Album: Arui wa Anarchy
2014.06.04 Lingua Sounda/Tokuma Japan

DADA DISCO - G J T H B K H T D –
Lyrics: Imai Hisashi
Music: Imai Hisashi
Lyrics translation (C) This is NOT Greatest Site, Cayce.

Ⓐh oh Ⓐh oh～ (1)
I wanna be anarchy, bad-boy Johnny Fuckin' Cool (2)
No Future RIOT Futurist Manifesto oh oh!! (3)

Alchemy, Breton, Tanguy DADA Cabaret Voltaire (4)
Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau right? (5)

so what? so what? so what? so what?
Baby! JUST A selling "provocation"
I'm a lonely boy

DA　DA　DA　DA
　DA　DA　DA　DA
GA　GA　GA　GA
　GA　GA　GA　GA
Gadji beri bimba (6)
Gadji beri bimba

Ⓐh oh Ⓐh oh～
G　J　T　H　B　K　H　T　D
I wanna be anarchy, bad-boy Johnny Fuckin' Cool
No Future RIOT Futurist Manifesto oh oh!!
Alchemy, Breton, Tanguy DADA Cabaret Voltaire
The exquisite corpses will drink the young wine, right?

so what? so what? so what? so what?
Baby! JUST A selling "provocation"
I'm a lonely boy

DA　DA　DA　DA
　DA　DA　DA　DA
GA　GA　GA　GA
　GA　GA　GA　GA
Gadji beri bimba
Gadji beri bimba

Ⓐh oh Ⓐh oh～
G　J　T　H　B　K　H　T　D
so what? so what? so what? so what?
Baby! JUST A selling "provocation"
I'm a lonely boy

DA　DA　DA　DA
　DA　DA　DA　DA
GA　GA　GA　GA
　GA　GA　GA　GA
Gadji beri bimba
Gadji beri bimba

Ⓐh oh Ⓐh oh～
so what? so what? so what? so what?
Baby! JUST A selling "provocation"
I'm a lonely boy

DA　DA　DA　DA
　DA　DA　DA　DA
GA　GA　GA　GA
　GA　GA　GA　GA
Gadji beri bimba
Gadji beri bimba

Note on the title: "Dada Disco" is both a reference to Imai's earlier song "Ga Ga Disco" (written for Lucy, not Buck-Tick) and also an invocation of Dadaism through a reference to the Hugo Ball poem "Gadji beri bimba" (see note 4). As to the "G J T H B K H T D" part, it is most likely an acronym for the phrase "geijutsu wa bakuhatsu da," meaning "art is explosion," a famous quote from iconic Japanese avant-garde artist Okamoto Taro.
As for Imai's choice to use an acronym in the first place, he was no doubt inspired by the artist Marcel Duchamp, who was often associated with the Dadaist movement. One of Duchamp's most famous works is a parodic re-imagining of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, who in Duchamp's version wears a mustache and goatee. Below the image, an inscription reads "L.H.O.O.Q.", which when read aloud in French sounds similar to "elle a chaud au cul," literally meaning "she has a hot ass," but implying a woman who is sexually excited and interested in doing the sexual tacos right away.
1) The capital letter A circumscribed with a circle is the original symbol of Anarchism. The circle represents the letter O. The symbol was derived from a quote from the "father of Anarchism" Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, who stated "Anarchy is Order without Power." The A stands for Anarchy and the O stands for Order. Amusingly, Imai's Japanese pronounciation of this line makes it sound like he's saying "aho," rude Japanese slang which is loosely equivalent to the English pejorative "asshole." Knowing Imai, I kind of suspect this was a deliberate choice.
2) "I wanna be Anarchy" is a line from the Sex Pistols' famous song "Anarchy in the U.K." The Sex Pistols were considered to be the figureheads of the punk rock movement, which has long been associated with anarchist philosophy. The debate still rages over who were the serious anarchists and who were simply exploiting anarchist imagery for shock value, but that's a topic for another day. The "Johnny" in this line is almost certainly John "Johnny Rotten" Lydon, lead singer of the Sex Pistols and subsequently Public Image Limited (P.I.L.) It's no secret that Imai is a huge fan of Lydon and P.I.L., and he has been known to play P.I.L. songs as part of his DJ sets before Buck-Tick's concerts.
3) "No Future" is a Sex Pistols catchphrase that became a slogan of the punk rock movement, an embrace of nihilism and the "live fast, die young" mentality.
The Futurist Manifesto, on the other hand, was the founding document of the art movement known as Italian Futurism.
4) André Breton, author of "The Surrealist Manifesto" among many other works, is the founder of the Surrealist movement, which rejected the strictures of traditional art in favor of automatism - creation of art (writing, drawing, etc.) based on one's pure stream-of-consciousness instinct, free of rational control.
Yves Tanguy was an important French Surrealist painter, famous for his abstract, brooding, monochromatic images. He was a friend of André Breton.
Dadaism was an early 20th-century avante-garde "anti-art" movement that grew up simultaneously in New York and at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. Rejecting the establishment, logic, reason, and intellectual conformity, Dada embraced irrationality and spontaneity.
5) This phrase, meaning "the exquisite corpses will drink the young wine," arose from a Surrealist parlor game aimed at exploring the subconscious group mind through creating group art.
6) "Gadji beri bimba" is the title of a famous "sound poem" by Dadaist artist Hugo Ball, who was the author of "The Dada Manifesto,"

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