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Greatest Hits:: MBLAQ: Stay

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 Summoned for you directly from The Form, it's ironically a song from the same album that I've already done a BBS post from. I chose to do Darling  because of the roulette wheel and shuffle, so that one's on me. But apparently someone out there in the world really likes this album to slide the title track my way as well.  So, I was technically focusing on the repackage album of this for Darling , so you get sort of new information. Released in 2011, this was their first full album. Containing a grand total of thirteen tracks and a runtime of 43 minutes, which averages out to a little more than three minutes a song, it's at a good length, even with the first track dropping the average. It did pretty well on the charts, peaking at second on the Gaon weekly chart and third on the Gaon monthly chart. No music show wins with it, but that doesn't matter because music show wins are not the final dictator of love for a song.  Flashing Lights warning for the music video. Gro...

Battle of the B-Sides:: MBLAQ: Darling

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Travelling to Oakland for Seventeen, and when my flights were absolutely killed my sleeping schedule, and I'm still recovering from it. Thankfully, there weren't a ton of releases in this second half. So instead, I'm dropping my first proper Battle of the B-Sides segment from MBLAQ's first album, BLAQ Style. Not going to lie, a lot of their title tracks are really good and I think would be popular again if they were to be rediscovered by this generation's current fans. But this isn't for title tracks. This is for b-sides because they need love too.  Also, all of this yapping is because I'm still trying to figure out how to format this, and talking about it usually helps me. It's more difficult to pick out what fans like about b-sides, (especially when they're older ones) because there isn't a dedicated music video typically that I can look through the comments for some repeating ideas or thoughts to pass on if it isn't a group I love myself....