History Awesome / FTIsland

* Hongki's Immortal Song 2 performances, as the music show pits noteworty singers up against each other to showcase their vocals - and of course Hongki's were always amazing in terms of singing and stage presence. UpToEleven when the others are there to back him up with their instruments and also prove their skills.

* You'd think in a band only the main vocalist can sing well while everyone else can't sing a tune. [[AvertedTrope Averted:]] Hongki aside the band has also two more good-great singers (Jaejin and Seunghyun, who are the subvocalists) and one solid one (Minhwan). Only Jonghun's singing is very limiting and could be labelled as bad but even he sounds alright while in his comfort zone.
** Would you expect 4 out of 5 members of a ''band'' to be worthy of participating in musicals? Most would say no. Yet, while Hongki is a given, Seunghyun, Jaejin and Minhwan have surprised and impressed many people with their singing through these.
*** Seunghyun is quickly becoming the resident musical actor of the group: he only joined his first one a few years ago after Hongki and Jaejin, yet as of now he's already participated in ''4 sets of shows within 3 musicals'', more often than everyone else. Comes to show how passionate he is about them and how quickly recognised he's become.
*** Possibly rivaled by Minhwan who's ''not even officially a subvocalist'' in the group yet has participated in 3 musicals, 2 of them where he was a lead.
** The songs where everyone gets to sing is this: "The One [[note]]back with Wonbin; who himself is a decent singer and was capable of going solo[[/note]]", "I Knew From First Sight", "It's U", "Treasure", "I Confess", "Someday", "I Hope You'll Be My Lover".

** While the weakest singer, even Jonghun is somewhat improving - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmdUHonmp7U Beautiful World]] with Seunghyun is evidence of this.
** It is now tradition for Minhwan to sing Hongki's long high note in I Confess performances.
* They now regularly write and compose their own songs, and pretty good ones at that. [[http://fti5.tumblr.com/post/33534064428/ft-islands-self-compositions-participations Here's]] a regularly updated list of all the songs they've worked on. Definitely on their way to becoming real artists, if they're not one already.
** A fully self-composed Korean mini-album with a song they made (Memory, written and composed by Hongki in this case) finally being made a title track for their Korean comeback was this. [[JerkAss Shame FNC decided to clash its promotions with their concerts thus the barely-existing promo on TV shows only lasted two weeks.]]

** Jonghun's guitar solos which often make the highlight of the songs.

*** There's actually parts in Lovesick where he's the only one playing and he plays some nice melody lines - they're unfortunately not very noticeable due to Hongki's singing and/or the orchestra/piano.
** Seunghyun's guitar solos, especially since he doesn't get to do them often because Jonghun's mostly in charge of them.
*** YMMV on the song itself, however Seunghyun's acoustic guitar solos in "I Wish" definitely count (and they're probably the only cool thing in the song).

* Seunghyun and Jonghun's AugustRush [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGoD3s9jrgQ acoustic guitar duet]]. The other Makbanshi members' faces say it all.

* Hongki's Immortal Song performances. UpToEleven when the others are there to back him up with their instruments and also prove their skills.

** Also an older performance of his guitar solo version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpFppQVZWbk Canon]].

** It is now tradition for [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome Minhwan to sing Hongki's long high note]] in I Confess performances.

** A song they made (Memory, written and composed by Hongki in this case) finally being made a title track for their Korean comeback was this. [[JerkAss Shame FNC decided to clash its promotions with their concerts thus the barely-existing promo on TV shows only lasted two weeks.]]

* Them being the first foreign male group to top the Oricon Album Daily Charts ''in 42 years'' with "[[SelfTitledAlbum Five Treasure Island]]" is definitely this. They also remained at the top for 2 consecutive weeks.

** A song they made (Memory, written and composed by Hongki in this case) finally being made a title track for their Korean comeback was this.

** Also an older performance of his guitar solo version of [[Canon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpFppQVZWbk]].

*** YMMV on the song itself, however Seunghyun's acoustic guitar solos in "I Wish" definitely count (and they're probably the only cool thing in the song).

* You'd think in a band only the main vocalist can sing well while everyone else can't sing a tune. [[AvertedTrope Averted:]] Hongki aside the band has also two more good-great singers (Jaejin and Seunghyun, who are the subvocalists) and one solid one (Minhwan). Only Jonghun's singing is very limiting and not impressive but even he can sound alright while in his comfort zone.

* You'd think in all band only the main vocalist can sing well while everyone else can't sing a tune. [[AvertedTrope Averted:]] Hongki aside the band has also two more good-great singers (Jaejin and Seunghyun, who are the subvocalists) and one solid one (Minhwan). Only Jonghun's singing is very limiting and not impressive but even he can sound alright while in his comfort zone.

*** Seunghyun is quickly becoming the resident musical actor of the group: he only joined his first one a few years ago after Hongki and Jaejin, yet as of now he's already participated in ''4 sets of shows of 3 musicals'', more often than everyone else. Comes to show how passionate he is about it and how quickly recognised he's become.
** The songs where everyone gets to sing is this: "The One [[note]]back with Wonbin, who himself is a decent singer who was capable of going solo[[/note]]", "I Knew From First Sight", "It's U", "Treasure", "I Confess", "Someday", "I Hope You'll Be My Lover"

* They now regularly write and compose their own songs, and pretty good ones at that. [[http://fti5.tumblr.com/post/33534064428/ft-islands-self-compositions-participations Here's]] a list of all the songs they've helped out with. Definitely on their way to becoming real artists, if they're not one already.

*** It doesn't stand out much because of Hongki and the orchestra/piano but there's actually parts in Lovesick where he plays some nice melody lines.

*** YMMV on the song itself, however Seunghyun's acoustic guitar solos in "I Wish" definitely count (and probably the only cool thing about it).

* You'd think in all band only the main vocalist can sing well with any subvocalists being passable and everyone else to be bad. [[AvertedTrope Averted:]] all the members can at least hold a tune and there's a few songs where everyone sings to showcase this.

*** Seunghyun is quickly becoming the resident musical actor of the group: he only joined his first one a few years ago after Hongki and Jaejin, yet as of now he's already participated in ''3 musicals 4 times'', more than everyone else. Comes to show how passionate he is about it and how quickly recognised he's become.

** Jonghun is their weakest singer and the only one with very limiting skills, so singing is definitely not his forte. It is still a treasure to fans though and nonetheless he has improved - his duet if [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmdUHonmp7U Beautiful World]] with Seunghyun showcases this.

* Hongki's singing. While technique-wise he is capable but average for a kpop main vocalist, his singing - which relies on emotion, musicality, intepretation, voice - is what makes him a highly regarded singer, and what got him so much attention right from debut. While he doesn't do a perfect job himself, he's clearly the only one who can pull off the band's ballads.

** When a song they made (Memory, written and composed by Hongki in this case) was finally made a title track for their Korean comeback.

* Whenever the members get to do really cool solos or cool flashy techniques with their instruments in their songs.

*** It doesn't stand out much because of Hongki and the orchestra/piano but there's actually some parts in Lovesick where he plays some nice melody lines.

** It doesn't stand out much because of Hongki and the orchestra/piano but there's actually some parts in Lovesick where he plays some nice melody lines.

** YMMV on the song itself, however Seunghyun's acoustic guitar solos in "I Wish" definitely count (and probably the only cool thing about it).

* Jaejin's rare bass solos. Notable ones are "TV Radio" and a briefer one in "Live Like a Musical".
** It doesn't stand out much because of Hongki and the orchestra/piano but there's actually some parts in Lovesick where he plays some nice melody lines.

* YMMV on the song itself, however Seunghyun's acoustic guitar solos in "I Wish" definitely counts (and probably the one cool parts of the song).

** When a song they made (Memory, written and composed by Hongki in this case) was finally made a title track for their Korean comeback.

** Jonghun is their weakest singer and the only one with very limiting skills, so singing is definitely not his forte. It is still a treasure to fans though and nonetheless he has improved - his duet if [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmdUHonmp7U Beautiful World]] with Seunghyun showcases this.

* Hongki's singing. While technique-wise he is average for a kpop main vocalist, his singing - which relies on emotion, musicality, intepretation, voice - is what makes him a highly regarded singer, and what got him so much attention right from debut. He is basically perfect for the band's ballads.
* You'd think in a band only the main vocalist can sing well with any subvocalists being passable and everyone else to be bad. [[AvertedTrope Averted:]] they can all hold a tune and there's a few songs where everyone sings to showcase this.

** Seunghyun is quickly becoming the resident musical actor of the group: he only joined his first one a few years ago after Hongki and Jaejin, yet as of now he's already participated in ''3 musicals 4 times'', more than everyone else. Comes to show how passionate he is about it and how quickly recognised he's become.

* Hongki's singing. While technique-wise he is average for a kpop main vocalist, his singing - which relies on emotion, musicality, intepretation, voice - that makes him a highly regarded singer. He is basically perfect for the band's ballads.
* You'd think in a band only the main vocalist can sing well with the subvocalists being passable and everyone else to be bad. [[AvertedTrope Averted:]] they can all hold a tune and there's a few songs where everyone sings to showcase this.
** Would you expect 4 out of 5 members of a ''band'' to participate in musicals? Most would say no. Yet, while Hongki is a given, Seunghyun, Jaejin and Minhwan have surprised and impressed many people with their singing through these.

* You'd think in a band only the main vocalist can sing well with the subvocalists being okay and everyone else to be bad. [[AvertedTrope Averted:]] they can all hold a tune and there's a few songs where everyone sings to showcase this.