User blog:JoshuaJSlone/My favorites of 2013

I may have earned badges declaring me a Hello! Project expert, but don't take this seriously. It's more a list of what songs I repeated more times than others without getting sick of them, and more than anything will be interesting for future me to look back on. I also strayed a tiny bit from the scope of this wiki, though not far.


 * 2013
 * Yattaruchan - S/mileage
 * What is LOVE? - Morning Musume I know the single release date makes this a 2014 song, but my ears seem to think it was a last-quarter 2013 song.
 * Ee ka!? - S/mileage
 * Funwari Koibito Ichinensei - Morning Musume
 * Funwari Koibito Ichinensei - Morning Musume

The short version is, if you were a song without an exclamation point or question mark, you had an uphill battle.

Now a separate list that is really much more competitive. As a guy who became a fan in 2012 and took it up a level in 2013, the vast majority of "new" songs I listened to were from the preceding 15 years--and it will surely be the case for 2014 as well. It's possible something I heard in late 2012 snuck onto this list, but OH WELL. Some killer stuff still didn't make the list--I tried to keep it a sane length by mostly sticking to one song per group/person.


 * Still New to Me in 2013


 * BE HAPPY Koi no Yajirobee - Tanpopo
 * Te wo Nigitte Arukitai - Goto Maki, Goto Maki album version, S/mileage This is also the song I took an English translation of and wrangled it to fit the music much better earlier this year.
 * Dokki Doki! LOVE Mail - Matsuura Aya
 * ALL FOR ONE & ONE FOR ALL! - H.P. All Stars
 * Pen Pen Kyoudai - Shin Minimoni
 * Yuujou Junjou oh Seishun - Berryz Koubou
 * Wakkyanai (Z) - °C-ute
 * Bokura no Sedai! - NICE GIRL Project! Kenshuusei
 * Thank You! Crème Brûlée no Yuujou.m4a - S/mileage
 * I love you Watashi no Kimi - THE Possible
 * THE Manpower!!! - Morning Musume
 * This is Unmei - Melon Kinenbi
 * Dangerous Summer Night! - Maysa Leak From the English H!P cover albums, this is the one that I think most succeeds at sounding like a native English song. A different sound than the original, but without seeming clunky or embarrassing.