on TV, though.

I'm nominating the WG album for the ILM EOY poll now.. seems to me like the most obvious shot at a k-pop album charting (showed up on some publication lists) but since I'm the one nominating it on the last day, maybe not?

f(x) has a slightly higher chance I think - seemed to notice quite a few non-kpop thread ilxors raving about 4 Walls on Twitter. Plus they've placed before.

Was January 2 the last day??? Damn

Will stand behind Reboot tho, good album

Since it's the new year though... is it time to start a new thread? Because 2016 is off to a more kickin start than 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR6ge_NYXNE

Also since I came around on Hot Pink... have an acoustic version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG9aJPIcX3Q

As good as that 2NE1 IDC acoustic from back in the day!

(Or better, honestly)

oooooooookay, i'm redoing a spotify list for this thread, top down. Gonna take me a day or two.
I am listening to SO MUCH kpop via this right now.

:D

Local college radio station is doing top 10 of 2015 lists... tuned in to the Kpop list tonight, from #6 the order went

#6 Four Walls - f(x)
#5 I Feel You - Wonder Girls
#4 Catch Me if You Can - Girls Generation
#3 I - Taeyeon
#2 Don't Be Shy - Primary ft. Choa, Iron
#1 Bang Bang Bang - Big Bang

And I gotta say, CMIYC and Bangx3 improve a LOT when they're blasted over car speakers

wow, that was a real experience getting a year's worth of k-pop over several (and i do mean several) hours.

I'm wrapping this playlist for the year. It has been updated with most every track mentioned on thread that is available via Spotify's US catalogue as of EOY 2015. If I missed something or if a track comes available sometime in the future, bump here to let me know and I'll add.

K-pop's eccentricities make it VERY difficult for a non-speaker to search for songs, especially amongst an artist base that appears to have been named on twitter and is more or less ungoogleable. That said, 130+ tracks, most all from this year! Enjoy!

Rolling K-Pop Thread Spotify Playlist

forks, you are a hero and a saint, fyi

Thanks for that list. That will be a great step towards giving due to all the great songs I didn't listen to or only barely

Speaking of which

My k-pop songs of the year.. mostly from the top of my head, subject to change

1. IU - Twenty-three
2. IU - Heart
3. Suran - Calling in Love
4. Hyuna - Roll Deep
5. Nieah - No Rush
6. 4Minute - Crazy
7. BoA - Kiss My Lips
8. EXID - Ah Yeah
9. Primary - Don't Be Shy
10. Neon Bunny - Romance in Seoul
11. Red Velvet - Dumb Dumb Dumb
12. Kim Sawol - Bedside
13. D.Holic - Chewy
14. G.Soul - Crazy For You
15. Wonder Girls - I Feel You

Albums:
1. BoA - Kiss My Lips
2. Kim Sa Wol - Suzanne
3. Wonder Girls - Reboot
4. Red Velvet - The Red
5. Primary - Vol 2
6. IU - Chat-Shire

Hyukoh didn't quite fit on the lists but I have to say I've quite enjoyed them, for a regular ol indie band

I'd thought about nominating D.Holic - Chewy for the ILM tracks but didn't get around to it.

New thread, since we're wrapping up the year: K-pop (2016)

I'd have to think about my top 20... probably the Jun Areia remix of 9 Muses' Sleepless Night would be on it: https://youtu.be/Bzhc1UggIO8

Maybe also Lim Kim Stay Ever... I can't remember if we talked about it in this thread or not. https://youtu.be/fjXeup1ZbX0

Or maybe they're just on my mind since they're recent

Albums:
1. Wonder Girls - Reboot
2. f(x)- Four Walls
3. Red Velvet - the Red
4. iKon - Welcome Back, but only if they repackage it with the three new singles
5. Girls Generation - Lion Heart

Mini-albums:
1. Miss A - Colors
2. Hotshot - I'm a Hotshot
3. Seventeen - Boys Be
4. Oh My Girl - Oh My Girl (First mini album)

Oh yeah I forgot Awoo

voted awoo on my ilx singles ballot

mostly due to this thread!

This one snuck up on me after they added a video, great RnB jam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWTsl8sAJFY

not sure whether to file until 2015 or 2016...

GAON's end of year chart is out, by the way:

http://omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com/17330907.html

Didn't realize miss A and Baek A Yeon had done so well, good on them though.

There's something a little off about this

http://0.soompi.io/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/29230246/lovelyz1-800x450.jpg
http://0.soompi.io/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/29230407/lovelyz-21.jpg

Not that there's any immediate danger of students getting hold of guns in Korea.

Mostly just funny.