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The Random Album Review with Larry and Brian Season 2 Episode 12: You Never Walk Alone by BTS

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Brian says You Never Walk Alone is a repackage of Wings that closes the story Wings started.

1. The Random Album Review with Larry and Brian covers BTS's You Never Walk Alone as a 2017 repackage of Wings. 2. Brian hosts the episode with Larry as his co-host, and their roles matter because they trade the album pick and the reaction. 3. The episode asks what You Never Walk Alone adds to Wings and whether the repackage changes the story. 4. Brian says the album was released on February 13, 2017, and that he first added Not Today to his playlist on February 18, 2017. 5. He says Not Today was the first K-pop song that got him into K-pop, excluding Gangnam Style. 6. Brian explains that BTS formed in 2012, debuted on June 13, 2013, and originally released Too Cool For School with the title written as S-K-O-O-L. 7. He describes BTS songs as often dealing with social issues, using No More Dream as an example about pressure on students. 8. Brian says BTS moved from Big Hit Music into Hybe Labels, and he compares Hybe with SM Entertainment, JYP Entertainment, and YG Entertainment. 9. He names seven BTS members: Jin, J-Hope, RM, V, Jimin, Jungkook, and Suga. 10. Brian says six of the seven members are inactive for military service, which leaves the group on an indefinite hiatus. 11. He says Jin was discharged on June 12, 2024, the day before BTS's 11th anniversary. 12. Brian says J-Hope enlisted on April 18, 2023, and is projected to come out on October 17. 13. He says RM and V enlisted on December 11, 2023, while Jimin and Jungkook enlisted on December 12, 2023. 14. Brian says Suga enlisted under social service on September 22, 2023, with a projected return on June 21, 2025. 15. He explains that You Never Walk Alone includes solo tracks for each member, naming Begin, Lie, Stigma, First Love, Reflection, Mama, and Awake. 16. Brian also points to unit songs like Lost for the vocal line and BTS Cypher 4 for RM, Suga, and J-Hope. 17. Larry says he knew BTS only at a bare-minimum level, but the group's visibility in high school and online made it hard to ignore. 18. The conversation stays loose and conversational, with Brian interrupting himself, correcting dates, and jumping between album facts and memory checks. 19. People who like BTS album deep-dives and K-pop history would probably enjoy this. 20. People looking for a short, tightly edited music review may skip it.

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A loose BTS discussion that turns discography lore into a shared puzzle.

Brian and Larry spend the episode sorting out where BTS's You Never Walk Alone fits in the run of releases, especially next to Wings. The back and forth is the draw: they correct themselves, circle back to Spring Day, Not Today, and A Supplementary Story, and keep trying to…

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For BTS album-sequence context, repackaged-album context, and a very human discography deep dive.

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