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+10  Beyooooonds - Go Waist

+09  Morning Musume - Jinsei Blues

+08  Morning Musume - Seishun Night

+07  Morning Musume - Koishite Mitakute

+06  Morning Musume - I Surrender Aisaredo Ai

Frankly it's been a good long time since I participated in one of these polls, or since I posted on this or any other H!P site, so honestly there are the only two H!P tracks I can genuinely claim to have heard (let alone heard of) before today (from the Momusu single). Hell, I'd not even heard of one entire group, namely Beyooooonds. I just sought out the other two Momusu tracks listed on Youtube, they seem to be album filler from the latest best-of album, right? Anyhow, Koishite Mitakute is pretty catchy, I'll happily pop it in my list. And I thought I'd round things out with I Surrender Aisaredo Aisince, since I have at least heard it now (even though it's pretty dreadful).

BUT -- I figured I owed Beyooooonds (5 Os? Really?) a listen, as they were entirely new to me. And Oh boy do they have energy to burn! So much enthusiasm it's almost painful to watch. Their Go West cover, Go Waist is an absolute hoot. Easily twice as entertaining as Jinsei Blues. So they get the top slot. And with a credible Top 5, I'll stop there.

+10 Final Squall

+9 To Tomorrow

+8 Wakaindashi!

+7 Dokyuu no Go Sign

+6 The Curtain Rises

My list is a bit short, but in my defence…

a. I'm out of the loop on most H!P releases these days. 

b. I didn't much care for anything on Brand New Morning.

c. I hadn't realised the C-ute Complete album had so many previously unreleased tracks. I'll have to track it down.

d. It's a real shame Kikkawa Yuu's EP didn't qualify for the list because it was easily the best H!P adjacent release I heard this year.

+10 Yajima Maimi   

+9 Nakajima Saki   

+8 Fukumura Mizuki   

+7 Ikuta Erina

+6 Suzuki Airi      

+5 Hagiwara Mai

+4 Tsugunaga Momoko

+3 Sayashi Riho

+2 Iikubo Haruna

+1 Okai Chisato

It's a couple of years since I went out to the Parc for the Momusu concert, but I seem to recall you can't just use a regular Metro ticket, right? There's some special RER ticket or something like that? Does anyone know exactly how it works?

Just bought a ticket. Category 1. Whatever that means. The whole process was pretty simple.

Same as with the C-ute concert, I'll get the first Eurostar train over in the morning and catch the last overnight bus back. That way I won't have to pay for any overnight accommodation.