Rock'n'Roll Circus tracklist!
 

【CD】

01.THE introduction
02.Microphone
●Honda ZEST SPARK CMソング／music.jp TV-CFソング
03.count down
04.Sunset ～LOVE is ALL～
05.BALLAD
06.Last Links
●TBSテレビ系全国ネット『報道特集』エンディング・テーマ (Ending theme for a news show whose opening is Utada Hikaru's Fight The Blues...)
07.montage
08.Don't look back
●Panasonic デジタルカメラ LUMIX FX66 & ZX3 TV-CFソング
09.Jump!
10.Lady Dynamite
11.Sexy little things
12.Sunrise ～LOVE is ALL～
13.meaning of Love
14.You were...
15.RED LINE ～for TA～ [album version]
（全15曲収録）

【DVD】

01.Sunrise ～LOVE is ALL～ (video clip)
02.Sunset ～LOVE is ALL～ (video clip)
03.You were... (video clip)
04.BALLAD (video clip)
05.Sexy little things (video clip)
06.Microphone (video clip)
07.Don't look back (video clip)
08.Lady Dynamite (video clip)
09.Sunrise ～LOVE is ALL～ (making clip)
10.Sunset ～LOVE is ALL～ (making clip)
11.You were... (making clip)
12.BALLAD (making clip)
13.Sexy little things (making clip)
14.Microphone (making clip)
15.Don't look back (making clip)
16.Lady Dynamite (making clip)
※bonus track
"ayumi hamasaki ARENA TOUR 2009 ～NEXT LEVEL～" DIGEST

（全17トラック収録）


TRACKLIST!

--from walking.proud

SEE?! RED LINE AND 15 tracks!!!! The interludes are kind of... I'm not sure since there's all of those lower case titles, haha.

To try and make things easier, we should try to mark the songs that will definitely have lyrics based on past albums and what we know...
01.THE introduction
02.Microphone
03.count down
04.Sunset ～LOVE is ALL～
05.BALLAD
06.Last Links
07.montage
08.Don't look back
09.Jump!
10.Lady Dynamite
11.Sexy little things
12.Sunrise ～LOVE is ALL～
13.meaning of Love
14.You were...
15.RED LINE ～for TA～ [album version]

Which other song is the 12th with lyrics? I'm thinking it could be meaning of Love... which could be like an intro, but with lyrics. I wonder which of the unbolded tracks are the interludes....

THE Introduction, hehe, "THE" :)

I like the titles 06.Last Links 07.montage 09.Jump! 10.Lady Dynamite(OMG)

too bad there ARE sunrise and red line, hmm =/

OMG 4 NEW PVS!!! FOUR...FOUR!!!! :O :)

woow

YAY FOR 15! Breaking the 14 track trend!
Lady Dynamite must be that PV with kazu lol. I wonder which songs are interludes? Because from the title Lady Dynamite I would think that'd be an interlude but it's a full song because of the PV, so idk. Maybe "meaning of Love" could be one ?

Now what's so bad about that? I LOVED both songs.


Unfortunately, it kind of looks as though anything with a lower case title is an interlude, and there are FOUR of them...

Last Links has some kind of tie-up. Must be a ballad.

I LIKE THE TITLES A LOT.

!!! RED LINE and just 15 tracks! *complaining*
They must be awesome and just one intro! "THE introduction" what a surprising title!! Like it!

OMG, I've almost had a heart attack ___-___

yay for 15 tracks, I'm quite happy with new version of RED LINE :D
I love the titles of "THE introduction", "Last link" & "montage" :D
I do hope there's not many interludes... probably "count down" and 'meaning of Love', and I hope it ends here...

THE introduction? count down? montage? Lady Dynamite (:laugh)? meaning of Love (Namieee!)? Jump!? Tracklist full of weird names xD The weirdest album if we talk about song names, imo xD
Sunset earlier than Sunrise? Interesting...
Album version of RED LINE? Interestiiing.
So, Lady Dynamite will have PV too... Happy of a lot of PVs. Hope they will be good.
Last links as drama ending song! *.* Is it confirmed what drama it is?



...Thank you God, that was amazing day.

Tracklist look original and promising OMG xD

01.THE introduction
02.Microphone
●Honda ZEST SPARK CMソング／music.jp TV-CFソング
03.count down
04.Sunset ～LOVE is ALL～
05.BALLAD
06.Last Links
●TBSテレビ系全国ネット『報道特集』エンディング・テーマ
07.montage
08.Don't look back
●Panasonic デジタルカメラ LUMIX FX66 & ZX3 TV-CFソング
09.Jump!
10.Lady Dynamite
11.Sexy little things
12.Sunrise ～LOVE is ALL～
13.meaning of Love
14.You were...
15.RED LINE ～for TA～ [album version]
（全15曲収録）


bolded have potential for interludes

Woot for the tracklist!! I'm not sure how I feel about it yet. I like the mash-up of song genres throughout the album (intro, ballad, rock, pop, ballad), but it looks like she's doing the intro pattern of NL, which I hated (1. intro, 2. song, 3. into). I'm a strong believer that you shouldn't sandwich one song with intros. :/

But such strange song titles! I don't know if I'm excited, but I'm definitely curious! :laugh

You do know that Last Links has a tie-up, right? Haha.

Anyways, to stick the theory in there:
My guess is that anything with a lower case title-thing = > an interlude.

So the album begins with Microphone (THE ONLY ROCK SONG?), then leads into a ballad section, and then after the slower songs, we get the more upbeat tracks, then we close with two ballads a la NEXT LEVEL.

:thud:thud:thud:thud omg I love these titles!!! :heart I am sooo glad I bought this album :D

hmm.. not so sure about the interludes.. isn't NEXT LEVEL albums identity writed in lower cases?

Lady Dynamite. Wha. :laugh I'm not going crazy over these titles, but well it's the songs itself that count. ^^

I noticed it with last links efore you posted truehappiness

omg awesome 4 new clips =D the tracklist seems good, 15 songs finally ! I hope there won't be a lot of interludes ><

01.THE introduction
02.Microphone
●Honda ZEST SPARK CMソング／music.jp TV-CFソング
03.count down
04.Sunset ～LOVE is ALL～
05.BALLAD
06.Last Links
●TBSテレビ系全国ネット『報道特集』エンディング・テーマ
07.montage
08.Don't look back
●Panasonic デジタルカメラ LUMIX FX66 & ZX3 TV-CFソング
09.Jump!
10.Lady Dynamite
11.Sexy little things
12.Sunrise ～LOVE is ALL～
13.meaning of Love
14.You were...
15.RED LINE ～for TA～ [album version]
（全15曲収録）

Those titles are very interessant >0<

Cool, I just hope this album kicks butt.

WOW thanks for sharing, it sounds awesome!!
I am waiting for previous:)

Don´t look back is a ballad too

I never expected the track list to come out this fast!
They're not the best titles but let's wait to hear them and see how they sound :)

Lady Dynamite is the club PV? Nice~

OMG OMG OMG OMG!! 15 tracks!! *___*

omg, the tracklisting is so wonderful, and I am so excited. *__*

It doesn't sound like a ballad to me... it's more midtempo-y. Anyway, I changed my theory to account for montage being a possible full track a la momentum:

Reevaluated interlude theory:
01.THE introduction
02.Microphone
03.count down
04.Sunset ～LOVE is ALL～
05.BALLAD
06.Last Links
07.montage
08.Don't look back
09.Jump! (entire section before this are midtempo or ballad tracks BUT montage's lower case nature makes me suspect it is an interlude...)
10.Lady Dynamite
11.Sexy little things
12.Sunrise ～LOVE is ALL～
13.meaning of Love
14.You were...
15.RED LINE ～for TA～ [album version]

But if the naming convention is as I see it, the "3 songs without lyrics" will probably be montage / count down / meaning of Love...

I read that there are 12 songs with lyrics
since mirror also had some I bet THE introduction has lyrics woo

which would make

intro
montage
count down
meaning of LOVE


interludes


edit: yeah or JUMP!
this pisses me of
4 interludes again
she is ...gosh!

The tracklist is great! It looks so promising <3
I'm glad there's a PV for Lady Dynamite, hope it will be hot :heart

bridge to the sky had lyrics too and weren't included in the booklet, so anything can be possible

...UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH. "Jump!" is my least favorite title EVER, "THE introduction" is tacky and way too obvious, and "montage" is just sooo boring.

I'm also very disappointed that she put Sunset at the beginning of the album, because it's setting me up to be VERY bored by the album opening like NEXT LEVEL which I still can't listen to. >>;

The rest of the titles are okay though. The album is set up... very strangely though. :/

Wow... so many prejudgements.

I wonder how she'll explain the titles if she ever does, haha.

I'm looking forward to this so much more now. All the titles are so original and I can't wait to hear what it sounds like. By the looks of it there really isn't much 'rock' in there but I suppose we really won't know for sure until we hear the album itself.

First, I saw that the tracklist was up and then when I clicked on the thread, of course AHS became unavailable. I used Google to get the tracklist instead and it led me to a UK music forum of all things o_O

But because of that, when I saw these, I thought it was fanmade. My first thought was...

WTF.

So disappointed. Hopefully the songs will kick ass and they'll grow on me when I listen to the album.

The titles are fine, minus Sexy Little Things and Lady Dynamite (ew ew ew to both, and THE introduction is so original, but hahahaa it's okay).

Ehh, even though the title is Rock 'n' Roll Circus, it seems like this album will be loaded with ballads o.o

Yeah, it looks like Microphone is the only rock track, haha. It's probably AMAZING if she's letting it stand alone.

If people dislike these titles, I wonder what they thought of Secret's.... haha.

I always love Ayu's titles because they sound not-Ayuish at first.... and then 30 minutes later, they're HERS.

^^So far we know there are definitely 3 ballads. You were..., BALLAD & Sunset~LiA~

I don't understand the reasoning behind putting Sunset before Sunrise on the album, but whatever Ayu wants, Ayu gets. haha

Is this the first time a B-side has made it onto an album? I had a feeling RED LINE would be on the album, it's a song for her fans, and it's a different version than the single version! :) I'm way too excited about this, even more now that the list is out~

Last Links make me laugh hard :D

"Song about Ayu's last visited sites on the internets!"

Is it just me or did people rule out the possibility of a bonus track? -hides- Haha.

Honestly, anyone who really hates these titles, what's your issue with them? They're very Ayu, and what else would you expect from her? I really wonder if anyone actually knows what they want or what Ayu would put out... just look at all the crappy fake tracklists that came out and were proven wrong! I wonder what you would come up with as Ayu titles and if they'll be laughably horrible after all since apparently these don't fit your vision of Ayu's album. What right do you have to be so disgusted by just titles? I swear, no other artists get bullcrap like this when they release tracklists... it's just like "Oh, cool, we have titles." until we actually get songs...

Here's what I think:

01.THE introduction (interlude, possibly a long one like Mirror)
02.Microphone (rock song)
03.count down (interlude)
04.Sunset ～LOVE is ALL～ (ballad)
05.BALLAD (ballad)
06.Last Links (ballad, because of that unaccounted for ballad-looking PV)
07.montage (full track, probably mid-tempo)
08.Don't look back (R&B mid-tempo)
09.Jump! (upbeat)
10.Lady Dynamite (club song)
11.Sexy little things (club song)
12.Sunrise ～LOVE is ALL～ (upbeat)
13.meaning of Love (interlude)
14.You were... (power ballad)
15.RED LINE ～for TA～ [album version] (*rerecording?* new instrumentals)

I think that accounts for all the three possible interludes. I don't think Ayu would give someone a sheet of music of an introduction, that would be lame as hell.

I don't see why they had to add RED LINE and both Sunrise/Sunset songs, but whatever I'm not complaining.

Last Links has a tie-in but it has no PV. Don't look back has a PV and is that ballad-looking PV with a shocking conclusion.

RED LINE ~for TA~ = a single track that was made a big deal of... it got a dance at CDL09-10 and it makes complete sense imo.
Sunrise/Sunset = two completely different A-sides despite having the same composition / lyricalish themes... she said they were inseparable and there we have it!

It was pretty much seen from a mile away with S/S and RED LINE was iffy, but YAY.

Honestly, i don't care about the titles. It's just a name. Sometimes the more stupiest name's got the coolest inside. I love "STEP you" but the title is just ridicoulus. I love kiss'o'kill but the title sound TOO creative for me (cheesy...) That's just some names guys, wait for the songs (:

I agree.

See I didn't know that about RED LINE, since I never finished watching that CDL, and I just hate it when b-sides make it onto albums lol

Not Yet has Lyrics too and they aren't in the booklet, that let's me hope that there are maybe only three interluds on this Album!
...hopefully!
She recorded sooooo long

her site says the initial pressing versions of the album will come with a randomly selected facsimile lyrics card, out of 12 available.

i would have thought that these lyric printouts would be full-length tracks, thus making THE introduction & another 2 tracks interludes... but who really knows...

i would like meaning of LOVE to be a full-length track but it kind of reeks of interludage... am leaning towards what jbrat2219 thinks.. though having an intro, one track, proceded by an interlude is pretty weird, but whatever :D

nope... FRIEND from poker face... GAME from INSPIRE...

alterna, decision, and Will also count as B-sides if we're going with that sort of definition.

Hm, weird titles...and the capitalizing, don't like it that much.
And S/S are both there, ew.
But yay for Red Line!
And I hope the new songs are banging ones!

RED LINE is an album version though so it'll be different than the single version, right? So it'll probably have new vocals so it's not like she'll just be taking a b-side and plopping it on the album.. maybe she made it into a ballad.

so Dont Look Back PV is the one with the white dress,

I'd just read that too, so it means there will be 12 full length track +3 interludes which made up 15 tracks of the album??

That 12 facsimile lyrics card they mention about would be Ayu's original copies of hand written draft lyrics card referring to these paragraphs:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...rnrc_lyrcs.jpg
and the cards will be inserted into 12 of either 【AVCD-38102/B】 OR 【AVCD-38104/B～E】 which is CD+DVD version OR Special Limited Box Set.
I wonder who will be so lucky enough to get the card? o.O"

I'm liking the tracklist quite a bit. Glad there's 15 tracks even though the 15th is just RED LINE. :yes

I'm gonna go ahead and guess three interludes. Obviously, THE introduction, and I think count down and montage will be interludes as well. Hoping there aren't anymore ~

p.s.
Definitely pre-ordering the album real, real, real soon. I want a chance to get one of those 12 cards! That would absolutely epic! :D

I hope it will be like this, or maybe "Jump!" instead of "meaning of Love" but only 3 XD please, only 3! and THE introduction being like Mirror that was almost like a song!!

Ok, I get it lol

I am really glad I didn't buy this album.

The songs better be on the same level as SURREAL or else this is a major disappointment.

Man, I honestly was hoping that 'moon' title from the fake ones turned out to be true--sounded so awesome! XD But overall, I'm satisfied with this tracklist. :yes Lovin' Lady Dynamite, lol! :laugh Well, I'm satisfied with the tracklist TITLES, I mean...

Only thing I have to complain about is, of course, that fact that there seems to be four interludes, and only one more song than "normal". Which, that extra song is RED LINE, so that kinda sucks and negates it all for me...... Still, maybe one of the interludes will actually turn out to be a song? That would be great.
Well, since it's still kinda short, I can still have hope that these songs are AMAZING, since it took so much longer to complete them all. :meditate

She's really going for a big impact with this album! The crazy album title, strange PV outfits, photoshoots in a new city, and now a pretty fascinating tracklist!

I feel like Jump! is going to be Humming 7/4 part II, meaning of Love recalls Namie's Meaning of Us, and Lady Dynamite is going to be a little slice of fierce.
I can imagine it: at the end of the chorus, a digitized Engrish "Rady Dynamiiiiiiite!"

"Lady Dynamite" must be the "Chupa Chups" Pv ♥♥♥!!

It would've been cool if the new version of Red Line had ~A World is One~ at the end of it.

There are 12 songs on the album with lyrics though...

There are only 3 "interludes" apparently.

Yay for 15 tracks, and yay for the inclusion of Red Line. She had to since she's going to use it as the closing track on the tour.

THE introduction, count down, and montage sound like interludes. Maybe meaning of love? But that does sound like the ballad track as its been put next to You were... It may just be 3 interludes this time, but bit odd that they are all in the first half of the album.

Also glad the album is being closed by a song that actually sounds like an album closer, and not a ballad. Curtain call made a good album closer, but NOT untitled ~for her~.

:yes:yes:yes

I love the titles, really. "meaning of Love" sounds beautiful but I think it will be an interlude. oh well... "Last Links" sounds so promising and "Lady Dynamite" XDD I guess I will love that.

Btw, it is funny to see how the design of the official website changes every time I update the page (like the colors in the "Discography" section).

You can count Last Links out since it kind of has a tie-in. (Yes, I know interludes can have tie-ins but... eh... not with Ayu, I think. Other than the Panasonic x RAINBOW one...)

Woah :D Nice

Yeah I saw that so I edited my post. it would have to be montage. Or maybe jump!, because it just seems odd to have all the interludes at the start and nothing to break up the tail end of the album. Maybe jump! is an interlude and montage/count down isnt?

If we're right, I count 7 new tracks, 5 old, 3 interludes. A good ratio I think.

Ahh! Yeah. Forgot about that lol. We'll just have to see about Last Links then.

I wonder what all of these will sound like..

-listening to GUILTY the album right now-

I hope neither Jump! or montage are interludes.

LOVE the tracklist!!! the names are just so "cool" and have you noticed there is no album tittle song???? I find that to be really wierd (rainbow flashbacks)

01.THE introduction (intro song like the "THE" part :p)
02.Microphone (aaa I still cant wait to hear and see the pv of that song!)
03.count down(im thinking interlude)
06.Last Links(im thinking ballad)
07.montage(im thinking interlude)
08.Don't look back
09.Jump!( I dont know why humming 7/4 came to mind lol)
10.Lady Dynamite (OK...SEXY!)
11.Sexy little things (OK...HOT!)
13.meaning of Love(im thinking interlude)
15.RED LINE ～for TA～ [album version] (album version?...ok...im thinking maybe more upbeat or something)


cant wait for the album!!!! now I think we are only missing hte cover for the limited box and for the NL tour DVD...

ok off to read all the posts of this thread xD

meaning of love can't be interlude! ayus tendency to lump ballads together makes me think thats the new album-ballad. Unless she's changed her ways.

meaning of Love could be an interlude with 4-5 lines of lyrics.

I think it'd be like Pieces of SEVEN, but it'd actually fit before the last two ballads, haha.

well, the tracklist already kicks my butt!
awesome!

I'm guessing THE introduction (of course), montage and Jump! -or- meaning of Love are the only interludes, which would be great! I wonder if count down will be an interlude though. It kind of sounds like it will be something she uses at CDL's with a nice little special screen. ^^

I think they're pretty cool. Makes up for the covers which I'm still not really feeling.

Jump! does sound like it'll be the high energy number of the album, ala energize.

We'll find out for sure which songs are full or not when the songs are up on chaku uta, right?

Yeah.

The songs with no "A MELO / B MELO / SABI" = interludes.

Well we're getting information so fast, I hope we get the chaku utas sooner than expected!

Definitely agreeing with you. I still wish LABYRINTH was a song; it would've been great. These two titles have great potential :P

The titles are alright. Sexy little things/Lady Dynamite sound interesting! Hopefully it'll be something completely different from her typical "girl-power" songs.

Only title I dislike is THE introduction; it better not get lyrics I'm going to hope that CMJK named this one.:no It's like she went well..I've used Introduction/Interlude on LOVEppears, I'll just add on THE and make it a title! :no

I prefer to think of it as, "Oh so you thought Mirror was a badass intro? Well this is THE introduction that will blow you out of your seat. And when you get back up, Microphone will be there to knock your ass back down. :mischief" - ayumi hamasaki

I literally laughed out loud as soon as I read "THE introduction".

Anywho, interesting titles. Can't wait =)

I prefer to wait until she tells us why she titled it "THE introduction" because usually things make a lot more sense after she's said her side of the story, haha.

Thanks for sharing! Now what's next for Ayu...which song will she sing on the Music Station special on April 2nd?

Yeah I thought of it like that too. I actually do say stuff like that too, like this is THE album, but I'd rather she let the interlude speak for itself. There are so many more titles she could've used for a title too :( If she has some super-crazy-amazing-blow-my-mind explanation, it'll be all good :D But...what jbrat says is probably a paraphrase of what she'll say in an interview.

red line=/=♥

not a bad song, but really not an album worthy song. but then again we are getting an "album version" so I'll wait till we hear it all to decide. I'll give it one last chance. XD

The way you guys are talking about it is reminding me of "This Is The One" hahahaha.

Except of course, THE introduction will probably blow all of her other introductions out of the water...

^That's what I'm getting from that title lol. If it turns out to be a GREAT OMGS!!! song, I'd hate to actually have to say THE introduction is a great song !! THE introduction rocks! etc...

THE introduction

LOL So unoriginal
-
meaning of Love

I WANT TO KNOW, THE MEANING OF PEACE AND LOVE

I'm hoping I won't even recognize the song LOL. I wanted RED LINE to be special to the single and thus not even be on this album at all. But at the VERY least, they're redoing it.

i love all the titles, really. my favorite is "Lady Dynamite". but "last links" makes me laugh for some reason :laugh i personally think they should have cut out "Sunset", but i'm happy they put on "RED LINE", so it's all good. :D

"Jump!" - GIRL NEXT DOOR :laugh but without the exclamation point, lol.

To be honest, this comment is about as unoriginal as unoriginal can get...

-shifty eyes-

I'm think there will only be two interludes after THE introduction, just because even if THE introduction has lyrics, I don't think she'd do a lyric card for that because it wouldn't be fair for the person who got that card when 11 others got full songs. xD

I mean, I'd be happy with just an autograph, but I don't she'd do that. And if there are three interludes after THE introduction, maybe it will be a full song. An introduction could be a full song, I think. :yes

aww ;D I can't make fun of Ayu being unoriginal?

I am glad that both sunrise and sunset made it into the tracklist. Now I don't have to buy the single. It seems like every year her album tracklist are getting weird. But what's
more important is the songs. Can't wait to listen to them!

I was thinking the same thing! :yes


I was hoping Sunset wouldn't be on the album, but oh well :innocent

Lol and 'meaning of Love' ? hmmm, maybe it's a continuation of Amuro's 'The Meaning of Us' :roflmao

Ahh so I read the other thread, so there are 12 tracks with lyrics, strengthening the 3 interlude theory.

But there might be an interlude/short track with lyrics, which might be the 4th one. Its not technically an interlude if it has lyrics. But Mirror was more of a song than Bridge to the Sky was.

yay! ew but sunset is there~~ Love RedLine cant wait for the album ver!!!

wow! great titles! lady dynamite caught my interest the most! that song sounds awesome!

Even if THE introduction has lyrics and is counted as one of the 12 with lyrics-- as long as it's as awesome as Mirror, I don't care. When GUILTY first came out, Mirror was my most played track. Mirrorcle World just about made my life.

Anyone give a thought to this...? What if that new TA exclusive song is called "THE" and it's to THE introduction as Mirror was to Mirrorcle World?

THE introduction could mean like an introduction for THE. haha