April 30th! - FtIsland Throwback!

For Valentine's day I was going to do a throwback to the band F.T.Island but I got busy being lonely so I'm doing it today!

Debuted: 2007
Group Number: 5 members
Company: FNC Entertainment

Choi Junghoon

Birthday: March 7, 1990

Height: 178 cm

Weight: 61 kg

Position: Leader, Guitarist, Pianist, Bassist

Notes: Also Composes for F.T. Island

Lee Hong Ki

Birthday: March 2, 1990

Height: 176 cm

Weight: 60 kg

Position: Lead Vocalist, Visual

Notes: Originally a child actor, Hong Ki continues to act in many series. Well known for his role as Jeremy in You're Beautiful

Lee Jae Jin

Birthday: December 17, 1991

Height: 177 cm

Weight: 58 kg

Position: Bass Guitarist

Notes: Acts in various TV series, ex-host of Kpop Planet alongside Btob's Hyunsik and Mamamoo's Hwasa

Song Seung Hyun

Birthday: August 21, 1992

Height: 180 cm

Weight: 60 kg

Position: Vocalist, Main Rapper, Guitarist

Notes: Replaced Oh Won Bin and also acts

Choi Min Hwan

Birthday: November 11, 1992

Height: 171 cm

Weight: 55 kg

Position: Drummer, Maknae

Notes: Acts in various series and Musicals

Ex Members:

Oh Won Bin

Birthday: March 26, 1990

Height: 181 cm

Weight: 62 kg

Position: Former Guitarist

Notes: Signed under a new Label, Won Bin has released Solo Albums and continues to act

F.T. Island debuted on June 7, 2007 with the song Love Sick from their album Cheerful Sensibility.

Also the dramatic song Thunder

There second Korean album titled Colorful Sensibility released in August 2008 featured songs such as After Love

In their follow up epilogue album that year entitled Colorful Sensibility Part Two, they released the dramatic song Heaven

In 2009 Oh Won Bin decided to leave the group and was replaced by FNC then-trainee Song Seung-hyun. They then released the song Bad Woman from their first mini album Jump Up.

In the same year they released their third album Cross & Change with the music video for I Hope. (This is around the time I started liking them)

This same year while members Hong Ki and Song-Hyeun were away, the remaining members dubbed FT Triple released a single entitled Love Letter with bassist Lee Jaejin as the main vocalist.

After becoming more popular abroad, FT Island returned to Korea in August 2010 to release mini album Beautiful Journey with title song Love Love Love

After gaining extreme popularity in both Taiwan and Japan, so much so they were named the highest earning artists of 2010, they returned to Korea with a mini album named Return in 2011 and a fast-paced rock song called Hello Hello

For 2012, they released fourth mini album Grown-Up and title song Severely. The album sold out in ten days.

That same year they released their Fourth Studio Album, Five Treasure Box, with title song I Wish.

As thanks to their fans in 2013 they released their mini album Thanks To filled with self composed songs including Memory composed by Hongki.

Later that year they released their fifth mini album The Mood with title song Madly.

In 2015 after a long hiatus they released their first fully self-composed album I Will with title song Pray.

Later that year Lee Hongki had a solo debut with Korean Mini Album FM302 and title song Insensible with a music video featuring Park Shin Hye who he had previously work with on You're Beautiful.

April 29th, 2016

Ok so it might seem like I haven't been active but there are a lot of unpublished posts that I'm just finishing up. But I decided to go back to doing my daily-ish kpop recommendations...

Mansae - Seventeen

With Seventeen's new comeback I decided to rewatch this old bop.

Stitches (Cover) - Eric Nam Ft. Sungha Jung

Eric Nam's voice is always amazing combined with Sungha Jung's amazing guitar skills, honestly this new company is doing him so much better than before.

Domino Game - Kiss & Cry

It's so unfortunate that this power house had to disband. This is still one of my favourite songs to this day. Luckily one member has joined a new group so hopefully she will find more success there.

Just choosing three songs is so difficult each time I do this I remember other songs I want to add. For example some new comebacks and other underated songs/performances.