Half Japanese

Half Japanese
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Periode aktif	1975 –
Genre	Art rock dan rok alternatif
Label rekaman	Joyful Noise Recordings ^(en) Drag City ^(en) Alternative Tentacles 50 Skidillion Watts ^(en)

Half Japanese adalah kelompok punk rock yang didirikan oleh Jad dan David Fair di Uniontown, Maryland pada 1975. Seperti The Shaggs, mereka adalah musikus otodidak dan teks lagu mereka banyak berhubungan dengan film horror dan fiksi ilmiah.

Beberapa penggemar Half Japanese adalah Penn Jillette, yang membantu mereka menerbitkan beberapa rekaman melalui perusahaan rekamannya 50 Skidillion Watts, dan Kurt Cobain, yang merekrut mereka sebagai band pembuka Nirvana pada 1993.

Diskografi

Half Alive (1977)
Calling All Girls 7" (1977)
Mono/No No 7" (1978)
Half Gentlemen/Not Beasts (1980)
Loud (1981)
Spy/I know how it Feels...Bad/My Knowledge Was Wrong 7" (1981)
Horrible (1982)
50 Skidillion Watts Live (1984)
Our Solar System (1985)
Sing No Evil (1985)
U.S. Teens Are Spoiled Bums 7" (1988)
Charmed Life (1988)
Real Cool Time/What Can I Do/Monopoly EP (1989)
the Band That Would Be King (1989)
We Are They Who Ache with Amorous Love (1990)
T For Texas/Go Go Go Go 7" (1990)
Everybody Knows, Twang 1 EP (1991)
4 Four Kids EP (1991)
Eye of the Hurricane/Said and Done/U.S. Teens are Spoiled Bums/Daytona Beach EP (1991)
Fire In the Sky (1993)
Postcard EP (1991)
Best Of Half Japanese (1993)
Boo: Live in Europe 1 (1994)
Hot (1995)
Greatest Hits (1995)
Best Of Half Japanese Vol. 2 (1995)
Bone Head (1997)
Heaven Sent (1997)
Hello (2001)

Pranala luar

The Half Japanese Fan Site Diarsipkan 2006-05-28 di Wayback Machine.
Half Japanese entry at the Trouser Press website Diarsipkan 2012-04-26 di Wayback Machine.
Half Japanese band page at Alternative Tentacles label website Diarsipkan 2016-03-03 di Wayback Machine.
Epitonic.com: Half Japanese Diarsipkan 2005-11-25 di Wayback Machine. featuring tracks from "Hello"
Myspace Page Diarsipkan 2022-11-23 di Wayback Machine. featuring tracks from various albums