Tracklist for Melon Kinenbi's "MELON'S NOT DEAD"

Melon Kinenbi's third album MELON'S NOT DEAD will be released on 2010.02.17, and the track list has been released on Melon Kinenbi's official site:

1. メロン記念日のテーマ (Rock Ver.) (Melon Kinenbi no Theme (Rock Ver.))
2. DON’T SAY GOOD-BYE / Melon Kinenbi x BEAT CRUSADERS
3. ピンチはチャンス　バカになろうぜ (Album Ver.) (Pinch wa Chance Baka ni Narouze (Album Ver.)) / Melon Kinenbi / NEW ROTE'KA
4. sweet suicide summer story / Melon Kinenbi x Midori
5. 青春・オン・ザ・ロード (Seishun-on-the-Road) / Melon Kinenbi x THE COLLECTORS
6. メロンティー (Melon Tea) / Melon Kinenbi x GOING UNDER GROUND
7. ロマンチックを突きぬけろ〜Break it now〜 (Romantic wo Tsukinukero ~Break it now~)
8. ALL AROUND ROCK
9. 愛だ！今すぐROCK ON！ (Ai da! Ima sugu ROCK ON!)
10. ALWAYS LOVE YOU / Melon Kinenbi x BEAT CRUSADERS

The album comes with a DVD that has music videos for each of the collaboration singles.

Well, this is certainly exciting news, huh? I've really enjoyed the collaboration singles this year ("Pinch wa Chance" was a personal favorite), and this album looks like it could turn out pretty well. If nothing else it's great to see some of the graduated elder club actually releasing some stuff as part of UFA.

Granted, there are only four really new songs as "Melon Kinenbi no Theme" was on their first album and performed at nearly all of their concerts and tracks 2 through 6 were released as singles (though I'm curious about this "album version" of "Pinch wa Chance"). However, the new songs sound promising! According to the blurb on their site, "Ai da! Ima sugu ROCK ON!" was written by Shindo Atsushi, who also wrote/composed my all-time favorite Melon Kinenbi songs "This is Unmei," "Saa! Koibito ni Narou," and "Girls Power, Aisuru Power." He also did "Wa! Kaccho E na!" and "Ai Meramera Koi Yurayura." "Romantic wo Tsukinukero ~Break it now~" was written by a former member of Princess Princess, the group that brought us "DIAMONDS," one of my favorite songs covered on Champloo 1 ~Happy Marriage Song Cover Shuu~. And of course, we've already heard one great collaboration between MK and BEAT CRUSADERS so I have high hopes for "ALWAYS LOVE YOU."

The DVD claims to have music videos for the collaboration singles. Whether these will just be the live performances released on Dohhh UP! or a more traditional PV we'll be getting something new since "Seishun-on-the-Road" never got a video on Dohhh UP!