Half Japanese

Half Japanese
Half Japanese 2008
Bakgrund	Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Genrer	Indierock, alternativ rock, punkrock, experimentell rock, lo-fi
År som aktiva	ca. 1975 - idag
Skivbolag	50 Skidillion Watts, Safe House
Artistsamarbeten	The Velvet Underground. Moe Tucker, John Zorn, Mark Kramer, the Tinklers, Daniel Johnston, Sonic Youth, Nirvana
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 ungefär 1975 av bröderna Jad och David Fair i Ann Arbor i Michigan. Bandets okonventionella DIY-estetik har varit mycket inflytelserik,^[1] och inspirerat band som Beat Happening, Pavement, Sebadoh, Nirvana och The Vaselines.^[2]

• 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)

• 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 (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)

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

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

• 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"