Hello
Released: Feb 20, 2001
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Released: Feb 20, 2001
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Don't look now, but Half Japanese may have blossomed into a bona fide rock band. Hello, the group's second issue for Alternative Tentacles, highlights the rock side of this noise rock ensemble more...
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Heaven Sent
Released: Nov 4, 1997
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Released: Nov 4, 1997
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Jad Fair's voice waxes between an unstable nasal falsetto and Lou Reed on the 64-minute title track. The rhyming stream-of-consciousness lyrics serve as a psychological chronicle of "falling in...
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Bone Head
Released: Mar 25, 1997
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Released: Mar 25, 1997
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On Bone Head, Half Japanese continues with their formula of quirky guitar riffs mixed with Jad Fair's offbeat lyrics and vocals. Early on, the album includes a wealth of references to the strange...
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Hot
Released: Aug 22, 1995
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Released: Aug 22, 1995
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This album is aptly titled: On Hot, Jad Fair straightens out his overt quirkiness into pure white punk riot ("Drum Straight"), shimmying garage rock ("Well), bouncy indie pop ("True Believers"),...
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Greatest Hits
Released: Mar 13, 1995
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Released: Mar 13, 1995
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As Byron Coley says in his entertaining piece in the liner notes, "They have no hits by standards that Howard Cosell would appreciate." But by the time Greatest Hits came out, Half Japanese had...
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Fire in the Sky
Released: Jun 11, 1993
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Released: Jun 11, 1993
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This 1993 recording from Jad Fair's Half Japanese is the album that pushed the group from the obscure fringe of the U.S. post-punk underground into a full-blown indie rock legend. Aided by the fact...
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