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Thread started 02/11/06 8:26am

LoveAlive

Ai No Corrida

I have always loved this song from Quincy Jones' THE DUDE album but I never knew what it meant. Please help...
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Reply #1 posted 02/11/06 11:37am

PANDURITO

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Ai no corrida is a Japanese movie (In the Realm of the Senses) about two obssesive lovers ...and I won't say anything else censored

It literally means bullfight of love because there's blood in the movie redface (I said two much)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074102/
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Reply #2 posted 02/11/06 11:45am

PANDURITO

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I hold you
I touch you

In a maze can't find my way

I think you
I drink you

I'm being served you on a tray.
You see
girl
that's what I go through every day
Is this the way it should feel?
Pinch me
I'm dreaming
But if it is don't let me know.
I'm drowning
don't save me

It's just the way I'd like to go.
You see
girl
you thrill me

Half kill me
that's what you do.
Ai no corrida
that's were I am

You send me there -
Your dream is my command.
Ai no corrida
I find myself
no other thought

Jusa you and nothing else
you and nothing else.
Before my heart saw you
Each day was just another day

Night the lonely interlude just came
then blow away.
You know
girl

Everything was come what may
until you fell in my life.
This spell that I'm under has caught me
I'm in a daze

Your lightning and thunder sets my poor heart ablaze.
You see
girl
you thrill me

Half kill me
that's what you do.
Ai no corrida
that's were I am
. . .
Ai no corrida
that's were I am
. . .
Ai no corrida
that's were I am
. . .
I hold you
I touch you
. . .
Pinch me
I'm dreaming
. . .
Ai no corrida
that's were I am
. . .
Ai no corrida
that's were I am
. . .
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Reply #3 posted 02/11/06 12:06pm

funkyslsistah

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I always wanted to know the same thing. The music would have me visualizing a monster movie in which people are being chased by giant insects and other creatures, even though I know it has nothing to do with that.

I love reading lyrics. It reminds me how much I've butchered a song for years.
"Funkyslsistah… you ain't funky at all, you just a little ol' prude"!
"It's just my imagination, once again running away with me."
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Reply #4 posted 02/11/06 1:45pm

ThePunisher

I remember that song. I always wondered what it meant too. Good thing they are'nt some japanese cuss words. lol
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Reply #5 posted 02/11/06 1:57pm

paligap

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Actually It's a pretty bizarre story...an alternate title for "In The Realm Of The Senses", but it was inspired by a weird japanese movie...the song's writer, Chaz Jankel (he originally did the song on his own album, it was later recorded by Quincy Jones) related this story:


"I gave a cassette with the melody on to Kenny Young, who’d co-written ‘Under The Boardwalk’. Anyway, he calls me from MIDEM. ‘Chaz, I’ve got this great idea for your melody: "Ai No Corrida, that’s where I am…"’ I had no idea what he was talking about. So he told me all about this movie by Oshima, In The Realm Of The Senses (the Japanese name was Ai No Corrida). It was a true story about a geisha who fell in love with the madame’s husband but because of the class system there was no chance they could have a relationship.

In their sexual encounters, the woman would strangle the chap to the point where he nearly passed out. One day, in their depression at the fate of their relationship she kept pulling on the knot and he died. She was so distressed, she cut off his meat’n’two veg and put it in her pocket. She was wondering the streets, completely off her head and got locked up and stayed incarcerated for about 30 years. She became a feminist icon and when she came out in the 70s Oshima made a movie about her. Funnily enough, I was in Spain around the time it came out doing a promo and a photographer puts his arm round me and says, "Chaz! I love bullfights too" and I’m like, "what?" And it turns out that if you said it in spanish Ai No Corrida could mean "No More Bullfights" or "Love of Bullfights" .




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[Edited 2/11/06 14:03pm]
" I've got six things on my mind --you're no longer one of them." - Paddy McAloon, Prefab Sprout
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Reply #6 posted 02/12/06 5:21am

prettymansson

I LOVE THIS SONG !!!!!
I GO JOGGING WITH IT EVERY DAMN DAY !!!!!
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Reply #7 posted 02/12/06 11:45am

LoveAlive

I figured this song came from bizarre origins...it puts me in that frame of mind everytime I hear it biggrin
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Reply #8 posted 02/13/06 2:04am

DavidEye

paligap said:

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Actually It's a pretty bizarre story...an alternate title for "In The Realm Of The Senses", but it was inspired by a weird japanese movie...the song's writer, Chaz Jankel (he originally did the song on his own album, it was later recorded by Quincy Jones) related this story:


"I gave a cassette with the melody on to Kenny Young, who’d co-written ‘Under The Boardwalk’. Anyway, he calls me from MIDEM. ‘Chaz, I’ve got this great idea for your melody: "Ai No Corrida, that’s where I am…"’ I had no idea what he was talking about. So he told me all about this movie by Oshima, In The Realm Of The Senses (the Japanese name was Ai No Corrida). It was a true story about a geisha who fell in love with the madame’s husband but because of the class system there was no chance they could have a relationship.

In their sexual encounters, the woman would strangle the chap to the point where he nearly passed out. One day, in their depression at the fate of their relationship she kept pulling on the knot and he died. She was so distressed, she cut off his meat’n’two veg and put it in her pocket. She was wondering the streets, completely off her head and got locked up and stayed incarcerated for about 30 years. She became a feminist icon and when she came out in the 70s Oshima made a movie about her. Funnily enough, I was in Spain around the time it came out doing a promo and a photographer puts his arm round me and says, "Chaz! I love bullfights too" and I’m like, "what?" And it turns out that if you said it in spanish Ai No Corrida could mean "No More Bullfights" or "Love of Bullfights" .



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Reply #9 posted 02/13/06 7:19am

vainandy

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I've always loved this jam.
Andy is a four letter word.
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