Half Japanese
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
- Half Japanese entry at the Trouser Press website
- Half Japanese band page at Alternative Tentacles label website
- Epitonic.com: Half Japanese featuring tracks from "Hello"
- Myspace Page featuring tracks from various albums