Half Japanese

Half Japanese
Half Japanese 2008
Bakgrund	Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Genre(r)	Indierock, alternativ rock, punkrock, experimentell rock, lo-fi
År som aktiva	1977-
Skivbolag	50 Skidillion Watts, Safe House
Medlemmar
Jad Fair
Tidigare medlemmar
David Fair John Sluggett Howard Wuelfing Don Fleming Jay Spiegel Jason Willett Gilles Reider Henry Beckmeyer

Half Japanese är en amerikansk noise rock indierock/lo-figrupp, grundad 1977 av bröderna Jad och David Fair i Ann Arbor i Michigan. Bandets okonventionella DIY-estetik har varit mycket inflytelserik, och inspirerat band som Beat Happening, Pavement, Sebadoh, Nirvana och The Vaselines.

Diskografi

Studio

• Half Gentlemen/Not Beasts (1980)
• Loud (1981)
• Horrible (1983)
• Our Solar System (1984)
• Sing No Evil (1984)
• "Big Big Sun" (1986)
• Music To Strip By (1987)
• Charmed Life (1988)
• "Velvet Monkeys" (1988)
• the Band That Would Be King (1989)
• We Are They Who Ache with Amorous Love (1990)
• Fire In the Sky (1993)
• Hot (1995)
• Bone Head (1997)
• Heaven Sent (1997)
• Hello (2001)

Singlar och EP

• Half Alive (1977)
• Calling All Girls 7" (1977)
• Mono/No No 7" (1978)
• Spy/I know how it Feels...Bad/My Knowledge Was Wrong 7" (1981)
• U.S. Teens Are Spoiled Bums 7" (1988)
• Real Cool Time/What Can I Do/Monopoly EP (1989)
• 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)
• Postcard EP (1991)

Livealbum

• 50 Skidillion Watts Live (1984)
• Boo: Live in Europe 1 (1994)

Samlingar

• Best Of Half Japanese (1993)
• Greatest Hits (1995)
• Best Of Half Japanese Vol. 2 (1995)
• "Loud and Horrible" (2004)

Externa länkar

• Wikimedia Commons har media som rör Half Japanese.
  Bilder & media
• Half Japanese Trouser Press website
• Biografie Alternative Tentacles
• Half Japanese op Epitonic.com: songs "Hello"