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The Ballads (2006)
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Overview
- The Ballads: Sung Si-kyung's fifth full-length studio album
- Released 10 October 2006
- Contains 16 tracks
- Conceived right after the fourth album Dasi Kkumkkugo Sipda came out in April 2005
- Title track: Gireseo (거리에서)
- Features guest contributions from Lee Seung-hwan (The Story), Ha-rim and Yun Sa-ra
- Includes a cover of Lucid Fall's Oh, Love
Background
- Albums 3 and 4 were made with Kim Hyung-seok
- Album 5 was made with Yoon Jong-shin, who had worked on albums 1 and 2
- The reunion with Yoon came about four years after their last collaboration
Recording
- Guest featurings on Sal-komhan Sangsang with Jung Sun-hee and Jigeumui Sarang with Ann
Sources: ko.wikipedia.org
Tracklist
| 1 | 거리에서 | 4:39 |
| 2 | 그리운 날엔 | 4:10 |
| 3 | 사랑할 땐 몰랐던 것들 | 4:12 |
| 4 | 그 길을 걷다가 | 4:18 |
| 5 | 바람, 그대 | 4:10 |
| 6 | 나 그리고 너야 | 3:53 |
| 7 | who do you love | 3:56 |
| 8 | 그 이름 모른다고 | 4:18 |
| 9 | 비개인 날 | 4:18 |
| 10 | 새로운 버릇 | 3:45 |
| 11 | 굿모닝 | 3:56 |
| 12 | 기억을 나눔 | 4:44 |
| 13 | 살콤한 상상 | 3:42 |
| 14 | 지금의 사랑 (Feat. Ann) | 4:28 |
| 15 | 그 자리에 그 시간에 | 4:10 |
| 16 | 오, 사랑 | 3:14 |
Sources: musicbrainz.org
Artist
Career
- Born April 17, 1979 in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea; raised there.
- Attended Korea University.
- Debuted in 2001.
- Has released eight studio albums in Korean and three studio albums in Japanese.
- Hosts and appears on numerous South Korean variety shows, including 2 Days & 1 Night, Witch Hunt, Non-Summit, Duet Song Festival, Vocal War: God's Voice, Battle Trip, The Voice of Korea 2020, and On & Off.
- Comeback track "난 좋아" (Even Now), from his 7th album, debuted at number 5 on Billboard's Korea K-Pop Hot 100 for the week of September 22.
- Announced his first U.S. concert tour in 2019, a six-show trek across most major U.S. markets.
- Released the English song "And We Go" in May 2020.
- Released his eighth Korean studio album, Siot (ㅅ), in May 2021, his first full-length album in ten years.
- Gained significant popularity on his personal YouTube channel, notably the restaurant review series Mokgeultende (먹을텐데).
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
Reception
At release
- Released 10 October 2006 as Sung Si-kyung's fifth full-length album
- Sung Si-kyung said at the time of release that this would be the last full-length album of his twenties
- Released on the same day as Shin Seung-hun's tenth album The Romanticist, which he had a personal and musical connection to
Reappraisal
- The title track Gireseo became a huge hit right after release
- Gireseo is still counted among Sung Si-kyung's representative hit songs
- The album's reputation rests mainly on this title track
Records
- The next full-length album came out in 2008, when Sung Si-kyung was 30 years old (29 in international age)
- Album contains 16 tracks in total
Sources: ko.wikipedia.org
Trivia
- Sung Si-kyung said at the time of release that this would be the last full-length album of his twenties.
- The next full-length album came out in 2008, when he turned 30 (29 by international age).
- Shin Seung-hun, who had a personal and musical connection to Sung, released his tenth album The Romanticist on the same day.
- The album marked a return to Yoon Jong-shin, after about four years apart.
- The album includes a cover of Lucid Fall's Oh, Love.
Sources: ko.wikipedia.org