Taking Sides: ChoColat vs. Crayon Pop (Mid Year Singles, 2013)

[koganbot]

As you see, Crayon Pop have my top song. But for the long run I'd lay my bets on ChoColat. Crayon Pop have to rely on being insanely catchy every time out, while ChoColat only need reasonably good tunesmanship and dramatic timing and Melanie's passionate wail - all of which ChoColat can rely on.

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1. Crayon Pop "Bar Bar

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Chuck's Top Albums So Far

[anonymous]

And here is the Top 40 2013 Albums So Far list I put up on facebook a day later, followed by this disclaimer: "Way less hip-hop (none), K-pop (none), regional Mexican (none), dancehall (none) than my singles list so far. Way more metal. A good part of that is because of what I get paid to listen to these days, and what I get sent in the mail. I don't doubt that all of those genres have albums that would be on this list, if I actually had time to track down and hear them. I just don't know what they are, so feel free to tell me."

1. Ashley Monroe - Like A Rose (Warner Music Nashville)
2. Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park (Mercury)
3. Black Star Riders - All Hell Breaks Loose (Nuclear Blast)
4. Corsair - Corsair (Shadow Kingdom)
5. Mustasch - Sounds Like Hell, Feels Like Heaven (Metalville)
6. The Relatives - The Electric Word (Yep Roc)
7. Voivod - Target Earth (Century Media)
8. The Mavericks - In Time (Valory Music Co.)
9. Tom Keifer - The Way Life Goes (Merovee)
10. O.B. Buchana - Starting All Over (Ecko)
11. Pistol Annies - Annie Up (RCA)
12. Corsair - Ghosts Of Proxima Centauri (Shadow Kingdom)
13. Wayne Shorter Quartet - Without A Net (Blue Note)
14. Gary Allan - Set Me Free (MCA/Nashville)
15. Blood Ceremony - The Eldrtich Dark (Metal Blade)
16. Mothership - Mothership (Ripple)
17. Ceramic Dog - Your Turn (Northern Spy)
18. The Band Perry - Pioneer (Republic Nashville)
19. Hot Lunch - Hot Lunch (Tee Pee)
20. Teena Marie - Beautiful (Ume)
21. Lady Antebellum - Golden (Capitol Nashville)
22. Kadavar - Abra Kadavar (Nuclear Blast)
23. Manilla Road - Mysterium (Golden Road)
24. Piñata Protest - El Valiente (Saustex Media EP)
25. Five Horse Johnson - The Taking Of Black Heart (Small Stone)
26. (Various) - Twitch and Gloom: Dark Sounds From The Pacific Northwest (FlatField)
27. Shinyribs - Gulf Coast Museum (Nine Mile)
28. Clay Harper - Old Airport Road (Terminus)
29. Cauldron - Tomorrow’s Lost (Century Media/Earache)
30. Revelation - Inner Harbor (Shadow Kingdom)
31. Crime & the City Solution - American Twilight (Mute)
32. Bushman’s Revenge - Electric Komie - Live! (Rune Grammofon)
33. Stick Against Stone Orchestra - Get It All Out (MediaGroove)
34. Kill For Eden - Kill For Eden (Kill For Eden)
35. The Como Mamas - Get An Understanding (Daptone)
36. Holy Grail - Ride The Void (Prosthetic)
37. Gozu - The Fury Of A Patient Man (Small Stone)
38. Dug Pinnick - Naked (MVDaudio)
39. Hexvessel - Iron Marsh (Svart)
40. Ghost - Infestissumam (Seven Four Entertainment/Republic)

Re: Chuck's Top Albums So Far

[koganbot]

These'd be my top K-pop albums if I had to come up with a list, though I've listened to few of them enough to really know if they belong - though the Orange Caramel will make my P&J for sure (is their debut Japanese album, but only has five of thirteen overlaps with last year's Korean Lipstick, and of course those songs are now in Japanese):

1. Orange Caramel Orange Caramel (Avex)
2. D-Unit Affirmative Chapter.1 EP (D-Business Entertainment/Windmill Media)
3. After School First Love EP (Pledis Entertainment)
4. 4minute Name Is 4minute EP (Cube Entertainment)
5. Delight Mega Yak EP (BrosMedia Entertainment)
6. Lee Hyori Monochrome (B2M Entertainment)
7. SHINee Why So Serious? The Misconceptions Of Me (The 3rd Album, Chapter 2) (SM Entertainment)

After School tend to call their EPs "maxi singles" rather than "mini albums," but in fact their maxi singles have more songs (that is, actual distinct songs, as opposed to remixes and instrumentals) than most K-pop mini albums; in this instance, they've got six songs, three of which are ace. So I'm calling it an EP.

I think you'd enjoy the (well-titled) title song to Mega Yak (link is on my singles list); makes me imagine what'd happen if you put five Gillettes together in a room, 'cept since I don't know Korean I don't know whether or not they're all telling me my dick's too short and I'm so ugly that when I was born the doctor slapped my mama.